Saturn over your Moon
LiveIs 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.
At a glance
- Method
- Shani within one sign of your natal Moon
- Ephemeris
- VSOP87 and Brown’s lunar theory
- Ayanamsa
- Lahiri, the Indian government standard
- Zodiac
- Sidereal (nirayana)
- Accuracy
- Within 10 arcseconds of NASA JPL Horizons
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- Nothing. Your result lives in the URL
- Languages
- English and Hindi
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Questions people ask about Sade Sati
What is Sade Sati?
It is Shani (Saturn) passing through the 12th, 1st and 2nd houses counted from your birth Moon. Three signs of twelve, at roughly two and a half years each — about seven and a half years in all.
How do I check if my Sade Sati is running?
Enter your birth details on this page. It compares the sign Shani is in today with your birth Moon’s sign, and says which of the three phases you are in and roughly when it ends.
How many people have Sade Sati right now?
About one in four. Shani sits in one sign at a time and the span is three signs wide, so three of the twelve rashis are affected — measured over 5,000 charts, 24.6%.
What are the three phases?
Shani crosses the 12th from your Moon, then the sign of the Moon itself, then the 2nd. Classically the middle stretch is read as the heaviest, because Shani is then sitting on the Moon — the reference point the whole transit is measured from.
What is dhaiya or small panoti?
Shani in the 4th or 8th house from your birth Moon, usually about two and a half years. Two signs of twelve, measured at 17.1% of charts. It is a separate transit from Sade Sati, not a part of it.
Is Sade Sati bad?
The tradition reads it as a stretch of weight, duty and consolidation — slow, demanding, and productive of things that last. It is not a forecast of misfortune, and it reaches nearly everyone who lives a normal span, about three times.
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