sade sati
साढ़ेसाती sāḍhesātīThe 'seven and a half' years during which Saturn transits the sign before, the sign of, and the sign after a person's natal Moon; held in jyotisha to be a testing period of discipline and the ripening of karma.
Where this term appears
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
…w of apamrityu , untimely death, or during the long, testing years of Sade Sati when Saturn presses on the birth-moon, or against the afflictions the tradition calls the eclipse-flaw and the serpent-flaw.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
People who cannot name a single verse of scripture know which planet rules the day they were born, which stone they have been told to wear, and what the seven and a half years of Sade Sati did to their family.