SOME INAUSPICIOUS YOGAS OF MOON

Kemadruma yoga, as per its classical definition, arises when at the time of birth there are no planets on both sides of the Moon i.e. in the 2nd and in the 12th house from the house/sign occupied by the Moon. It is an inauspicious yoga. The person born with this yoga will be dirty, sorrowful, doing unrighteous deeds, poor, dependent, a rogue and a swindler. The presence of the Sun in these houses makes no difference. This yoga also causes Rajayogabhanga, it destroys the benefits of all Raja yogas.

 Many yogas afflicting the Moon giving rise to Daridra yogas resulting in poverty are also known as Kemadruma yogas, such as –

•  Moon in conjunction with either Rahu or Ketu aspected by a malefic or aspected by a benefic defeated in Grahayuddha (planetary warfare),
• Malefic Moon situated in the 8th influenced by a malefic for a night-birth,
• Moon in conjunction with a malefic occupying for a night-time birth a malefic rasi and malefic navamsa is aspected by 10th lord house,
• Moon in a moveable rasi and in moveable but malefic navamsa not aspected by Jupiter is aspected by an inimical planet,
• Malefic Moon is in its neecha navamsa (Scorpio) with a malefic and aspecting the 9th lord.

Mahadeva in the Dhanaviveka section of his treatise Jataka Tatva lists thirteen yogas indicating poverty, out of which four yogas arise on account of affliction to the Moon; they are –

• The Moon, Jupiter and Saturn occupying the kendras from the lagna with Mars and Gulika in the 5th, 8th or the 12th,
• The Moon and the Sun conjoining in a rasi but occupying each other’s navamsa,
• The Moon and the Sun combining in Aquarius sign and all other planets in their respective signs of debilitation, and
• The Moon or the Sun situated in the lagna either conjoining with or aspected by a Maraka (death-inflicting planet).