The direct answer: What Is Graha Yuddha (Planetary War)?: Graha Yuddha is a chart condition where two non-luminary planets sit within a tight degree span — a placement to note, not a fate-deciding war. AskSoma publishes this at asksoma.ai/blog/what-is-graha-yuddha as a free Vedic astrology resource using Swiss Ephemeris calculations and classical Jyotish interpretation — not generic sun-sign copy.
Graha Yuddha is a chart condition where two non-luminary planets sit within a tight degree span — a placement to note, not a fate-deciding war.
A tight degree fight, not a biography.
Graha Yuddha is planetary war: two true planets (not the Sun or Moon, not Rahu or Ketu in the usual rule) sitting within a tight degree span, often about 1°. AskSoma computes longitudes with Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri (Chitra Paksha) ayanamsa. Sanskrit appears once as Graha Yuddha; after this line the English is planetary war, or the fight. It is a sky condition. It is not a winner who takes the native's life, job, visa, or child.
Most conjunctions are not wars. A 8° conjunction in one sign is a sharing of a room. A war is a much tighter lock, classically when both are in the same sign and within about 1°. Schools argue about the exact orb and about whether latitude or brightness (who is north, who is south, who is more brilliant) decides the 'winner.' AskSoma should state the orb and the winner rule it used. 'Mars always wins' is a slogan.
The Sun and Moon are not in this fight. Combust is a different condition: a planet too close to the Sun. Do not label combust as war. Nodes are not in the usual five-planet war club. Mixing those stickers is how a chart becomes a pile of scare words.
This page is not /shadbala-calculator. Six-fold strength is a different test. A planet can lose a war and still show mixed Shadbala. Keep the tabs apart.
Classical notes on who wins (brighter, northern, east of the other) are attempts to say which planet's significations speak more loudly while they share a tight degree. The 'loser' is not erased from the life. People with Venus-Mars wars still relate, still work, still raise children. Software that prints 'Mars won, your marriage is over' is writing a comic. AskSoma will not.
Read the house they occupy, the signs, and the dasha that runs those planets. A fight in the 3rd is a different climate from a fight in the 7th. Still climate. Not a court date.
A 1° orb is small. Retrograde motion can enter or leave a war over days, not minutes. For a natal chart the birth clock still matters if you are asking about Lagna houses those planets occupy. The war flag itself, being a pairwise degree gap, is more stable than Lagna. The house sentence is not. An Edison war in the 10th can become a war in the 6th if someone recomputes IST.
Transit wars are a different product: the sky now. This page is the natal condition. Do not paste today's news conjunction into a birth chart and call it the native's war.
Open /kundli-calculator. The useful war read is:
Engine: Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri. See /methodology.
AskSoma computes planetary war from Swiss Ephemeris with Lahiri ayanamsa. It cannot guarantee a happy marriage, a job, a visa, or a child's future. Treat the result as one input. See /methodology.
It cannot pick a spouse, fire you, or erase a planet from the chart. A 'losing' Venus is not a command to buy a gem. Fear-then-upsell will not appear here.
Labeled hypothetical, not a personal reading. A birth on 17 September 1991 at 22:05 IST in Ahmedabad. AskSoma takes that instant, Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri. Suppose Mars at 14°20' Virgo and Mercury at 14°55' Virgo — 35' apart, inside a 1° war orb. The screen may name a winner by brightness. The house from Lagna depends on the rising sign at 22:05 in Ahmedabad.
A cousin in Houston pastes 17 September 1991 with a silent noon Central default. Lagna is a different sign. The same 35' fight now sits in a different house. The war flag may remain. The life-area sentence changed because of a timezone, not because Mars 'won the native.' Edison the same civil day is a third house count.
Texts describe four pictures of a fight: Bala (by strength or youth of degree), Bheda (by piercing, often the northern planet), Kuta (by angular crowding), and Angala (by brightness). Modern software usually keeps one or two of those: who is more north in latitude, who is brighter, who has the earlier degree. AskSoma should name the picture it used. Printing 'winner: Mars' without the picture is a leaderboard, not Jyotish.
Mercury and Venus stay close to the Sun, so they enter tight fights with each other more often than Jupiter and Saturn do. A Mercury-Venus war in the 2nd is a speech-and-money climate, still not a bankruptcy. A Mars-Saturn war in the 10th is a work-and-weight climate, still not a P45. Name the pair, name the house, then stop before the winner 'takes the tenth house away' from the native.
Retrograde can look like a second pass. A planet that was 2° apart last week can be 40' apart this week in the sky. That is a transit war, dated by the ephemeris of 'now,' not by the birth stamp. Do not drop a newspaper conjunction into a 1991 Ahmedabad natal and tell the native they are 'in war this month' unless you opened a transit chart. Natal war is the birth pairwise gap. Transit war is another tab.
If Shadbala is open in another window, use it as a second lens, not as a tie-break that 'proves' the winner deserved the life. Six-fold strength and a 1° fight answer different questions. Engine notes stay on /methodology. The natal stamp stays on /kundli-calculator.
In Jaipur a family priest may already have named a winner. Check the orb against Swiss Ephemeris. If they are 4° apart, it is not a war. In Edison an app may label every conjunction a war. Tighten the orb. Then stop narrating a biography.
Run /kundli-calculator. This explainer stays on the tight fight. It will not award a life to the winner.
Two true planets in the same sign within a tight orb, often about 1°. AskSoma uses Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri. It is a condition, not a life winner.
No. Most conjunctions are wider. War is the tight lock. Check the degree gap the tool states.
Not in the usual war rule. Combust is a different Sun condition. Do not mix the stickers.
No. A winner note is astronomical. AskSoma cannot guarantee a marriage, a job, or a visa from a 1° gap.
The degree gap is fairly stable. The house the fight sits in can change if Lagna rotates. Edison as Jaipur IST can move the house sentence.
No. Six-fold strength is /shadbala-calculator. A planet can lose a war and still show mixed strength.
Usually Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. Not the luminaries, not the nodes, in the common rule. The screen should say so.
This page will not sell a remedy. Fear-then-upsell is a sales pattern, not Jyotish. AskSoma cannot guarantee a happy marriage, a job, a visa, or a child's future.
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