Enter your birth date, time and place above and this free calculator tells you whether Kemadruma yoga, also called Kemdrum dosha, is present in your chart, present but cancelled, or not present. You see which planets stand in the signs on either side of your Moon, each of the four cancellations the free kundali tests with the reason it holds or does not, and the verdict by the stricter wording of Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra set beside it.
How it works
The finder works out your sidereal planets (Lahiri ayanamsa) and rising sign, then looks at the two signs on either side of the Moon. If any of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn stands in the 2nd or the 12th sign from the Moon, the Moon has a neighbour and Kemadruma does not form. The Sun, Rahu and Ketu are not counted as neighbours.
If both signs are empty, the pattern forms and the finder tests four cancellations, any one of which is enough: one of the five planets in a kendra from the Moon (the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th sign from it, the 1st meaning with the Moon), the Moon itself in a kendra from the rising sign, the Moon in Taurus or Cancer, and Jupiter aspecting the Moon. This is the same test the dosha panel of the free kundali runs, so the verdict at the top always agrees with it.
Reading the result
There are three possible verdicts. Not present means the Moon has a neighbour; the result names it, and the finder notes the Sunapha, Anapha or Durudhara yoga that a neighbour makes instead (Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, ch. 37, verses 7 to 10). Present but cancelled means the pattern forms but at least one cancellation holds, which tradition calls Kemadruma bhanga. Present means the pattern forms and none of the four cancellations holds.
Below the verdict, a table shows the 12th sign, the Moon’s own sign and the 2nd sign with the planets in each, and a second table shows each cancellation with the planets and houses behind it. The guide to Kemadruma yoga explains the classical verses, and the guides to Sunapha, Anapha and Durudhara yoga explain the neighbours.
Where traditions differ
The texts word the rule differently. Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (ch. 37, verses 11 to 13, in R. Santhanam’s edition) forms Kemadruma only when, leaving out the Sun, no planet is with the Moon, in the 2nd or 12th from it, or in a kendra from the ascendant. That is stricter than the test above: a planet with the Moon, or in a kendra from the ascendant, stops the yoga from forming at all, rather than cancelling it. The finder tests this wording too and shows its answer beside the verdict. When the two differ, it says so plainly.
Other texts, such as Phaladeepika, Saravali, Brihat Jataka and Jataka Parijata, give their own wording and their own cancellations, and the guide sets them out. Teachers also differ on whether the Sun and the nodes count as neighbours; this finder, like the free kundali, leaves out the Sun, Rahu and Ketu.
What it does not do
It does not predict hardship. The classical verses on Kemadruma are harsh, and the same texts list the conditions under which it lapses, which is why the cancellations are tested here one by one. A pattern in a chart is one factor among many, read with the strength of the Moon and the dasha running. If loneliness or low mood is weighing on you, please speak to someone you trust or a doctor; a chart is never a diagnosis.
Frequently asked questions
↳ What is Kemadruma yoga?
Kemadruma yoga is the name for a Moon with no planet beside it: none of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn in the sign before or after the Moon. Classical texts read it as a Moon without support, and they also list the conditions that cancel it.
↳ How do I check Kemadruma yoga in my kundli?
Enter your birth date, time and place above. The finder looks at the two signs beside your Moon, tests the four cancellations and gives the verdict in the same words as the dosha panel of the free kundali, with the stricter classical wording shown beside it.
↳ What cancels Kemadruma yoga?
The finder tests four cancellations, as the free kundali does: one of the five planets in a kendra from the Moon, the Moon in a kendra from the rising sign, the Moon in Taurus or Cancer, and Jupiter aspecting the Moon. Any one of them is enough for the verdict to read present but cancelled.
↳ Why do the two verdicts sometimes differ?
Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (ch. 37, verses 11 to 13) words the rule more strictly: a planet with the Moon or in a kendra from the ascendant stops the yoga from forming at all. The free kundali does not test the kendras from the ascendant. The finder shows both answers so you can see where they part.
↳ Do the Sun, Rahu and Ketu count as neighbours of the Moon?
Not in this finder. Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra leaves out the Sun, and the free kundali also leaves out Rahu and Ketu. If one of them stands beside your Moon, the table notes it as present but not counted.
↳ Does it need my birth time?
Yes. The neighbours depend only on the signs of the planets, but one of the cancellations, and the stricter wording, count houses from the rising sign, which changes every couple of hours. The Moon's sign also depends on the time when it changed sign on the day of birth.
↳ Is Kemadruma yoga the same as Kemdrum dosha?
Yes. Kemadruma is the classical name and Kemdrum dosha a common modern one; the free kundali lists it as Kemdrum Dosha. Both mean the same pattern around the Moon.