Module 10 · Lesson 10-5 · 15 min
A client under a two-and-a-half-year Saturn transit asks the sharpest question a beginner cannot answer: 'When, inside those years, are the hard months and when the easier ones?' The whole-sign bindu count graded the passage as one block. Kakshya splits that block into eight fine bands and shows the fortune switching on and off as Saturn creeps across them — a calendar hidden inside a single sign.
The mechanism reuses the bindus you already have. Each 3°45′ band is ruled by one of the eight contributors, in a fixed order; whether that ruler gave the sign a bindu in the transiting planet's chart decides whether the band is a good stretch or a lean one. The same numbers, read at higher resolution — and read by simple arithmetic: a degree, divided by 3°45′, names the band.
This lesson gives you the eight bands, their fixed lords, the on-off rule, and the honest durations — how long each band really lasts for Saturn and for Jupiter — bounded, as all fine timing is, by the accuracy of the birth time.
By the end: Convert any transit longitude within a sign into its kakshya band (0 to 7, each 3°45′), name the ruling lord in the fixed Saturn-to-Lagna order, decide from the transiting planet's bindu whether that stretch is favourable, and place the durations honestly — month-scale for Saturn, weeks for Jupiter — within the birth-time ceiling.
Each 30° sign divides into eight kakshyas ('compartments') of 3°45′ each (30 ÷ 8). To find the band for a transit longitude, divide the degrees-within-sign by 3°45′ and take the whole number: 0° starts band 1, and a degree like 11.25° opens band 4. A boundary degree belongs to the band it opens.
A planet at 10° of a sign is in the third band (7°30′ to 11°15′).
The eight kakshyas are ruled in a fixed sequence from 0°: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Lagna — the eight contributors, one per band. So band 1 (0°–3°45′) is Saturn's, band 4 (11°15′–15°) is the Sun's, band 6 (18°45′–22°30′) is Mercury's. The order never changes; only which bands carry a bindu varies by chart and transiting planet.
11.5° in a sign: 11.5 ÷ 3.75 = 3.07, so band 4 — the Sun's kakshya.
As the planet crosses a band, check whether that band's ruling contributor gave a bindu to this sign in the TRANSITING planet's chart. Bindu present: the stretch is favourable and the transit delivers. Bindu absent: the stretch is flat or difficult. The transit's fortune switches band by band — good stretches and lean ones alternating across the sign.
If Jupiter gave the sign a bindu, the Jupiter band (3°45′–7°30′) is a good stretch of a Jupiter transit.
Honest durations
How long a band lasts depends on the planet's speed. Saturn, crossing a sign in about two and a half years, spends roughly 3.4 months in each kakshya — a season per band. Jupiter, a year to a sign, spends about six to seven weeks per band. So kakshya timing is month-scale for Saturn and weeks for Jupiter — never days. The fast planets sweep a band too quickly for it to matter.
A lean Saturn band is a hard stretch of months; a good Jupiter band, a favourable spell of weeks.
Kakshya narrows a slow transit finer than the dasha ladder reaches on its own (n78). Stacked with the pratyantardasha and a double transit, a bindu-carrying kakshya crossing a hot house is the tightest event window ashtakavarga and the dasha together can name — the good months inside the good years.
A double transit landing in a bindu-rich Saturn band of a hot house pinpoints the event's months.
A band is under 4° wide, so its timing shifts if the birth time (and thus the whole-sign framing and any degree work behind it) is off by even a little. Trust kakshya to sharpen a transit's good and lean stretches to the scale above — months for Saturn, weeks for Jupiter — and go finer only on a rectified time. Honesty about the ceiling is part of the technique.
Confident month-and-week kakshya calls need a birth time good to a few minutes.
The one idea to keep
Divide the transit degree by 3°45′ for the band, read its lord in the fixed Saturn-to-Lagna order, and check whether that lord gave the sign a bindu in the transiting planet's chart: present, the stretch is favourable; absent, lean. Month-scale for Saturn, weeks for Jupiter — the finest ashtakavarga timing, honest to the birth time.
One 30° sign split into eight bands of 3°45′, ruled from 0° in the fixed order: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Lagna. A transit's degree lands it in one band; whether that band's lord gave the sign a bindu decides the stretch.
Switch to the kakshya view and enter a transit degree. The lab places it in one of the eight bands (each 3°45′), names the ruling lord in the Saturn-to-Lagna order, and reports whether that lord gave the current sign a bindu. Enter a few degrees and watch the band and lord change — the arithmetic of degree ÷ 3°45′ made visible.
Priya’s Sarvashtakavarga totals 337 (always 337 across the twelve signs). Signs above 30 bindus (green) are strong ground; below 25 (red) are weak. Tap a cell to select a sign — Aries carries 26 bindus.
A planet transits 5° of a sign. Divide by 3°45′ to find the band — which kakshya lord governs that stretch?
5 ÷ 3.75 = 1.33, so take the whole number for the band index from 0.
A transiting planet reaches 20° of its sign. Which band is it in, and who rules it?
20 ÷ 3.75 = 5.33 — take the whole number and count from the first band.
A slow planet enters its Mars kakshya (7°30′–11°15′). In the transiting planet's own chart, Mars did NOT grant this sign a bindu. What is this stretch?
Bindu present or absent — which way does the on-off rule go?
How long does a single kakshya band take a slow planet to cross, and on what scale should you frame it?
Think of Saturn's ~2.5 years per sign and Jupiter's ~1 year, each divided by eight.
6 cards added to your recall deck. First review: tomorrow.
Five fresh kakshya reads — divide the degree, name the lord, apply the on-off rule, place the duration honestly.
5 minutes · 5 questions · pass at 4/5.