How close: degrees between grahas
Grahas in one sign work together; the fewer degrees between them, the more they blend.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Jyotish Shishya
- Vedic astrology
- Together in a sign
- Close to the Sun, close to each other
A first look at the lesson
Two grahas in the same sign are together (yuti) and colour each other. The degrees say how strongly: 2° apart they act almost as one; 25° apart they share the sign but each keeps to itself.
Closeness also decides two states you will study in the next course: a graha too close to the Sun is lost in its light (combust), and two grahas within 1° of each other fight (graha yuddha). Both are measured in degrees.
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More lessons on this subject
- Reading a graha's degreeEvery graha sits at a degree of its sign, 0° to 30°, and that one number says a great deal.
- Five ages in a sign (Baladi)By its degree a graha is an infant, a youth, an adult, old or dead; even signs run the other way.
- The edges of a sign: sandhi and gandantaA graha on the join between two signs is unsettled; where water meets fire the join is a knot.
- Vargottama: the same sign twiceWhen the degree puts a graha in the navamsha of its own sign, it is vargottama and strong.
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