Yoga: A Limb of the Panchang that indicates the time is auspicious or inauspicious.

Yoga - it arises from the union (Yoga) of the Sun and the Moon. Ancient texts regard it as the foremost of the Panchang's limbs for fixing Muhurtas and the like, and give its count as 27. Describing the method of computing a Yoga, it's said that if you add together the daily true longitude of the Sun and the true longitude of the Moon in kalas (minutes of arc) and divide that sum by 800, you get the Yoga elapsed. Multiplying the elapsed and remaining kalas by 60 and dividing by the combined speed (in kalas) of the Sun and Moon then gives the ghatis elapsed and remaining. What this means is: starting from the beginning of Ashwini Nakshatra, once the Sun and Moon together have advanced 800 kalas, one Yoga has passed; once they've advanced 1600 kalas, two have passed - and so on, until both have advanced through all 12 signs, 21600 kalas from Ashwini, by which point all 27 Yogas have passed. All 27, in order: Vishkambha, Priti, Ayushman, Saubhagya, Shobhana, Atiganda, Sukarma, Dhriti, Shoola, Ganda, Vriddhi, Dhruva, Vyaghata, Harshana, Vajra, Siddhi, Vyatipata, Variyan, Parigha, Shiva, Siddha, Sadhya, Shubha, Shukla, Brahma, Indra, Vaidhriti. Astrologers split these into auspicious and inauspicious groups. Yogas like Siddhi, Saubhagya, Shubha, and Dhruva are considered excellent for starting new ventures, while ones like Vyatipata, Parigha, and Ganda are ones important work is usually postponed around. That's why any Muhurta - a wedding, a housewarming, a fresh start - is rarely fixed without first checking that day's Yoga. ✨ The Yoga of the day reveals which way the Sun and Moon's combined energy is flowing - read it, and let your day move with that current.