The Dhriti nitya yoga

a birth, or an activity begun, under the Dhriti 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

Dhriti is the eighth of the twenty seven nitya yogas, the panchanga limb Wikipedia's article on the Panchangam derives from the sum of the Sun's and Moon's longitudes divided into shares of thirteen degrees and twenty minutes, a computation with nothing to do with a planetary combination yoga formed by particular grahas in a chart. Onesanatan.com reads its name as patience, firmness or steadfastness, names Jala, the water god, as its ruling deity, and classes the yoga auspicious. Astrogle.com's own reading complicates that verdict without flatly reversing it, describing a native who enjoys the wealth, goods and even the spouses of others and who indulges freely in hospitality, a description read here as mixed rather than as simply favourable, so the two sources agree on the yoga's steadier, more self assured temperament while disagreeing on how cleanly that temperament counts as a virtue.

The story

Jala, water, is in Vedic tradition most fully embodied by Varuna, whom Wikipedia's article describes as the enforcer of rta, the cosmic and moral order, a vigilant upholder of truth who watches every action through his celestial spies from a thousand gated palace and who punishes falsehood while showing mercy to whoever repents. Varuna's later shift from sky sovereign to lord of the oceans, rivers and lakes, ruling from a white palace in the watery realm of Nagaloka, is described in the same source as a real diminishment of his earlier supremacy, the article noting that he is no longer depicted as the supreme sky god or an omnipotent sovereign administering cosmic order and morality. A yoga of patience and firmness, ruled by the god whose entire office is holding cosmic order steady against every falsehood that might unbalance it, fits Dhriti's name closely, though the same god's long, patient tenure over a shrinking domain may also be what astrogle.com's more mixed reading, of comfort enjoyed at another's expense, is quietly picking up on.

Written from

Corpus key nitya-yoga:Dhriti.