Mahadashas

Moon mahadasha (10 years)

The Moon's ten-year period turns life towards feelings, home, mother, the public and change. Circumstances move more than in other periods: residences, moods, people around. A bright, strong Moon makes it nourishing; a weak or afflicted one asks for emotional care.

JyotiSoft editorial team · dates checked by calculation

Length	10 years
Place in the cycle	4 of 9
Comes after	Sun mahadasha
Comes before	Mars mahadasha
Opens a life born in	Rohini, Hasta, Shravana

The nine antardashas

Mahadasha / antardasha	Length
Moon / Moon	10 m
Moon / Mars	7 m
Moon / Rahu	1 y 6 m
Moon / Jupiter	1 y 4 m
Moon / Saturn	1 y 7 m
Moon / Mercury	1 y 5 m
Moon / Ketu	7 m
Moon / Venus	1 y 8 m
Moon / Sun	6 m

Lengths from the JyotiSoft engine's Vimshottari timeline (sidereal year). Months and days are twelfths and thirtieths of the dasha year, as dasha tables write them; the exact dates in your chart depend on the Moon's degree at birth.

What the period is about

The Moon is the manas, the mind, and it signifies the mother, nourishment, water, travel, the public and popularity. Its dasha often brings changes of residence, attention to family, new emotional bonds and work with people. Professions in care, hospitality, food, nursing, psychology and public relations tend to come forward.

What decides the results

The Moon's phase matters as much as its sign: a waxing, bright Moon is a natural benefic; a dark Moon near the new Moon is weaker. It is exalted in Taurus, at home in Cancer and debilitated in Scorpio. Its house shows where the decade's feelings gather. For Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces ascendants the Moon rules a trine and supports; for Leo and Aquarius it rules difficult houses.

The antardashas

Moon/Moon opens with about ten months. Moon/Venus is the longest sub-period, and Moon/Saturn and Moon/Rahu come close, each about a year and a half. Rahu and the Moon are traditional rivals, and the first can bring restlessness and strong desires; Saturn's sub-period can bring responsibility and seriousness. Moon/Jupiter and Moon/Venus are usually gentler, bringing family events, growth and comfort.

Living it well

Emotional hygiene is the theme: sleep, rhythm, people who calm rather than agitate, time near water or in nature. Care for the mother or mother figures often becomes part of the period. Traditional remedies include Monday fasting and Shiva worship; the tradition gives a pearl when the whole chart supports it.

Questions

How long is Moon mahadasha?

Ten years in the Vimshottari system.

Does Moon mahadasha bring a change of residence?

It often does, because the Moon rules movement and the home. The house the Moon occupies and its antardashas refine the timing.

Why does the Moon's phase matter in its dasha?

A bright Moon near full is a strong natural benefic; a dark Moon near the new Moon gives the same themes with less support.

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