Which planetary period you are in now, down to the third level, with the dates each one starts and ends.
Anchored to the Moon's exact nakshatra position at birth
The Vimshottari cycle runs 120 years and is cut three times over. The mahadasha is the major period, six to twenty years depending on the planet. Inside it the antardasha (bhukti) divides the same 120-year proportions again, and inside that the pratyantardasha splits it once more, down to weeks. All three are listed below with start and end dates in full, not just the one running now.
What this does not do: tell you what will happen. A period is a lens, not an event. Anyone selling mahadasha predictions with dates attached is selling confidence, not astronomy.
The Vimshottari cycle is anchored to how far the Moon had already travelled through its nakshatra when you were born. That fraction decides how much of the first period was already spent, which shifts every date that follows. A birth time wrong by a few hours can move the whole timeline by months.
A 120-year cycle split between nine planetary rulers, each ruling for a fixed span — Venus 20 years, Saturn 19, Mercury 17, and so on. Where you enter the cycle depends on the Moon's exact position at birth, so two people born the same day can be in different periods.
Each mahadasha divides into antardashas in the same nine-planet order, and those divide again into pratyantardashas. The sub-period is usually what makes a long mahadasha feel different from one year to the next.
No, and this page will not tell you that it does. A dasha describes which themes are emphasised in a stretch of time. Treat it as a lens on a period, not as a schedule of events.