Makara lagna · vimshottari
The Mars Mahadasha for Capricorn Ascendant
7 years · Mars rules the 4th and 11th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Capricorn ascendant Mars rules the 4th (Aries) and the 11th (Scorpio), so for Capricorn the 7-year Mars mahadasha carries both a kendra house and an upachaya house.
Counted from Capricorn, Mars is exalted in the 1st (Capricorn) and debilitated in the 7th (Cancer). Saturn, Capricorn’s lagna lord, counts Mars an enemy; Mars counts Saturn neutral. Mars’s own nakshatras fall in Mrigashira (the 5th and 6th), Chitra (the 9th and 10th) and Dhanishta (the 1st and 2nd) for Capricorn ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Mars mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Capricorn
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Capricorn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars–Mars | 4 months 27 days | the 4th and the 11th |
| 2 | Mars–Rahu | 1 year 18 days | no house |
| 3 | Mars–Jupiter | 11 months 6 days | the 3rd and the 12th |
| 4 | Mars–Saturn | 1 year 1 month 9 days | the 1st and the 2nd |
| 5 | Mars–Mercury | 11 months 27 days | the 6th and the 9th |
| 6 | Mars–Ketu | 4 months 27 days | no house |
| 7 | Mars–Venus | 1 year 2 months | the 5th and the 10th |
| 8 | Mars–Sun | 4 months 6 days | the 8th |
| 9 | Mars–Moon | 7 months | the 7th |
For Capricorn ascendant, three of the Mars mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Mars–Jupiter, Mars–Mercury and Mars–Sun, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Mars–Mercury and Mars–Venus. The sub-period of Saturn, Capricorn’s lagna lord, is Mars–Saturn, the fourth of nine, 1 year 1 month 9 days long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Capricorn take 2 years 3 months 9 days (33%) of the Mars mahadasha’s 7 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 2 years 1 month 27 days (31%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Mars mahadasha for Capricorn, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For a Capricorn-rising chart this is the frame of the Mars mahadasha, not a forecast: where Mars and each sub-period lord actually sit, and their dignity there, decide what it comes to, and this page cannot know either.
Related
For Capricorn or any other ascendant, the Mars mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Mars mahadasha table; the Capricorn chart house by house on the Capricorn ascendant page. How the Mars mahadasha is read in general is in our Mars mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.