Your Vimshottari dasha: what is running now and when it changes

How to read your result

• At the top is the maha-dasha running today, its antar-dasha and the date it ends.
• The table lists each maha-dasha with its start, end and duration. Open a row to see its antar-dashas.
• The first maha-dasha at birth shows only the balance that was left, not its full length.
• A dasha is a time window, not an outcome. What it brings depends on that planet’s own placement.

What is Vimshottari Dasha?

Vimshottari Dasha is a widely used timing system in Vedic astrology, dividing a 120-year cycle into nine planetary maha-dashas. The first maha-dasha starts with the lord of your natal Moon's nakshatra, and the remaining eight planets follow in a fixed order.

Within each maha-dasha, all nine planets also run smaller antar-dashas, sized proportionally to the maha-dasha's total length. Whichever maha-dasha was already running at birth has its earlier antar-dashas treated as already spent, so only the remaining balance at birth is shown.

This calculator only shows the timeline, not a prediction. What any dasha or antar-dasha means depends on that planet's own placement and strength in the chart.

Common misreadings of Dasha

A common misreading treats an entire Mahadasha as uniformly good or bad based on a label like 'Saturn's malefic dasha.' Each Mahadasha is subdivided into Antardashas of every planet in turn, and the Antardasha lord's own placement and relationship with the Mahadasha lord shapes each sub-period. A difficult Mahadasha overall can still carry a genuinely favorable Antardasha, and vice versa.

A second misreading assumes 'Dasha' always means the Vimshottari system shown here. Vimshottari (the 120-year, nakshatra-based cycle) is widely used, but classical texts describe others too, Yogini Dasha and Chara Dasha among them, each with different durations and starting rules. A timeline from one system doesn't translate directly onto another.

A third misreading treats a dasha period as acting alone. Classical practice reads the running Mahadasha and Antardasha together with current planetary transits (gochar): the dasha sets the underlying theme for a stretch of years, while transits time when a specific event within that theme actually shows up.