Recently
I was studying the vargottama concept, especially regarding the effects
of debilitated vargottama planets. My guide, Vishal Aksh ji, said me
that a debilitated vargottama gives very bad results when nīchabhanga
or other special yogas like viparita rāja yoga is not present
in the chart. He also said that if the planet is involved in dainya
parivartana yoga[1] his
results will be worse. Some astrologers take a different view from a
debilitated vargottama, they say that a debilitated vargottama
gives results like that of nīchabhanga rāja yoga, others that although
it does not give full benefic results, it is better than just be debilitated in
D1 (rāśi-chakra). However, these two approaches are misleading if you study a
good number of charts with this conditions.
Now,
let me explain what I understood regarding the reason behind the bad results of
a debilitated vargottama, it is very logical and simple: a planet
that is debilitated in D1 and D9 will have 0 points of viṁśopaka
strength in this vargas, so how can it give good results? Unless it gets
a good amount of strength in other vargas, forms a viparita rāja yoga
or have the support of nīchabhanga yogas its improbable that it will
give good results, or the results of a nīchabanga rāja yoga per se as
some says.
