The Scoring Method: how this score is built

1. Every question page on this site — the doctor yoga, the lawyer yoga, the foreign-settlement yoga, the actor yoga — shows a score. That score follows a written rule rather than intuition, and the rule is the same on every page. So it is set out here once, in full, so that it need not be repeated on each page and a reader who wants to check it can.

2. Two things follow: first the rule by which the score is built — which placement earns how many points, and how a planet's strength is measured; then the point that matters more than any other in this whole method — there are twenty fields and only nine planets, so the score of any one field means little on its own; the real use is comparison.

How the Score Is Built

3. The score follows a written rule rather than intuition. Here it is in full:

Note that the largest gain (+25) comes only when a primary karaka meets both conditions — strong and in a supportive house. Strength alone gives 10, the house alone gives 8. The gap shows the framework treats no single condition as decisive, and that is what separates it from readings which pronounce from one planet. How strength is measured is open too:

4. Look at the last row — a planet whose debilitation is cancelled is not counted weak. That is deliberate, since cancellation means the debilitation no longer applies. A calculator ignoring it shows such charts as weak for no reason, and the cost of that error falls on the reader.

Comparing Twenty Fields

5. One point matters more than any other in this section: the table holds twenty fields against only nine planets. The direct arithmetical consequence is that almost every chart will look good for some field — so “your chart holds this yoga” is as easy to produce as it is empty. The real use is comparison: scoring all twenty together and seeing which two or three lead relative to each other. An astrologer who announces one field's score is in effect concealing what the other nineteen scored, and that is the commonest sleight of hand in the subject.

Dasha and Transit

6. The second thing the question pages share is the reading of dasha and transit — when a page speaks of a “window”, it is derived by this rule.

7. One point matters more than any other in this section and belongs on every page: no chart gives the date of an event. The classical method is far more restrained — the dasha names a season and the transit a year, and even together they yield a window rather than a day. Our engine's own note says exactly this: the transit's job is to confirm a window the dasha already proposed, never to invent one. A reading that produces a day and an hour has stepped outside the method — and the more precision that is claimed, the more caution it deserves.

8. The rule for finding a window is open, not intuitive. The engine weighs every mahadasha (the major period) against this table:

The largest single gain (+50) comes when the dasha lord is itself a karaka of the event; lordship of a house, occupation of one, and dignity are added after that. The last two rows repay attention: a window falling below the age floor is not docked points, its score is forced to zero. That is deliberate, because a marriage window at age five is not “somewhat less favourable” but impossible — and the correction went into the engine after a window without it was scoring ninety-five out of a hundred.

9. The second stage is the transit, and it is called the Guru-Shani double transit. The rule is that both Jupiter and Saturn must influence the house the event belongs to, either by occupying it or by aspect:

When the target house appears in both sets the double transit is complete, and the window the dasha proposed is confirmed. The order never runs backwards: dasha first, transit after.

10. A high-scoring window means only that the karakas of learning and educational change appear active in that stretch — a new course, a new institution, a relocation. It is no indication of selection.

Last updated: 2026-09-05