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Ketu Mahadasha, Shani Antardasha
Shani antardasha in Ketu mahadasha runs 1 year 1 month 9 days. It is the eighth of the nine and begins 4 years 10 months 24 days after the mahadasha starts.
How long it runs
Ketu’s 7 years × Shani’s 19 years ÷ 120
1 year 1 month 9 days · 405 days
Guru antardasha comes before it, and Budh antardasha after it.
How the two grahas get on
Ketu and Shani are neither friends nor enemies to each other (neutral). That natural relationship is where reading a Ketu–Shani period starts; where Ketu and Shani sit in your kundli decides what it brings. Texts differ on the friendships of Rahu and Ketu; this is the table the kundli here uses.
Shani antardasha adds
hard work, duty and delay
What it touches in life
Ketu–Shani area by area, in plain words, from Parashara’s verses set out below
| Area | What the verses give |
|---|---|
| Work and standing | When it goes well: success in all ventures, happiness from one's employer, and an audience with those in power; when it is hard: leaving one's post, obstacles in ventures and a damaged reputation. |
| Money and property | When it goes well: growing property; when it is hard: loss of wealth through government fines. |
| Family | When it is hard: distress to relatives and the death of parents. |
| Health | When it is hard: distress, anguish, lethargy, physical distress, and danger of untimely death. |
| Faith and journeys | When it is hard: journeys to foreign lands. |
What Parashara says
Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 59, verses 61–68
Parashara reads Shani’s antardasha in Ketu’s mahadasha by where Shani sits, counted from the lagna and from Ketu, and by what it rules; your kundli shows which line is yours, and though the text speaks of a man, its results apply to anyone.
When it goes well
- When Shani (Saturn) is in a trikona (the 1st, 5th or 9th house) in Meen (Pisces) or Tula (Libra), or in his own sign, or in an auspicious navamsa (the ninth-division chart), or is joined by a benefic graha in a kendra (the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house), a trikona or the 3rd house, BPHS gives success in all ventures, happiness from one's employer, comfortable journeys, growing happiness and property in one's home town, and an audience with those in power.BPHS 59.63–65
When it is hard
- When Shani (Saturn) lacks strength and dignity, being weak and poorly placed by sign, BPHS warns of distress for oneself and relatives, anguish, loss of wealth through fines imposed by government, leaving one's present post, journeys to foreign lands, and danger of theft while travelling. It also lists an increase in livestock.BPHS 59.61–62½
- When Shani (Saturn) is in the 8th or 12th house, BPHS warns of loss of wealth and lethargy.BPHS 59.62½
- When Shani (Saturn) is joined by a malefic graha in the 6th, 8th or 12th, counted from Ketu, the mahadasha lord, BPHS warns of physical distress, anguish, obstacles in ventures, lethargy and a damaged reputation, and it names the death of parents among its cautions.BPHS 59.67–68
Parashara’s remedy
For relief, BPHS prescribes a havan (fire offering) with sesame seeds (til) and giving a black cow or a female buffalo in charity.
BPHS 59.68A caution: When Shani rules your 2nd or 7th house, BPHS counts this a maraka period (one the texts link with danger to life). It warns of the danger of an untimely death and asks for care with health. BPHS 59.68
Ketu–Shani for your lagna
What Shani is for each lagna, as Parashara lists it; Ketu follows the lord of its rashi
The labels, from Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 34:
- Yogakaraka: the strongest graha a lagna can have: the one Parashara names as bringing yoga, or the one lord of both a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) and a trikona (1st, 5th, 9th) (34.13)
- Benefic, Malefic, Neutral: works for the lagna; brings its harder matters; neither
- Lagna lord: the lagna’s own graha, where the verse calls it neither good nor hard
- Maraka: a killer Parashara names for the lagna, watched for health and longevity; printed alone, or after another label. It is not always the lord of the 2nd or 7th: where it differs, the line under it gives the verse
- · Yoga: one of two grahas he says give yoga together for this lagna
| Lagna | Shani is (lord of) |
|---|---|
| Mesh (Aries) | Malefic 10th and 11th |
| Vrishabh (Taurus) | Yogakaraka 9th and 10th |
| Mithun (Gemini) | Neutral 8th and 9th |
| Kark (Cancer) | Maraka 7th and 8th |
| Singh (Leo) | Malefic · Maraka 6th and 7th |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Neutral 5th and 6th |
| Tula (Libra) | Yogakaraka 4th and 5th |
| Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Malefic 3rd and 4th |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Maraka 2nd and 3rd |
| Makar (Capricorn) | Neutral— the lagna lord; not a killer on his own, the verse says (34.39) 1st and 2nd |
| Kumbh (Aquarius) | Benefic— the lagna lord, and one the verse itself names auspicious for Kumbh (34.41) 1st and 12th |
| Meen (Pisces) | Malefic · Maraka— lord of the 11th and 12th, not the 2nd or 7th; the verse names it a killer all the same (34.43–44) 11th and 12th |
Ketu rules no house, so no lagna makes it good or bad by lordship: it gives the results of the house it sits in and of the lord of that rashi. Ketu in each house shows how.
Read on a real kundli
One kundli that meets Ketu–Shani at 72, read the way the report reads yours
From the Janam Kundli report
Ketu mahadasha Mixed
Ketu sits in your 12th house: this period brings its matters forward — spending, sleep, foreign places, and what is given away. A node gives the results of the lord of its sign: here Mangal, which rules your 5th house and 12th house and sits in your 11th house. Mixed — its sign's lord well placed; on the other side: a difficult house.
Shani antardasha Care
In this kundli it runs 15 July 2056 – 24 August 2057, from the age of 72 to 73. Its length here can differ from the one above by a day, because each kundli’s dates round to the day.
Shani: rules your 2nd house and 3rd house, sits in your 11th house. It brings the money at hand, the family, and speech; effort, courage, younger siblings and short journeys. Go carefully — at a hard angle from Ketu, short of Shadbala and debilitated in the navamsa; on the other side: a house of wealth or gain and strong in its sign.
Shadbala: the six-fold measure of a graha’s strength the report computes; “short of Shadbala” means below the strength the texts ask of it. Navamsa: the ninth-division chart, read for a graha’s inner strength. Debilitated: in its sign of fall, where a graha is weakest.
Its nine pratyantars
Ketu–Shani divides into nine pratyantars from Shani’s own on. Each length is counted between the dates beside it, and comes out the same in any kundli give or take a day; the dates and readings are this one’s.
| Pratyantar | Length | In this kundli | The report reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shani | 2 months 2 days | 15 July 2056 – 17 September 2056 | Mixed |
| Budh | 1 month 27 days | 17 September 2056 – 13 November 2056 | Mixed |
| Ketu | 24 days | 13 November 2056 – 7 December 2056 | Mixed |
| Shukra | 2 months 6 days | 7 December 2056 – 13 February 2057 | Mixed |
| Surya | 20 days | 13 February 2057 – 5 March 2057 | Mixed |
| Chandra | 1 month 2 days | 5 March 2057 – 7 April 2057 | Mixed |
| Mangal | 24 days | 7 April 2057 – 1 May 2057 | Opens |
| Rahu | 2 months | 1 May 2057 – 1 July 2057 | Care |
| Guru | 1 month 23 days | 1 July 2057 – 24 August 2057 | Mixed |
The dasha calculator finds your own Ketu–Shani dates free, and the Janam Kundli report reads your antardashas this way, with the pratyantars of the one you are in.
Upay in Ketu–Shani
Suggestions for Shani’s months, which your kundli confirms
For this pair
Parashara gives Ketu–Shani a remedy of its own (BPHS 59.68), set out above under “Parashara’s remedy”; it comes first.
Shani’s beej mantra and daan
ॐ प्रां प्रीं प्रौं सः शनैश्चराय नमः
Daan: black sesame and iron, on Saturday
Every Shani upay
What helps and what to keep clear of in any Shani period: Shani mahadasha. Its vrat, ratna, stotra and puja: Shani upay.
Shani antardasha in the other mahadashas
Common questions
How long is Ketu mahadasha Shani antardasha?
1 year 1 month 9 days (405 days): Ketu’s 7 years × Shani’s 19 years ÷ 120. It begins 4 years 10 months 24 days after a Ketu mahadasha starts.
Is Ketu mahadasha Shani antardasha good or bad?
Not in advance: it turns on your lagna and on where Ketu and Shani sit in your kundli. Ketu has no lagna of its own to be good or bad for; it gives the results of the lord of the rashi it sits in. Shani is favourable for Vrishabh (Taurus), Tula (Libra), Kumbh (Aquarius) lagna. Shani is hard for Mesh (Aries), Kark (Cancer), Singh (Leo), Vrishchik (Scorpio), Dhanu (Sagittarius), Meen (Pisces) lagna. By nature the two are neither friends nor enemies. On the Dhanu lagna kundli above, the Janam Kundli report reads it as “Care”, as its chip above says.
What are the pratyantars of Ketu mahadasha Shani antardasha?
Nine, in the order Shani, Budh, Ketu, Shukra, Surya, Chandra, Mangal, Rahu, Guru. Each is Ketu–Shani’s length × the pratyantar lord’s years ÷ 120, so the longest is Shukra’s, about 2 months 6 days, and the shortest Surya’s, about 20 days.
What upay helps in Shani antardasha?
Parashara gives this antardasha a remedy of its own (BPHS 59.68), set out above under “Parashara’s remedy”. The Shani beej mantra, Om Praam Preem Praum Sah Shanaishcharaya Namah, and a daan of black sesame and iron on Saturday are the everyday upay for Ketu–Shani, where your kundli shows the need.
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