Sade Sati is running · peak phase
Saturn is right over your Moon, in Meen: the peak phase. Then comes the last phase, through Mesh.
3 years 5 months to go · ends 17 April 2030
Also written Meena, Meenam. In Telugu, Sade Sati is Elinati Shani; in Tamil, Ezharai Shani.
The lord of Meen is Jupiter, which is neutral to Saturn, so tradition makes no strong call either way. For Meen, more than for most rashis, how Sade Sati goes depends on your own chart — the dasha you are running and where Saturn sits in it.
Counted from Meen, Saturn owns your 11th (income, gains and elder siblings) and your 12th (expenses, sleep, travel abroad and letting go). In each phase of Sade Sati it brings these matters with it.
Its drishti also reaches your 9th (father, fortune, faith and long journeys).
Its drishti also reaches your 3rd (courage, younger siblings and short journeys).
Rising phasedone
29 April 2022 – 29 March 2025
12th from your Moon · Saturn in Kumbh (Aquarius)
Money goes out faster, sleep gets lighter, and work may take you away from home.
What to doClear old debts; take no big new loan.
Saturn in its own sign: steadier
Peak phasenow
29 March 2025 – 23 February 2028
Over your Moon · Saturn in Meen (Pisces)
More responsibility, less help, and a mind that can feel heavy; also when lasting habits are built.
What to doGuard your sleep and routine; no big decisions in a low mood.
Saturn in a neutral sign
Setting phase
3 June 2027 – 17 April 2030
2nd from your Moon · Saturn in Mesh (Aries)
The pressure moves to the household: money needs managing, and words at home carry further.
What to doSave steadily, and speak with care at home.
Saturn at its weakest: the hardest stretch
Why two phases share dates: Saturn first moves into Mesh on 3 June 2027, turns back into Meen for a few months, and leaves Meen for good on 23 February 2028.
Saturn delays, it does not deny. The dates are Saturn’s position; what each phase brings is tradition’s reading, and your own chart decides how much of it is yours.
Four things in your own kundli decide how it goes.
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Not sure of your Moon rashi? Check your Sade Sati from your date of birth — free, in a minute.
Take the site’s sample kundli: born 15 July 1990, 2:30 PM, in Mumbai. The Moon is in Meen, so Sade Sati runs from 29 April 2022 to 17 April 2030, the same dates as for every Meen Moon. Four things make it this chart’s own.
Another Meen Moon shares these dates and almost none of the rest. Two Meen Moons are the same: the dates on this page are theirs alike, and what they bring is not.
The upay (remedies) families have kept through Sade Sati for generations. Free, and each with its reason.
Shani mantra · 108 times on Saturdays
ॐ शं शनैश्चराय नमः
Om Sham Shanaishcharaya Namah
Saturn’s short mantra, built on its seed syllable “Sham”. Saying it every week without fail is itself the discipline Saturn asks for.
Neelam (blue sapphire) is not a general Sade Sati remedy. It suits some charts and harms others, so wear it only after your own kundli has been checked.
For Meen in particular: Guru rules your Moon sign and is neutral towards Shani, so strengthening Guru keeps your judgement steady through Sade Sati: on Thursdays, the day tradition gives to Guru, recite the Brihaspati Kavach, Guru's hymn of protection, or chant Om Graam Greem Graum Sah Gurave Namah 108 times. On the same day, give chana dal and turmeric to a teacher or at a temple, the daan (charity) tradition sets for Guru.
Saturn in the 4th from the Moon is Kantaka Shani (in the south, Ardhashtama Shani), and in the 8th is Ashtama Shani: Dhaiyya, or Small Panoti, about two and a half years each. “Shani is on you” is said of all three, and which it is changes the dates completely. Neither is running for Meen today.
| Transit | Saturn is | In | Now | This or next window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kantaka Shani | 4th from Moon | Mithun (Gemini) | No | 31 May 2032 – 13 July 2034 |
| Ashtama Shani | 8th from Moon | Tula (Libra) | No | 28 January 2041 – 30 August 2044 |
Saturn takes about twenty-nine and a half years to go round, so Sade Sati comes back roughly that often: two or three times in a long life.
The wrong rashi. Sade Sati is counted from the Moon sign, not the Sun sign most people know; the two match for about one person in twelve. Find your Moon sign.
Sidereal, not tropical. Vedic dates use the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa, the Government of India standard. A site on tropical positions moves every date by about two years.
Two possible end dates. Saturn turns back into a sign it has left. These pages use first entry to final exit, the full span Saturn was there.
Three are in it at any time: the rashi Saturn is in, the one before and the one after. Two more are in a dhaiyya, Kantaka or Ashtama Shani, which is not Sade Sati; their tiles give that beside their next Sade Sati.
Also in this section: What a dosha is · Mangal dosha · Kal Sarpa Dosha · Shani gochar 2027 for Meen
Yes. It runs from 29 April 2022 to 17 April 2030, and it is in the peak phase now.
17 April 2030, when Saturn finally leaves Mesh (Aries), the 2nd from your Moon.
In this Sade Sati: Rising phase, Saturn in Kumbh (Aquarius): 29 April 2022 to 29 March 2025; Peak phase, Saturn in Meen (Pisces): 29 March 2025 to 23 February 2028; Setting phase, Saturn in Mesh (Aries): 3 June 2027 to 17 April 2030. Phases overlap where Saturn turns back into a sign it has left.
From 5 March 1993 to 7 June 2000, the one before this.
Dhaiyya, or Small Panoti, is Saturn in the 4th or 8th from the Moon, about two and a half years each. Kantaka Shani (4th from the Moon) comes next from 31 May 2032 to 13 July 2034; Ashtama Shani (8th from the Moon) comes next from 28 January 2041 to 30 August 2044.
Not by itself. Meen’s lord, Jupiter, is neutral to Saturn, so for Meen your own chart, above all the dasha you are running, decides how it goes.
The ones tradition keeps coming back to are free: the Shani mantra on Saturdays, Hanuman Chalisa on Tuesdays and Saturdays, seva for workers and the elderly, and a mustard-oil diya under a pipal. Neelam is not a general remedy; wear it only after your own chart has been checked.
The Telugu name for Sade Sati; in Tamil it is Ezharai Shani. Both mean “Saturn’s seven and a half”. Same transit, same dates as on this page.
The Moon sign. Most people know their Sun sign, and the two match for about one person in twelve, so looking it up under a Sun sign usually gives another rashi’s dates.
The dates are the same for everyone of your rashi. What they bring is not, and that is a conversation about your whole chart.
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