Introduction
The Moon is taken as the significator of the mind, and Mars of energy and courage. When the two come together, it is called Chandra-Mangala yoga. It is number six in B. V. Raman's Three Hundred Important Combinations, and is often described as a money yoga.
Here we look at the rule, how Raman reads it, and where the name comes from.
The rule
According to Raman: when Mars conjoins the Moon, this yoga forms. ePandit reads this as both in the same sign.
Raman then adds his own view: he feels the yoga is also formed by mutual aspect between the Moon and Mars, that is, when they are seven signs apart. His examples are the Moon in Vrishabha with Mars in Vrishchika, and the Moon in Karka with Mars in Makara. (In both examples one of the two planets is exalted.)
ePandit shows the two forms separately: "by conjunction" and "by aspect (Raman's view)".
How Raman reads it
The older writers described this yoga's results in harsh words. While respecting them, Raman writes plainly that in his experience the yoga acts as a factor that steadies one's financial position.
He also says that when the Moon and Mars are well placed, earnings come through proper and approved means. And in his view the yoga is most productive in the 2nd, 9th, 10th or 11th house, the houses of wealth, fortune, work and gains.
Tradition links it with effort, practical sense and initiative at work. It is a leaning, not a promise of any income.
The source: why "tradition"
We searched the classical texts in our library (BPHS, Phaladeepika, Saravali, Brihat Jataka, Jataka Parijata) for a separate yoga called "Chandra-Mangala" and did not find one. Texts such as Saravali give the results of two-planet conjunctions in a separate chapter, but not as a yoga under this name.
So ePandit labels this yoga "tradition" and shows Raman's book as the source. That does not mean it is wrong; it means it cannot be shown from a classical verse.
How ePandit shows it
In the "Yoga" tab, Chandra-Mangala yoga is shown with:
- whether it formed by conjunction or by aspect,
- the signs of the Moon and Mars and their house from the lagna,
- whether that is one of the 2nd, 9th, 10th or 11th houses Raman names,
- and the source label "tradition".
The positions of the Moon and Mars do not depend on the lagna, so the yoga can be checked even without a birth time; only the house is then left out.