One of the two most inauspicious Yogas — traditionally avoided for essentially all auspicious activity. This page lists every Vyatipata Yoga in 2026 with its begin and end timings for your location.
Name: calamity, a great falling-away
Vyatipata's name means calamity or a great falling-away, and it is one of the two Yogas — alongside Vaidhriti — singled out by classical Muhurta as the most inauspicious of all twenty-seven. Its reputation is not that of ordinary difficulty but of a Yoga to be avoided outright for auspicious purposes.
Traditional practice withholds essentially every category of auspicious activity from Vyatipata — marriage, Griha Pravesh, new ventures, journeys and formal ceremonies alike — and treats it instead as suited only to austere or corrective acts: penance, remedial ritual, and matters where the point is restraint rather than beginning.
Its name means calamity, and classical Muhurta singles it out — together with Vaidhriti — as the two Yogas to avoid for essentially all auspicious activity, rather than one where caution is simply advisable. Traditional practice restricts it to penance and corrective ritual.
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.
