नित्य योग Nitya Yoga

The nitya yoga is the fifth limb of the panchanga: twenty-seven named combinations of the Sun's and Moon's positions, each colouring the day auspicious, mixed, or harsh. It is unrelated to the birth-chart yogas that share the name. The word 'yoga' is used in two quite different ways in astrology, and this is the almanac one — a daily quality, not a chart combination. It is found by adding the Sun's and Moon's positions together and dividing the zodiac into twenty-seven equal parts, one named yoga for each day from Vishkambha to Vaidhriti. Most simply tint the day's mood, but a few — Vyatipata and Vaidhriti above all — are marked as harsh and set aside for anything new or important. Because it depends on both luminaries at once, the nitya yoga is a quick reading of how the Sun and Moon are getting along on a given day, and it takes its place beside the tithi, vara, karana and nakshatra as one of the five limbs that together make up the panchanga, the traditional daily almanac.