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Also called Sadesati · Saade Saati · Sadhe Sati · seven and a half years of Saturn · साढ़ेसाती

In popular Jyotish, the time Saturn spends in the sign before the natal Moon's sign, in it and in the one after, about seven and a half years in all (Saturn takes about two and a half years to cross a sign). The three stretches are called the Rising, Peak and Setting phases. Saturn's retrograde steps back over a sign boundary can split a stay in a sign in two.

Word origin · etymology

Hindi sāḍhe sātī, 'seven and a half'.

Wiktionary lists Hindi sāṛhe (साढ़े) as 'and a half', from Sanskrit sārdha, 'plus a half', and has no entry for the compound; Wikipedia gives the meaning of Sade Sati as the 7½-year period. The reading of the second word as 'seven' is the site's. The English spellings vary.^[3][1]

How we know · epistemology

Popular practice built on classical house-by-house transit readings

The classical text read here, Mantreswara's Phaladeepika (chapter 26), describes Saturn in each house from the natal Moon one at a time, the 12th, the 1st and the 2nd among them, and does not name seven and a half years or Saturn over three signs together; Wikipedia describes the grouping without citing a classical source, so the site treats it as a popular practice and a site convention. The dates are a calculation, Saturn's crossings of the sign boundaries; what the period means for a life is a claim of the tradition that the dates cannot test.^[2][1]

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