A Checklist for Qualifying Yogas

[Kateyp]

Dear all - please see checklist below, taken from the article
www.learnastrologyfree.com/qualifyingyogas.htm‎
Hope it may be helpful
Thanks
Katey

A Checklist for Qualifying Yogas
In order to use the principles in this article easily, I decided to create the following checklist for assessing positive yogas.

Major considerations:

1. Are any of the yoga-forming planets strong? If not, then the yoga is not likely to give rise to much success unless the yoga-forming planets are participating in more than one yoga. So the corollary question is: Are the yoga-forming planets creating more than one yoga?

2. Does the yoga recur (involving the same planets) from the Chandra or Surya Lagnas? If so, then the yoga is more powerful.

3. Do the yoga-forming planets receive aspects from malefics? If so, the magnitude of the yoga's effects will be notably diminished, and additional issues might arise.

4. Do the yoga-forming planets have any relationship with the First House or the ruler of the First House? If not, the abilities and gifts represented by the yoga will be hard to access.

5. Are the Ascendant and lord of the Ascendant predominately strong or weak? If both are strong and influenced by benefics, then the yoga will be easily expressed, if both are weak and influenced by malefics, then not.

6. Is the person running or going to run the dasa of one of the yoga-forming planets? If so, then the yoga is likely to reach full fruition. If not, then has the person already run the dasa of one of the yoga-forming planets? If not, then the yoga may not reach full fruition.

7. For the person's specific Ascendant, do either or both of the yoga-forming planets have good house rulerships? If not, then the yoga's effect will be significantly diminished.

Minor Considerations:

8. Does the yoga take place in houses 6, 8, or 12? If so, then the themes of that house will be enhanced (e.g. medical skill for the 6th, or occult gifts for the 8th), but the yoga may not give as notable results in conventional ways.

9. Are the yoga-forming planets close to each other by orb? If so, then the yoga may be a bit more powerful.