Yoga Categories

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@misc{divinityatlas-yoga-categories,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Yoga Categories},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/categories/yoga-categories},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Yogas in Vedic astrology are named planetary combinations, and the tradition's literature sorts them into families: raja yogas concerning power and status, dhana yogas concerning wealth, chandra yogas formed around the Moon, and others. This category holds those groupings; the individual combinations are in the Yogas category. The classification is a convenience of the literature rather than a fixed canonical list.

Facts

Overview

What Defines This Grouping

The families into which the classical literature sorts the named planetary yogas of Jyotisa - raja, dhana, candra, nabhasa and others. These are groupings of yogas rather than yogas, and again not the discipline of yoga. 1

Origins

Whose Classification This Is

The families are the classical hora literature's own convenience. Their number is not fixed and a single yoga may fall under more than one. 1

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The Families of Yogas

The classical literature of Vedic astrology sorts its named planetary combinations, the yogas, into families: raja yogas concerning power and status, dhana yogas concerning wealth, chandra yogas formed around the Moon, nabhasa yogas defined by the pattern the planets make across the chart, and others. This category holds those groupings.

Sorting the hundreds of individual yogas into families gives the astrologer a way to navigate them, to ask what kind of result a combination promises and by what mechanism, rather than treating each as an isolated rule.

A map of the combinations

The categories reflect both the result promised (power, wealth, misfortune) and the structural basis (combinations around the Moon, patterns of the whole chart), and a single yoga may belong to more than one family. The scheme is a classical one, drawn from texts such as the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra.

The atlas describes each family, its defining principle, and representative yogas within it. The individual yogas are treated in their own category, and both sit within the Vedic Astrology section.

Cross-Tradition Connections