Karka lagna · vimshottari
The Venus Mahadasha for Cancer Ascendant
20 years · Venus rules the 4th and 11th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Cancer ascendant Venus rules the 4th (Libra) and the 11th (Taurus), so for Cancer the 20-year Venus mahadasha carries both a kendra house and an upachaya house.
Counted from Cancer, Venus is exalted in the 9th (Pisces) and debilitated in the 3rd (Virgo). The Moon, Cancer’s lagna lord, counts Venus neutral; Venus counts the Moon an enemy. Venus’s own nakshatras fall in Bharani (the 10th), Purva Phalguni (the 2nd) and Purva Ashadha (the 6th) for Cancer ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Venus mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Cancer
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Cancer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus–Venus | 3 years 4 months | the 4th and the 11th |
| 2 | Venus–Sun | 1 year | the 2nd |
| 3 | Venus–Moon | 1 year 8 months | the 1st |
| 4 | Venus–Mars | 1 year 2 months | the 5th and the 10th |
| 5 | Venus–Rahu | 3 years | no house |
| 6 | Venus–Jupiter | 2 years 8 months | the 6th and the 9th |
| 7 | Venus–Saturn | 3 years 2 months | the 7th and the 8th |
| 8 | Venus–Mercury | 2 years 10 months | the 3rd and the 12th |
| 9 | Venus–Ketu | 1 year 2 months | no house |
For Cancer ascendant, three of the Venus mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Venus–Jupiter, Venus–Saturn and Venus–Mercury, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Venus–Mars and Venus–Jupiter. The sub-period of the Moon, Cancer’s lagna lord, is Venus–Moon, the third of nine, 1 year 8 months long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Cancer take 8 years 8 months (43%) of the Venus mahadasha’s 20 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 3 years 10 months (19%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Venus mahadasha for Cancer, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For a Cancer-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 Cancer or any other ascendant, the Venus mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Venus mahadasha table; the Cancer chart house by house on the Cancer ascendant page. How the Venus mahadasha is read in general is in our Venus mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.