What this period brings
Chandra's decade turns life toward home, mother, emotional life and the need to feel settled. It is a receptive period rather than a driving one: circumstances come to you and are responded to, more than seized.
Where it tends to go well
Family, property and home-making, caring professions, public-facing work that runs on likeability, and anything nourished by routine.
Where it asks for care
Sustained aggression and risk. The Moon changes sign every two and a bit days and the dasha carries some of that variability — consistency has to be built deliberately.
The nine antardashas
Every mahadasha divides into nine sub-periods (antardasha or bhukti), running in the same fixed order and starting with the lord's own. Each is Moon's 10 years times the sub-lord's share of 120 — so the table below is arithmetic, not opinion. Your own dates depend on the Moon's nakshatra at birth, which the calculator works out.
| Antardasha | Length |
|---|---|
| Moon – Moon | 10 mo |
| Moon – Mars | 7 mo |
| Moon – Rahu | 1 yr 6 mo |
| Moon – Jupiter | 1 yr 4 mo |
| Moon – Saturn | 1 yr 7 mo |
| Moon – Mercury | 1 yr 5 mo |
| Moon – Ketu | 7 mo |
| Moon – Venus | 1 yr 8 mo |
| Moon – Sun | 6 mo |
How to read this honestly
The Moon is the mind in Vedic astrology, so this dasha is felt more than it is observed. A waxing, well-placed Moon gives ten steady years; a weak or afflicted one makes emotional regulation the decade's actual work.
Frequently asked
- How long is Moon Mahadasha?
- Ten years, from the 120-year Vimshottari cycle.
- Is Moon Mahadasha good?
- It depends almost entirely on the Moon's strength — its phase, sign and aspects. A strong Moon makes it one of the gentlest periods; a weak one makes it the most changeable.