Sade Sati Calculator
— 7.5 years of Saturn over your Moon
The most famous transit in Vedic astrology. Saturn moves through the sign before your Moon, the Moon's own sign, and the sign after — three phases of 2.5 years each. With Saturn in sidereal Pisces until June 2027, the Aquarius, Pisces and Aries moon signs are in Sade Sati right now. A period of hard lessons, but also of structural growth and the maturing of the soul.
The three phases of Sade Sati
Each lasts about 2.5 years and brings its own theme.
Phase 1: Saturn in the 12th from the Moon
~2.5 yearsThe entry phase. Saturn touches the house of the subconscious, of losses, of distant places. The Moon's energy drops.
Phase 2: Saturn in the sign of the Moon
~2.5 years (peak)The central phase. Saturn sits exactly on your Moon — pressing the most subtle and most personal part of you.
Phase 3: Saturn in the 2nd from the Moon
~2.5 yearsThe exit phase. Saturn is in the house of speech, resources and family. A school of finances.
Sade Sati — FAQ
You are in Sade Sati if Saturn is currently transiting the 12th, 1st or 2nd sign from your natal Moon. With Saturn in sidereal Pisces until June 2027, the moon signs in Sade Sati are Aquarius (final phase), Pisces (peak phase) and Aries (first phase). You need your Vedic moon sign — not your Sun sign — to check.
Sade Sati has three phases of about 2.5 years each: the rising phase (Saturn in the 12th sign from the Moon), the peak phase (Saturn crossing the natal Moon sign) and the setting phase (Saturn in the 2nd from the Moon). Together they span roughly 7.5 years — "sade sati" literally means "seven and a half".
Your Sade Sati ends when Saturn leaves the 2nd sign from your natal Moon. In the current cycle, Aquarius moon signs finish in June 2027 when Saturn enters Aries; Pisces and Aries moons finish at Saturn's subsequent ingresses, roughly 2.5 years apart. An exact calculation from your birth data returns the start and end dates to the day.
The peak (second) phase, when Saturn crosses the natal Moon itself, is traditionally considered the most intense, since it presses directly on the mind and emotions the Moon represents. In practice severity depends on your chart: Saturn's functional role for your lagna, its Ashtakavarga points in the transited sign, and the running dasha can soften or sharpen any phase.
No. For Taurus and Libra ascendants Saturn is a yogakaraka, and many people finish Sade Sati with a career peak, a marriage or hard-won maturity rather than ruin. It is better read as seven and a half years of compression and restructuring — costly where life is built loosely, rewarding where effort is honest.
The classical Saturn remedies: reciting the Hanuman Chalisa on Saturdays, the Shani mantra "Om Sham Shanicharaya Namah", Saturday donations of black sesame, mustard oil or iron, fasting on Saturdays, and steady service to elders and workers. Blue sapphire is worn only after a full chart analysis — never as a default Sade Sati fix.
Shani Dhaiya (small panoti) is Saturn's 2.5-year transit through the 4th or 8th sign from your natal Moon — ardhashtama and ashtama Shani respectively. It is shorter than Sade Sati but watched with similar care. With Saturn in Pisces, it currently affects Sagittarius (4th) and Leo (8th) moon signs.
Find out whether you are going through Sade Sati
Enter your date, time and place of birth — we will find your natal Moon and precisely calculate all three phases of Sade Sati in your life.