Every Sade Sati period, 1950-2050

How to read this table

Find your janma rashi - the sign the Moon occupied when you were born, sometimes called the chandra rashi. It is the sign on your kundli, and it is not your sun sign. If you do not know it, the Sade Sati calculator will work it out from your birth date and give you your own periods directly.

Sade Sati runs while Saturn transits the twelfth, first and second signs counted from the natal Moon. The doctrine is from Phaladeepika 26.1. Because it spans three signs at roughly 29 months each, the period lasts about seven and a half years - which is where the name comes from, and why the computed mean below is close to but not exactly that.

What the computed figures show

Summary across all twelve rashis, 1950-2050

Measure	Computed	Commonly quoted
Full periods	44	-
Retrograde fragments	44	Usually omitted
Mean duration, full periods	6.7 years	7.5 years
Shortest full period	2.15 years	-
Longest full period	8.21 years	-
Saturn's orbital period	29.46 years	30 years

The gap between the computed mean and the folk figure is not an error in either. Seven and a half is the name of the thing, taken from three signs at two and a half years each. The computed mean is what Saturn actually does, and it comes out slightly lower because the planet does not travel at a constant apparent speed. We publish the computed figure because rounding to the name would be reporting the label rather than the sky.

The mean above counts full periods only. A retrograde fragment - Saturn clipping the edge of the three-sign span for a few weeks before turning back - is a real event and appears in the tables below, but averaging a three-week fragment alongside a seven-year period would halve the mean and describe nothing that happens to anybody. Anything under two years is treated as a fragment, since a passage through three signs at roughly 29 months each cannot be shorter than that.

Mesha मेष

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Mesha

Begins	Ends	Duration
8 April 1966	3 November 1966	0.57 years
19 December 1966	10 June 1973	6.47 years
2 June 1995	9 August 1995	0.19 years
16 February 1996	23 July 2002	6.43 years
8 January 2003	7 April 2003	0.24 years
29 March 2025	30 May 2032	7.17 years (running now)

Vrishabha वृषभ

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Vrishabha

Begins	Ends	Duration
17 June 1968	28 September 1968	0.28 years
7 March 1969	23 July 1975	6.38 years
17 April 1998	5 September 2004	6.39 years
13 January 2005	26 May 2005	0.36 years
2 June 2027	20 October 2027	0.38 years
23 February 2028	12 July 2034	6.38 years

Mithuna मिथुन

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Mithuna

Begins	Ends	Duration
28 April 1971	7 September 1977	6.36 years
6 June 2000	1 November 2006	6.4 years
10 January 2007	15 July 2007	0.51 years
8 August 2029	5 October 2029	0.16 years
17 April 2030	27 August 2036	6.36 years

Karka कर्क

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Karka

Begins	Ends	Duration
26 July 1948	19 September 1950	2.15 years
10 June 1973	3 November 1979	6.4 years
15 March 1980	27 July 1980	0.37 years
23 July 2002	8 January 2003	0.46 years
7 April 2003	9 September 2009	6.43 years
30 May 2032	22 October 2038	6.39 years
5 April 2039	12 July 2039	0.27 years

Simha सिंह

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Simha

Begins	Ends	Duration
26 July 1948	25 November 1952	4.33 years
24 April 1953	21 August 1953	0.33 years
23 July 1975	6 October 1982	7.21 years
5 September 2004	13 January 2005	0.35 years
26 May 2005	15 November 2011	6.47 years
16 May 2012	3 August 2012	0.22 years
12 July 2034	27 January 2041	6.55 years
6 February 2041	26 September 2041	0.63 years

Kanya कन्या

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Kanya

Begins	Ends	Duration
26 July 1948	12 November 1955	7.3 years
7 September 1977	21 December 1984	7.29 years
31 May 1985	16 September 1985	0.3 years
1 November 2006	10 January 2007	0.19 years
15 July 2007	2 November 2014	7.3 years
27 August 2036	11 December 2043	7.29 years
23 June 2044	29 August 2044	0.19 years

Tula तुला

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Tula

Begins	Ends	Duration
19 September 1950	8 February 1958	7.39 years
2 June 1958	7 November 1958	0.43 years
3 November 1979	15 March 1980	0.36 years
27 July 1980	16 December 1987	7.39 years
9 September 2009	26 January 2017	7.38 years
20 June 2017	26 October 2017	0.35 years
22 October 2038	5 April 2039	0.45 years
12 July 2039	7 December 2046	7.41 years

Vrishchika वृश्चिक

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Vrishchika

Begins	Ends	Duration
25 November 1952	24 April 1953	0.41 years
21 August 1953	1 February 1961	7.45 years
17 September 1961	7 October 1961	0.05 years
6 October 1982	20 March 1990	7.45 years
20 June 1990	14 December 1990	0.48 years
15 November 2011	16 May 2012	0.5 years
3 August 2012	24 January 2020	7.47 years
27 January 2041	6 February 2041	0.03 years
26 September 2041	6 March 2049	7.44 years
9 July 2049	4 December 2049	0.4 years

Dhanu धनु

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Dhanu

Begins	Ends	Duration
12 November 1955	27 January 1964	8.21 years
21 December 1984	31 May 1985	0.44 years
16 September 1985	5 March 1993	7.46 years
15 October 1993	9 November 1993	0.07 years
2 November 2014	29 April 2022	7.49 years
12 July 2022	17 January 2023	0.52 years
11 December 2043	23 June 2044	0.53 years
29 August 2044	24 February 2052	7.49 years

Makara मकर

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Makara

Begins	Ends	Duration
8 February 1958	2 June 1958	0.31 years
7 November 1958	8 April 1966	7.42 years
3 November 1966	19 December 1966	0.13 years
16 December 1987	2 June 1995	7.46 years
9 August 1995	16 February 1996	0.52 years
26 January 2017	20 June 2017	0.4 years
26 October 2017	29 March 2025	7.42 years
7 December 2046	24 February 2052	5.22 years

Kumbha कुम्भ

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Kumbha

Begins	Ends	Duration
1 February 1961	17 September 1961	0.62 years
7 October 1961	17 June 1968	6.69 years
28 September 1968	7 March 1969	0.44 years
20 March 1990	20 June 1990	0.25 years
14 December 1990	17 April 1998	7.34 years
24 January 2020	2 June 2027	7.36 years (running now)
20 October 2027	23 February 2028	0.35 years
6 March 2049	9 July 2049	0.34 years
4 December 2049	24 February 2052	2.23 years

Meena मीन

Sade Sati periods for Moon in Meena

Begins	Ends	Duration
27 January 1964	28 April 1971	7.25 years
5 March 1993	15 October 1993	0.61 years
9 November 1993	6 June 2000	6.57 years
29 April 2022	12 July 2022	0.2 years
17 January 2023	8 August 2029	6.56 years (running now)
5 October 2029	17 April 2030	0.53 years

How these dates were computed

Saturn's sign ingresses come from NASA JPL DE440s ephemeris data. Tropical longitudes are reduced to sidereal signs using the Lahiri ayanamsa, the standard adopted by the Indian Calendar Reform Committee and used by the Rashtriya Panchang. For each rashi, the periods are the spans during which Saturn occupies the twelfth, first or second sign counted from it.

Where Saturn turns retrograde and leaves one of those three signs before re-entering, that is reported as two periods rather than one. Most published tables merge them, which produces a tidier table and a less accurate one. A devotee whose Sade Sati genuinely paused and resumed is better served by seeing that than by seeing a smooth block that did not happen.

Dates are given in UTC. For observances that depend on lunar timing rather than Saturn's position - Amavasya, for instance - check a panchang computed for your own city, because an astronomical instant does not respect calendar days.

Sources

• Planetary positions: NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics, DE440s ephemeris. Saturn's mean sidereal period 10,759.22 days.
• Sade Sati doctrine - Saturn in the 12th, 1st and 2nd from the natal Moon: Mantreswara, Phaladeepika, chapter 26 verse 1.
• Sidereal reduction: Lahiri ayanamsa, Indian Calendar Reform Committee.

Using this table elsewhere

This data is published under CC BY 4.0. You may reproduce it with attribution. We would rather the figures circulated correctly with a link back than that another rounded table circulated without one.

For your own dates rather than the whole table, the Sade Sati calculator answers from your Moon rashi or birth date. For the Western reckoning measured from natal Saturn instead of the natal Moon, see the Saturn return calculator and why the two give different dates.