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SIDEREAL MOON · 36-YEAR CYCLE

Yogini Dasha Calculator

Calculate the opening balance, 108-year timeline, and eight proportional subperiods from the Moon’s sidereal nakshatra at birth.

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Birth date and time

Enter the local civil time and the historical UTC offset that applied at the birthplace. Yogini Dasha uses the geocentric Moon, so latitude and longitude are not required.

For UTC+05:30, enter 5.5. The tool does not infer historical time-zone or daylight-saving changes. A recorded time matters because the Moon’s fraction through the birth nakshatra sets the remaining first period.

What this calculator returns

The Yogini system has eight named periods lasting one through eight nominal years. Together they make a 36-year cycle. This page prints three cycles, spanning 108 nominal years from the beginning of the period active at birth, and clips the first visible row to the birth instant.

The opening period is found from the numbered birth nakshatra. The Moon’s untraversed fraction of that 13°20′ sector supplies the balance remaining at birth. Each major period opens to show eight antardashas under the site’s stated proportional convention. See the sequence, arithmetic, and worked examples →

Why two calculators can disagree

This tool uses an approximate Lahiri ayanamsha, an apparent geocentric Moon from Astronomy Engine, 365.2425 days per nominal year, and a fixed UTC offset. A different Moon ephemeris, ayanamsha, year length, rounding rule, or birth time can shift every printed boundary. A close nakshatra edge receives an explicit notice.

What the dates do and do not say

The rows show arithmetic intervals in a traditional astrological model. They do not prove that the named period causes an event. Interpretation in Jyotish normally considers the period ruler in the whole birth chart; this calculator deliberately stops at transparent date calculation.