Sade Sati Calculator and Dates for Every Moon Sign

Sade Sati is Saturn's roughly seven-and-a-half-year pass over your Moon sign. Here is how it works, who is in it now, and the dates for every Moon sign.

Sade Sati is counted from your Vedic Moon sign, which is often different from your Western Moon or Sun sign. Don't know your Moon sign? Enter your birth details and the calculator shows it, and tells you whether you are in Sade Sati now.

The three phases

Saturn spends about two and a half years in each sign, so Sade Sati falls into three phases of about 2.5 years. "Sade sati" simply means "seven and a half."

Rising phase: Saturn in the 12th sign from your Moon

The opening phase tends to be about endings and clearing. Things that no longer fit start to fall away, and you may want more quiet time and spend more of it thinking than doing. It is a good time to finish old business and let go of commitments you have outgrown.

Peak phase: Saturn over your Moon sign

The middle phase is the most personal. Saturn sits on the sign of your Moon, which Vedic astrology reads as the mind, so moods can feel heavier and responsibilities closer to home. People often describe it as a time of growing up: facing what has been avoided, taking on more and seeing clearly what matters to them.

Setting phase: Saturn in the 2nd sign from your Moon

The final phase moves the focus to speech, family and what you have built up. It is often a time of consolidating: putting the lessons of the last five years into steady routines, being more careful with words and commitments, and rebuilding at a sustainable pace.

Is Sade Sati bad?

Sade Sati has a reputation, but it is better understood as a demanding season than a curse. Saturn is the planet of time, effort and structure. When it passes over the Moon, life tends to ask for more patience and responsibility, and shortcuts work less well. Plenty of people build careers, finish degrees, get married or start families during Sade Sati. What it asks for is steady effort, realistic plans and honesty about what you can carry.

How it feels also depends on your whole chart. Where Saturn sits in your birth chart, the mahadasha you are running, and the house Saturn is passing through from your rising sign all shape the experience. Two people with the same Moon sign can have very different Sade Satis.

AstroCall doesn't sell remedies, rituals or gemstones for Sade Sati. If you want to understand your own timing, the dates below and your chart are the best place to start.

Who is in Sade Sati now: Saturn in Pisces

In the sidereal zodiac, Saturn entered Pisces on March 29, 2025. It moves into Aries on June 2, 2027, slips back into Pisces from about October 20, 2027 while retrograde, and enters Aries for good around February 23, 2028. While Saturn is in Pisces:

• Aquarius Moon: setting phase. Pisces is the 2nd sign from Aquarius. This Sade Sati began in January 2020 and is in its last stretch; it ends when Saturn leaves Pisces for good in early 2028.
• Pisces Moon: peak phase. Saturn is on the Moon sign itself. The setting phase follows when Saturn moves into Aries, and this Sade Sati runs until Saturn leaves Aries in April 2030.
• Aries Moon: rising phase. Pisces is the 12th sign from Aries. The peak starts when Saturn enters Aries in 2027, and the whole period runs until Saturn leaves Taurus in 2032.

Next in line is Taurus: its Sade Sati begins when Saturn first enters Aries on June 2, 2027.

A Saturn transit through Pisces, apart from Sade Sati, is often read as a time for slowing down, tidying up loose ends and giving shape to beliefs and ideals. Where it lands in your own chart depends on your rising sign.

Sade Sati dates for every Moon sign

Dates are for Saturn's sidereal position with the Lahiri ayanamsa. When Saturn turns retrograde near a sign border, a Sade Sati can pause and restart, so some signs show a start or end that moves back and forth for a few months.

Saturn's sidereal sign changes, 2000–2045

Saturn takes about 29.5 years to circle the zodiac. These are the dates it changes sign in the Vedic (sidereal) zodiac, including the short back-and-forth moves caused by retrograde motion.

• Vedic birth chartFind your Moon sign and rising sign
• Mahadasha calculatorThe period you are running now
• Why is my sign different?Sidereal vs tropical, explained

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