Sade Sati calculator
Find out if you are in Sade Sati right now. Sade Sati is the seven and a half years Saturn spends around your Moon sign. You see which of its three phases you are in, and when it starts and ends. You also get your last and next Sade Sati, and your Ashtama Shani and Kantaka Shani dates.
Your date and place of birth. Add the time if you know it. On some days the Moon changes sign, and Sade Sati is counted from the Moon.
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Saturday · ŚanivāraThe planet of grief, and what endures it.The weight you carry quietly, and carry anyway.What is Sade Sati?
Sade Sati means seven and a half. It is a long-held tradition in Indian astrology. It covers the years when Saturn passes through three signs: the sign before your Moon sign, your Moon sign itself, and the sign after it.
Your Moon sign (rashi) is the sign the Moon was in when you were born. Saturn takes about two and a half years to cross one sign. So three signs make about seven and a half years.
Saturn goes round the whole zodiac in about 29.5 years, so most people meet Sade Sati two or three times in a life. It is counted from the Moon because classical astrology calls the Moon the mind. So Sade Sati is about how a stretch of life feels, and how you carry it.
Your life map: every Sade Sati in your life, beside your dashas
Family kundli: everyone's Sade Sati on one line, and the years two of you overlap
What are the three phases of Sade Sati?
- Rising phase: Saturn is in the 12th sign from your Moon, the sign right before it. It is often read as a time of clearing out, when old arrangements start to feel heavy.
- Peak phase: Saturn is over your Moon sign. These middle two and a half years are traditionally held to be the most demanding. Responsibility tends to feel personal.
- Setting phase: Saturn moves to the 2nd sign from your Moon. It is often read as a steadying time, when the work of the earlier years settles into shape.
The calculator shows which phase you are in, and the dates of each.
What are Ashtama Shani and Kantaka Shani?
Ashtama Shani is the time when Saturn is in the 8th sign from your Moon. Kantaka Shani is Saturn in the 4th sign. Each lasts about two and a half years, the time Saturn spends in one sign. Together they are called Dhaiya, which means two and a half.
Like Sade Sati, both are long-held traditions in Indian astrology. In our reading, they are times that tend to ask for patience and a steady routine. Your result gives the dates of each.
Both are counted from your Moon sign, as Saturn moves through the sky. Saturn in the 8th or 12th house of your birth chart is a different thing:
Saturn in the 8th house: debts and patience
Saturn in the 12th house: money and solitude
Saturn return calculator: when Saturn comes back to its birth sign
How do I read my Sade Sati result?
If you are in Sade Sati, think of it as a season, not a verdict. Saturn is classical astrology's name for grief, and for what endures it.
So the tradition reads these years as a time to build strength slowly, not a time for quick wins. They tend to reward structure, patience and steady work. They tend to be hard on shortcuts.
If you are not in Sade Sati, the dates of the next one are useful to know. Nothing here predicts an event. It describes a tendency, the way a season does.
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Open the sample readingHow long does Sade Sati last?
About seven and a half years, in three phases of about two and a half years each. Every year Saturn seems to move backward for a few months, so it can cross a sign boundary more than once. That is why a phase can begin, pause for a few months, and then start again.
Is Sade Sati always bad?
It is traditionally held to be a demanding time, one that tends to ask for patience, structure and steady work. That makes it a season of effort, not a punishment. Astrologers also read it by where Saturn sits in the rest of your chart, so the same years can feel quite different for two people.
How many times does Sade Sati come in a lifetime?
Usually two or three times. Saturn takes about 29.5 years to go round the zodiac. So it comes back to the signs around your Moon about once every thirty years. The calculator shows your last Sade Sati and your next one, with dates.
What is the difference between Sade Sati and Ashtama Shani?
Sade Sati covers three signs around your Moon (the 12th, the 1st and the 2nd) and lasts about seven and a half years. Ashtama Shani is Saturn in the 8th sign from your Moon, and Kantaka Shani is Saturn in the 4th. Each lasts about two and a half years, and together they are called Dhaiya. All of them are long-held traditions in Indian astrology, counted from the Moon sign.
When is my Ashtama Shani?
Enter your birth date and place above. The result shows your Ashtama Shani dates (the one running now, or the next one) with your Kantaka Shani dates beside them. Saturn comes back to the same sign about every 29 and a half years, so most people meet Ashtama Shani two or three times.
What should I do during Sade Sati?
You don't need to buy anything. Sade Sati is a long stretch, so the useful questions are when it starts, which part of your chart it sits on and when it ends. The calculator above gives the dates. The free reading puts them beside your career, love, money and home.
Why do other websites show different dates?
Sites use slightly different settings for the Vedic (sidereal) zodiac. If your Moon sits near the edge of a sign, those settings can put it in different signs. Some sites also give only the first day Saturn enters a sign, and ignore its backward loops. We use the Lahiri setting, the standard in India.
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