Kemadruma Yoga

Kemadruma Yoga is an inauspicious combination and the negative counterpart of the sunapha, anapha and durudhara group: it is formed when there is no planet in either the twelfth or the second place from the Moon, the Sun and the shadow planets being excluded from the count. The Moon in Jyotisha signifies the mind and the immediate support of the life, and a Moon with no planets flanking it is read as unsupported, so the combination is given for isolation, instability of mind and material difficulty.

The classical texts also give a substantial list of cancellations: a planet in an angle from the Ascendant or from the Moon, the Moon itself in an angle from the Ascendant, a strong aspect to the Moon, and other conditions are each held to annul the yoga. Those cancellations are as much a part of the doctrine as the yoga itself and are routinely omitted in popular presentations.