Nabhasa Yogas

29

have a high capacity for happiness; however, there are generally some difficult tasks that they must perform. Yava barleycorn Yoga: All malefics in the lagna and 7th house, and all benefics in 4th and 10th houses. One born in Yava Yoga will observe fasts and religious rules, do auspicious acts, and be charitable, firm, valiant, liberal, and vigorous. One obtains lasting wealth and sons in their mid life, and they are also happy in their middle ages due to piety, passion, wealth, property, and joy. One is disposed to courtesy, is bountiful, peaceful, devoid of anger and always enthusiastic about righteousness. Yava means barleycorn, but it can also mean any grain that is ground to flour. Natives born with this yoga always find happiness and do good deeds due to the benefics in the 4th and 10th, even when life brings personal suffering and difficulties by way of the malefics in the 1st and 7th house. Happiness is greatest in the middle life, when the benefics in the 4th and 10th houses are more active. There is some controversy over the last two yogas, Vajra and Yava Yogas, since their formation it is not astronomically possible. The two benefics, Mercury and Venus, can never be angular to the Sun, a malefic. Some theorize that in older times it was possible for Mercury and Venus to be angular from the Sun, but this is an extreme theory that would require the planets to have completely different orbital paths than they do now; Mercury and Venus would have to be outside the Earths orbit. A more possible idea is, perhaps, that the Sri-Pathi bhava chart should be utilized for purposes of these yogas, and if Mercury is considered a malefic by being with malefics, then on very, very rare occasions Venus can be on an angle from the Sun. My tested opinion, however, is that these yogas were never meant to be found in full, else they would be so very rare they would not have found common mention in so many works. I believe the Nabhasa Yogas illustrate important astrological concepts which indicate the