Kanya lagna · vimshottari
The Moon Mahadasha for Virgo Ascendant
10 years · Moon rules the 11th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Virgo ascendant the Moon rules only the 11th (Cancer), an upachaya house, so for Virgo the 10-year Moon mahadasha carries a single lordship.
Counted from Virgo, the Moon is exalted in the 9th (Taurus) and debilitated in the 3rd (Scorpio). Mercury, Virgo’s lagna lord, counts the Moon an enemy; the Moon counts Mercury a friend. The Moon’s own nakshatras fall in Rohini (the 9th), Hasta (the 1st) and Shravana (the 5th) for Virgo ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Moon mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Virgo
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Virgo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon–Moon | 10 months | the 11th |
| 2 | Moon–Mars | 7 months | the 3rd and the 8th |
| 3 | Moon–Rahu | 1 year 6 months | no house |
| 4 | Moon–Jupiter | 1 year 4 months | the 4th and the 7th |
| 5 | Moon–Saturn | 1 year 7 months | the 5th and the 6th |
| 6 | Moon–Mercury | 1 year 5 months | the 1st and the 10th |
| 7 | Moon–Ketu | 7 months | no house |
| 8 | Moon–Venus | 1 year 8 months | the 2nd and the 9th |
| 9 | Moon–Sun | 6 months | the 12th |
For Virgo ascendant, three of the Moon mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Moon–Mars, Moon–Saturn and Moon–Sun, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Moon–Saturn and Moon–Venus. The sub-period of Mercury, Virgo’s lagna lord, is Moon–Mercury, the sixth of nine, 1 year 5 months long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Virgo take 2 years 8 months (27%) of the Moon mahadasha’s 10 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 3 years 3 months (33%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Moon mahadasha for Virgo, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For a Virgo-rising chart this is the frame of the Moon mahadasha, not a forecast: where the Moon and each sub-period lord actually sit, and their dignity there, decide what it comes to, and this page cannot know either.
Related
For Virgo or any other ascendant, the Moon mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Moon mahadasha table; the Virgo chart house by house on the Virgo ascendant page. How the Moon mahadasha is read in general is in our Moon mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.