Every Shani Sade Sati in your life, with exact start and end dates and its three phases — plus Shani Dhaiya.
Sade Sati is the roughly 7½-year period when Saturn moves through the sign before your Moon sign, your Moon sign, and the sign after it. This calculator finds your Moon sign with the Swiss Ephemeris and Lahiri ayanamsa, then lists every Sade Sati from a sidereal Saturn table computed day by day for 1930–2080. It runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
Sade sati means “seven and a half”. Saturn spends about two and a half years in each sign, so its passage through three signs around your Moon takes about seven and a half years. The Moon stands for the mind in Vedic astrology, and Saturn for pressure, delay and responsibility — so this is read as a stretch when life asks more of you and gives results more slowly.
| Phase | Saturn in | Traditional reading |
|---|---|---|
| First (rising) | 12th from Moon | Expenses, restlessness, distance from home or comfort |
| Second (peak) | Moon sign itself | Heaviest mental pressure; health and self-discipline need attention |
| Third (setting) | 2nd from Moon | Family and money matters; the pressure eases toward the end |
Saturn entered sidereal Pisces on 29 March 2025. It touches Aries briefly from 3 June to 20 October 2027 and moves into Aries for good on 23 February 2028. Dates below come from the same table the calculator uses.
| Moon sign | Status in 2026 | Sade Sati dates |
|---|---|---|
| Aquarius (Kumbh) | Last phase | 24 Jan 2020 – 23 Feb 2028 |
| Pisces (Meen) | Peak phase | 29 Apr 2022 – 17 Apr 2030 |
| Aries (Mesh) | First phase | 29 Mar 2025 – 31 May 2032 |
| Leo, Sagittarius | Shani Dhaiya (8th / 4th) | While Saturn is in Pisces |
When Saturn moves through the 4th sign from your Moon (Kantak Shani) or the 8th (Ashtam Shani), the roughly two-and-a-half-year stretch is called Dhaiya. It is read as a smaller dose of Sade Sati’s pressure. The calculator lists these periods too.
Saturn delays; it rarely denies. Marriages do happen in Sade Sati, often with more family involvement or responsibility attached. For your actual marriage window, the dasha periods matter far more than Saturn’s transit — see when will I get married.
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About seven and a half years when Saturn moves through the sign before your Moon sign, your Moon sign, and the sign after it.
Aries (first phase), Pisces (peak) and Aquarius (last phase). Leo and Sagittarius have Shani Dhaiya.
No. It is pressure and slower results, not guaranteed misfortune. Your own chart and dasha decide how it plays out.
The Moon sign (rashi), in the sidereal zodiac.
Different ayanamsas and whether Saturn’s retrograde dips are counted. This calculator uses Lahiri ayanamsa and counts a Sade Sati from Saturn’s first entry into the 12th sign to its final exit from the 2nd.
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