Guru Dasha
In the Vimshottari cycle the Guru period runs for 16 years and colours everything that happens in it, whatever the birth chart promises otherwise. Its fruit is taken from the graha's own condition: its house, its sign, its dignity, its aspects and the yogas it forms.
The period lord is read as a second lagna for the duration: the houses it rules from the lagna, its position from the lagna and from the Moon, and the antardasha lords within the period. The classical texts give an entire chapter to the antardashas of each period lord - BPHS ch. 52 to 59 - which is an indication of how much of the tradition's predictive work is done at this level.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Guru periodGuru mahadasha
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Dasha
- Sanskrit
- गुरु दशा
- English
- the 16-year period of Guru
- Meaning
In the Vimshottari cycle the Guru period runs for 16 years and colours everything that happens in it, whatever the birth chart promises otherwise. Its fruit is taken from the graha's own condition: its house, its sign, its dignity, its aspects and the yogas it forms, so that the same period is kind in one chart and hard in another.
Details
- Graha
- Guru
- Period Years
- 16
- Use
Dharma, the guru, children, wealth and protection. Read as the most benign of the periods, and the one in which a life is given its direction.
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