Sade-Sathi (Shani Gochaara) - All you wanted to know about Transit of Saturn
Om! Gam! Ganapathaye! Namaha! Om! Sri Raghavendraya Namaha! Om! Namo! Bhagavathe! Vaasudevaya! Om! Ham! Hanumathe! Sri Rama Doothaya Namaha! Having understood from the previous posts the concept, significance, and general predictive technicalities of planetary transits (Gochaara) now, let us try to know more about the transit of Saturn the most dreaded and talked about Planet in Astrology. For easy understanding it is presented in the form of a questionnaire. What is the uniqueness of Shani Gochaara? Saturn popularly referred to in Hindu astrology as Shani Mahatma is the slowest moving planet among the Nava-Grahas. He is known as Mandha Graha (Sanaischara), the one who moves slowly. It takes almost 2 ½ years for Saturn to move from one sign to the other and 30 years to make one complete round of the zodiac. The results produced during Saturn’s transit good or bad are long lasting. Being a Karmic planet (Karmakaraka) Saturn’s influence on human beings i...