Kumbha lagna · vimshottari
The Venus Mahadasha for Aquarius Ascendant
20 years · Venus rules the 4th and 9th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Aquarius ascendant Venus rules the 4th (Taurus) and the 9th (Libra), so for Aquarius the 20-year Venus mahadasha carries both a kendra house and a trikona house. For Aquarius, then, Venus holds a kendra and a trikona other than the 1st together.
Counted from Aquarius, Venus is exalted in the 2nd (Pisces) and debilitated in the 8th (Virgo). Saturn, Aquarius’s lagna lord, and Venus count each other a friend. Venus’s own nakshatras fall in Bharani (the 3rd), Purva Phalguni (the 7th) and Purva Ashadha (the 11th) for Aquarius ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Venus mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Aquarius
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Aquarius |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus–Venus | 3 years 4 months | the 4th and the 9th |
| 2 | Venus–Sun | 1 year | the 7th |
| 3 | Venus–Moon | 1 year 8 months | the 6th |
| 4 | Venus–Mars | 1 year 2 months | the 3rd and the 10th |
| 5 | Venus–Rahu | 3 years | no house |
| 6 | Venus–Jupiter | 2 years 8 months | the 2nd and the 11th |
| 7 | Venus–Saturn | 3 years 2 months | the 1st and the 12th |
| 8 | Venus–Mercury | 2 years 10 months | the 5th and the 8th |
| 9 | Venus–Ketu | 1 year 2 months | no house |
For Aquarius ascendant, three of the Venus mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Venus–Moon, Venus–Saturn and Venus–Mercury, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Venus–Venus and Venus–Mercury. The sub-period of Saturn, Aquarius’s lagna lord, is Venus–Saturn, the seventh of nine, 3 years 2 months long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Aquarius take 7 years 8 months (38%) of the Venus mahadasha’s 20 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 6 years 2 months (31%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Venus 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 Venus mahadasha, not a forecast: where Venus 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 Venus mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Venus mahadasha table; the Aquarius chart house by house on the Aquarius ascendant page. How the Venus mahadasha is read in general is in our Venus mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.