Vedic astrology's signature timing tool — a 120-year cycle of nine planetary periods that answers the question the birth chart alone can't: when?
The birth chart is a map; the dasha is the clock. The Vimshottari system divides life into nine mahadashas (major periods), each ruled by one planet, running in a fixed order for a fixed number of years. Whichever planet's period you are in highlights that planet's themes for years at a time. Your starting point is set by your Moon's nakshatra at birth.
The Vimshottari cycle runs 120 years through all nine planets in a fixed order — Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury. Your Moon’s nakshatra at birth fixes which dasha you start in and where in the cycle you begin.