Dashas (planetary periods)
Siddha yogini dasha in Vedic astrology
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Siddha yogini dasha: how the API computes it
Siddha is the seventh period of the Yogini dasha. It belongs to Venus and lasts 7 years, the second longest of the eight (YD-01). A life starts in Siddha when the Moon is in Rohini, Uttara Phalguni or Purva Ashadha at birth (YD-02).
The name means accomplished or perfected. Tradition reads the period as a good one, tied to Venus's themes of love, money, art and comfort. It follows Ulka and comes before Sankata, the last yogini.
At 7 years, it is long enough to cover a clear stretch of life. Examples are a marriage or a move to a new home. POST /v1/dasha/yogini returns the periods and sub-periods with start and end dates.
What a Siddha period brings a person depends on their chart. So read the sub-periods and the condition of Venus next. The API works out the whole Yogini calendar from the Moon's nakshatra (birth star) at birth. It uses the same balance at birth as Vimshottari (YD-03).
Siddha may be the period running at birth. A baby born near its start then lives almost all seven years of it. One born near its end may have only months left.
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) |
| GET | /v1/panchang/month | Panchang calendar for a month, with festivals and fasts |
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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