Antardasha 1 of 9 in Venus mahadasha · 3 yrs 4 mo
Venus-Venus antardasha शुक्र-शुक्र अंतर्दशा
Venus-Venus opens the mahadasha and lasts three years and four months, the most concentrated stretch of the entire period. Tradition expects relationships, comfort, and aesthetics to come forward together: marriage or a serious partnership, purchase of a home or vehicle, new clothing and ornaments, and a taste for music and good company. Income improves through cooperation. The classical caution is indulgence, since everything pleasant arrives at once.
- Length
- 3 yrs 4 mo
- Position
- 1 of 9 in Venus
- Natural relation
- Venus is the same planet
The mahadasha behind it
Venus mahadasha is the longest period in the cycle, twenty years that tradition associates with relationships, comfort, the arts, and material consolidation. It follows the sparse Ketu period and is usually felt as a return to the world. Classical texts read a well-placed Venus as one of the most pleasant dashas, though a weak or afflicted Venus can bring indulgence and relationship strain instead. Read the full Venus mahadasha.
What Venus adds as sub-lord
Venus mahadasha is the longest period in the cycle, twenty years that tradition associates with relationships, comfort, the arts, and material consolidation. It follows the sparse Ketu period and is usually felt as a return to the world. Classical texts read a well-placed Venus as one of the most pleasant dashas, though a weak or afflicted Venus can bring indulgence and relationship strain instead. As an antardasha lord it colours the mahadasha's agenda rather than replacing it: the houses Venus owns and occupies in the birth chart become the stage for Venus's themes for 3 yrs 4 mo. See Venus as a mahadasha.
How the length is computed
Venus runs 20 years and Venus runs 20 years in the 120-year cycle, so Venus-Venus lasts 20 × 20 ÷ 120 = 3.333 years, about 3 yrs 4 mo. The exact calendar boundaries depend on the Moon's degree at birth; the free kundli lists them.