Pushkala Yoga Meaning

Pushkala yoga links two of the most personal points of a horoscope: the Lagna (the body and self) and the Moon sign (the mind). Pushkala means abundant or full. Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra describes a person with this yoga as wealthy, sweet-spoken, famous and honoured by people in authority.

The yoga is less common than many in this series because it needs several conditions at once.

The four conditions

Classical texts state Pushkala yoga as follows. All four should hold:

1. The lord of the sign occupied by the Moon (the Moon's dispositor, or Rasi lord) is joined with the Lagna lord.
2. The two are in a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house) or in the sign of a great friend.
3. They aspect the Lagna.
4. The Lagna is occupied by a strong planet.

When the Moon itself sits in the Lagna, the Moon-sign lord and the Lagna lord are the same planet, so the yoga is usually not judged in this form.

How to check it step by step

1. Note your Lagna and its lord.
2. Note the sign of the Moon and its lord.
3. Are the two lords in the same sign? If not, there is no Pushkala yoga.
4. Which house is that sign? A kendra, or the sign of a close friend of the planets, satisfies condition 2.
5. Does that sign aspect the Lagna? Every planet aspects the 7th from itself; Mars also aspects the 4th and 8th, Jupiter the 5th and 9th, and Saturn the 3rd and 10th.
6. Is there a strong planet (own sign, exalted or very well placed) in the Lagna?

Worked example

Aries Lagna, Moon in Leo.

• Lagna lord: Mars. Moon-sign lord: the Sun (lord of Leo).
• Mars and the Sun are both in Libra, the 7th house. Condition 1 holds.
• The 7th house is a kendra. Condition 2 holds.
• Planets in the 7th aspect the 1st (the 7th from them). Condition 3 holds.
• Jupiter is in Aries in the Lagna. Jupiter is a great friend of the Lagna lord Mars and is well placed in a fire sign; a strong benefic in the Lagna. Condition 4 holds.

So this chart has Pushkala yoga. One caution: the Sun is debilitated in Libra. A careful astrologer would check whether that debilitation is cancelled (see Neecha Bhanga Raja yoga; here Venus, the lord of Libra, would need to be in a kendra, or Saturn, which is exalted in Libra, placed in a kendra). With a cancellation, the yoga gives its full promise; without one, the results are milder.

Where most charts stop

Take Cancer Lagna with the Moon in Sagittarius. The Lagna lord is the Moon and the Moon-sign lord is Jupiter. If Jupiter is in Pisces and the Moon in Sagittarius, the two lords are in different signs: condition 1 fails, and there is no Pushkala yoga, even though Jupiter is strong. Most charts are like this.

What it promises

When the conditions hold, the classical results are:

• wealth and comfort, often rising steadily;
• sweet, persuasive speech;
• fame and a good reputation in the community;
• respect and support from those in authority;
• a mind (Moon) and body or personality (Lagna) that work in harmony toward the same goals.

The last point is the heart of the yoga: when the lords of the mind and the self are joined, strong and looking at the Lagna, the person's thoughts and actions pull in one direction.

Judging the strength

• Dignity. Check both lords in the exaltation and debilitation table; a debilitated lord weakens the yoga unless cancelled.
• Combustion. If one of the lords is very close to the Sun (and is not the Sun itself), it is weakened.
• Malefic company. Rahu, Ketu or Saturn joining the two lords mixes the results.
• The dasa. The yoga shows most in the dasas and bhuktis of the two lords.

Pushkala and other wealth yogas

Pushkala yoga is personal and depends on the self and the mind working together. It is often read alongside Vasumathi yoga, which looks at benefics in the houses of growth. A chart with both is especially well supported for steady prosperity.

Summary

Pushkala yoga forms when the Moon-sign lord is joined with the Lagna lord in a kendra or a great friend's sign, the two aspect the Lagna, and a strong planet occupies the Lagna. The full form is uncommon. It promises wealth, sweet speech, fame and respect, felt most in the dasas of the two lords, and is judged by their dignity, combustion and company.

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