The Shukla nitya yoga

a birth, or an activity begun, under the Shukla 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

Shukla is the twenty fourth of the twenty seven nitya yogas, the panchanga limb Wikipedia's article on the Panchangam describes as found from the sum of the Sun's and Moon's longitudes, a computation unrelated to any planetary combination yoga formed by grahas placed together within a chart. Onesanatan.com reads its name as bright, white or pure, names Parvati as its ruling deity, and classes the yoga auspicious. Astrogle.com's own reading, given under the spelling Sukla, disagrees sharply, classing the yoga inauspicious and describing a native as garrulous and flighty, impatient and impulsive, with an unsteady and changeable mind, a reading with almost nothing in common with onesanatan.com's brighter verdict beyond the two sources' shared reliance on the same Sanskrit name. This entry records the disagreement rather than choosing between the two: Shukla is one of the more sharply contested of the twenty seven yogas in standing alone.

The story

Parvati, Wikipedia's article records, is the reincarnation of Sati, Shiva's first wife, who immolates herself after her father Daksha insults Shiva, and who is reborn as Parvati, daughter of the mountain king Himavat, expressly to win Shiva back. Rather than wait to be noticed, Parvati takes up asceticism herself, living in the mountains and practising the same austerities Shiva does, a determination steady enough that even Kamadeva's arrows, which cost the god of desire his own body when Shiva burns him to ash for the attempt, fail where her patient discipline eventually succeeds, winning Shiva's attention and, afterward, marriage and the birth of Ganesha and Kartikeya. A yoga of brightness and purity, ruled by a goddess whose single defining trait is years of unwavering, self chosen persistence, sits oddly beside astrogle.com's reading of an unsteady, impatient mind, and this entry leaves that tension exactly where the sources leave it, unresolved.

Written from

Corpus key nitya-yoga:Shukla.