Neecha Bhaṅga · a debilitation cancelled

A planet in its sign of debilitation is read as weakened, its significations under strain. Neecha Bhaṅga is the undoing of that fall. When a cancelling condition is present, for instance the planet’s dispositor or its exaltation lord sitting in a kendra from the Moon or the Lagna, the tradition holds the debilitation cancelled, and the weakness can turn, often late, into unexpected strength.

Which conditions truly cancel is where the schools part. The classical texts list several, and authors weight them differently. Some treat a cancellation as full, others as partial, others still as a strength that only arrives after early struggle. The codex keeps that disagreement rather than settling it.

The caution particular to this yoga is that it is claimed too easily. A cancellation read into a chart where the condition is not genuinely met is a common way to sell a hard placement as a hidden gift. The tradition reads a turned debilitation only where a real cancelling condition stands, and even then as a potential a daśā must activate, not a strength already in hand.

A debilitation cancelled is a fall undone, not a fall that never happened.