Kanya lagna · vimshottari
The Venus Mahadasha for Virgo Ascendant
20 years · Venus rules the 2nd and 9th
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Virgo ascendant Venus rules the 2nd (Libra) and the 9th (Taurus), so for Virgo the 20-year Venus mahadasha carries both an unclassed house and a trikona house.
Counted from Virgo, Venus is exalted in the 7th (Pisces) and debilitated in the 1st (Virgo). Mercury, Virgo’s lagna lord, and Venus count each other a friend. Venus’s own nakshatras fall in Bharani (the 8th), Purva Phalguni (the 12th) and Purva Ashadha (the 4th) for Virgo ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Venus mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Virgo
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Virgo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus–Venus | 3 years 4 months | the 2nd and the 9th |
| 2 | Venus–Sun | 1 year | the 12th |
| 3 | Venus–Moon | 1 year 8 months | the 11th |
| 4 | Venus–Mars | 1 year 2 months | the 3rd and the 8th |
| 5 | Venus–Rahu | 3 years | no house |
| 6 | Venus–Jupiter | 2 years 8 months | the 4th and the 7th |
| 7 | Venus–Saturn | 3 years 2 months | the 5th and the 6th |
| 8 | Venus–Mercury | 2 years 10 months | the 1st and the 10th |
| 9 | Venus–Ketu | 1 year 2 months | no house |
For Virgo ascendant, three of the Venus mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Venus–Sun, Venus–Mars and Venus–Saturn, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Venus–Venus and Venus–Saturn. The sub-period of Mercury, Virgo’s lagna lord, is Venus–Mercury, the eighth of nine, 2 years 10 months long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Virgo take 5 years 4 months (27%) of the Venus mahadasha’s 20 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 6 years 6 months (33%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Venus 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 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 Virgo or any other ascendant, the Venus mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Venus mahadasha table; the Virgo chart house by house on the Virgo ascendant page. How the Venus mahadasha is read in general is in our Venus mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.