Is Sade Sati running in your chart?

Sade Sati is Saturn transiting the 12th, 1st or 2nd from your natal Moon. That runs about seven and a half years in all. Here is where Saturn actually is, and which phase that puts you in.

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Sidereal, with the Lahiri ayanamsa — the Vedic default.

How common is this?

Saturn takes about 29½ years to circle the zodiac. So Sade Sati comes round roughly every 30 years and lasts about seven and a half. Almost everyone who lives a normal lifespan goes through it two or three times.

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The three phases

Saturn takes about two and a half years to cross a sign. Sade Sati is the stretch while it crosses the three signs centred on your natal Moon. So it runs about seven and a half years, which is exactly what the name means.

Rising

12th from the Moon

The first two and a half years, while Saturn approaches.

Peak

Over the Moon itself

The middle phase, and the one most readings concentrate on.

Setting

2nd from the Moon

The last stretch, as Saturn moves away again.

How common it is

This one needs no sampling. It follows from the arithmetic, and it is the same for everybody.

24.6%

of people are in it right now

Saturn sits in one sign, and three of the twelve Moon signs are affected at any moment. So the measured share lands close to a flat quarter.

2 or 3

times in an average life

Saturn circles the zodiac in about 29 and a half years, so it comes round roughly every 30.

17.1%

are in Dhaiya instead

Saturn in the 4th or 8th from the Moon — the shorter small panoti.

A quarter of everyone, always

At any moment you care to pick, one person in four is inside their Sade Sati. That is around two billion people. Nearly everyone who lives a normal span goes through it two or three times. It is a transit, not a sentence, and it ends on a date we can print for you above.

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