Sade Sati
Sade Sati is the seven and a half years when Saturn passes through the sign before your Moon sign, your Moon sign itself and the sign after it. Enter your birth details to see whether it is running now, which of its three phases you are in, and the exact dates each phase begins and ends.
The rising phase begins when Saturn enters the twelfth sign from your Moon. It is often linked with expenses, travel and a sense of things slipping away. The peak phase is Saturn over the Moon sign itself, when emotional pressure and responsibility are strongest. The setting phase, Saturn in the second sign from the Moon, touches family, speech and savings. Each phase lasts about two and a half years.
In Vedic astrology the Moon stands for the mind and daily wellbeing. Saturn is the planet of time, limits and duty. When Saturn sits close to the Moon, life asks for patience and steady effort. That is why the check uses your Moon sign, the Rasi, rather than your Sun sign.
Two shorter Saturn transits are often checked with Sade Sati. Ashtama Shani is Saturn in the eighth sign from the Moon, about two and a half years that can bring sudden change. Kantaka Shani covers Saturn in the fourth, seventh and tenth signs. The tool shows these as well, so you see your whole Saturn cycle in one place.
Not every Sade Sati is hard. The effect depends on Saturn's strength in your birth chart, the points it holds in the Ashtakavarga for the signs it crosses, and the Dasha you are running. For people whose Ascendant is Taurus, Libra, Capricorn or Aquarius, Saturn is a friendly planet and the period often builds lasting results.
Traditional practices are simple: lighting a sesame oil lamp on Saturdays, reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, serving the elderly and people who work with their hands, and visiting the Saturn shrine at Thirunallar. The aim is steadiness, not fear.
About seven and a half years, in three phases of roughly two and a half years each.
Saturn takes about 29.5 years to circle the zodiac, so Sade Sati returns about every thirty years.
No. Many people achieve their most solid results in Sade Sati through hard work.
Your Moon sign is enough, but the date and place are needed to find it. A birth time helps when the Moon changed sign that day.
For most people the peak phase over the Moon sign is the most demanding.
A name used in western India for Ashtama and Kantaka Shani, the shorter Saturn transits.
Yes. A retrograde can move Saturn back into the previous sign for a few months, so the dates are shown with those returns.
Not as a rule. Marriage timing is judged from both charts and the Muhurtham, not Sade Sati alone.
Regular Saturday prayer, a sesame oil lamp and service to others are the traditional core.
Children are said to feel it lightly, through study pressure or health care, rather than major events.
Birth charts differ in Saturn's strength, Ashtakavarga points and running Dasha.
Yes. The tool lists past, current and future cycles with dates.