Kemadruma Yoga
Kemadruma is the affliction of the Moon by emptiness: the graha of the mind with nothing beside it on either side. It is among the most feared combinations in the tradition and among the most cancelled in practice, since the conditions are strict and the exceptions are many.
Kemadruma bhanga, the cancellation, is the classical counterweight: the yoga is void if the Moon is in a kendra from the lagna, or if a planet is in a kendra from the Moon, or if the Moon is aspected by Jupiter. The strict BPHS form includes the kendra-from-lagna condition already, so the popular two-house form over-diagnoses it.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Kemadrumathe drum-less yogathe solitary Moon
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Yoga
- Sanskrit
- केमद्रुम
- English
- the Moon without support
- Meaning
Kemadruma is the affliction of the Moon by emptiness: the graha of the mind with nothing beside it on either side. It is among the most feared combinations in the tradition and among the most cancelled in practice, since the conditions are strict and the exceptions are many.
Details
- Formation
Excluding the Sun, no planet with the Moon, none in the 2nd or the 12th from the Moon, and none in a kendra from the lagna. BPHS ch. 37 gives all three conditions together; the popular form uses only the 2nd and 12th from the Moon.
- Fruit
BPHS: the native is much reproached, bereft of intelligence and learning, and reduced to penury and perils. The yoga is read as isolation of the mind and the absence of the support a family and a circle give.
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