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The Vriddhi nitya yoga

a birth, or an activity begun, under the Vriddhi 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

Vriddhi is the eleventh 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, unrelated to any planetary combination yoga formed between grahas placed together in a single chart. Onesanatan.com reads its name as growth, expansion or increase, names Surya, the Sun, as its ruling deity, and classes the yoga auspicious. Astrogle.com's own reading, given under the spelling Vriddha, agrees in substance though its emphasis falls slightly differently, describing a native as intelligent, opportunistic and discerning, whose life is said to constantly improve with age rather than to expand all at once. Both sources concur that Vriddhi favours a steadily rising fortune, whether that rise is read as outward growth or as a life that simply keeps getting better the longer it runs.

The story

Surya, Wikipedia's article records, rides a chariot drawn by seven horses across the sky each day, a fixed and unhurried progress from horizon to horizon that never varies in its order even as the light it carries changes constantly in strength through the hours. Surya's own radiance is, in the wider tradition, treated as inexhaustible, the same steady brightness returning morning after morning without fail. A yoga of growth and increase, ruled by a god whose light only ever expands from dawn onward across the length of a single day before beginning the same steady climb again the next morning, fits Vriddhi's reading closely, and the same reliable, repeating rise is what astrogle.com's picture of a life improving steadily with age draws on, a fortune that grows the way the Sun's own light grows, morning after morning, rather than arriving all at once.

Written from

Corpus key nitya-yoga:Vriddhi.