Vrishabha lagna · vimshottari
The Venus Mahadasha for Taurus Ascendant
20 years · Venus rules the 1st and 6th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Taurus ascendant Venus rules the 1st (Taurus) and the 6th (Libra), so for Taurus the 20-year Venus mahadasha carries both a kendra and a trikona house and a dusthana and an upachaya house.
Counted from Taurus, Venus is exalted in the 11th (Pisces) and debilitated in the 5th (Virgo). Venus is also Taurus’s lagna lord, so for this ascendant the Venus mahadasha is the lagna lord’s own period. Venus’s own nakshatras fall in Bharani (the 12th), Purva Phalguni (the 4th) and Purva Ashadha (the 8th) for Taurus ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Venus mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Taurus
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Taurus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus–Venus | 3 years 4 months | the 1st and the 6th |
| 2 | Venus–Sun | 1 year | the 4th |
| 3 | Venus–Moon | 1 year 8 months | the 3rd |
| 4 | Venus–Mars | 1 year 2 months | the 7th and the 12th |
| 5 | Venus–Rahu | 3 years | no house |
| 6 | Venus–Jupiter | 2 years 8 months | the 8th and the 11th |
| 7 | Venus–Saturn | 3 years 2 months | the 9th and the 10th |
| 8 | Venus–Mercury | 2 years 10 months | the 2nd and the 5th |
| 9 | Venus–Ketu | 1 year 2 months | no house |
For Taurus 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–Jupiter, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Venus–Saturn and Venus–Mercury. The sub-period of Venus, Taurus’s lagna lord, is Venus–Venus, the first of nine, 3 years 4 months long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Taurus take 7 years 2 months (36%) of the Venus mahadasha’s 20 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 6 years (30%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Venus mahadasha for Taurus, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For a Taurus-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 Taurus or any other ascendant, the Venus mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Venus mahadasha table; the Taurus chart house by house on the Taurus ascendant page. How the Venus mahadasha is read in general is in our Venus mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.