Nadi dosha — what it is, and what cancels it

Every one of the 27 nakshatrasThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. belongs to one of three nadis — AadiThe first of the three nadis, tied to the vata pulse. Nadi is worth eight of the thirty six points and is all or nothing, so two partners both on Adi score none of them., MadhyaThe middle nadi, tied to the pitta pulse. Nadi reads constitution and children, and it scores the opposite way to the rest: matching nadis lose all eight points, differing ones take them. or AntyaThe last of the three nadis, tied to the kapha pulse. Two partners on one nadi are read as too alike in constitution, and that is the pairing which gives up all eight points. — which map onto the Ayurvedic constitutions of vata, pitta and kapha. Your nadiConstitution, health and children, and the heaviest koota at eight of the thirty six points. It is all or nothing: the same nadi scores zero. is decided by the nakshatra your Moon was in at birth, and by nothing else.

If both Moons fall in the same nadiConstitution, health and children, and the heaviest koota at eight of the thirty six points. It is all or nothing: the same nadi scores zero., the kootaOne of the eight tests a horoscope match is scored on. Each carries its own weight, and the eight add up to thirty six points. scores 0 of 8 and that is what "Nadi dosha" names. The classical reasoning is that two identical constitutions reinforce each other rather than balance each other, and the concern the texts attach to it is about progeny and health rather than about compatibility of temperament.

Because it is eight points in one lump, a nadiConstitution, health and children, and the heaviest koota at eight of the thirty six points. It is all or nothing: the same nadi scores zero. clash on its own drops a total by more than a fifth. A couple scoring 26 with differing nadis scores 18 with the same one, and 18 is the number that starts arguments at home — which is why this is the first field to check when a total looks surprisingly low.

Which nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. falls in which nadiConstitution, health and children, and the heaviest koota at eight of the thirty six points. It is all or nothing: the same nadi scores zero.. The pattern runs in a zigzag through groups of three, which is why it cannot be worked out by counting.

NadiConstitution, health and children, and the heaviest koota at eight of the thirty six points. It is all or nothing: the same nadi scores zero. dosha has more recognised exceptions than almost any other rule in Gun MilanThe thirty six point score for a match, built from the eight kootas. Eighteen and above is workable, and the number is a starting point rather than a verdict., and almost nobody prints them. These are the ones the classical sources name.

• Same rashi, different nakshatra

  If both Moons are in the same rashiA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. but in different nakshatrasThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score., the standard texts treat the nadiConstitution, health and children, and the heaviest koota at eight of the thirty six points. It is all or nothing: the same nadi scores zero. clash as cancelled.

• Same nakshatra, different rashi

  The mirror of the above: one nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. can span two rashisA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun., and Moons in the same nakshatra but different rashis are held to cancel it.

• Same nakshatra, different pada

  Both Moons in one nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. but in different quarters of it is also treated as cancelling, on the same reasoning — the constitutions are not in fact identical.

• The rashi lords are the same or friendly

  Where the two Moon rashisA sign, one twelfth of the zodiac. In Indian practice your rashi is the sign the Moon was in, not the Sun. are ruled by the same grahaOne of the nine: the seven visible bodies plus Rahu and Ketu, the two lunar nodes. A graha is read as a force at work, not as a lump of rock., or by grahas that are natural friends, several traditions set the clash aside.

• The rest of the chart says otherwise

  A strong NavamsaThe ninth-part chart, read next to the main one. It shows how much of a promise actually holds up, and marriage is judged on it. agreement, or a well-placed 7th lord in both charts, is treated by practising astrologers as outweighing a single kootaOne of the eight tests a horoscope match is scored on. Each carries its own weight, and the eight add up to thirty six points. — which is what "look at the whole chart" actually means in practice.

Be clear about what our tool does and does not do here: it computes the kootaOne of the eight tests a horoscope match is scored on. Each carries its own weight, and the eight add up to thirty six points. and tells you whether the nadis clash. It does not decide which of the exceptions above applies to you — that is a reading, not an arithmetic, and a calculator that claimed otherwise would be making the decision for an astrologer it has not consulted.

• It is not a bar to marriage. The same texts that define it define five ways it lapses, and the second-commonest is a coincidence of nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. that costs nothing to check.
• It is not a medical finding. Nothing about a nakshatraThe star the Moon is passing through. There are twenty-seven, and yours decides your naming letter and much of a matching score. pairing has anything to say about anyone’s actual health, and the pages that imply otherwise are selling something.
• It is not most of the match. It is 8 of 36 points, in an arithmetic that ignores the ascendantThe sign rising in the east at your birth, and the first house of the chart. It changes about every two hours, which is why the birth time matters., the seventh house, both Venuses and every dashaA period ruled by one graha, running for a fixed number of years. Dashas are how a chart is read forward in time instead of as a snapshot. either person is running.

Rather than working out your nadiConstitution, health and children, and the heaviest koota at eight of the thirty six points. It is all or nothing: the same nadi scores zero. from a table, put both birth details in and see all eight kootasOne of the eight tests a horoscope match is scored on. Each carries its own weight, and the eight add up to thirty six points. computed — Nadi, BhakootHousehold life and prosperity together, taken from the distance between the two Moon signs. Seven points of the thirty six, and some pairs score zero., and whether ManglikMars sitting in one of the houses counted sensitive for marriage. It is common, it often cancels out, and on its own it is not a reason to stop. is cancelled. Free, and nothing is saved.