Vedic Astrology Blog

The 2nd and 8th are the two houses classical astrology associates with the end of things, which is why this type attracts more fear copy than any other.

Both ends of this axis are angular houses, so the whole configuration sits on the structural spine of the chart rather than off to one side of it.

Seven charts in a hundred, which makes this the one combustion rare enough to be worth mentioning. The arithmetic behind the rarity is unusually clean.

The one type where the ascendant is guaranteed to sit at the head of the snake, which makes it the cleanest of the twelve to test and the easiest to misread.

Forty three charts in a hundred. When a condition is that common, the interesting question stops being whether you have it and becomes how close the planet actually sits.

A dosha type built around a placement the classical tradition considers one of Rahu's best. Somebody has to be wrong, and the answer is more interesting than either.

One chart in seven, on the tightest orb any planet gets. The interesting part is that two completely different arrangements of the sky produce the same label.

Seventeen degrees, wider than any other body gets, and the reason is that Mars near the Sun is the faintest thing on the list rather than the most important.

Under nine charts in a hundred, and the only combustion where the conjunction itself is already contested before the burning is taken into account.

Thirty thousand charts, twelve names, and a distribution so flat that the type you get is decided by nothing but where Rahu happened to be standing.

Two charts in three carry at least one burnt planet, and the orb that decides it varies from 10 degrees to 17 depending on which body you are asking about.

The 5th house is where past merit is supposed to be stored, which is exactly why this type attracts more fatalism than any of the other eleven.