Simha lagna · vimshottari
The Saturn Mahadasha for Leo Ascendant
19 years · Saturn rules the 6th and 7th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Leo ascendant Saturn rules the 6th (Capricorn) and the 7th (Aquarius), so for Leo the 19-year Saturn mahadasha carries both a dusthana and an upachaya house and a kendra house.
Counted from Leo, Saturn is exalted in the 3rd (Libra) and debilitated in the 9th (Aries). The Sun, Leo’s lagna lord, and Saturn count each other an enemy. Saturn’s own nakshatras fall in Pushya (the 12th), Anuradha (the 4th) and Uttara Bhadrapada (the 8th) for Leo ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Saturn mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Leo
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Leo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn–Saturn | 3 years 3 days | the 6th and the 7th |
| 2 | Saturn–Mercury | 2 years 8 months 9 days | the 2nd and the 11th |
| 3 | Saturn–Ketu | 1 year 1 month 9 days | no house |
| 4 | Saturn–Venus | 3 years 2 months | the 3rd and the 10th |
| 5 | Saturn–Sun | 11 months 12 days | the 1st |
| 6 | Saturn–Moon | 1 year 7 months | the 12th |
| 7 | Saturn–Mars | 1 year 1 month 9 days | the 4th and the 9th |
| 8 | Saturn–Rahu | 2 years 10 months 6 days | no house |
| 9 | Saturn–Jupiter | 2 years 6 months 12 days | the 5th and the 8th |
For Leo ascendant, three of the Saturn mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Saturn–Saturn, Saturn–Moon and Saturn–Jupiter, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Saturn–Mars and Saturn–Jupiter. The sub-period of the Sun, Leo’s lagna lord, is Saturn–Sun, the fifth of nine, 11 months 12 days long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Leo take 7 years 1 month 15 days (38%) of the Saturn mahadasha’s 19 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 3 years 7 months 21 days (19%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Saturn 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 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 Leo or any other ascendant, the Saturn mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Saturn mahadasha table; the Leo chart house by house on the Leo ascendant page. How the Saturn mahadasha is read in general is in our Saturn mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.