Meena lagna · vimshottari
The Mars Mahadasha for Pisces Ascendant
7 years · Mars rules the 2nd and 9th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Pisces ascendant Mars rules the 2nd (Aries) and the 9th (Scorpio), so for Pisces the 7-year Mars mahadasha carries both an unclassed house and a trikona house.
Counted from Pisces, Mars is exalted in the 11th (Capricorn) and debilitated in the 5th (Cancer). Jupiter, Pisces’s lagna lord, and Mars count each other a friend. Mars’s own nakshatras fall in Mrigashira (the 3rd and 4th), Chitra (the 7th and 8th) and Dhanishta (the 11th and 12th) for Pisces ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Mars mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Pisces
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Pisces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars–Mars | 4 months 27 days | the 2nd and the 9th |
| 2 | Mars–Rahu | 1 year 18 days | no house |
| 3 | Mars–Jupiter | 11 months 6 days | the 1st and the 10th |
| 4 | Mars–Saturn | 1 year 1 month 9 days | the 11th and the 12th |
| 5 | Mars–Mercury | 11 months 27 days | the 4th and the 7th |
| 6 | Mars–Ketu | 4 months 27 days | no house |
| 7 | Mars–Venus | 1 year 2 months | the 3rd and the 8th |
| 8 | Mars–Sun | 4 months 6 days | the 6th |
| 9 | Mars–Moon | 7 months | the 5th |
For Pisces ascendant, three of the Mars mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Mars–Saturn, Mars–Venus and Mars–Sun, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Mars–Mars and Mars–Moon. The sub-period of Jupiter, Pisces’s lagna lord, is Mars–Jupiter, the third of nine, 11 months 6 days long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Pisces take 2 years 7 months 15 days (38%) of the Mars mahadasha’s 7 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 11 months 27 days (14%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Mars mahadasha for Pisces, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For a Pisces-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 Pisces or any other ascendant, the Mars mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Mars mahadasha table; the Pisces chart house by house on the Pisces ascendant page. How the Mars mahadasha is read in general is in our Mars mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.