Vimshottari Dasha is the primary timing system of Vedic astrology: a 120-year cycle divided among the nine planets, with the starting period determined by the nakshatra your Moon occupied at birth. It answers when, where the birth chart answers what.
A chart shows what is possible; the dasha shows when it becomes live. Reading a placement without knowing which dasha is running is the most common reason predictions sound true in general but never seem to arrive.
It depends on your Moon's nakshatra at birth and how much of that first period had elapsed. Enter your birth details and the full timeline with dates is calculated instantly.
Ketu 7 years, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19 and Mercury 17 — 120 years in total.
A sub-period within a mahadasha. Each mahadasha divides among all nine planets in the same order, proportionally to their own dasha lengths.
Almost always the ayanamsa or the birth time. A different ayanamsa can shift the Moon's nakshatra, which changes the starting period and therefore every date after it.
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