Antardasha 1 of 9 in Mercury mahadasha · 2 yrs 4 mo
Mercury-Mercury antardasha बुध-बुध अंतर्दशा
Mercury-Mercury opens the mahadasha and lasts about two years, four months, and twenty-seven days. It is the most concentrated stretch, when Mercury's themes arrive undiluted: study, trade, writing, travel, and a sudden widening of contacts after Saturn. Tradition expects examinations passed or new qualifications, business started or expanded, and gains through friends and younger relatives. Nervous restlessness and over-commitment are the listed cautions. The pace set here persists.
- Length
- 2 yrs 4 mo
- Position
- 1 of 9 in Mercury
- Natural relation
- Mercury is the same planet
The mahadasha behind it
Mercury mahadasha is a seventeen year period that tradition associates with intellect, communication, commerce, learning, and adaptability. After the heavy Saturn period it feels lighter, quicker, and more social. Classical texts read a strong Mercury as bringing success in trade, writing, and study, and a wide network of useful contacts, while a weak or afflicted Mercury brings nervous strain, scattered effort, and losses through miscommunication. Read the full Mercury mahadasha.
What Mercury adds as sub-lord
Mercury mahadasha is a seventeen year period that tradition associates with intellect, communication, commerce, learning, and adaptability. After the heavy Saturn period it feels lighter, quicker, and more social. Classical texts read a strong Mercury as bringing success in trade, writing, and study, and a wide network of useful contacts, while a weak or afflicted Mercury brings nervous strain, scattered effort, and losses through miscommunication. As an antardasha lord it colours the mahadasha's agenda rather than replacing it: the houses Mercury owns and occupies in the birth chart become the stage for Mercury's themes for 2 yrs 4 mo. See Mercury as a mahadasha.
How the length is computed
Mercury runs 17 years and Mercury runs 17 years in the 120-year cycle, so Mercury-Mercury lasts 17 × 17 ÷ 120 = 2.408 years, about 2 yrs 4 mo. The exact calendar boundaries depend on the Moon's degree at birth; the free kundli lists them.