Fine tuning predictions, Dasha plus Transit

Check out your main and sub periods from your vedic astrology software. eg Vimshottari
Dasha system, you are in the Saturn Mahadasha, Venus Antardasha. Saturn Mahadasha
continues for 19 years and in this this is the Venus sub-period is about 2yrs 9 mths. So you
should be analysing Saturn for 19yrs and Venus specifically for 2yrs 9mths. During this
time you should be aware of what Saturn and Venus are upto in the current skies. Their
transit positions, combustion, retrograde, conjunction/aspects with other planets. You are
interested in the movements of these two planets in the transit as they directly affect you.

When this planet transits the signs owned by his enemies or his sign of debilitation or gets
combust he will be unable to give auspicious results in his period.

Eg For Saturn this would be when he transits signs owned by enemies, Leo, Cancer, Aries
(also debilitated) and Scorpio. He will get combust once a year for about 25days. So during
these times during the 19yrs Mahadasha he will be unable to express himself fully.
Eg for Venus, this would be during this transits in Cancer and Leo the signs ruled by
enemies. He will get combust once a year for about 20days. Look out for these transits
during his Saturn-Venus 2yr 9mth sub-period.

Now when the owner of a time period is in his own signs, his sign of exaltation or in signs
of friendly planets naturally he will give auspicious effects. Even during retrogression, he
can give good results as during this period he allows re-thinking and revising, so you are
able to take more considered decisions.

Eg For Saturn this would be when he transits Capricorn, Aquarius, Gemini, Virgo, Taurus
and Libra (also exalted). He will get retrograde once a year for about 3-4 mths.
Eg for Venus, this would be during transits in Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Taurus, Capricorn,
Aquarius and Pisces (exalted). He will get retrograde once a year for about 3-4 mths.

In all this keep track of Saturn’s and Venus’s interactions with each other in the current
skies. We are comparing their real time transit interactions with each other.

Eg If they go in the 6/8 or 2/12 axis then their ability to mutually interact gets
compromised. Eg if Saturn is in Gemini and Venus is in Taurus its a 2/12 axis. Or if Venus is
in Virgo and Saturn is in Aries 6/8 axis.

This is how the potential of the promise of the Dasha is fine-tuned using the transits. Do
appreciate the difficulty of predicting pin-point events. So if you want to see how the
Saturn Mahadasha-Venus sub-period is going to be, you need to know the potential of the
birth chart, then track the movements of Saturn and Venus throughout the 2yrs and 9mths
in the future. You have software, panchangam and ephemeris to help you but still it will
take time, a few hours or more.