What do u mean by sade sati?and how do u know u hav it?!

What do u mean by sade sati?and how do u know u hav it?

It takes saturn 30 years approximately to traverse all the 12 signs (or make one complete round) of the zodiac.Thus it will be seen that saturn takes two and half years to transit one sign.Sadesati refers to the period of seven and half years which saturn takes to transit over the sign preceding one's Moonsign,the Moonsign itself and one sign after the Moonsign.Thus if one's Moonsign or what is known in popular parlance as raashi is 'Kark",the seven and half years during which saturn will transit over 'Mithun' (The sign immediately before Kark),'Kark' itself and 'Singh'(the sign immediately after Kark)will be the period of Sadesati.Thus for knowing whether one is passing through Sadesati or not one must know one's moonsign or Raashi. In astrology Moon relates to mind and Saturn is considered to be a dark planet without any light.Therefore the primary effect of Sadesati (or the transit of the dark saturn over the luminous moon)is on the mind itself,that is there may be dark thoughts,feeling of loneliness,a tendency towards depression etc.There are not much direct effects of sadesati on the material palne.If the Mahadasha and antardasha as also the other transits are good then sadesati may not preclude the native from getting even good results on the material plane.If however the Mahadash/antardasha as also the other transits are bad then sadesati would obviously enhance the bad results.Besides sadesati is a routine and in a normal lifespan of 80 years is going to come in the life of a person at leat twice or thrice.It is therefore not to be feared.It is said that saturn is a great teacher which hurts to heal.Sadesati should therefore be considered to be a period of self purification and nothing to fear.