Saturn takes about two and a half years to cross a sign, so its passage through the three signs around your Moon runs roughly seven and a half years. Find out whether it is running for you now, and which phase.
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Your natal Moon sign comes from your birth details. Saturn's current sign comes from its real position today. If Saturn is in the 12th, the 1st or the 2nd sign from your Moon, Sade Sati is running and the phase follows from which of the three it is. If Saturn is in the 4th or the 8th from your Moon, that is not Sade Sati but Dhaiya, the smaller two-and-a-half-year transit.
Saturn passes this way about once every thirty years, so most people live through it two or three times. It has a reputation for hardship, and the classical reading is about pressure, responsibility and slow work rather than disaster. Treating it as a sentence is neither accurate to the texts nor useful.
About seven and a half years — roughly two and a half years in each of the three signs, though Saturn's retrograde motion can stretch the edges.
The classical description is of a demanding period rather than a ruinous one. Its effect is read alongside Saturn's strength and its role in your own chart.
The two-and-a-half-year transit of Saturn through the 4th or 8th sign from your Moon. It is often called the small panoti and is not the same as Sade Sati.
No. It is measured from the Moon sign, which is why your birth details are needed rather than just your date.
Every calculation on this page is computed from real planetary positions using the Lahiri ayanamsa.