One of the two most inauspicious Yogas — traditionally avoided, especially for auspicious ceremonies. This page lists every Vaidhriti Yoga in 2026 with its begin and end timings for your location.
Name: poor holding, separation
Vaidhriti closes the cycle of 27 Nitya Yogas, and its name — poor holding, or separation — is read as an image of things coming apart rather than being sustained. It is, alongside Vyatipata, one of the two Yogas classical Muhurta counts as the most inauspicious of all.
Traditional practice avoids auspicious activity of essentially every kind during Vaidhriti — marriage and ceremonies especially — treating it, like its counterpart Vyatipata, as suited only to austere or corrective observance rather than to beginnings of any sort.
Its name means poor holding or separation, and classical Muhurta groups it with Vyatipata as the two Yogas withheld from essentially all auspicious activity. Being the last of the 27, it is also read as a point where the cycle comes apart before beginning again.
A Nitya Yoga is one of 27 periods based on the sum (not the difference, as with Tithi) of the Sun's and Moon's longitudes, each 13°20' wide. It is distinct from the special Muhurat Yogas also listed under /yogas (like Ravi Yoga or Sarvartha Siddhi Yoga) — those are formed by a combination of Tithi, Nakshatra, and Vaara, whereas a Nitya Yoga is one of the five ever-present core elements of the Panchang.
