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Vimshottari Dasha Timeline

See your full Vimshottari dasha timeline: every Mahadasha and Antardasha with exact dates, today's period highlighted, and what each planet's period means in your own chart.

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    Enter birth detailsDate and place; time makes the dates sharper.
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    See your timelineEvery Mahadasha across 120 years, with today marked.
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    Read the meaningsEach period explained through your own chart.

What is the Vimshottari Dasha Timeline?

Vimshottari ("one hundred and twenty") is the most widely used timing system in Vedic astrology. Life is divided into nine planetary periods (Mahadashas) that always come in the same order: Ketu 7 years, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19 and Mercury 17.

Where you start depends on your Moon's nakshatra at birth. Each Mahadasha is split into nine sub-periods (Antardashas, or bhuktis) in the same order, and those are split again into Pratyantar dashas.

Astrologers read the period lord through its place in your chart: the house it sits in, the houses it rules and its strength.

How it works

We find the Moon's sidereal longitude (Lahiri), its nakshatra and the fraction already travelled. That fraction of the first lord's years has "already passed" at birth; the rest is the balance.

Each Antardasha lasts (Mahadasha years × sub-lord years / 120); each Pratyantar lasts (Antardasha length × its lord's years / 120). Years are 365.25 days.

How it connects to your star sign

Each dasha lord rules one or two zodiac signs (Mars rules Aries and Scorpio, Venus Taurus and Libra, and so on), so each period also colours life with the qualities of those signs. The report lists your Moon sign and the signs of the current lords.

Common questions

Which Mahadasha am I in now?

Enter your birth details and the report highlights your current Mahadasha, Antardasha and Pratyantar with exact dates.

Why does my dasha differ from another calculator?

Dates can shift by days or weeks depending on the ayanamsa and the year length used (some use 360 days, we use 365.25). The order and lords should match.

Is a Saturn or Rahu dasha bad?

No period is simply bad. Saturn periods reward patient work; Rahu periods bring ambition and change. How they feel depends on where the planet sits in your chart.

Do I need my birth time?

Not strictly. The Moon moves about half a degree per hour, which shifts dasha dates by a few months at most. Time also lets us read each lord through your houses.

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