Graha Maitri

How the lords of the two Moon-signs regard each other — friend, neutral or enemy — read from both sides, because the relationship is not always mutual: the Moon holds Mercury a friend while Mercury holds the Moon an enemy, and such a pair scores 1.

What a zero means

A zero in Graha Maitri means the lords of the two Moon-signs are natural enemies. Friendship of minds does not arrive on its own; it is built. This is not a bar.

How it is counted

1. Take the lord of each Moon-sign.
2. Read their relationship both ways from the natural friendship table of the Brihat Parashara — how the groom's lord regards the bride's, and how the bride's regards the groom's.
3. Both friends (or the same lord) 5, friend and neutral 4, both neutral 3, friend and enemy 1, neutral and enemy ½, both enemies 0.

Its weight in the verdict

This koota has no separate voice of its own. It is counted inside the single “36 gunas” voice — which means Varna, Vashya, Tara, Yoni and Graha-Maitri, all five, arrive together as that one voice.

Our verdict is built by weighing 39 voices, whose weights total 29.7. All thirty-six gunas together are one of them — about 3.4% of the whole verdict. The rest is decided by the 7th house, the Navamsha, the Saptamsha, Vimsopaka, Jaimini, the dasha timing, Manglik and the others. That is why this report never tells anyone to call off a marriage over a low count.

The classical table

The other seven kootas