Ruchaka Yoga
Ruchaka yoga is created by Mars when it is placed in one of the angular houses [that is, in the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses of the horoscope — editor’s note] in Aries, Scorpio or Capricorn. The results: a strong build, attractiveness, talkativeness, a long life, wealth, a commanding post in the army.
Sri Govind Swarup Agarwal — «Vedic Astrology»
Mars gives one of the Pancha-Mahapurusha yogas — Ruchaka yoga. Ruchaka (radiant, brilliant) is a commander, a military leader. It gives courage, strength, resolve and the qualities of a leader.
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A person with Ruchaka yoga is attractive and good-looking. He has a pleasant face, beautiful eyebrows, dark hair and usually a fair complexion. He has a slim waist and lean legs. This person is brave and courageous, full of strength and energy, fond of adventure, and in this way he earns himself fame and a name. He behaves in a regal manner, always ready for a fight. He is a commander or the leader of some group, loves physical exertion and defeats his opponents.
Ruchaka yoga gives a person the capacity for restraint. Such a person respects his elders, his mentors and the Brahmins. He is also an expert in the sacred scriptures and in magical incantations against enemies — how to kill, capture, subdue, divide and sow enmity. He bears burns, scars and the marks of surgical operations. He lives happily up to the age of seventy, may leave the world near a temple, and death may occur through fire or a weapon.
Note: Ruchaka yoga is formed when Mars dominates the horoscope. In accordance with its nature, Mars will endow a person with excellence and make him valiant; it will give him a love of adventure, which will lead to physical suffering and wounds. A strong Mars means physical strength and superiority in battle. It is necessary, however, to consider the strength of Mars not only in the birth chart but also in the vargas, especially in the navamsha. If Mars is weak there, the result of the yoga will not manifest in full.
Sometimes one may notice that a horoscope can contain one or even several Pancha-Mahapurusha yogas and yet pass unnoticed. Therefore, in order to analyse these yogas properly, several points must be noted.
- The planet forming the yoga must be strong both in the birth chart (by Shad-bala) and in the vargas. This planet will manifest its qualities in full only if it is strong. A dominant Mars is strength and aggression, Mercury — intellect and virtue, Jupiter — wisdom and eloquence, Venus — beauty and pleasure, and Saturn — influence over the masses and misfortune.
2. A Pancha-Mahapurusha yoga will give no results if the Sun or the Moon is in conjunction with the planet that forms this yoga. In that case the planet will give favourable results only during its own dasha. This is equivalent to a cancellation of the Mahapurusha yoga.
- Accordingly, if the Sun and the Moon are not with the planet forming the yoga, then this Mahapurusha yoga will manifest in full and will bear fruit not only during its own dasha. In other words, such an «impeccable» Mahapurusha yoga will show itself not only during the dasha of the planet that forms it. This yoga will therefore exert its influence throughout the whole of life. It is analogous to a Nabhasa yoga. The presence of several such favourable yogas in a horoscope raises a person’s material and professional status regardless of the dasha.
K.S. Charak — «Yogas in Astrology»
from Oleg Tolmachev’s book «Rectification of the time of birth. Determining the Lagna»