Which Dasha Gives Marriage? The Period Lords That Can, Ranked
No single dasha gives marriage. In 20,000 births run through Supastro's marriage timing engine, a Venus sub-period opened only 22% of first strong windows; Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury opened most of the rest. Here is the ranked list, the rule behind it and how to find your own periods.
Which dasha gives marriage? Not one planet's. Marriage comes in the period of any planet tied to your 7th house, and in the typical chart 7 of the 9 planets have some tie, 5 of them a direct one. I ran 20,000 random births through the engine behind Supastro's free marriage timing tool. A Venus sub-period opened the first strong marriage window (labelled Strong or Moderate) in only 22% of them. Saturn, the planet everyone blames for delay, opened 16%.
Which dasha gives marriage, according to the classical texts?
The period of a planet that sits in your 7th house, aspects it or rules it. That is Mantreswara's rule in the Phaladeepika, and every honest marriage timing starts there. Your 7th house is the part of the chart that describes marriage and partners; its ruler, the 7th lord, is the planet that owns the sign on it.
Parashara goes sub-period by sub-period and never gives marriage unconditionally. In the Sun's major period, Venus's sub-period brings "marriage and happiness, as desired from wife" if Venus sits in an angle or a trine (the 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 5th or 9th) or in its own or exaltation sign, and distress to the wife if Venus sits 6th, 8th or 12th from the Sun. He even names marriage in Saturn's sub-period when Saturn is in an angle or trine. Placement decides.
A dasha is a planetary period. Vimshottari, the system Supastro times with, runs nine major periods (mahadashas) over 120 years, each split into nine sub-periods (antardashas) and again into sub-sub-periods (pratyantars).
Which mahadasha and antardasha give marriage in Supastro's engine?
A major period and a sub-period whose lords are both tied to your marriage, inside a stretch when Jupiter and Saturn both touch your 7th house or its lord. Supastro, an AI Vedic astrology app built in Bengaluru by Quantum Karma, computes this with one engine for the free Love & Marriage Timing tool and for the AI Oracle, so the two never disagree. The steps:
- List the marriage planets. Your 7th lord, Venus, Jupiter, the 7th lord of your Navamsa (the D9, the chart of the marriage itself), your Darakaraka (the planet at the lowest degree in its sign), the ruler of your Upapada (the marriage point) and any planet in your 7th: the direct ties.
- Add the weaker ties. Planets aspecting your 7th, planets sitting with your 7th lord or Venus, and Rahu or Ketu when the planet ruling their sign is a marriage planet.
- Add the Phaladeepika picks. The stronger of the two rulers of the sign and Navamsa your 7th lord occupies, and the stronger of Venus and the Moon, by Shadbala (the six-part strength score), as Mantreswara's rule asks.
- Find the periods. Both the major-period and sub-period lords must be on the list. A direct marriage planet's sub-period inside an unrelated major period counts only as Mild, and not at all if Parashara's verdict on it is adverse.
- Apply the trigger. Jupiter and Saturn must both sit in or aspect your 7th sign or your 7th lord's sign, counted from your rising sign or your Moon.
- Label it. Strong: both period lords are direct ties and the trigger holds from your rising sign and your Moon. Moderate: the trigger plus one direct lord. Everything else is Mild.
- Show the nearest window first, then the strongest after it. An event comes in the first period that switches it on.
Which period lords actually open the first marriage window?
Venus, by a small margin and never by a majority. In 20,000 random births (1975 to 2005, ten Indian cities, Supastro's own engine, searching from age 18 over 12 years), 92.5% had a Strong or Moderate window by 30. For the first one, I recorded which kind of planet ran the sub-period:
By planet: Venus 22.2%, Jupiter 17.3%, Saturn 16.4%, Mercury 15.0%, the Moon 9.1%, Rahu 7.5%, Mars 4.8%, Ketu 4.7%, the Sun 3.0%. Now the correction nobody makes. Each planet's sub-periods fill a fixed slice of every life: Venus 20 of every 120 years (16.7%), Saturn 19 (15.8%), Rahu 18 (15%). So Venus opened windows 1.33 times as often as its share of time, Jupiter 1.30 times, Saturn about its share (1.04) and Rahu only half (0.50). Venus is favoured because it is tied to marriage in every chart, not because its period is magic.
Two more numbers set expectations. The first Strong or Moderate window opens at a median age of 19.0, and the median person gets 6 such windows between 18 and 30, about 32 of those 144 months. Only 51% get a window labelled Strong by 30, the first at a median 22.9. A window is permission in the chart, not a wedding date.
Which dasha gives marriage for your rising sign?
Check your 7th lord's period, Venus's and Jupiter's first; your rising sign is on the free kundli. Parashara also grades every planet auspicious or malefic for each rising sign by the houses it rules. That grade colours what else the period brings; the engine still counts Venus and Jupiter for every chart.
| Your rising sign | Your 7th sign and its lord | Venus by lordship (Parashara) | Jupiter by lordship (Parashara) | Strong or Moderate window by age 30 (20,000 births) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | Libra, Venus | Malefic | Auspicious | 90.6% |
| Taurus | Scorpio, Mars | Malefic | Malefic | 93.5% |
| Gemini | Sagittarius, Jupiter | The only auspicious planet | Malefic | 92.0% |
| Cancer | Capricorn, Saturn | Malefic | Auspicious | 94.4% |
| Leo | Aquarius, Saturn | Malefic | Auspicious | 93.7% |
| Virgo | Pisces, Jupiter | Auspicious | Malefic | 93.5% |
| Libra | Aries, Mars | Neutral | Malefic | 93.8% |
| Scorpio | Taurus, Venus | Malefic | Auspicious | 89.6% |
| Sagittarius | Gemini, Mercury | The only inauspicious planet | Neutral | 93.7% |
| Capricorn | Cancer, Moon | Auspicious, the only one giving a superior yoga | Malefic | 91.8% |
| Aquarius | Leo, Sun | Auspicious, the only Raja Yoga giver | Malefic | 89.7% |
| Pisces | Virgo, Mercury | Malefic | Not graded; gives a yoga with Mars | 92.9% |
Same engine, two charts: whose period gives marriage?
Hypothetical birth A: 14 August 1995, 2:15 pm, Delhi. Scorpio rising; Venus rules the 7th, is the marriage significator and rules the Navamsa 7th. Before 27 the engine finds only Mild windows, in Mercury's and Ketu's major periods, which have no tie to marriage. Then Venus-Venus gives a Moderate window from June 2023 and a Strong one from March 2025. For this chart the answer is Venus, three times over.
Hypothetical birth B: 26 October 1999, 1:41 am, Kolkata. Leo rising; Saturn rules the 7th and the Navamsa 7th. The first Moderate window opens at 18, in the Moon-Saturn period, because the sub-period lord is the 7th lord. The first Strong one, from July 2023, falls in Mars-Mars: Saturn sits in Aries (Mars's sign) and in a Venus Navamsa, and Mars is the stronger of the two rulers, so Mantreswara's rule hands Mars the job. Saturn, the planet of delay, opens this chart's first window.
When does the period actually deliver?
When a transit switches it on inside the right period. Mantreswara's trigger is Jupiter passing a sign in trine to the sign or Navamsa your 7th lord occupies, during the period of the planet he picks. The double transit, Jupiter and Saturn together on your 7th or its lord, is a modern technique popularised by K. N. Rao, found in none of the eleven classical texts in Supastro's library; the engine uses it to narrow a long sub-period to months. Transits pick the month; the dasha decides whether there is anything to pick (dasha versus transit).
What else has to be computed before this becomes a prediction?
| Layer | What I compute | How it can change the answer |
|---|---|---|
| Period lords | Major, sub and sub-sub periods and each lord's ties to your 7th | No tie in either lord, no window; one tie only, a weaker window |
| Placement of the sub-period lord | Its house from the rising sign and from the major-period lord, by Parashara's sub-period chapters | The same sub-period gives marriage or distress to the spouse |
| Strength | Shadbala of the 7th lord's sign and Navamsa rulers, Venus and the Moon | Decides which planet Mantreswara's rule hands the timing to |
| Navamsa (D9) | The 7th lord of the D9 and Venus's D9 sign | Adds a marriage planet the birth chart alone never shows |
| Upapada and Darakaraka | The marriage point's ruler and the spouse planet | Two more planets whose periods can open a window |
| Lordship | Auspicious or malefic for your rising sign, by Parashara's lordship rules | Colours everything else the period brings with the marriage |
| Transits | Jupiter and Saturn on the 7th or its lord, from the rising sign and the Moon | Picks the months; both views together make a window Strong |
| Birth time | Rising degree, Navamsa rising sign, Moon degree | Minutes can change the Navamsa 7th lord and move dasha dates |
Frequently asked questions
Which mahadasha gives marriage?
The major period of a planet tied to your 7th house; Supastro's engine lists them for your chart. In 20,000 births the major periods running at the first strong window were most often Rahu's (21.1%) and Venus's (20.9%), two of the three longest major periods.
Which antardasha gives marriage?
The sub-period of a direct marriage planet: your 7th lord, Venus, the Navamsa 7th lord, the Darakaraka, the Upapada ruler or a planet in your 7th. Venus's sub-period opened the most first windows (22.2%), then Jupiter's (17.3%), Saturn's (16.4%) and Mercury's (15.0%). In 83% of first windows the sub-period lord was a direct marriage planet.
Which pratyantar dasha gives marriage?
Supastro's engine does not require the sub-sub-period lord to be tied. It cuts each window at the pratyantar level and adds half that lord's tie to the score; the major and sub-period lords decide whether there is a window at all.
Which Yogini dasha gives marriage?
No verse in the library assigns marriage to a particular Yogini. Parashara only lists the eight Yoginis and their planets; Siddha belongs to Venus. Supastro's free tools time marriage with Vimshottari only; the Yogini dasha is in the logged-in dashboard engine.
Does the 7th lord mahadasha always give marriage?
No. It gives a window only when the sub-period lord is tied too, and only while Jupiter and Saturn touch your 7th house or its lord. Parashara also makes the result depend on placement: a well-placed sub-period lord brings marriage, a badly placed one distress to the spouse.
Can marriage happen in Saturn or Rahu mahadasha?
Yes. Rahu's major period was running at 21.1% of first strong windows and Saturn's at 11.1%; Saturn's sub-period opened 16.4%, its fair share of time. Rahu needs to sit in or aspect your 7th, sit with your 7th lord or Venus, or work through a marriage planet that rules its sign. Saturn needs a tie of its own.
Does a Jupiter transit alone give marriage?
No. Jupiter's transit is a trigger inside a supporting period, which is how Mantreswara uses it in the Phaladeepika; outside one it passes without an event. Supastro also requires Saturn on the same target.
