Vimshottari dasha
Vimshottari Dasha — the nine mahadashas, their lengths and effects
Vedic astrology divides a 120-year lifespan into nine planetary periods. Which one you are running, and when it started, depends on the Moon's nakshatra at your birth.
The nine periods always run in the same order and always have the same lengths — what differs between people is where in the cycle you start, which is set by the Moon's nakshatra at birth. Work out your own timeline free →
Ketu Mahadasha · 7 years
Seven years of subtraction — detachment, endings, and an inward turn that often looks like loss before it looks like freedom.
Venus Mahadasha · 20 years
Twenty years — the longest dasha, and the one most associated with comfort, relationship, art and material ease.
Sun Mahadasha · 6 years
Six short years about authority, visibility and standing — the shortest period, and often the most exposed.
Moon Mahadasha · 10 years
Ten years of feeling, home and the inner weather — comfortable when the Moon is strong, changeable when it is not.
Mars Mahadasha · 7 years
Seven years of drive, conflict and physical energy — short, hot, and productive if the energy has somewhere to go.
Rahu Mahadasha · 18 years
Eighteen years of ambition, foreignness and rapid unconventional change — the most talked-about and least predictable dasha.
Jupiter Mahadasha · 16 years
Sixteen years of expansion, learning and counsel — classically the most benefic of the nine.
Saturn Mahadasha · 19 years
Nineteen years of structure, delay and slow-built results — the longest test and the most durable rewards.
Mercury Mahadasha · 17 years
Seventeen years of intellect, commerce and communication — busy, adaptable, and rewarding to anyone who works with information.