The Vimshottari Dasha System in Vedic Astrology

An interview with astrologer Freedom Cole about the vimshottari dasha system, which is a timing technique used in Vedic astrology.
The dasha systems divide a person's life up into different periods and subperiods that are ruled by different planets, in order to study various increments of time.
The vimshottari dasha system is the most common dasha technique used by Vedic astrologers today, and it was first introduced in the text of Parashara.
Freedom is the author of two books on Indian astrology, titled Science of Light, volumes 1 and 2.
You can find more info about Freedom's books and courses at:
scienceoflight.net
This is episode 193 of The Astrology Podcast with Chris Brennan. You can read the full episode description here:
theastrologypodcast.com/2019/0...
You can calculate your vimshottari dasha periods online here:
horoscopes.astro-seek.com/das...
There is also a free program available for Windows here:
www.vedicastrologer.org/jh/
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[@TheAstrologyPodcast]

There is a free vimshottari dasha calculator now on Astro-Seek: horoscopes.astro-seek.com/dasha-vedic-astrology-online-calculator

[@askhollyhall]

I used western astrology for over 30yrs! then switch to Sidereal 2 yrs ago. I knew in my early 20s I was an astrologer in past lives, and in south India. Now I'm finding home. TY . Im very busy with a clientele, Im not sure I need 12 months lessons. BUT I am looking for a teacher/guide. ill look up the host too

[@trinityp8575]

Sanjay Rath… his knowledge and teachings are the pinnacle of Jyotish.

[@VaidyanathanPurushothaman]

He is one of the stars of astrologers trained by sanjay rath. They are the best

[@mari2710br]

Vimshottari Dasha is the most accurate predictive technique in Astrology and it is so valuable. I first started using it when I was doing a training in vedic Astrology, but after the couse I was definetely more inclined to use Tropical again, and I started using the dasha system for Tropical zodiac signs and Sideral nakshatras - everything changed from this moment, and this was the missing piece in my studies. I have an astrology diary where I note all importants events that happens in my life and their correlation with the dashas - and it always work. Another thing I do is calculating the Nakshatra dasha from the strongest planet in the chart. I have Venus as my final dispositor and the best placed planet in my chart and calculating the Dashas from it gave me so much insights about the unfoldment of my life. I am grateful for have found the dasha system and if had to choose one only technique in Astrology to use would be that one. Thanks for posting this interview.

[@cosmichealth3907]

appreciate your points...tropical with sideral nakshtras gives so much accuracy....this is the first time i herad dasha from strongest planet from u..i l try his...if u could do my chart itt will be helpful and good learning regards

[@TECHN0]

Try zodiacal releasing

[@mari2710br]

@@TECHN0 I have had already...no comparison in accuracy with vimshottari Dasha.

[@seth4195]

@@mari2710br what dasha year length do u use ?

[@aethericphoenix3423]

Each individual has to try and check which system works for them

[@beatdizzy]

This is ten thousand million times better than the Braha dude, he was all take the info and run.

[@annie14420]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, Freedom! What a delight to be offered fruit from a different branch of the Astrology Tree. The new episodes on timing techniques really take things to the next level. I’ve had a very brief introduction to them before, but these conversations have me excited to dive deeper. #astrologypodcast4eva

[@chamrasbamrongratt4010]

A very briliant interview con- taining the depth of nuances.

[@anandasala4712]

This was the most helpful explanation I’ve ever heard. I’m slightly less confused 😊What a great pod! I’ve been trying to understand these concepts for a year! I still don’t understand fully yet, but this is a great reference point that I will return to multiple times. Thank you both!

[@jekalambert9412]

Thank you for this wonderful interview. Chris, you did an excellent job (as usual) in structuring the interview to introduce key concepts about Vedic astrology and your guest brought both wisdom and understanding in making the concepts clear and understandable. I've recently been attempting to understand foundational concepts in Vedic astrology. This conversation answered all my questions and makes me want to learn more.

[@thepluranian]

Thank you both very much for your effort to produce this episode. Very good material to work with...will definitely study vedic astrology in the future.

[@backinfive2286]

So glad you managed to add this important piece to this whole topic. Lost, sometimes confused, but little lights sparkling interestingly on the horizon.

[@sallyh2156]

What a great episode!

[@muraliraghavan8057]

Thanks Sir for the lecture. I also thank Freedomji for the lecture.

[@Herenowtodayful]

Superb! ⭐️🙏 I learned so much!

[@thatchzembo1001]

Great talk guys!!

[@gildacao8717]

Yes...very significant, encompassing and fully evolving! Love it! When the concept of time becomes King Supreme, Father Cronus (time ticking) which is attributed to the Planet Saturn, we are curiously alerted to Mercury and Mathematics (language truths validated by numbers;) and why the latter 2 have been awarded the crown key play in Western culture science and hidden esoteric; a caution of significant concern flashes loudly when the 'love' heart Moon/Venus is absent from an auspicious wedding tie.

[@korybarron32]

I've been studying Vedic through KRS for a couple years but this was super enlightening. This connected a ton of dots for me thank you!!

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[@trish4977]

Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful mans knowledge,I will certainly be buying his book to learn more...great stuff as usual from you Chris...x

[@svjetlanagasparic8752]

Thank you for beautiful episode. Thanks for the links🙏👌

[@davidlodge8123]

Just got around to watching this, was an awesome episode. I'd be really interested in hearing more from Austin about the implications of knowing both western and vedic and how he reconciles the two.

[@eagillum]

You leave out the superstitious BS of Vedic astrology, and the wishful thinking BS of western astrology. After that, they go hand in hand fairly well.

[@davidlodge8123]

@@eagillum I agree, however you still have the issue how to assess dignities. Like a tropical domiciled Venus is a fallen sidereal Venus, or a fallen tropical Jupiter is a domiciled sidereal Jupiter etc. It seems like you have to choose one zodiac over the other to assess dignities. Hank Friedman, the creator of Solar Fire, is one of the few astrologers who has been using both zodiacs for at least a couple of decades. His take from his experience is that the sidereal zodiac supercedes tropical when it comes to rulership and dignities. So if he sees a tropical Jupiter in Capricorn, he'd see that as a pretty good Jupiter because it's domciled in Sagittarius. He'd ignore it's tropical fallen condition. He also assess house rulership etc. only sidereally. However, he will still see Capricorn personality traits exhibited by that Jupiter, it just happens to be well dignified.

[@enicehaasmr2459]

I like the host mention the date, hour, and place when they started. It just show how to access your astrology chart for the first time.

[@AstrologHakanKirkoglu]

Excellent, very useful, thanks

[@MandelscapeDA]

Beautiful i needed this. Thank you.

[@catherineguzman2813]

Fantastic! Thank you.

[@HealthyLiv1ng]

This was great! I got his book. After reading his book, I want to learn more about Firdaria. Chris I think it would be great if you could interview someone who uses Firdaria which seems to be a Medieval Time Lord System

[@Wholeplantfoods_Lucie]

Thank you for this excellent intro. So what is the process for comparing current transits against the northern Indian birth chart?

[@karthicksowndharraj2402]

Thanks much both

[@shabeerlovetritonfabtyoumo2800]

Fabulous thank you 🌙

[@jaja0374]

Amazing, thank you Guruji

[@sarmayasarmaya9878]

Intrinsic nature. House placement. Strength. Exalted etc. Degrees. How much will it give? Relation with depositor. Combustion. Malefic/ benefic nature vs house in 6 8 12 toughest placement. 1 5 9 best. Kendras good but for eg Mars in 4 and 10 for mental peace and relationship. Own sign is auspicious. Yogas. Conjunctions get activated. Most benefic interacts with most malefic and so on. (Only in Vimshottari). Lordship also gets activated. Derives house activation. Dashanath and Bhuktinath relations. Consider as if conjunct. Mutual house placement. 2/12 friction creation. 3/11 give and take. Trine/ Square very well. 6/8 problematic. Aspects of the planet become more powerful. Vimshottari is about subjective experience. Transits. Dasha Lord is important. Result allowed by Dashanath.

[@Dreamy_boii]

Is there a dasha system about "objective experience"? Like certain things happening regardless of your subjective interpretation/ state of mind?

[@Alusnovalotus]

Late viewer but this is amazing. I hope that one day we will get both tropical and sidereal horoscopes to work together as two great gears in a system that’ll help us in living life.

[@thesun4892]

Excellent. Can you please talk about Firdaria in depth and if it can sub divided the sub periods into smaller divisions just like the Dasa system which has sub-sub continuously ?

[@iswara108enricochiarucci5]

Very interesting thanks millions! Iis it possible to know the name of that Dasa that can be calculated from Lagna, Lagna lord, and the highest degree planet? Thank you

[@shrifreedom]

lagna kendradi dasha and atmakaraka kendradi dasha

[@barrickeloworks5009]

thank you!

[@barbarayuruvicharias6580]

Hi Chris, which one is the book you keep referring to during the podcast? I’d love to get it!!

[@miloandersonofferein]

Science of Light :)

[@beatdizzy]

Would have loved a section on the north node and south node in vedic charts.

[@obsidianstang6296]

"Time is moving forward and it's not moving any other way" - on this plane. Things are different in the Astral.

[@pigachejean-eric8537]

Is this (dasha) thé méthodology used by thé trader w.d. gann to Time thé mkts, After his Travel in India ?

[@elizabethrigby3901]

Rahu dasha 8th, may the force be with you...

[@alaypatel6050]

Dasha means situation or condition. But instead of being just momentary, also qualitative.

[@thimirasamaraweera4850]

what is the divine logic behind mahadasha span of vimshottari dasha(120)? each planet is has a specific maha dasha period as ketu (7years), venus (20years), sun (6years) and so on. why?

[@RightAllWays]

Dasha is topmost level vs transit. If dasha negates good transit brings opportunities but doesn’t bear fruits

[@FeistyChic]

Could you address the significance of One who has Mercury Rx Natal? It's my position conjunct the Sun in Taurus 10th house and I do really well during Mercury Rx periods ...Ty so much!!

[@charlottewagner715]

It's said that natal MercuryR doesn't affect you negatively when transiting Mercury goes retro. Speculatively, some astrologers have said that's because you're accustomed to the retrograde energy, but I'll bet it goes deeper than that.Lucky you!

[@FeistyChic]

@@charlottewagner715 wow, ty for that!🥂

[@richkid5821]

This TIME and Lunar dates and the correlation with universe are how Chinese people have been using for centuries to calculate and do fortune telling too

[@tina9108]

This was a great session. Thank you Chris. Although I had one doubt that required to be clarified by Freedom. He said that dasha means ten. But in my language culture here in India, I was given to understand that dasa means the number 10, whereas dasha means situation or circumstance. (The addition of the alphabet 'h' changes the word so there is a difference between dasa and dasha). So please do correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the dasha system refers not to a number division, but to 'situations' that develop as a result of the movement of the planets. More accurately, in the sanskrit language, dasha refers to a 'state of being'.

[@tina9108]

I wanted to add another message for Freedom.. -- that I bought his book on Vedic Astrology and have been studying it for a few weeks now.. and it is absolutely brilliant ! I love it. Thank you so much for writing this great book, Freedom. 🙏

[@shrifreedom]

The correct transliteration is daśā (as there are three variants of the ‘s’ in Sanskrit, it requires diacritical marks to be correct, but in English script dasha normally gets the point across). Colloquial languages have many variants from Sanskrit. From my understanding, daśa means ten (it relates to the Latin decas/Greek dekas, which gives the English decade). Daśā means a state or condition in life (generally fated) or a time period- but this goes back to the root of the time period marked by the sequence of 10s (numbers/years) as given by the planets, not like a state or condition in the sense of the word bhava. So your understanding is correct that the daśā system refers to states and conditions generated by the planets, but this is rooted in an astrological/numerological consciousness.

[@tina9108]

@@shrifreedom thank you for the clarification.

[@eagillum]

14:40

[@samspade2657]

@@shrifreedom This is so wrong. You have been confused by Sanjay.

[@lindaholman2630]

Jupiter and Saturn Naha dash’s can mean Saturn restrictions some loss. Donation is a form of loss. .

[@flyhigh5066]

finally i m leaving a terrible moon in scorpio 10th house MD, in which my career nosedived, to Mars MD in libra in 9th house. somone pls ur inputs

[@mattb.455]

Why does Vimshottari start from Krittika (as the seed nakshatra) and not from Ashwini?

[@clifb.3521]

I’ve always heard you were supposed to do astrology on the train because you were moving anyway just a thought

[@a.d.1788]

Do Vedic astrologers use relocation chart? Do you, Chris, use relocation chart with Profection technique?

[@TheAstrologyPodcast]

No, I always use the natal chart when applying annual profections.

[@a.d.1788]

@@TheAstrologyPodcast what about Vedics? Do they use relocation charts at all?

[@TheAstrologyPodcast]

@@a.d.1788 I'm not sure. I think it is more of a recent innovation in the modern western tradition over the past few decades.

[@a.d.1788]

​@@TheAstrologyPodcast I never use relocation chart and have never used it, that's why I'm interested. Thanks for quick response, Chris.

[@Faithfulfarmer]

amazing beard

[@korybarron32]

Imagine going through you're Saturn return during your rahu mahadasha. Rough times right here

[@lenali1]

That's me right now. Cancer rising with moon in 6H sag vedic/cap western. Plus going through rahu-mars now (and mars is the lord of my rahu). 😌 Edit: My mistake, I'm not going through saturn return but sadi sati (saturn passing over natal moon).

[@pat557]

Maybe, Maybe not; depends on the condition of Rahu

[@analogfool1513]

OH me!!!! I completed my return last dec and I'm in rahu for another 4 years :( but Jupiter follows!

[@smritim2894]

Imagine going through your Saturn return during Saturn mahadasha, with Moon in the same sign in navamsha. Triple impact. Been going crazy here!

[@dinkan3]

Rahu is not always bad

[@starsalignment9024]

When interpreting natal planetary placements strengths/weaknesses for interpreting the dasha, do we stick with the house system we prefer to use (mine being placidus) or would we need to be using sidereal only ?

[@shrifreedom]

I am a sidereal astrologer, so I am not able to comment about its effectiveness in tropical charts. But there are Vedic astrologers who use these techniques in tropical charts.

[@starsalignment9024]

@@shrifreedom Okay thankyou. I may try out sidereal instead.

[@user-wc2dv7nm2k]

Lit

[@walkergoff3127]

English, the language of the gerund lmao. My educational background allows me to recognize England’s history of colonization and imperialism in this tendency to enunciate “things having places” within language. Interestingly, though Wittgenstein was Austrian, his early philosophy (atomic facts have locations in logical states of affairs) was easily adapted to Anglophone philosophy in Britain and the United States.

[@comfortm1506]

bookmark 25:38

[@Frater-Sol]

This video really needs some timestamps man

[@babyyT]

57:00 for me.

[@babyyT]

1:02:18

[@babyyT]

> 1:07:33

[@notyours405]

It’s okay to smile for the camera! Your videos would be more enjoyable if you smiled, relax!