Yogi and Avayogi · the fortunate and unfortunate points

The yogi and the avayogi are a paired set of points, one read as fortunate and one as its opposite. The yogi is found from the combined longitude of the Sun and the Moon advanced by a fixed amount. The nakṣatra it lands in gives the yogi nakṣatra, and the planet ruling that star is the yogi planet, taken as a helping signature in the chart.

The avayogi is the counter-point, the star set against the yogi, and its ruling planet is the avayogi planet, read as the hindering signature. Some schools also mark a burnt or duplicate point, the dagdha, between the two, and the codex keeps that as one school’s addition rather than a settled rule.

The two lights, added, name one friend and one drag on the chart’s aims.

In practice the yogi planet is watched as a natural ally to what the chart is reaching for, the avayogi as a natural resistance, most of all through the daśās, the planetary periods, they rule. Both are one small piece of the reading, weighed alongside dignity, house, and aspect, never read alone.