Sade Sati (Saturn transit) status
get_sade_satiCheck if Saturn's 7.5-year Sade Sati period is active for your birth Moon, including current phase, start/end dates, and upcoming phases. Computes based on birth date, time, and place.
Instructions
Returns a person's Sade Sati status -- Saturn's roughly 7.5-year passage over the sign before, the same as, and the sign after their natal Moon: whether it is currently active, the phase (rising / peak / setting) with its start and end dates, the phases still to come, the natal Moon rashi, Saturn's sign now, and dhaiya (small panoti) status. Use this for 'when does my sade sati start/end' and 'am I in shani sade sati' questions. This is Saturn-only; for where ALL nine grahas are transiting now (and their houses from the natal Moon) call get_transits. Read-only deterministic computation (Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsa); no writes, no auth, at least 30 requests/min/IP per server instance, plus a shared engine budget of at least 60/min/IP across all engine-backed tools. Dates are computed, not predicted -- no interpretation of what the period will bring is returned.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| place | No | Place as free text, "City, State, Country" -- e.g. "Jaipur, Rajasthan, India". Preferred input: it is geocoded to coordinates and an IANA timezone server-side, and any city worldwide works. Omit only if you pass latitude + longitude + timezone instead. | |
| latitude | No | Latitude in decimal degrees, -90 to 90, north positive (Delhi = 28.6139). Use only when `place` is omitted, and then longitude and timezone are required too. | |
| timezone | No | IANA timezone name, e.g. "Asia/Kolkata" or "America/New_York" (never an offset like "+05:30"). Required when latitude/longitude are used; ignored when `place` is given. | |
| longitude | No | Longitude in decimal degrees, -180 to 180, east positive (Delhi = 77.2090). Use only when `place` is omitted. | |
| as_of_date | No | Evaluate Saturn's position as of this date, YYYY-MM-DD, years 1200-2400. Omit for today. Use it to ask 'was I in sade sati in 2019' or 'will I be in 2031'. | |
| birth_date | Yes | Birth date in the Gregorian calendar as YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 1992-03-14. Years 1200-2400 only, and it must be a real calendar date (2023-02-29 is rejected). | |
| birth_time | Yes | Birth time on the local clock at the birth place, HH:MM in 24-hour format (00:00-23:59), e.g. 06:45 or 18:20. Not UTC. Required and not defaulted: the ascendant moves about one degree every four minutes, so a guessed time gives a guessed chart. |