Dashas (planetary periods)
Pingala yogini dasha in Vedic astrology
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Pingala yogini dasha: how the API computes it
Pingala is the second period of the Yogini dasha. It belongs to the Sun and lasts 2 years (YD-01). A life starts in Pingala when the Moon is in Punarvasu, Swati or Dhanishtha at birth (YD-02).
The name means a golden-brown color. Tradition treats the period as one that tests a person. It is linked to the Sun's themes of authority, health and ego. It is often read as a time of pressure at work or with those in charge. It follows Mangala and comes before Dhanya in the cycle of 36 years.
The API picks the first yogini from the birth nakshatra, or birth star (YD-02). It uses the same Moon position and balance as Vimshottari, the main 120-year dasha system. So the two systems agree about where a life begins (YD-03).
POST /v1/dasha/yogini returns two levels: periods and sub-periods. A third level would last only days, so the API does not return it (YD-04). The API does not mix the Yogini result with Vimshottari, and neither overrules the other (YD-05).
Show them as two views of the same life.
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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