Sade Sati, Dhaiya, and Saturn Mahadasha for a Makara Moon

Natal Saturn is in some sign in the birth chart, ruling whatever houses the unknown lagna assigns. A Makara Moon does not tell you the lagna. The person may be Simha rising, with Saturn as yogakaraka, or Karka rising, with Saturn ruling the 7th and 8th. You cannot judge the mahadasha from the Moon sign alone. Sade Sati you can define from the Moon, because gochar uses the Moon. Dhaiya you can define the same way: Mesha is four signs from Makara, Simha is eight. When Saturn is in those signs, the shorter transit is on. This page does not say which sign Saturn occupies now. That is an ephemeris fact for the year you look up.

If the 19-year mahadasha is running while Saturn also transits Dhanu, Makara, or Kumbha, the person has natal Saturn's houses and the Moon-centered transit together. The transit stirs mind, family speech, and the body of the Moon sign. The mahadasha stirs Saturn's birth houses, which you learn only from the lagna. Doubling them is heavy. It is not automatically ruin. A yogakaraka Saturn's mahadasha during Sade Sati can be a slow career rise with a tired mind. A dusthana Saturn's mahadasha during the same sky is harsher. Find the lagna before you choose the sentence. The antardasha still changes the year inside the 19.

If the question meant Makara lagna rather than Makara Moon, Sade Sati is no longer 'about Makara' unless the Moon is also there. Makara lagna gives Saturn the 1st and the 2nd. The mahadasha is then the person and the treasury, for 19 years. Sade Sati still depends on the Moon. Do not answer a Moon question with a lagna's lordships, or the reverse. Saturday observances accompany Saturn. They do not switch the transit off or shorten the 19 years. The useful act is to separate the three Saturns and compute only the one you have data for.