26 July 2019 04:02 pm
There are several significant Moon-based yogas – those defined by the position of the Moon in relation to other planets - expounded in the classical works on Astrology. Some of these yogas are favourable and they signify benefits to the native while there are few evil ones which bring misery and suffering to the native.
Of the Moon-based evil yogas one that has become a main subject of discourse and debate in astrological circles in India in particular is the much dreaded Sakata Yoga.
How does Sakata Yoga arise?
According to Indian sage Vaidyanatha Dikshita, the Sakata Yoga arises when the Moon is found in the 6th or the 8th House from Jupiter in a Natal Chart. It is also noteworthy that there is another planetary position – a very rare one in fact, that generates this evil yoga apart from the direct involvement of the Moon. That is where all nine planets are posited in the 1st and the 7th Houses.
Why the Sakata Yoga is baneful
This yoga is considered very evil for two reasons: one is that this yoga nullifies all other favourable yogas in the Natal Chart and the other reason is that the malefic effects the yoga generates persist throughout the life.
In the case of other yogas, be they malefic or beneficial, the effects they produce are confined to the Dasas and Antar Dasas of the Yogakaraka planets.
Vaidyanatha Dikshita says that even a person born into a royal family would suffer poverty, misery in day-to-day life and become the target of the wrath of the ruler, king or the head of the state if he is afflicted by Sakata Yoga.
Meanwhile, Mantreswara, author of the celebrated classical work, Phaladeepika says that the native afflicted by the Sakata Yoga would lose his wealth, status and reputation, but he may regain all what he has lost. However, he would undergo much mental pain and suffering.
Exceptions to the general rule