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Sade Sati
Also written Shani Sade Sati · Saturn’s seven-and-a-half years
Sade Sati ("the seven-and-a-half") is the long passage of Shani (Saturn) through three signs measured from a person's natal Moon — the sign before it, the sign it occupies, and the sign after — each leg lasting about two and a half years, roughly seven and a half in all.
The tradition reads it as a maturing rather than a punishment: Saturn slows things, asks for patience and honest effort, and clears away what was not built on solid ground. Its middle leg, with Saturn on the Moon itself, is usually felt most.
It is timed entirely by gochar — Saturn's transit against your own Moon — which is why it begins and ends on different dates for everyone. Described here as a season to work with, never a doom to fear.
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