Timing: Dashas, Transits and Ashtakavarga
How a chart is read in time: the dasha lords and their sub-periods, the other dasa systems, transits and what cancels them, ashtakavarga, Saturn's houses and how a monthly rasi palan is put together. Each with its source and what Nava computes.
How the 27 Star Lords Repeat: Why the 1st, 10th and 19th Stars Share a Lord
Nine dasha lords, twenty-seven stars: the same nine run three times round the zodiac, so every lord holds three stars nine apart.
Sub-Periods Down to Prana: One Rule at Every Level of the Dasha
Bhukti, pratyantar, sookshma and prana are all cut the same way: the parent's span times the lord's years, divided by 120.
Bhukti Dates: the 360-Day Shortcut or the 365.25-Day Year
Why hand tables and Nava agree on every share of a dasha and still part by days: the length of the year they count in.
Where the Dasha Starts: the Moon's Star or the Strongest Star
Parashara starts from the Moon. Jataka Parijata offers four stars and takes the strongest; Sanjay Rath takes the stronger of the lagna and the Moon.
A Good Dasha Needs Strength, Not Only Friendship
The classical tests read the dasha lord's own sign, house and strength first; the friendship of two lords counts only on top of that.
When Results Arrive in a Dasha: Start, Middle or End by the Lord's Sign
A lord in a head-first sign gives early, in a rear-first sign late, in the both-ways sign in the middle; the same books time a transit within its sign.
The Dasa Family: About Thirty Systems, and Why Vimshottari Is the Default
Star dasas, sign dasas and a handful of special ones: what each family counts, and the three Nava works out from your birth Moon.
Ashtottari and Yogini Dasas: Their Years, Their Stars and When the Book Applies Them
A 108-year cycle of eight planets counted from Ardra over 28 stars, and a 36-year cycle of eight Yoginis.
The Conditional Nakshatra Dasas: Shodashottari, Dwadashottari, Panchottari and Five More
Eight star dasas Parashara gives only for charts that meet a condition: each one's condition, starting star, lords and years.
Kalachakra Dasa: Deha and Jeeva, the Two Wheels and the Jumps
A dasa of signs keyed to the quarter of the birth star: two groups of stars, nine signs for every quarter, and three kinds of jump between them.
Sign Dasas: Chara, Narayana and the Rest, Periods Through Signs
Dasas whose periods belong to the twelve signs: where each starts, which way it runs and how many years each sign gets.
Brihat Jataka's Own Dasa and the Natural-Age Dasa: Order and Shares
Varahamihira starts from the strongest of the lagna, the Sun and the Moon, orders the rest by house, and splits each period by fixed fractions.
Timing with Dasha and Transit: Which Comes First
The birth chart says what an area of life can hold, the running dasha says whether it is switched on, and the transits colour the moment.
Gochara Vedha: When Another Planet Cancels a Transit
A planet passing a house from your Moon sign can be obstructed by another planet standing in a paired house. The pairs come from one old table.
Ashtakavarga Basics: Eight Contributors and What a Bindu Is
Each planet gets a chart of its own. The seven planets and the lagna each mark the signs where that planet's transit is helped, and the marks are counted sign by sign.
Sarvashtakavarga: Sign Totals and the 25 and 30 Bands
Add each planet's chart sign by sign and every sign gets one number. Two books band that number at 25 and 30, but on two different totals.
The Two Ashtakavarga Reductions: Trikona and Ekadhipatya Shodhana
Before some classical rules use a planet's chart, its counts are cut down twice: once across each trine of signs, once across each pair of signs with one lord.
Ashtakavarga and Transits: Bindus, Contributors and the Kakshya
A planet passing a sign is read by its own bindus there, contributor by contributor, and Jataka Parijata goes one step finer: eight slices of 3°45′.
A Personal Muhurtha from Your Ashtakavarga: the Empty Month and the Study Month
Jataka Parijata reads two months of a person's own year from their ashtakavarga: one set aside, one for beginning study.
Saturn in Transit: Which Houses the Books Actually Support
Five houses from the Moon sign carry a Saturn name. One book uses the 12th, another the 1st and the 8th, and none names the 2nd or the 4th as a period.
How a Monthly Rasi Palan Is Built
One solar month, every planet counted from your Moon sign, a line for each area of life, your chandrashtamam and your good days.
Mid-Month Sign Changes: Why a Rasi Palan Says “From the 14th”
When a planet crosses into the next sign partway through the month, its house from your Moon sign changes, and so does its reading.
Why Chandrashtamam Times Differ Between Almanacs
Chandrashtamam starts and ends when the Moon changes sign, and drik and vakya reckoning put that moment hours apart. A measured example.
Your City’s Panchangam, Every Day
Many printed calendars are computed for one town. Nava Panchangam computes sunrise, sunset and the windows that depend on them, such as Rahu Kalam, for your city, with a choice of Vakya or Drik; a tithi’s ending instant is the same everywhere.
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