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Core Yogas

Shakti power Yoga: All planets in all 4 houses commencing from the 7th house. One born in Shakti Yoga loves all, shows intelligence in debate and has only a little happiness from married life. Bereft of wealth and ease, one is unsuccessful, miserable, mean, lazy, unhappy, base, deformed, an expert in war, firm, beautiful, and auspicious. Shakti primarily means power, energy, might, capacity, ability, strength, etc.; it is also a spear, pike, dart, etc. The power of this yoga comes from the power of the mind. Along with this comes an attachment to one's ideas and concepts and the native is therefore an expert in war, one capable and willing to fight opposite views and ideas. This same tendency makes them intelligent in debate. They are happy or unhappy according to their ability to make things conform to their ideas and concepts of what should or shouldn't be, or better yet, to the degree they are able to see that their happiness or unhappiness comes from the ideas and concepts they hold in their minds. This creates the seemingly contradictive results of this yoga and the possibility of this yoga being a benefic or malefic force. Either they are attached to their ideas about things and therefore experience frustration at times and the need to push things, or they realize that they are only happy or unhappy as a result of what they hold in their minds. If the planets are generally well disposed and there are spiritualizing factors in the horoscope the more beneficial effects of this yoga are realized. Natives with Shakti Yoga are always driven towards activity, and while their actions are inclined to benefit others, they have difficulty feeling satisfied or care free, which prevents them from enjoying the good things they have accomplished, such as their marriage. Danda rod Yoga: All planets in all 4 houses commencing from the 10th house. One born in Danda Yoga is indigent, unkind, grieved, poor, discarded by all, and a servant. One will lose his son and wife and be away from his men. Wretched, one