Venus Antardasha is the longest sub-period in the Mercury Mahadasha cluster at 2 years, 10 months, 0 days, and it's the one combination in this series where the friendship badge is fully mutual: Mercury's table names Venus a friend, and Venus's table names Mercury right back.

Ketu Antardasha runs for 11 months, 27 days within Mercury Mahadasha, and the site's neutral badge holds up under real scrutiny for once: Mercury's table simply has no entry for Ketu at all, while Ketu's own table independently lists Mercury as a genuine neutral, two different routes arriving at the same moderate verdict.

Mercury Mahadasha opens with Mercury's own Antardasha, 2 years, 4 months and 27 days (867 days) of undiluted Mercury themes, intellect, communication, trade, since this self-pairing's badge defaults to neutral. Worth noting early: across its whole friendship table, Mercury names only one enemy in the entire zodiac, the Moon.

Moon Antardasha closes out Mars Mahadasha over 0 years, 7 months, 0 days, and the badge reads "Naturally Supportive" because Mars calls the Moon a friend, but the Moon's own table only offers neutral back, the same pair examined from the opposite side in the Moon Mahadasha cluster.

Sun Antardasha runs a brief 0 years, 4 months, 6 days inside Mars Mahadasha, a genuine mutual friendship that closes the only fully reciprocal three-way alliance in the classical scheme, Sun, Mars and Jupiter, and the Sun itself reaches exaltation standing in Aries, one of Mars's own two signs.

Venus Antardasha runs 1 year, 2 months, 0 days inside Mars Mahadasha, the longest sub-period in this cluster, and a genuinely rare case in this whole content series: both planets' own tables call each other neutral, the first true double-neutral pairing found so far.

Ketu Antardasha runs exactly 0 years, 4 months, 27 days inside Mars Mahadasha, precisely as long as the Mars-Mars Antardasha that opened this cluster, and the neutral badge here quietly undersells a real friendship: Ketu's own table names Mars a friend.

Mercury Antardasha runs 0 years, 11 months, 27 days inside Mars Mahadasha, and the badge reads "Naturally Challenging" because Mars's own table lists Mercury as an enemy, but Mercury's own table doesn't return the hostility at all, it calls Mars merely neutral.

Saturn Antardasha runs 1 year, 1 month, 9 days inside Mars Mahadasha, the second-longest sub-period in this cluster after Venus's, and a genuine mutual enemy pairing, even though Mars finds its own highest exaltation sitting in Capricorn, one of Saturn's two home signs.

Jupiter Antardasha runs 0 years, 11 months, 6 days inside Mars Mahadasha, a genuine mutual friendship on both planets' own tables, and one leg of the only fully reciprocal three-way friendship in the classical scheme: Sun, Mars and Jupiter.

Rahu Antardasha runs 1 year, 0 months, 18 days inside Mars Mahadasha, and both planets' own friendship tables agree: this is a genuine mutual enemy pairing, the classical basis for what Jyotish texts call Angarak Yoga.

Mars Antardasha inside Mars Mahadasha runs exactly 4 months, 27 days (147 days), the very opening of the 7-year Mahadasha, bringing Mars's own courage, drive and heat forward with no second planet diluting the signal.