Gajalakshmi

Jupiter in the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house from the Moon, and Venus in the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house from the lagna or from the Moon. When the Moon is also angular from the lagna, the engine records the fuller form.

The rule measures from two reference points. Jupiter must be in an angle from the Moon: the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th sign counted from the Moon's sign. That is the core of Gaja Kesari, the classical Jupiter–Moon combination associated with reputation and good counsel.

Venus must then be in an angle from either the lagna or the Moon. This is what turns the pattern toward prosperity rather than reputation alone: Venus adds resources, comfort, art and relationship to Jupiter's judgement.

When the Moon itself is angular from the lagna, the engine records the full form, because the emotional centre of the chart sits in a visible position. When it is not, the pattern is reported as a moderate variant. The label comes from the later tradition, not from Parashara's chapter on combinations.

Gajalakshmi works on a division of labour. Jupiter decides what is worth doing and at what scale; Venus decides whether the result is pleasant to live with. A chart with both, angular and therefore visible, tends to produce prosperity that comes with taste — a business with a good office, a practice with loyal clients, a home people like visiting.

The Moon is the reference point because the Moon is the mind and the public face. Jupiter angular from the Moon means a person's judgement is visible to others and shaped by how they feel. Venus angular from the lagna or Moon means comfort and relationship are part of that visibility. Since the combination is later tradition, it is best read as a described pattern: wisdom and grace in the same frame.

• Good counsel that also knows how to be agreeable.
• Comfort that is earned and shared rather than merely displayed.
• A clientele or circle that stays for the manner as much as the result.
• Taste in the arrangement of money, home and work.
• A capacity to enjoy what has been built.

• The Moon angular from the lagna, which gives the fuller form.
• Jupiter and Venus free of close contact with Saturn or the nodes.
• Venus with dignity: own sign, exaltation or moolatrikona.
• A strong 2nd or 11th lord to give the pattern a budget.
• Jupiter in Cancer or Sagittarius, where its counsel carries weight.

Gajalakshmi is a structural signature rather than a single event, and it becomes visible when Jupiter or Venus runs its periods. A Jupiter mahadasha tends to expand the reputation; a Venus mahadasha tends to improve the conditions of life. Periods that combine both — Jupiter–Venus or Venus–Jupiter — are when the pattern is most obviously at work. The report places both planets' periods against that sequence.

• Gajalakshmi is not Gaja Kesari under another name. Gaja Kesari’s full form needs Jupiter angular from the Moon with benefic support and dignity; Gajalakshmi adds Venus, and with it the theme of comfort and resources rather than reputation alone.
• The label is later tradition. It is not a verse in Parashara's chapter on combinations, and the engine says so. Read it as a described pattern, useful for organising what the chart shows, not as a scriptural rule.

1. 1.Later tradition — Gajalakshmi (no verse in BPHS Ch. 36)
2. 2.Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Ch. 36, verses 3–4 (Gaja Kesari, the Jupiter–Moon core)
3. 3.Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Ch. 34 (kendra strength and functional nature)

The formation and strength of this yoga are calculated by the RajYog engine. The interpretation is an original paraphrase of the classical rule; it is not a personal prediction. Read the methodology.