Vrishchika lagna · vimshottari
The Venus Mahadasha for Scorpio Ascendant
20 years · Venus rules the 7th and 12th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Scorpio ascendant Venus rules the 7th (Taurus) and the 12th (Libra), so for Scorpio the 20-year Venus mahadasha carries both a kendra house and a dusthana house.
Counted from Scorpio, Venus is exalted in the 5th (Pisces) and debilitated in the 11th (Virgo). Mars, Scorpio’s lagna lord, and Venus count each other neutral. Venus’s own nakshatras fall in Bharani (the 6th), Purva Phalguni (the 10th) and Purva Ashadha (the 2nd) for Scorpio ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Venus mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Scorpio
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Scorpio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus–Venus | 3 years 4 months | the 7th and the 12th |
| 2 | Venus–Sun | 1 year | the 10th |
| 3 | Venus–Moon | 1 year 8 months | the 9th |
| 4 | Venus–Mars | 1 year 2 months | the 1st and the 6th |
| 5 | Venus–Rahu | 3 years | no house |
| 6 | Venus–Jupiter | 2 years 8 months | the 2nd and the 5th |
| 7 | Venus–Saturn | 3 years 2 months | the 3rd and the 4th |
| 8 | Venus–Mercury | 2 years 10 months | the 8th and the 11th |
| 9 | Venus–Ketu | 1 year 2 months | no house |
For Scorpio ascendant, three of the Venus mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Venus–Venus, Venus–Mars and Venus–Mercury, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Venus–Moon and Venus–Jupiter. The sub-period of Mars, Scorpio’s lagna lord, is Venus–Mars, the fourth of nine, 1 year 2 months long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Scorpio take 7 years 4 months (37%) of the Venus mahadasha’s 20 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 4 years 4 months (22%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Venus mahadasha for Scorpio, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For a Scorpio-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 Scorpio or any other ascendant, the Venus mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Venus mahadasha table; the Scorpio chart house by house on the Scorpio ascendant page. How the Venus mahadasha is read in general is in our Venus mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.