The Variyan nitya yoga

a birth, or an activity begun, under the Variyan 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

Variyan is the eighteenth 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, distinct from any planetary combination yoga formed by grahas placed together within a chart. Onesanatan.com reads its name as excellent, chief or best, names Kubera, lord of wealth, as its ruling deity, and classes it auspicious. Astrogle.com's own reading, given under the spelling Variyana, disagrees outright, classing the yoga inauspicious and describing a native who loves ease and luxury to the point of laziness, and who is inclined toward lascivious conduct. This entry records the disagreement plainly: one source reads Kubera's wealth as the yoga's excellence, the other reads the same wealth as an invitation to indulgence rather than to genuine achievement.

The story

Kubera, Wikipedia's article records, is grandson of the sage Pulastya and son of Vishrava, and rises to become the wealthiest of the devas, guardian of the north and king of the yakshas who serve him, until his half brother Ravana wins a boon from Brahma and uses it to drive Kubera from his own city of Lanka, seizing his flying chariot along with it. Kubera does not fight to reclaim what was taken but withdraws instead to Gandhamandana, near Kailash, and builds a new capital at Alaka, content with the wealth that remains to him. A yoga named for excellence, ruled by a god who loses his finest city yet is remembered chiefly for the riches he still commands rather than for the one he gave up, sits well with onesanatan.com's reading of a chief among yogas, though the same readiness to settle for comfortable plenty over further contest may be exactly what astrogle.com's harsher verdict, ease tipping into laziness, is reading in the opposite direction.

Written from

Corpus key nitya-yoga:Variyan.