Sandhi
Sandhi is a junction, and the word covers several in Jyotish. Bhava sandhi is the meeting of two houses, where a graha is read as weak and its results as uncertain, since it belongs to neither.
The doctrine behind all three is the same: a thing that sits on a boundary has no home, and a graha without a home cannot give a settled result. The practical rule is that a graha within about a degree of a sign boundary is read as sandhi and its promise is discounted, and that the lagna or the Moon in sandhi is a mark of a life that is difficult to characterise rather than unlucky as such.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Junctionbhava sandhirasi sandhiSandhya
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Concept
- Sanskrit
- संधि
- English
- junction; the joining of two divisions
- Meaning
Sandhi is a junction, and the word covers several in Jyotish. Bhava sandhi is the meeting of two houses, where a graha is read as weak and its results as uncertain, since it belongs to neither. Rasi sandhi is the meeting of two signs, and the junction of a water sign with a fire sign is the gandanta, the hardest of them. Sandhya is the twilight - BPHS defines it as three ghatikas, about seventy-two minutes, before sunrise and after sunset - and a birth in it is one of the classical evils to longevity.
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