Dasha Calculator

Your Current Life Chapter

Explore the planetary period shaping this stage of your life, when it began, and what comes next.

Your birth details

Type the city you were born in, or a nearby large city in the same time zone. Daylight saving on your birth date is applied automatically.

Your birth time matters here: the Moon moves quickly, and an hour's difference can move these dates by months. If you only know it roughly, use your best estimate. Your birth details stay on this device. Nothing you enter here is sent to us or saved.

How Dasha periods are calculated

Life chapters come from the Vimshottari dasha system of Vedic (Indian) astrology. It divides a 120-year cycle into nine planetary periods, called Mahadashas, from 6 to 20 years long, that always follow the same order.

Where you start depends on the Moon at the moment you were born. Its position among the 27 lunar mansions (nakshatras) of the sidereal zodiac sets which Mahadasha you were born into and how much of it was still to run. Each Mahadasha is then divided into nine shorter sub-periods, called Antardashas.

Two of the nine are the Moon's nodes, the points where its path crosses the Sun's: Rahu (the North Node) and Ketu (the South Node). Positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa, the standard in Indian astrology.

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