Venus Mahadasha, Moon Antardasha (Shukra–Chandra)

The Moon antardasha is the third of the nine sub-periods inside the Venus mahadasha. 20 × 10 ÷ 120 makes the Venus–Moon sub-period 1 year 8 months on the classical year of twelve thirty-day months, which is how the texts state it, or 609 days on the solar year of 365.2425 days that the dasha calculator uses.

The Moon’s turn in the Venus mahadasha comes only after Venus and the Sun have run, which takes 4 years 4 months. When the Venus–Moon sub-period gives way to Venus–Mars, 14 years of the Venus mahadasha remains.

The Moon’s 10 years make every Moon antardasha 10/120 of the mahadasha containing it, so inside Venus’s 20 years the Venus–Moon sub-period is the sixth-longest of the nine.

The Nine Pratyantardashas of Venus–Moon

A pratyantardasha of Venus–Moon is 20 × 10 × its own lord’s years ÷ 14,400, and the nine run in cycle order starting from the Moon. Venus’s is the longest inside Venus–Moon at 100 days and the Sun’s the shortest at 30 days, on the classical year and rounded to the day.

How Venus and the Moon Stand to Each Other

On the natural friendship table, Venus counts the Moon an enemy while the Moon counts Venus neutral. The table is not symmetric, so the Venus–Moon relationship has to be quoted in both directions, as it is here, rather than as one word.

Counted between the signs they own, Cancer is the 3rd from Venus’s Taurus and Cancer is the 10th from Venus’s Libra. Whatever the ascendant, the houses Venus rules and the houses the Moon rules sit at those same distances from each other in the chart, so the Venus–Moon sub-period always joins lordships that far apart.

The Moon is exalted in Taurus, a sign Venus owns. In the Venus–Moon sub-period, then, one lord's dignity is placed on the other’s ground.

The Same Pair the Other Way Round: Moon–Venus

20 × 10 equals 10 × 20, so the Venus antardasha of the Moon mahadasha is exactly as long as Venus–Moon: 1 year 8 months. Nothing else about Moon–Venus matches. It is the eighth sub-period of the Moon’s 10 years rather than the third of Venus’s 20; it opens after 7 years 10 months of the Moon mahadasha, against 4 years 4 months here; and its pratyantars start from Venus instead of the Moon.

What the Texts Assign to Venus and the Moon

The karaka list the tables give Venus, the mahadasha lord, is marriage, vehicles, art, music, luxury, hotels and cosmetics; for the Moon, the lord of the Venus–Moon sub-period, it is mother, the mind (manas), water, milk, the public, comfort and the home. Parashari practice reads the sub-period through the houses each of the two owns and occupies in the birth chart, and through where the Moon stands counted from Venus there. None of that is a forecast, and this page makes none: without a chart, Venus–Moon is a length and a position, and the 1 year 8 months above is the whole of what can be said about it in general.

A birth with the Moon in Bharani, Purva Phalguni or Purva Ashadha opens life inside the Venus mahadasha itself, part-way through, and whether the Venus–Moon sub-period is still ahead depends on how far the Moon had gone into the nakshatra. For a birth in Rohini, Hasta or Shravana, the Moon mahadasha comes first, and the Venus mahadasha is the eighth in that sequence.

The Other Sub-Periods of the Venus Mahadasha

The full table for the Venus mahadasha, with where each sub-period opens and closes, is on the Venus mahadasha page. How the Venus mahadasha is read as a whole is in our Venus mahadasha article, and the system itself in Vimshottari dasha explained. This page in Hindi: शुक्र महादशा में चन्द्र अंतर्दशा.