Raja-Sambandha Yoga
Raja means king, sambandha — a connection with (someone); the notion therefore implies relations with a royal or powerful family or people; such yogas give high standing and a great deal of luxury in addition to every kind of comfort.
Svaace va paicame cukre jevenduyutaveknite |
Lagne lagnapade va'pi rajavargo bhavennarau || 11 ||
Translation: If Venus is in the Svamsha or the fifth from it, and is connected with Jupiter or the Moon, then the owner of the horoscope is connected with power and with people of high position. This yoga must also be present from the Lagna or the Arudha lagna (in the Rashi chakra).
Chart 6: Princess Diana
In the chart of Princess Diana the Moon, the atmakaraka, occupies Virgo in the Navamsha. Let us examine the Navamsha: Venus is in the fifth house from the Moon and also in the fifth house from the karakamsha, as is the navamsha lagna. The requirements connected with the Svamsha are thus satisfied. Svamsha can mean both the navamsha lagna and the karakamsha. A situation in which they coincide is a confirmation of the presence of a raja-sambandha yoga.
In the Rashi, Venus occupies neither the Lagna nor the fifth house. However, the Karaka lagna is Capricorn, since it is occupied by the atmakaraka, the Moon. The fifth from it is Taurus with Venus, which is aspected by Jupiter (graha drishti) + by both Jupiter and the Moon (rashi drishti). So once again we find a raja-sambandha yoga.
Venus, the ruler of the ninth, occupies the fifth house from the Atmakaraka, which indicates another raja-sambandha yoga as well (BPHS 41.8). Venus, the chara and naisargika dara-karaka, forms a yoga that works through the contracting of a marriage. Venus is also the yogakaraka for a lagna in Virgo.
To determine the timing of the results of a raja yoga, one must select the dasha appropriate to the chart. This has been demonstrated exhaustively in the previous lessons. The Chaturaseeti-sama dasha applies to this chart, since the ruler of the tenth, Mercury, is in the tenth house.
Chaturaseeti-sama dasha (applicable if the ruler of the 10th occupies the 10th):
Moon: 1956-11-11 (3:26:34) - 1968-11-11 (5:25:17)
Mars: 1968-11-11 (5:25:17) - 1980-11-11 (7:07:31)
Mercury: 1980-11-11 (7:07:31) - 1992-11-11 (9:02:47)
Jupiter: 1992-11-11 (9:02:47) - 2004-11-11 (10:50:36)
Venus: 2004-11-11 (10:50:36) - 2016-11-11 (12:43:54)
Saturn: 2016-11-11 (12:43:54) - 2028-11-11 (14:32:07)
Sun: 2028-11-11 (14:32:07) - 2040-11-11 (16:20:42)
With the beginning of the benefit-bearing dasha of Mercury the raja-sambandha yoga began to bear fruit, and it switched on fully with the beginning of the relationship with Prince Charles, a member of the British Royal Family. Their marriage was broadcast on television and she gained wide renown through the marriage, besides acquiring luxury and the rights that go with such a position.
Jupiter, the ruler of the seventh (marriage), is weakened (in fall, destruction) and retrograde in the fifth house (love affairs) and is joined with the ruler of the sixth (hostility / extramarital relations), Saturn. A person attains standing through the influence of a planet during its dasha, and with the beginning of the dasha of Jupiter she entered into marriage.
She separated from Prince Charles and was publicly accused of sexual relations with servants. Note that the planet indicating the problem — the staff — is ruled by Saturn, which is in addition the ruler of the sixth house. The Jupiter dasha, Saturn antardasha between April 1996 and January 1998 was the worst period, when the private life of the royal couple became a subject of discussion in the British press. This was the period of the ending of the raja-sambandha yoga.
Thus it is important not only to determine the timing of a raja yoga’s action, but also to identify the periods of difficulty (of affliction or destruction) and of the possible end of such a raja yoga’s action (using the appropriate dasha).
Chart 7: Jawaharlal Nehru
A raja-sambandha yoga can take on various shades and forms. One such yoga we find in the Navamsha of Jawaharlal Nehru.
The atmakaraka Moon in the navamsha is in Sagittarius, joined with Venus and aspected by Jupiter. The conditions for the presence of the yoga are satisfied. Since this occurs in the navamsha, it will probably have consequences for Nehru’s personal life. In the eleventh house from the navamsha lagna it indicates a friend. There is another yoga, involving Venus with Mars in the second house from the navamsha lagna — an indication of relations. It is widely known that Nehru was very close to Lady Mountbatten during the period when Lord Mountbatten was Viceroy of colonial India. Thus the raja-sambandha yoga gave a close friendship with Lady Mountbatten and, also probably, the second house was activated, leading to physical relations, since it is influenced by Mars and Venus.
The point is that a raja yoga cannot be treated independently of the other constellations connected with it; if the planets forming it are involved in another yoga as well, they will give the results of both at the same time. Determining the timing of the yoga’s functioning (in this example) is a simple use of the Vimshottari dasha, in which the yoga functioned without hindrance during the Moon dasha, Venus antardasha (1945-47). Lady Mountbatten returned to England in 1947.
The raja-sambandha yoga indicates good relations, not sensual pleasure. It shows maturity and elevation thanks to relations (of kinship) or to friendship. If it is absent in the Navamsha as well, physical relations of any form should not be predicted.