Parvata Yoga

Definition

Parvata Yoga is a favorable combination in Jyotish whose name means "mountain" — Cole writes that you stand out in life the way a mountain stands out from a distance. The sources give materially different formation rules. deFouw and Svoboda, citing the classical Phaladipika, apply it when the ascendant lord sits in the seventh house and aspects the ascendant; Raman has benefics fill the kendras (the angular houses) with the sixth and eighth empty or held by benefics; Cole keeps the seventh and eighth vacant or benefic-only while benefics alone fill the kendras.

In Tradition

Across the classical and modern Jyotish texts gathered here, Parvata Yoga is read as a benefic combination that lifts you in the world. deFouw and Svoboda, Raman, and Cole each have it producing wealth, eminence, prosperity, comfort, or fame. They agree on this favorable class of result while diverging on the exact planetary configuration that forms the yoga, so only the shared principle is stated.

In Practice

How a jyotishi (Vedic astrologer) reads Parvata Yoga depends on the authority followed. deFouw and Svoboda find it in Monroe's chart through the ascendant lord in the seventh aspecting the ascendant, and list its textual fruits: a person very wealthy, charitable, eloquent, learned in the classical subjects, fond of mirth, famous, splendiferous, and the leader of a city. In Anais Nin's chart they judge it strong because the lagna lord (ascendant ruler) Mercury was very strong and its dispositor Saturn very strong, the two friendly to each other and to the lagna lord. Raman reads benefics in the kendras with the sixth and eighth clear or benefic as conferring eminence, prosperity, and fame. Cole reads benefics in the kendras with the seventh and eighth vacant or benefic as indicating much comfort and good luck, a good family, and a likely inheritance.

Historical Origin

deFouw and Svoboda attest Parvata Yoga in Light on Life, citing the classical Phaladipika in their Monroe analysis and applying it again to Anais Nin. Raman lists Parvatha Yoga in the Index of Technical Terms in Notable Horoscopes. Cole presents it in Science of Light, Vol. I as one of the topic-specific yogas that Parashara lists. All four readings here are modern paraphrase rather than verbatim classical quotation.

Further Reading

• deFouw & Svoboda, Light on Life
• Raman, Notable Horoscopes
• Cole, Science of Light, Vol. I