What the overall compatibility score means: shared needs, key defects, and corrections
How shared needs, the eight factor scores, key defects, and modifying conditions together describe support and difficulty in a relationship.
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The Moon comparison focuses on nourishment in long-term life together
In compatibility readings, first assess each person’s capacity to participate in a relationship, then compare their Moons. The Moon concerns familiarity, comfort, emotional rhythms and everyday needs. Lasting relationships require not only attraction, but also that both people receive what they need.
A high score usually indicates more shared needs and ways of understanding one another, making mutually acceptable arrangements easier to find. With a low score, two people may genuinely love each other yet need different amounts of activity, quiet or companionship. Maintaining independent ways to meet those needs becomes especially important.
What each of the eight factors examines
The eight factors total 36 points: Varna 1, Vasya 2, Tara 3, Yoni 4, Graha Maitram 5, Gana 6, Bha 7, and Nadi 8. They concern growth, responding to needs, whether care is received, instinctive cooperation, friendship, temperament, building together, and imbalance respectively.
Two pairs may both score 20, but the emphasis differs greatly if one loses points mainly in friendship and shared building, while the other loses them in lighter, minor factors. Explain the raw scores, specific corrections, and remaining effects separately.
Total score and key conditions
An overall assessment first considers conditions such as Vedha, Rajju and Strii, then explains the total score and key components. Shared interests can aid understanding but may not resolve enduring difficulty in building a life together; more time together may not compensate for persistent mismatches in giving and receiving.
This scoring interpretation treats 20 points or more as relatively supportive, with around 17 points as a typical middle level. The score describes the overlap in shared needs; key defects, cancellation conditions, and actual interactions add detail about specific support and difficulties.
Cancellation conditions change the specific effects
For Rajju, for example, this method lists four joint cancellation conditions: a qualifying Strii result, full marks in Graha Maitram, a qualifying Tara result, and a formed Mahendra. Meeting only some conditions is understood as partial mitigation. They respectively support interaction direction, friendship, comfort, and shared purpose.
Sharing a lunar mansion has its own interpretive branch. Explain the original point loss, specific correction, and remaining effects together. The correction changes the factor's effect, while the original score is retained.
Translate results into recognizable relationship issues
The relevant factors can explore when needs fall out of sync in shared life, how one person's care is received by the other, and which instinctive reactions emerge under pressure. Shared purpose and other support also contribute to repairing the relationship.
Some rules in traditional manuals assume specific male and female roles; the relevant method is explained when used. Each person’s relationship capacities, Moon comparisons, other life areas, and current phase also contribute to the assessment.
References
- Ernst Wilhelm, Compatibility Course Manual, printed pages 25—42; synthesis chapter and conditions for cancelling Rajju; corresponding individual interpretations in Compatibility Interpretations.
- Zodiac and lunar mansion conventions used on this site
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