नीच भंग Nīca Bhaṅga

Neecha bhanga is the cancellation of debilitation: specific conditions that rescue a fallen planet, sometimes so thoroughly the reversal itself becomes a mark of rising — neecha bhanga raja yoga. A debilitated planet is one caught at its weakest, out of its element — like a capable person set down in the wrong place, unable to do their best work. But a fall is rarely the last word. When the right supports stand around it — a strong dispositor, an exalted planet watching over it, an exchange that restores its footing — the debilitation is lifted and the planet is allowed to recover its strength. Read this as hardship that turns: a low or disadvantaged start in that planet's affairs which is not the end of the story but the beginning of a climb. At its fullest the reversal is so complete that the very place of the fall becomes a springboard, and the planet rises higher than an easy start would ever have carried it — the underdog's chart, strength forged out of adversity. It is not automatic, though: cancellation comes in degrees, and even when the fall is broken the early struggle is usually real and truly lived before the lift arrives.