Dashas (planetary periods)
Mangala yogini dasha in Vedic astrology
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Mangala yogini dasha: how the API computes it
Mangala is the first period of the Yogini dasha. It belongs to the Moon and lasts 1 year, the shortest of the eight (YD-01). A life starts in Mangala when the Moon is in Ardra, Chitra or Shravan at birth (YD-02).
The name is often read as auspicious, or lucky. Tradition treats it as a gentle, helpful period. It is linked to the Moon's themes of home, comfort and emotion.
The cycle always runs in the same order, from Mangala to Sankata, and then it starts again. But a person does not have to start with Mangala. The first yogini comes from the birth nakshatra, or birth star (YD-02).
Count the nakshatra from Ashwini, add 3, and divide by 8 to take the remainder. A remainder of 0 means Sankata. POST /v1/dasha/yogini returns the periods and sub-periods with dates in the local time of the birth place.
The first period is listed at its full length, even if it began before birth. The balance_at_birth_years field shows how much of it was left at birth. Mangala is 1 year long. So a person born in it has little of it left to read.
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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