Conjunctions

Saturn-Rahu arrives at a consulting table already named. The tradition calls this pairing Shrapit, the cursed combination, and the word has done a century of damage before any chart gets read, because a person told they carry a curse stops listening to everything after the noun. So this guide states its division of labour in … Read more

Moon-Mars is the first pairing in this series that arrives with a good reputation, and that creates the opposite problem. The tradition names it Chandra Mangal yoga, the classic wealth combination, and the keyword sites have inflated the name into a lottery ticket, guaranteed riches printed in a birth chart, which sets up its natives … Read more

Sun-Venus is the star-quality pairing, the charisma-conjunction of the thirty-six, presence fused to polish, the entrance-constitution behind a disproportionate share of the faces the world agrees to look at, and underneath the shine sits the series’ most elegant hostility: the tables file these two as full mutual enemies, the Sun listing Venus and Venus listing … Read more

Moon-Jupiter is the most famous good news in popular astrology, and fame has done to it what fame does. The pairing grounds Gaja Kesari yoga, the elephant-lion combination every horoscope app congratulates a third of humanity on owning, and between the congratulations and the reality sits a gap this page exists to close. Two clarifications … Read more

Moon-Mercury carries the tenderest wound in the friendship tables, and the mythology explains it as family, because it is. The Moon counts Mercury a friend; Mercury counts the Moon his one and only enemy; and the story behind the asymmetry is the same scandal the two-advisors page told from the stepfather’s house, here told from … Read more

Sun-Mercury is the most congratulated conjunction in astrology and the least understood, and the two facts are related. The pairing forms Budhaditya yoga, the celebrated combination of intellect and authority, and because Mercury never wanders more than about twenty-eight degrees from the Sun, the conjunction is astronomy’s most frequent gift, present in a majority of … Read more

Moon-Venus is the double-soft pairing, the only meeting of the chart’s two comfort-planets, the two watery receptives, the two significators of the feminine principle in every gender, sweetness squared, and hidden inside the sweetness sits a one-sided war the folk content never mentions: Venus counts the Moon her enemy, the connoisseur of love irritated by … Read more

Mercury-Venus opens the unnamed majority of this series, the pairings the tradition never titled, and it makes the hub’s case for them immediately: no dosha attaches to it, no yoga celebrates it, and it quietly describes half the copywriters, designers, diplomats, hosts and editors alive. The two inner planets travel on short leashes to the … Read more