Simha lagna · vimshottari
The Jupiter Mahadasha for Leo Ascendant
16 years · Jupiter rules the 5th and 8th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Leo ascendant Jupiter rules the 5th (Sagittarius) and the 8th (Pisces), so for Leo the 16-year Jupiter mahadasha carries both a trikona house and a dusthana house.
Counted from Leo, Jupiter is exalted in the 12th (Cancer) and debilitated in the 6th (Capricorn). The Sun, Leo’s lagna lord, and Jupiter count each other a friend. Jupiter’s own nakshatras fall in Punarvasu (the 11th and 12th), Vishakha (the 3rd and 4th) and Purva Bhadrapada (the 7th and 8th) for Leo ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Jupiter mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Leo
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Leo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter–Jupiter | 2 years 1 month 18 days | the 5th and the 8th |
| 2 | Jupiter–Saturn | 2 years 6 months 12 days | the 6th and the 7th |
| 3 | Jupiter–Mercury | 2 years 3 months 6 days | the 2nd and the 11th |
| 4 | Jupiter–Ketu | 11 months 6 days | no house |
| 5 | Jupiter–Venus | 2 years 8 months | the 3rd and the 10th |
| 6 | Jupiter–Sun | 9 months 18 days | the 1st |
| 7 | Jupiter–Moon | 1 year 4 months | the 12th |
| 8 | Jupiter–Mars | 11 months 6 days | the 4th and the 9th |
| 9 | Jupiter–Rahu | 2 years 4 months 24 days | no house |
For Leo ascendant, three of the Jupiter mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Jupiter–Jupiter, Jupiter–Saturn and Jupiter–Moon, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Jupiter–Jupiter and Jupiter–Mars. The sub-period of the Sun, Leo’s lagna lord, is Jupiter–Sun, the sixth of nine, 9 months 18 days long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Leo take 6 years (37%) of the Jupiter mahadasha’s 16 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 3 years 24 days (19%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Jupiter mahadasha for Leo, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For a Leo-rising chart this is the frame of the Jupiter mahadasha, not a forecast: where Jupiter and each sub-period lord actually sit, and their dignity there, decide what it comes to, and this page cannot know either.
Related
For Leo or any other ascendant, the Jupiter mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Jupiter mahadasha table; the Leo chart house by house on the Leo ascendant page. How the Jupiter mahadasha is read in general is in our Jupiter mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.