Venus Mahadasha, Rahu Antardasha (Shukra–Rahu)

The Rahu antardasha is the fifth of the nine sub-periods inside the Venus mahadasha. 20 × 18 ÷ 120 makes the Venus–Rahu sub-period 3 years on the classical year of twelve thirty-day months, which is how the texts state it, or 1096 days on the solar year of 365.2425 days that the dasha calculator uses.

Rahu’s turn in the Venus mahadasha comes only after Venus, the Sun, the Moon and Mars have run, which takes 7 years 2 months. When the Venus–Rahu sub-period gives way to Venus–Jupiter, 9 years 10 months of the Venus mahadasha remains.

Rahu’s 18 years make every Rahu antardasha 18/120 of the mahadasha containing it, so inside Venus’s 20 years the Venus–Rahu sub-period is the third-longest of the nine.

The Nine Pratyantardashas of Venus–Rahu

A pratyantardasha of Venus–Rahu is 20 × 18 × its own lord’s years ÷ 14,400, and the nine run in cycle order starting from Rahu. Venus’s is the longest inside Venus–Rahu at 180 days and the Sun’s the shortest at 54 days, on the classical year and rounded to the day.

How Venus and Rahu Stand to Each Other

Rahu’s row in the friendship lists counts Venus a friend. Venus’s row names no node, so the other direction of the Venus–Rahu relationship has no entry, and this page does not supply one. The nodes have no row in the seven-graha table that kundli matching uses; the node’s own entry is the one printed on its planet page.

Rahu owns no sign in the standard scheme, so the Venus–Rahu sub-period has no fixed distance between lordships. What stands in for it is the node’s dispositor — the lord of the sign Rahu occupies at birth — which differs from chart to chart.

Rahu is exalted in Taurus, a sign Venus owns (on the commoner reckoning; planets.js gives another sign as well). In the Venus–Rahu sub-period, then, one lord's dignity is placed on the other’s ground.

The Same Pair the Other Way Round: Rahu–Venus

20 × 18 equals 18 × 20, so the Venus antardasha of the Rahu mahadasha is exactly as long as Venus–Rahu: 3 years. Nothing else about Rahu–Venus matches. It is the sixth sub-period of Rahu’s 18 years rather than the fifth of Venus’s 20; it opens after 11 years 6 months 18 days of the Rahu mahadasha, against 7 years 2 months here; and its pratyantars start from Venus instead of Rahu.

What the Texts Assign to Venus and Rahu

The karaka list the tables give Venus, the mahadasha lord, is marriage, vehicles, art, music, luxury, hotels and cosmetics; for Rahu, the lord of the Venus–Rahu sub-period, it is foreign lands and foreigners, technology, aviation and politics. Parashari practice reads the sub-period through the houses each of the two owns and occupies in the birth chart (for Rahu, which owns none, the house it occupies and the lord of its sign), and through where Rahu stands counted from Venus there. None of that is a forecast, and this page makes none: without a chart, Venus–Rahu is a length and a position, and the 3 years 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–Rahu sub-period is still ahead depends on how far the Moon had gone into the nakshatra. For a birth in Ardra, Swati or Shatabhisha, the Rahu mahadasha comes first, and the Venus mahadasha is the sixth 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 राहु अंतर्दशा.