The Atiganda nitya yoga

a birth, or an activity begun, under the Atiganda nitya yoga, the panchanga's own yoga found by summing the Sun's and Moon's longitudes, not a planetary combination yoga

What the tradition reads

A nitya yoga, in the panchanga, is not the same thing as a planetary combination yoga such as Gaja Kesari or Budha Aditya, formed by two grahas standing in a particular relation within a single chart. It is instead one of the five limbs of the panchanga itself, found, as Wikipedia's article on the Panchangam states, by adding the longitude of the Moon to the longitude of the Sun and dividing the sum by thirteen degrees and twenty minutes, giving twenty seven such yogas across the full circle of the sky. Atiganda is the sixth of them, its name read by onesanatan.com as great danger or a large knot, and both onesanatan.com and astrogle.com class it inauspicious, the latter describing a native born under it as facing a difficult life of numerous obstacles and accidents, and inclined toward revenge and anger. Onesanatan.com names Chandra, the Moon, as Atiganda's ruling deity, a reading on which the two sources agree even where they otherwise differ over other yogas in the same list.

The story

Chandra's own history supplies a danger that fits Atiganda's name closely. Wikipedia's account of the Moon god tells that Chandra, married to all twenty seven daughters of the sage Daksha, favoured Rohini above the rest, and when Daksha's repeated warnings went unheeded the sage cursed him with a wasting sickness, kshayaroga. Only the intervention of the other gods softened that sentence, letting Chandra recover for half of every month through ritual bathing in a sacred ford, an arrangement the tradition reads as the very origin of the Moon's waxing and waning. A yoga named for great danger, ruled by a god whose own body was once bound by exactly such a curse, threatened with wasting away entirely before mercy intervened, gives Atiganda's inauspicious reading a source closer to home than an abstract warning: the knot the name describes is one the ruling deity himself was once caught inside.

Written from

Corpus key nitya-yoga:Atiganda.