Kumbha lagna · vimshottari
The Moon Mahadasha for Aquarius Ascendant
10 years · Moon rules the 6th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Aquarius ascendant the Moon rules only the 6th (Cancer), a dusthana and an upachaya house, so for Aquarius the 10-year Moon mahadasha carries a single lordship.
Counted from Aquarius, the Moon is exalted in the 4th (Taurus) and debilitated in the 10th (Scorpio). Saturn, Aquarius’s lagna lord, counts the Moon an enemy; the Moon counts Saturn neutral. The Moon’s own nakshatras fall in Rohini (the 4th), Hasta (the 8th) and Shravana (the 12th) for Aquarius ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Moon mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Aquarius
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Aquarius |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon–Moon | 10 months | the 6th |
| 2 | Moon–Mars | 7 months | the 3rd and the 10th |
| 3 | Moon–Rahu | 1 year 6 months | no house |
| 4 | Moon–Jupiter | 1 year 4 months | the 2nd and the 11th |
| 5 | Moon–Saturn | 1 year 7 months | the 1st and the 12th |
| 6 | Moon–Mercury | 1 year 5 months | the 5th and the 8th |
| 7 | Moon–Ketu | 7 months | no house |
| 8 | Moon–Venus | 1 year 8 months | the 4th and the 9th |
| 9 | Moon–Sun | 6 months | the 7th |
For Aquarius ascendant, three of the Moon mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Moon–Moon, Moon–Saturn and Moon–Mercury, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Moon–Mercury and Moon–Venus. The sub-period of Saturn, Aquarius’s lagna lord, is Moon–Saturn, the fifth of nine, 1 year 7 months long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Aquarius take 3 years 10 months (38%) of the Moon mahadasha’s 10 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 3 years 1 month (31%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Moon mahadasha for Aquarius, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For an Aquarius-rising chart this is the frame of the Moon mahadasha, not a forecast: where the Moon and each sub-period lord actually sit, and their dignity there, decide what it comes to, and this page cannot know either.
Related
For Aquarius or any other ascendant, the Moon mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Moon mahadasha table; the Aquarius chart house by house on the Aquarius ascendant page. How the Moon mahadasha is read in general is in our Moon mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.