Your yoni is an animal temperament, and you do not choose it: it comes from the nakshatra the Moon occupied when you were born. Twenty-seven nakshatras share fourteen animals between them, each animal usually holding one male nakshatra and one female, which is why two people can share a yoni and still differ.
Classical matching uses yoni to read the instinctive, physical layer of a partnership, the part that has little to do with values or conversation. It is one of the eight kutas of Ashtakoot, worth four points, and the seven enmity pairs below are where it deducts them.
Yoni is not BNN. Bhrigu Nandi Nadi reads a partnership through karakas, yutis and yatra timing, not through Ashtakoot points. Yoni is published here as classical reference. For the BNN view of a match, use BNN Match.
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Dog yoni
| Sanskrit | Shvan |
|---|---|
| Natural enemy | Deer |
| Nakshatras | Ardra, Mula |
Nature
Loyal, watchful and quick to defend its own.
Devoted and alert. The dog yoni attaches itself completely to its people and guards them more fiercely than it guards itself.
Temperament
Dog-yoni natives are defined by loyalty. They give it fast, expect it back, and take betrayal harder than any other yoni. They are alert to slight, sometimes finding insult where none was meant, and they bark before they think. Underneath, they are service-minded and will work themselves to exhaustion for a person or cause they have adopted.
Strengths
- Unshakeable loyalty to people and causes
- Alert to danger long before others
- Works hard without needing credit
- Direct and honest, sometimes painfully so
Cautions
- Reacts before assessing
- Reads criticism as rejection
- Suspicious of newcomers
- Neglects itself for the people it protects
Pairing
Strong with steady yonis. Hardest with Deer, whose sensitivity is wounded by the dog's bluntness and sudden noise.