What it means
A planet in its sign of debilitation - neecha - is at its structural weakest. Neecha bhanga is the cancellation of that state, and the classical conditions are specific: the lord of the debilitation sign, or the lord of the sign where the planet would be exalted, sits in a kendra from the Lagna or from the Moon; or that lord is conjunct the debilitated planet; or the debilitated planet is itself in a kendra, or exchanges signs with a strong planet.
How it is read
When it applies, several texts go further than mere repair and call the result Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga - the idea being that a planet that begins low and is then lifted produces more than one that was never tested. Read carefully, the claim is about trajectory: difficulty early in the area the planet governs, then disproportionate result later.
What to watch for
Two cautions. The cancellation is not a reversal - the planet does not become exalted, and the affairs it rules usually still carry the mark of the early weakness. And bhanga is frequently over-claimed, because one of the conditions is easy to find if you look loosely at several. A cancellation worth reporting names which specific condition applies and which planet supplies it.
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