A Reka yoga is produced when there are three planets either depressed in position or obscured by the Sun's rays, and when the lord of the rising sign occupies a bad position (such as the 6th, the 8th and the 12th bhava) or is without strength. If malefic planets aspected by depressed, inimical, or malefic planets occupy any of the 9 bhavas, namely the 1st, the 2nd, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, the 4th, the 5th, the 7th and the 3rd, they will produce the Reka effect in respect to the bhavas affected.