Sade sati is a period of delayed events but a transformative time in the lives of those it occurs. It is defined by series of physical, material, emotional and psychological changes which improves or distorts your world view, depending on how you take it and your past karmic records; it can be termed as a ‘wake up call’ from the universe. This is meant to bring growth and put you in the right path as well as repay every wrong deed and receive the fruits of your good karma as well.

However, it is generally observed to bring immense delays, obstructions from enemies, new enemies, & illnesses to name a few. The mishaps that occur is the reason why Sade Sati is considered an immensely difficult period and feared by most.

How it Occurs?

Sade Sati is Saturn’s transit of 7.5 years which occurs in three phases of 2.5 years each. The first phase happens in the sign that falls before one’s Moon sign, second happens within the Moon sign and final phase occurs in the sign right after the Moon sign. The first phase is known to bring physical issues and ailments in one’s life. The second phase brings karmic cleansing or results of one’s good/bad karma in its full-fledged form and the final phase is comparatively easy with few delays. All of these occur in the areas of your life where you need to improve the most or correction is required.

• The Sade Sati leaves one’s life after teaching the required lessons one needs to learn and bring out the reality of things.
• The results can be negative or positive depending upon how Saturn is placed in one’s birth chart.
• Positive placement leads to good results after considerable hard work and diligence or rewarding for good karmas of the past.
• Bad placement leads to turmoil, issues in relationships and profession along with penalizing for wrong deeds and a generally negative period for the person.

What are the Myths & Facts Related to Sade Sati?

People automatically assume that Sade Sati is a period of bad events happening one-after the another, just an extremely bad phase of delays, disturbances, losses and so on. But this is not the entire story. Sade Sati affects people by factoring in a lot of things.

• If Saturn is a ‘yoga karaka’ (a planet that confers fame, honor, dignity, financial prosperity, political success, & reputation) in your birth chart, it gives positive results such as promotions, recognitions, a hike in salary and other professional or academic laurels. A yoga karaka planet is one which is not blemished by evil effects of any negative aspects in the chart and positioned in certain houses to create a positivity in your life. Saturn should not be combust, debilitated, retrograde or associated with malefic aspects or placed in wrong houses.
• Its results are amplified during Mahadasha-Antardasha period. Although it is active throughout the period of 7.5 years in your life, its effects get felt more prominently during the antardasha/ mahadasha/pratyantar dasha periods, or the periods of Saturn when it behaves in full force.
• It gives you results as per your karma or doings. If you do something bad to someone you get it back 7.5 times, if you conduct something bad during these periods, it is kept a track of and gets paid off 7.5 times when you least expect it. So, only those who have a negative birth chart or are afraid of their own actions should be afraid of Sade Sati.
• Saturn is a strict planet. It behaves like a strict, unforgiving teacher. It will never give you an award for being lazy. Unless you lose years of sleep over hard work and use your mind, words, and thoughts effectively and righteously, you will not receive the fruits. However, if you try to act smart, you should remember that Saturn is a planet which patiently waits and watches. When it’s done with watching, it acts. And it acts in the hardest way possible amongst all planets. It is the planet which made Ravana lose a war against lord Rama. It is also the planet which gave nations its biggest presidents and prime ministers during their Sade Sati period.
• Saturn’s job, therefore, is not to punish you, but give you what you ‘deserve’ and take away what you don’t - when the time comes.
• These have adverse effects on those signs which are ruled by the Sun as Sun and Saturn are inimical to each other. It also has bad effects during Moon’s dasha since Moon is poisoned by Saturn which is a malefic. The results in both of these can look like - issues in professional life, troubles in health or health of family members, problems within family due to lack of peace, issues from enemies, and a generally tensed environment. Especially, if the Moon falls in a sign that is ruled by Sun and has the Antardasha of Saturn, these results get more pronounced.
• It also makes you prone to negative or evil eye. But Saturn spares no one and it gives each as per their deed, and no remedy easily works on it.

What Can Be Done To Alleviate The Ill-Effects Of Saturn’s Transit (Sade Sati)?

There is need to understand that this transit, no matter how difficult to go through, is something which does not support escapism, to begin with. So there is no running away from this period or its effects. However, to strengthen you own self to go through them with courage, remedies can be prescribed as per your Moon sign. These will not necessarily culminate the lessons which you need to learn in this lifetime through the adversities, but it will soothe you on the edges to take it in the right way. It might be helpful to avoid extremely drastic situations, but depending upon your deeds, if it requires karma-correction, one has to go through the results in order to pay back what is due.

You can find Sade Sati remedies as per your Moon sign here.