Simha lagna · vimshottari
The Venus Mahadasha for Leo Ascendant
20 years · Venus rules the 3rd and 10th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Leo ascendant Venus rules the 3rd (Libra) and the 10th (Taurus), so for Leo the 20-year Venus mahadasha carries both an upachaya house and a kendra and an upachaya house.
Counted from Leo, Venus is exalted in the 8th (Pisces) and debilitated in the 2nd (Virgo). The Sun, Leo’s lagna lord, and Venus count each other an enemy. Venus’s own nakshatras fall in Bharani (the 9th), Purva Phalguni (the 1st) and Purva Ashadha (the 5th) for Leo ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Venus mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Leo
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Leo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus–Venus | 3 years 4 months | the 3rd and the 10th |
| 2 | Venus–Sun | 1 year | the 1st |
| 3 | Venus–Moon | 1 year 8 months | the 12th |
| 4 | Venus–Mars | 1 year 2 months | the 4th and the 9th |
| 5 | Venus–Rahu | 3 years | no house |
| 6 | Venus–Jupiter | 2 years 8 months | the 5th and the 8th |
| 7 | Venus–Saturn | 3 years 2 months | the 6th and the 7th |
| 8 | Venus–Mercury | 2 years 10 months | the 2nd and the 11th |
| 9 | Venus–Ketu | 1 year 2 months | no house |
For Leo ascendant, three of the Venus mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Venus–Moon, Venus–Jupiter and Venus–Saturn, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Venus–Mars and Venus–Jupiter. The sub-period of the Sun, Leo’s lagna lord, is Venus–Sun, the second of nine, 1 year long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Leo take 7 years 6 months (38%) 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 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 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 Leo or any other ascendant, the Venus mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Venus mahadasha table; the Leo chart house by house on the Leo ascendant page. How the Venus mahadasha is read in general is in our Venus mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.