Lahiri ayanamsa · Whole Sign houses · Node type: Mean node
Ascendant basis: our Lagna follows a slightly different convention from Drik's, agreeing within about 0.3 degrees. A birth very close to a sign boundary can show a different rising sign. Planets and Panchang elements agree to under one arc-minute.
Dasha timing: our Vimshottari Dasha period boundaries agree with Drik's within a few days, not to the exact day. This comes from two documented sources: a tiny difference in the birth Moon's measured position that compounds across the full 120 year cycle, and a different classical year length the two engines use to lengthen each period (we use 365.25 days, Drik uses the sidereal year of about 365.256 days).
Cross-check these values against Drik Panchang for the same date, time, and place.
Sade Sati is a roughly seven-and-a-half-year Saturn transit cycle, read against your Moon sign, that traditional Vedic astrology uses as a longer-stretch timing framework. This calculator checks whether you are currently in a Sade Sati cycle and, if so, which traditional phase you are in, along with the full timeline of phase transitions across your life.
Your birth details are sent to VedicShala's astrology calculation provider, which computes your Moon sign and Saturn's current transiting position, and checks whether Saturn is currently moving through the sign before your Moon sign, your Moon sign itself, or the sign after it, the three-sign span that defines a Sade Sati cycle. If Saturn falls within that span, the cycle is currently active, and the calculator reports which of the three traditional phases (rising, peak, or setting) you are currently in. The full sequence of phase transitions across your life is available in an expandable timeline, a plain dated list of traditional phase labels.
This is a well-documented chart pattern that traditional astrology has read for centuries. It is a traditional factor to understand and plan around, not a curse, and it is taught here the same way every other chart factor on this site is taught: state the placement plainly, explain what the tradition says, and leave the interpretation to you.
If your Moon sign is Libra and Saturn is currently transiting Virgo, the sign just before Libra, you are currently in the rising phase of a Sade Sati cycle. As Saturn moves into Libra itself, the cycle would move into its peak phase, and once Saturn moves into Scorpio, the sign after Libra, it would move into its setting phase.
Enter your date, time, and place of birth into the form above. Your birth details are sent to our astrology calculation provider so it can compute your Moon sign and the current transit comparison; the provider discards those details afterward and we do not store them unless you choose to save the result to a free VedicShala account.
Sade Sati is a traditional timing framework describing a stretch of years read through Saturn's themes, not a forecast of specific events. Different traditional readers place different weight on each phase, and the same cycle plays out differently across different charts. Treat this result as a structure to understand your own chart by, not a schedule of what is to come.