posted May 09, 2009 05:16 AM            

The major periods are called "Maha Dasha".

If you have an afflicted Moon in the Tropical or Sidereal chart, and you are going to start your Moon Mahadasha, then many ups and downs will occur for a period of 10 years.

Some people seem to have bad luck for 7 years, they have afflicted Sun or South Node [Ketu in Vedic] or Mars, their periods are 7 years respectively. Mars is 6. This is where the 7 years of bad luck comes from, 3/9 planets have a near 7 year cycle and are easy to observe.

Many celebrities have nearly 2 decades of superb careers, these are on a Venus MahaDasha of 20 years after then end of their teenage life.

These major periods are subdivided into 9 periods of minor dashas, again following the ratio 7:20:7:10:6:18:16:19:17.

The subdivision is called Dasha. Dasha is further subdivided into periods that last just weeks and this is called Antar-Dasha.

Why am I boring you all with this terminology?

It is because on Nov 28 2008, my family was flooded out of our home and we escaped to the main road in a makeshift dinghy. None of us had malefic transits, just a few challenging ones. None were common. Yet all 4 of us were afflicted. Something common was manifesting all the tropical chart challenges into one major event.

This was the only day for many decades where all 4 of us [me, wife and two babies] were in the Saturn Sub Division of a Dasha (even though Mahadashas and Dashas were different.)

A major activation of Group Karma.

I was later able to reuse this knowledge for precise birth time rectification, upto the minute of birth.

This knowledge is the key to fine tuning predictive astrology even though Vedics use Sidereal Chart. Sidereal Vedic astrology seems not to have too much value in Psychological Astrology but in accurate life cycle discovery, from which we can apply tropical chart transits or progressions.

posted May 09, 2009 05:39 AM            

Always had an interest in Vedic, but never needed it. Will look into it someday though.

Should have taken pics in your dinghy!

posted May 11, 2009 04:49 AM            

Let me explain. [pls do not hate me for writing the complicated theory...]

Vedic Astrology calculates the Moon Sign according to its Nakshatra or Lunar Mansion.
27 such mansions are split into 9 groups for the 9 Vedic planetary bodies.

There is a table that shows which Nakshatra will have a starting Mahadasha (in wikipedia, just look yo Mahadasha and Nakshatra).

The distance travlled by the Moon in its Nakshatra is calculated as a percenatge of time elapsed in that startup Mahadasha, and then the subsequent Mahadashas occur.

Example: I have Sidereal Moon in Hasta Nakshatra at 13.04 degrees Virgo.

Hasta starts with Moon Mahadasha.

Hasta covers 10 Virgo to 23.4 Virgo.

Percentage Elapsed = 3.04/13.4 = 22%

Moon Mahadasha = 10 years.

Total elasped = 22% of 10 years = 2.2 years.

Hence, I will have 7.8 years of Moon Mahadasha and then Mars Mahadasha for 6 years and then suffer Rahu Mahadasha for 18 more years till I am nearly 32.

Within the Moon Mahadasha, there will be dashas starting from Moon and ending with Sun. These dashas are fine tuned into smaller antardasdhas. You will have many same antardashas repeating in one dasha.
But evry mahadasha willk have only one dasha per planetary body.