Hi Rajan,

You are right in mentioning the overlapping method, one of my friends uses this by just placing the two charts (boy and girl) side by side on a table and then comparing the planets in each of the 12 houses in both charts. It does not matter if both have different lagna rasis. Just what each of them have got in each of the 12 houses against each other.

For example if the boy has Jupiter only in the ascendant with xyz rasi and the girl has Moon only in the ascendant with xyz rasi, then you can say that since both Jupiter and Moon are friends, this marriage can work and same goes for the remaining 11 houses.

Not sure if this is a reliable method, but seems interesting too me. Thanks

Ravi