Bhakoot dosha — compare the Moon-sign rules

What this tool computes

Bhakoot, also called Rashi kuta, counts the distance between the two Moon signs. Counting from one sign to the other gives a number from one to twelve, and certain distances are held to be unfavourable — the 2/12, 5/9 and 6/8 relationships in the standard table. When the pair falls on one of those distances the koota scores nothing instead of its 7 points, and that zero is what a report calls bhakoot dosha. This tool gives you the distance both ways, the verdict under the standard tables, and the verdict under Raman’s directional reading.

Half of equally weighted possible pairings

Six of the twelve possible distances are unfavourable. Six are not. Measured across all 11,664 ordered pairings of birth star and pada, 50% carry bhakoot dosha. This counts possible chart-category combinations equally; it is not a survey of real couples or evidence about marriage outcomes.

The direction that changes the reading

The standard tables treat the relationship as symmetric. If the signs are six apart, both parties fail, and it does not matter whose sign you count from. Raman does not read it that way. In his treatment the direction matters: a 2/12 or 6/8 distance counted one way is not the same finding as the same distance counted the other way, and one of the two directions is the harsher one.

So two competent reports can show the same two Moon signs and print different bhakoot verdicts, with neither having made an error. A report that does not name the convention leaves that difference hidden inside the total. This tool prints both side by side.

What the result does and does not mean

It means two Moon signs sit a certain number of places apart, and that a named tradition classifies that distance as unfavourable. It is a property of two signs. It is not a prediction about a household, and this page makes none.

Bhakoot also carries widely cited cancellations. The most commonly applied is that the dosha is set aside when the same planet lords both Moon signs, and a second when the two lords are mutual friends. Those are conditions traditions prescribe; we report which fired and where each is stated.

We were refused on bhakoot. Is that unusual?

The finding itself is not: it is the most common of the three doshas people are refused on, by structure. Whether an astrologer treats it as decisive varies a great deal, and that variation — not the arithmetic — is what separates one verdict from another.

Do we need birth times?

Only enough to fix each Moon sign. The Moon changes sign every two and a half days or so, which is far more forgiving than the pada boundaries other kootas depend on. If a birth falls near a sign change, that is worth checking before anything else.

Which convention does this tool follow?

Neither silently. The standard symmetric reading is shown as the default because it is the more widely used, and Raman’s directional reading is shown beside it whenever the two differ. If your family follows a particular astrologer, the useful question is which of the two rows matches what they were taught.