Venus Mahadasha, Sun Antardasha (Shukra–Surya)

The Sun antardasha is the second of the nine sub-periods inside the Venus mahadasha. 20 × 6 ÷ 120 makes the Venus–Sun sub-period 1 year on the classical year of twelve thirty-day months, which is how the texts state it, or 365 days on the solar year of 365.2425 days that the dasha calculator uses.

The Sun’s turn in the Venus mahadasha comes only after Venus has run, which takes 3 years 4 months. When the Venus–Sun sub-period gives way to Venus–Moon, 15 years 8 months of the Venus mahadasha remains.

The Sun’s 6 years make every Sun antardasha 6/120 of the mahadasha containing it, so inside Venus’s 20 years the Venus–Sun sub-period is the shortest of the nine.

The Nine Pratyantardashas of Venus–Sun

A pratyantardasha of Venus–Sun is 20 × 6 × its own lord’s years ÷ 14,400, and the nine run in cycle order starting from the Sun. Venus’s is the longest inside Venus–Sun at 60 days and the Sun’s the shortest at 18 days, on the classical year and rounded to the day.

How Venus and the Sun Stand to Each Other

On the natural friendship table, Venus and the Sun each count the other an enemy. The Venus–Sunrelationship is mutual, so it reads the same from either lord.

Counted between the signs they own, Leo is the 4th from Venus’s Taurus and Leo is the 11th from Venus’s Libra. Whatever the ascendant, the houses Venus rules and the houses the Sun rules sit at those same distances from each other in the chart, so the Venus–Sun sub-period always joins lordships that far apart.

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

The Same Pair the Other Way Round: Sun–Venus

20 × 6 equals 6 × 20, so the Venus antardasha of the Sun mahadasha is exactly as long as Venus–Sun: 1 year. Nothing else about Sun–Venus matches. It is the ninth sub-period of the Sun’s 6 years rather than the second of Venus’s 20; it opens after 5 years of the Sun mahadasha, against 3 years 4 months here; and its pratyantars start from Venus instead of the Sun.

What the Texts Assign to Venus and the Sun

The karaka list the tables give Venus, the mahadasha lord, is marriage, vehicles, art, music, luxury, hotels and cosmetics; for the Sun, the lord of the Venus–Sun sub-period, it is father, government, authority, the soul (atma) and administration. Parashari practice reads the sub-period through the houses each of the two owns and occupies in the birth chart, and through where the Sun stands counted from Venus there. None of that is a forecast, and this page makes none: without a chart, Venus–Sun is a length and a position, and the 1 year 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–Sun sub-period is still ahead depends on how far the Moon had gone into the nakshatra. For a birth in Krittika, Uttara Phalguni or Uttara Ashadha, the Sun mahadasha comes first, and the Venus mahadasha is the ninth 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 सूर्य अंतर्दशा.