Sade Sati — Saturn's 7.5 Year Transit साढ़े साती

Gochar (गोचर) is the Sanskrit term for planetary transit — the current movement of planets through the zodiac, mapped against your natal chart. While your natal chart freezes the planets at birth, transits are dynamic — they activate or challenge specific houses of your chart over time.

Sade Sati (साढ़े साती) is the 7.5-year period when Saturn transits the 12th, 1st, and 2nd house from your natal Moon. Each house = 2.5 years. It is considered Saturn's karmic-correction phase — challenging for the Moon-sign affected, but ultimately purifying and growth-producing. Use our Sade Sati calculator to check your status.

Saturn enters Meena (Pisces) on 29 March 2025 sidereal (per Lahiri ayanamsa). Saturn stays in Meena until ~Sept 2027 — then moves to Mesha. This affects Meena Moon natives most (peak Sade Sati) and Mesha/Kumbha as adjacent rising/setting phases.

Vedic astrology uses sidereal (nirayana) longitudes — measured from the actual fixed stars — while Western uses tropical longitudes measured from the seasonal equinox. The two differ by ~24° (current ayanamsa) — about 24 days of zodiac. So Western 'Jupiter in Aries' might correspond to Vedic 'Jupiter in Pisces'. All dates on this page are Vedic sidereal.