Dashas (planetary periods)
Bhadrika yogini dasha in Vedic astrology
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Bhadrika yogini dasha: how the API computes it
Bhadrika is the fifth period of the Yogini dasha. It belongs to Mercury and lasts 5 years (YD-01). A life starts in Bhadrika when the Moon is in Bharani, Magha, Jyeshtha or Uttara Bhadrapada at birth (YD-02).
The name means good or blessed. Tradition ties the period to Mercury's themes of study, trade, writing and talk. It follows Bhramari and comes before Ulka in the 36-year cycle.
The API starts the cycle from the birth nakshatra, or birth star, with a simple count (YD-02). Take the nakshatra number from Ashwini and add 3. Then use the remainder after dividing by 8.
A remainder of 0 means the last yogini, Sankata. The count wraps around at that point. So a test that checks only a few nakshatras can miss the one wrong answer, and the API checks all 27.
POST /v1/dasha/yogini gives the periods and sub-periods with dates. It uses the same Moon position as POST /v1/dasha/vimshottari (YD-03). So a Bhadrika period and a Vimshottari period for the same person always sit on the same calendar.
Neither system overrules the other (YD-05).
Get it from the API
POST /v1/dasha/yogini
# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/dasha/yogini" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ASTROLOGY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"year":1990,"month":8,"day":15,"hour":10,"minute":30,"second":0,"latitude":40.7128,"longitude":-74.006,"timezone":"America/New_York"}'{
"system": "yogini",
"total_years": 36,
"year_length_days": 365.25,
"moon_nakshatra_index": 5,
"nakshatra_fraction_elapsed": 0.09303881,
"starting_yogini": "Sankata",
"balance_at_birth_years": 7.25569,
"balance_method": "time",
"levels": 2,
"periods": [
{
"yogini": "Sankata",
"lord": "Rahu",
"years": 8,
"start": "1989-11-16T13:52:27.863431",
"end": "1997-11-16T13:52:27.863431",
"periods": [
{
"yogini": "Sankata",
"lord": "Rahu",
"start": "1989-11-16T13:52:27.863431",
"end": "1991-08-27T21:52:27.863431"
},
{
"yogini": "Mangala",
"lord": "Moon",
"start": "1991-08-27T21:52:27.863431",
"end": "1991-11-17T01:52:27.863431"
},
{
"yogini": "Pingala",
"lord": "Sun",
"start": "1991-11-17T01:52:27.863431",
"end": "1992-04-27T09:52:27.863431"
}
],
"partial_at_birth": true,
"balance_years": 7.25569
},
{
"yogini": "Mangala",
"lord": "Moon",
"years": 1,
"start": "1997-11-16T13:52:27.863431",
"end": "1998-11-16T19:52:27.863431",
"periods": [
{
"yogini": "Mangala",
"lord": "Moon",
"start": "1997-11-16T13:52:27.863431",
"end": "1997-11-26T17:22:27.863431"
},
{
"yogini": "Pingala",
"lord": "Sun",
"start": "1997-11-26T17:22:27.863431",
"end": "1997-12-17T00:22:27.863431"
},
{
"yogini": "Dhanya",
"lord": "Jupiter",
"start": "1997-12-17T00:22:27.863431",
"end": "1998-01-16T10:52:27.863431"
}
]
},
{
"yogini": "Pingala",
"lord": "Sun",
"years": 2,
"start": "1998-11-16T19:52:27.863431",
"end": "2000-11-16T07:52:27.863431",
"periods": [
{
"yogini": "Pingala",
"lord": "Sun",
"start": "1998-11-16T19:52:27.863431",
"end": "1998-12-27T09:52:27.863431"
},
{
"yogini": "Dhanya",
"lord": "Jupiter",
"start": "1998-12-27T09:52:27.863431",
"end": "1999-02-26T06:52:27.863431"
},
{
"yogini": "Bhramari",
"lord": "Mars",
"start": "1999-02-26T06:52:27.863431",
"end": "1999-05-18T10:52:27.863431"
}
]
}
],
"balance_conventions": {
"longitude": {
"fraction_elapsed": 0.09312764,
"balance_years": 7.254979,
"first_period_ends": "1997-11-16T07:38:41.614067"
},
"time": {
"fraction_elapsed": 0.09303881,
"balance_years": 7.25569,
"first_period_ends": "1997-11-16T13:52:27.863431"
},
"used": "time",
"other": "longitude",
"shift_days": 0.2596,
"sources_agree": true,
"note": "longitude measures how far the Moon has moved through its birth nakshatra; time measures how long it has been there (bhayat over bhabhog), as a desktop program does. Every later date moves by the same shift."
},
"meta": {
"ayanamsa": "lahiri",
"ayanamsa_value": 23.7260727,
"julian_day": 2448119.10483,
"ephemeris": "JPL DE440s",
"node": "true",
"timezone": {
"source": "zone",
"offset_hours": -4,
"zone": "America/New_York",
"abbreviation": "EDT",
"dst": true,
"dst_hours": 1,
"ambiguous_resolved_by_fold": null,
"note": "read from the IANA tz database at this instant, so daylight saving and historical offset changes are included"
}
}
}Where the API returns it
| POST | /v1/dasha/yogini | Yogini dasha periods (a 36-year cycle) |
Feature page: Dashas (planetary periods). Who uses it: Astrology apps. See dasha periods in a full reading in the sample report. The classical rules the API follows are in the rulebook.
How we check the numbers
Every value here starts from planet positions worked out from NASA JPL planet data (DE440). We test them against NASA JPL Horizons, NASA's planet position service. On 25,571 positions from 1850 to 2149, the Sun and planets agree within 0.001 arc seconds. The Moon agrees within 0.011. On 2,000 random birth charts, the rising sign agrees with Swiss Ephemeris within 0.004 arc seconds. An arc second is 1/3,600 of a degree. A practicing astrologer reviews the rules behind these answers. See how we test.
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