Current Mahadasha in Depth
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Current Mahadasha in Depth — how the 120-year Vimshottari cycle is divided, which graha runs when, and how long each period lasts.
0What this is
A mahadasha is the outer period — the graha whose subject the whole stretch of life is about. They run from 6 years to 20, so the same nine are not felt equally: a Sun mahadasha is over in six years and Venus takes twenty. What the period brings is read from where that graha sits in your chart, which houses it owns, and what aspects it — not from the graha's reputation.
How it is worked out
A benefic running a bad house gives trouble and a malefic running a good one gives results. Saturn is the clearest case: its nineteen years are the longest hard stretch in most charts and the making of a career in many others, and which of the two it is depends entirely on the houses Saturn owns from your ascendant.
The nine periods, in order
They always run in this order and always add to 120 years.
- Ketu
- 7 years — detachment, past skill and research
- Venus
- 20 years — marriage, comfort, art and vehicles
- Sun
- 6 years — soul, father, authority and confidence
- Moon
- 10 years — mind, mother and emotional comfort
- Mars
- 7 years — energy, courage, siblings and land
- Rahu
- 18 years — ambition, foreign matters and amplification
- Jupiter
- 16 years — wisdom, wealth, children and teachers
- Saturn
- 19 years — discipline, delay, labour and longevity
- Mercury
- 17 years — speech, analysis, trade and learning
If you want to act on this
A remedy in jyotish is an act, not a purchase — a fast, a mantra, a donation on the right weekday. Where a formal ritual is called for, these are the three that apply: a puja performed on your behalf, a chadhawa offered at the temple, or an abhimantrit article energised with the mantra of the planet involved.
Not sure what this means for your own chart?
Ask the astrologer — it reads your chart, not a general rule, and answers in plain words.
Common questions
- How many years is the full Vimshottari cycle?
- 120 years, divided between the nine grahas — from 6 years for the Sun to 20 for Venus.
- What decides which dasha you are born in?
- The nakshatra the Moon occupied at birth — not the Sun sign and not the ascendant.
- What does the Current Mahadasha in Depth chapter contain?
- A mahadasha is the outer period — the graha whose subject the whole stretch of life is about. They run from 6 years to 20, so the same nine are not felt equally: a Sun mahadasha is over in six years and Venus takes twenty. What the period brings is read from where that graha sits in your chart, which houses it owns, and what aspects it — not from the graha's reputation.