Difficult Transits and the Dasha

Transit means a graha has moved into a sidereal sign and is visiting houses counted from the birth Moon, or sometimes from the lagna. Saturn's famous Sade Sati is the transit over the twelfth, first, and second from that Moon: loss and foreign themes in the twelfth, the self in the first, wealth and speech in the second. The visit is real and temporary. It does not cancel a Jupiter mahadasha of 16 years if Jupiter is the one actually ruling the life. People feel the visitor more when the dasha lord agrees with it.

You cannot remedy Saturn out of a sign. You can read which natal house is being activated and behave accordingly. If the transit stirs the sixth house of conflict and debt, do not start a quarrel to prove you are unafraid. If it stirs the fourth house of home, tend the house. Charity and conduct follow the graha, modestly. They do not include a rite against another person. They do not include a medical promise. Lahiri sidereal signs are the signs being transited. A tropical transit column is often one sign early.

This page does not say where Saturn or Rahu is today, and it does not give a degree. Those facts change and would become a dated column. The rule stays: name the natal Moon sign, count the transit house, then ask whether the Vimshottari lord is friend or stranger to that weather. Jyothish SI can calculate the natal chart. The transit is a second step, always smaller than the dasha.