Ashtama Shani is Saturn's transit of the 8th sign from your Moon sign, about two and a half years that are traditionally considered challenging.
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Your Rashi is the sidereal (Lahiri) sign of the Moon at birth. Ashtama Shani runs while Saturn is in the 8th sign counted from it, with your Rashi as the 1st. Saturn's sign entries come from Swiss Ephemeris, and stays split by a retrograde loop are kept as one period.
Once in each of Saturn's 29½-year rounds of the zodiac, so two to four times in a lifetime, for about two and a half years each time.
No. Sade Sati is Saturn in the 12th, 1st and 2nd sign from the Moon; Ashtama Shani is Saturn in the 8th. They never overlap.
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