Makara lagna · vimshottari
The Saturn Mahadasha for Capricorn Ascendant
19 years · Saturn rules the 1st and 2nd
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Capricorn ascendant Saturn rules the 1st (Capricorn) and the 2nd (Aquarius), so for Capricorn the 19-year Saturn mahadasha carries both a kendra and a trikona house and an unclassed house.
Counted from Capricorn, Saturn is exalted in the 10th (Libra) and debilitated in the 4th (Aries). Saturn is also Capricorn’s lagna lord, so for this ascendant the Saturn mahadasha is the lagna lord’s own period. Saturn’s own nakshatras fall in Pushya (the 7th), Anuradha (the 11th) and Uttara Bhadrapada (the 3rd) for Capricorn ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Saturn mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Capricorn
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Capricorn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn–Saturn | 3 years 3 days | the 1st and the 2nd |
| 2 | Saturn–Mercury | 2 years 8 months 9 days | the 6th and the 9th |
| 3 | Saturn–Ketu | 1 year 1 month 9 days | no house |
| 4 | Saturn–Venus | 3 years 2 months | the 5th and the 10th |
| 5 | Saturn–Sun | 11 months 12 days | the 8th |
| 6 | Saturn–Moon | 1 year 7 months | the 7th |
| 7 | Saturn–Mars | 1 year 1 month 9 days | the 4th and the 11th |
| 8 | Saturn–Rahu | 2 years 10 months 6 days | no house |
| 9 | Saturn–Jupiter | 2 years 6 months 12 days | the 3rd and the 12th |
For Capricorn ascendant, three of the Saturn mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Saturn–Mercury, Saturn–Sun and Saturn–Jupiter, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Saturn–Mercury and Saturn–Venus. The sub-period of Saturn, Capricorn’s lagna lord, is Saturn–Saturn, the first of nine, 3 years 3 days long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Capricorn take 6 years 2 months 3 days (33%) of the Saturn mahadasha’s 19 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 5 years 10 months 9 days (31%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Saturn 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 Saturn mahadasha, not a forecast: where Saturn 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 Saturn mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Saturn mahadasha table; the Capricorn chart house by house on the Capricorn ascendant page. How the Saturn mahadasha is read in general is in our Saturn mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.