Anapha

Anapha Yoga is formed when a planet other than the Sun occupies the twelfth place from the Moon, the place immediately preceding it. It is the counterpart of sunapha and is read for health, a pleasant disposition, good reputation and freedom from want, with the character of the result shaped by which planet occupies the place. The twelfth from the Moon is otherwise a difficult position in Jyotisha, associated with loss and expenditure when reckoned from the Ascendant, and the difference shows how much depends on the reference point chosen; the same house counted from a different starting place is read quite differently. The three yogas sunapha, anapha and durudhara are given in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra among the chandra yogas and are among the oldest and best attested of the named combinations.

The reversal of association between the twelfth house counted from the Ascendant, read for loss and expenditure, and the twelfth counted from the Moon, read here favourably as Anapha, is one of the clearest demonstrations in the whole system that Jyotisha treats a house's meaning as inseparable from its reference point rather than as a fixed property of the position itself. Commentators sometimes explain the shift by noting that the twelfth from the Moon is also the eleventh sign ahead in the natural zodiac order beginning from the Moon's own sign taken as a notional first house, so that what looks like loss from the body's vantage, the Ascendant, can present as quiet accumulation from the mind's vantage, the Moon, an interpretive move that is characteristic of how the chandra lagna is used throughout the lunar yogas.

Anapha is a planet in the twelfth house from the Moon, and a reader who has learned that the twelfth is the house of loss and expenditure will find the combination's reputation surprising. It is read favourably: the tradition attributes to it health, a good bearing, and a reputation that goes ahead of the person.

The resolution is that the four lunar combinations are not read as house placements at all. They belong to a different scheme, in which what matters is simply whether the Moon has company and on which side. The second from the Moon is the sign it is moving toward; the twelfth is the sign it has left. A planet in either is described as attending the Moon, and the meanings assigned to Sunapha and Anapha reflect that framing rather than the ordinary significations of the second and twelfth houses.

Jyotisha contains a number of these parallel schemes that use the same twelvefold apparatus for different purposes, and mixing them is one of the commonest errors an amateur makes. The house meanings apply when houses are being read. They do not automatically carry into every rule that happens to be stated in terms of a count.

The atlas records the distinction because it is the kind of thing the sources assume and rarely explain. Nothing here is a claim about health or reputation.