Lunar yogas · Sunapha, Anapha, Durudhara

The lunar yogas describe the company the Moon keeps, and they draw more discussion than the solar set because so much in jyotiṣa hangs on the Moon. A planet other than the Sun in the second house from the Moon makes Sunapha yoga; the same in the twelfth makes Anapha; planets on both sides make Durudhara.

The tradition reads them for self-made standing: wealth a person earns rather than inherits, a good name, comfort, an even mind. Durudhara, flanked on both sides, is given the fullest reading, the Moon companioned left and right and a life read as well-supported.

Their absence carries its own name. When no planet other than the Sun stands in the second or twelfth from the Moon, the chart is said to hold Kemadruma yoga, read classically as isolation or a hard hand. It is worth saying plainly that Kemadruma is one of the most heavily marketed afflictions in the literature and one of the most easily lifted: a planet conjunct the Moon, a benefic aspecting it, the Moon in an angle from the Lagna, or a planet in an angle from the Moon is enough to cancel it in most schools. A bare, uncancelled Kemadruma is rarer than the fear around it suggests.

Kemadruma is the most over-sold of the lunar verdicts and among the easiest to cancel.

As with the solar set, the reading comes from the flanking planets and their strength, not the shape alone, and none of it delivers without a daśā to bring it forward.