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Transits Are Judged from the Moon. Dashas Stay Natal
A planetary transit, gochar, is the moving sky judged mainly from the natal Moon, not from the Sun sign of the birthday month. Saturn spends on the order of two and a half years in a sign, Jupiter about a year, and Rahu, whose mean motion is backward, about a year and a half. Sade Sati is the special Saturn transit of the 12th, 1st, and 2nd from the Moon. These clocks trigger houses. The natal Vimshottari dasha decides whether the house had a promise to trigger.
Why the Moon is the transit lagna
Ordinary gochar counts signs from Chandra rashi. Saturn entering the 10th from the Moon pressures rank as the mind experiences it. Jupiter entering the 11th from the Moon is the classical year of gains in that lunar count. The lagna's 10th may be a different sign, so a career transit and a lunar transit can disagree. Both are real. The mistake is to count from the Sun, which is what a monthly rashifal does when it only knows a birth month. The Moon changes sign every two and a half days. A transit column that never asks for the Moon is aimed at a twelfth of the sky and hopes you are in it.
Slow grahas do the lasting triggering
Saturn's two and a half years on a house are long enough to be a chapter. Jupiter's year is a season of support or of excess, according to the natal house he is crossing. Mars stays weeks to a couple of months and is used for sharper triggers, not for a life story. The Sun's monthly move is too fast to be a mahadasha and too slow to be a tithi. Retrograde motion, especially Saturn's vakri months, makes a transit revisit degrees it already crossed. It does not create a second Sade Sati. Sade Sati remains the three signs from the Moon, about seven and a half years in total, whatever the stations inside it.
Dasha first, transit second
A Jupiter transit over the 7th during a 6th-lord antardasha can bring a meeting that the period cannot marry. The same transit during the 7th lord's antardasha can mark the wedding. The product of the dasha years divided by 120 still fixes the sub-period. Jyothish SI computes the natal Moon with Lahiri ayanamsa so gochar has a real starting sign. Paid plans can add WhatsApp transit alerts. The alert is a sky event. The kundli is the promise. Read them in that order, and do not let a transit date, which this page does not invent, pretend to be a birth yog.
Frequently asked questions
From which point is gochar counted?
From the natal Moon for the usual transit reading. The lagna's houses are a second count. The birthday month's Sun is not the transit lagna.
How long does Saturn stay in a sign?
On the order of two and a half years. Jupiter stays about a year. Sade Sati, three signs from the Moon, is about seven and a half years.
Can a transit overrule the dasha?
It triggers. The natal mahadasha and antardasha decide whether the house was promised. A beautiful transit in a hostile sub-period stays limited.
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