Kala Sarpa Yoga
Kala Sarpa is the most widely used and least classical of the named yogas: a chart in which the planets are all caught on one side of the Rahu-Ketu axis, read as a life bound to a karmic wheel. Its popularity in modern practice is far greater than its textual authority.
This yoga is not in BPHS: the chapters on yogas (35 to 41) do not contain it, and it does not appear in the classical corpus this entry consulted. It is a modern formulation, widely used in practice and of contested authority; the entry records it because the tradition as it is actually practised cannot be read without it, and flags the provenance rather than presenting it as classical.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- KalasarpaKala Sarpathe serpent of time
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Yoga
- Sanskrit
- कालसर्प
- English
- the serpent of time
- Meaning
Kala Sarpa is the most widely used and least classical of the named yogas: a chart in which the planets are all caught on one side of the Rahu-Ketu axis, read as a life bound to a karmic wheel. Its popularity in modern practice is far greater than its textual authority.
Details
- Formation
All seven grahas (the Sun to Saturn) and the lagna held within the arc from Rahu to Ketu - that is, all of them in the six signs on one side of the nodal axis. The twelve named forms (Ananta, Kulika, Vasuki, Shankhapala, Padma, Mahapadma, Takshaka, Karkotaka, Shankhachuda, Ghataka, Vishadhara, Sheshanaga) are named by the house Rahu occupies.
- Fruit
A life read as fated, with struggle, delay and a sense of being carried by something larger than the will; the modern literature gives hardship in the affairs of the houses the axis falls in, and a late or hard-won success.
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