Every person is born under one of the five Pancha Pakshi birds — Vulture, Owl, Crow, Cock or Peacock — fixed by the Moon's constellation at birth. Each bird has a natural strength (Crow 100%, Vulture 75%, Owl 50%, Cock 25%, Peacock 12.5%) and, at any moment, your bird is doing one of five activities — Ruling, Eating, Walking, Sleeping or Dying (each with its own strength factor). Your combined strength at a moment is natural bird strength × activity factor. Whoever is stronger "wins" the encounter.
This is the exact method from the classic text Biorhythms of Natal Moon (Mysteries of Pancha Pakshi). Its courtship worked example — Miss Arthi (Vulture, 75%) meeting Omprakash (Peacock, 12.5%) on a bright-half Sunday at 10.48 a.m., when she was Ruling and he was only Walking — ends with the boy instantly proposing marriage. The same logic tells you when your boss is at a low ebb (so your request succeeds) versus a high ebb (so it gets declined).