How timing is worked out in Vedic astrology
Timing asks when an area of life becomes active in a birth chart. Three traditional methods approach the question in different ways. Each reads its own points in the chart and runs its own clock of periods. The pages below show what each method reads and how, with the values calculated for one example chart.
These are traditional methods shown as calculated, not validated predictions.
Parashari
Parashari astrology reads the houses counted from the ascendant, the planets that rule those houses, and natural significators such as Venus for partnership and Saturn for work.
Its clock is the Vimshottari dasha: a 120-year sequence of planetary periods that starts from the Moon's position at birth and divides each period into sub-periods. The transits of Jupiter and Saturn over the houses in question are read next to the running period.
Jaimini
Jaimini astrology ranks seven planets by their degree within their sign and gives each rank a role, the chara karakas: the highest degree is the Atmakaraka and the lowest the Darakaraka. It also uses arudha padas, signs found by counting from a house to its ruler and the same distance again.
Its clock is the chara dasha, in which every period belongs to a sign rather than a planet. The method looks at the sign of the running sub-period and at how that sign relates to the points read for the question.
Bhrigu Nandi Nadi
Bhrigu Nandi Nadi reads one significator planet for each area of life, such as Saturn for work, and the natal planets in the same sign or in the 5th, 9th, 7th, 2nd or 12th sign from it.
It follows these links with Jupiter's progression of one sign per year of life from its natal sign, and with the real transits of Jupiter and Saturn through the linked signs, including the dates on which they pass the significator's degree.