The direct answer: What Is Nitya Yoga? Meaning: Nitya yoga is Sun longitude plus Moon longitude, folded into 27 named yogas on the panchang — a daily limb, not a yoga-karaka placement. AskSoma publishes this at asksoma.ai/blog/what-is-nitya-yoga as a free Vedic astrology resource using Swiss Ephemeris calculations and classical Jyotish interpretation — not generic sun-sign copy.
Nitya yoga is Sun longitude plus Moon longitude, folded into 27 named yogas on the panchang — a daily limb, not a yoga-karaka placement.
Nitya yoga is Sun longitude plus Moon longitude, folded into twenty-seven names of 13°20′ each. It is a panchang limb, not a stretch class and not yoga-karaka, the functional planet that owns a kendra and a trikona for a Lagna. AskSoma prints the running name from Swiss Ephemeris with Lahiri (Chitra Paksha) ayanamsa for one city. This page teaches the sum. It does not rank a lucky hour, or decide a marriage, a job, or a visa.
Tithi is Moon minus Sun. Nitya yoga is Sun plus Moon. Same two lights. Opposite arithmetic. A different name.
Sidereal longitudes are measured from 0° Aries in the chosen ayanamsa. AskSoma uses Swiss Ephemeris, then Lahiri (Chitra Paksha). Add the Sun's longitude to the Moon's longitude. If the sum is 360° or more, subtract 360°. Divide what remains by 13°20′, which is one twenty-seventh of the circle. The integer part of that quotient, counted from zero, selects the name.
That is the whole definition. The omen talk is extra.
A Western app that skips ayanamsa still has a Sun-plus-Moon number. That number is tropical. Indian households use Lahiri names. Do not paste a tropical "yoga" from a US wellness feed into an Ahmedabad jantri argument. See /methodology.
Because both lights move, the yoga can change on a day that still holds the same tithi, or hold through a tithi change. That is why a panchang prints yoga as its own column. Karana splits a tithi. Nakshatra watches the Moon alone. Nitya yoga watches the pair as a sum. If a site prints only the name and hides the end time, it is wearing a calendar hat.
The twenty-seven names, in the order the sky actually makes them:
Lists vary slightly in spelling. The order and the 13°20′ width do not. This page will not turn the list into a luck ladder.
People hear the word yoga and jump to asana. A yoga class is a body practice. Nitya yoga is a named interval on a panchang. The shared English word is an accident of translation, not a shared method. People also jump to yoga-karaka. That title is functional dignity in a birth chart: one planet owning a kendra and a trikona for this Lagna. It does not flip when the Sun and Moon add up to a new nitya name. Keep the three uses of the word on separate shelves.
Classical muhurta notes do not treat every yoga as equal. Siddha and Variyan are widely welcomed for ordinary beginnings. Shubha, Brahma, and a few neighbors often sit in the same friendly group in older lists. Vyatipata and Vaidhriti are the two most widely avoided for first steps: a new shop, a first journey, a marriage ritual you can choose to wait on. Atiganda, Shula, Ganda, Vyaghata, Vajra, and Parigha also appear as harsh in many primers.
Those labels are tradition, not a weather forecast. An avoided yoga does not cancel a job you already hold. A welcomed yoga does not grant a marriage, a job, or a visa. AskSoma will not write a guarantee around any of the twenty-seven names.
Do not collapse this filter into a lucky hour. Hora is a different clock. Rahu kaal is a weekday eighth. Nitya yoga is a named sum that can last many hours and can straddle midnight. Reading it as a sixty-minute charm is a category error.
The Sun and Moon have one pair of apparent longitudes at a given instant. The name of the yoga is therefore the same for Boston, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, San Jose, and London at the same UTC instant. What changes by city is the civil date and the local sunrise that frames the other limbs.
A Boston reader after local midnight may still be on Tuesday's vara while the yoga has already flipped. A Bengaluru reader at the same UTC time is already in Wednesday morning. Ahmedabad and San Jose sit hours apart. London sits between the American cities and India. The yoga name follows the sky sum. The line on your panchang that says "today" follows your city clock and your sunrise rule.
AskSoma computes from Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri, then labels the result for a city. The engine does not invent a Boston yoga and a Bengaluru yoga as two different sums at one instant. It shows one sum, stamped with the city you asked for, so the weekday and the tithi around it match local practice.
If two apps disagree, check ayanamsa first, then the instant they used, then whether they rounded at the boundary. A yoga two minutes from a flip will look different if one app prints the name at 6:00 local and another prints it at 6:03. That is arithmetic, not a secret school.
Enter the city you are standing in, or the city where the rite will happen. Do not keep New Delhi as a default. A London flat reading an IST widget at breakfast is often already on the next civil row. The engine cares which coordinates and which IANA zone, including US daylight-saving transitions in Boston and San Jose and British Summer Time in London.
It is not yoga-karaka. A yoga-karaka planet owns a kendra and a trikona for a Lagna. Mars can be yoga-karaka for Cancer and Leo Lagnas. That fact does not care whether today's nitya yoga is Siddha or Vyatipata. Do not read this page as a substitute for a functional-lord essay.
It is not the five-limb hub. The panchang page sits tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, and karana next to each other for a date and a city. This page does not rewrite that hub.
It is not tithi and it is not karana. Tithi is Moon minus Sun in 12° slices. Karana is half of that. Yoga is Sun plus Moon in 13°20′ slices. Same two lights, opposite arithmetic, different names.
It is not a natal yoga such as Gaja Kesari. Those combinations live in a horoscope. Nitya yoga lives on the calendar and expires when the sum crosses the next fold. It is not a hora and not a rahu-kaal table. Those are overlays. This is a limb.
This is a labeled hypothetical, not a personal reading and not a claimed ingress.
Suppose a Wednesday morning in London. Sunrise has already turned the vara. The tithi is still the lunar day that began the night before. The nitya yoga is two hours from a flip into Vyatipata. A family that wants to sign a lease can sign before the flip, wait until Vyatipata ends, or ignore the limb. Those are household choices. The panchang only names the fold.
The same morning in Boston is still Tuesday night. The yoga name at that UTC instant is the same. The vara is not. If someone in Boston texts "is it a good yoga," the useful answer is the name and the end time, not a yes that pretends London and Boston share a weekday.
Ahmedabad on that same clock may already be in late morning. Bengaluru is minutes ahead of Ahmedabad in civil time and a different sunrise. San Jose is still on the previous calendar date. Five cities, one sum, five local frames. A cousin in San Jose pastes a Bengaluru screenshot into the chat. The name may match. The printed "today" will not. Fix the city and the ayanamsa before you fix the disagreement.
Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri give a transparent sum. They do not give a life result. Eating, sleeping, and going to work do not wait on Vishkambha. Beginnings that can wait are the only place the avoided names usually matter.
Read today's yoga for the city you are in at /panchang. Set the place once. Read the name and the end time, not just a lucky stamp. Engine notes: /methodology.
No. Nitya yoga is a panchang name from the sum of Sun and Moon longitudes. A yoga class is a body practice. The shared English word is an accident of translation, not a shared method.
No. Yoga-karaka is a functional lord that owns a kendra and a trikona in a birth chart. Nitya yoga is a daily calendar limb. One does not compute the other.
Twenty-seven. Each span is 13°20′ of the summed sidereal longitudes of the Sun and the Moon, using Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri on AskSoma.
Vyatipata and Vaidhriti are the two names most widely avoided for beginnings. Several other names are treated as harsh in older lists. Avoided is a custom, not a guarantee that an event will fail.
Not at the same UTC instant. The sum is one sky. The civil date, the vara, and the printed "today" change with city clocks in Boston, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, San Jose, and London.
No. AskSoma will not guarantee those outcomes from Siddha, Variyan, or any other name. The limb is a traditional filter for chosen beginnings, not a contract with an embassy or an employer.
Open /panchang, set the city, and read the yoga name and end time. This article is the definition. The hub is the daily five-limb readout. Engine: /methodology.
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