What is Vimshottari Dasha?
In Vedic astrology, your birth chart (Kundli) shows what is promised in your life, but the Vimshottari Dasha shows when those promises will be fulfilled.
Vimshottari Dasha is a unique predictive system that assigns 120 years to nine planets in a specific order:
How Your Dasha is Calculated
The starting point of your Dasha cycle depends on the exact degree of the Moon at birth. Specifically, it depends on which of the 27 Nakshatras the Moon was placed in.
For example, if you were born with the Moon in Ashwini Nakshatra, you would begin your life in the Dasha of Ketu. The remaining balance of that Dasha is calculated based on how much of the Nakshatra was left to transit at the moment of birth.