Gandmool Nakshatra Dates, November 2026 to December 2027

Gandmool (गंडमूल) is the name for six of the twenty-seven nakshatras, the three pairs that sit on either side of the points where a water sign ends and a fire sign begins. The Moon passes through each pair in about two days, and it reaches one of the three pairs roughly every nine days. A stretch was already under way when this page was published: the Moon has been in Revati–Ashwini since 24 October and leaves at 17:41 on Monday, 26 October 2026. The next begins on Monday, 2 November 2026 at 04:30, when the Moon enters Ashlesha. The table below runs to the Jyeshtha–Moola stretch of 26–28 December 2027.

The Six Nakshatras and the Three Seams

Read off the site’s nakshatra table, each pair is one nakshatra that closes a water sign at 30°00′ and the one that opens the following fire sign at 0°00′:

• Ashlesha (आश्लेषा), Cancer 16°40′ – 30°00′, then Magha (मघा), Leo 0°00′ – 13°20′
• Jyeshtha (ज्येष्ठा), Scorpio 16°40′ – 30°00′, then Moola (मूल), Sagittarius 0°00′ – 13°20′
• Revati (रेवती), Pisces 16°40′ – 30°00′, then Ashwini (अश्विनी), Aries 0°00′ – 13°20′

The lords fall out the same way at all three seams: Mercury rules every water-side nakshatra and Ketu every fire-side one. The kundli page sets out what that means for the lordship scheme as a whole. Some texts narrow the junction further, to the last quarter (pada) of the water-side nakshatra and the first quarter of the fire-side one, 3°20′ each way, and call that narrower strip gandanta. This page lists the full two-nakshatra stretches, which take in every nakshatra the Gandmool name covers.

Gandmool Dates and Times, 26 October 2026 to December 2027

The times are Indian Standard Time and hold for the whole country, because the Moon reaches a nakshatra boundary at one instant everywhere. The middle column is the moment it passes from the water sign into the fire sign, from Ashlesha into Magha, Jyeshtha into Moola and Revati into Ashwini. Each instant was computed from NASA JPL’s DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa and cut to the minute. The list was then checked against the site’s daily panchang in both directions: of the 433 New Delhi sunrises from 24 October 2026 to 31 December 2027, the 95 that fall inside a stretch all carry one of the six nakshatras in the daily table, and no sunrise outside a stretch does. One sunrise was left out of that count: on 17 December 2027 New Delhi’s sunrise and the Moon’s entry into Ashlesha fall in the same minute, 07:07, and values cut to the minute cannot say which comes first, so the table marks that morning undecided.

Gandmool Month by Month

A stretch that crosses a month end is listed under both months. Eight months touch four stretches rather than three: November 2026, December 2026, February 2027, March 2027, May 2027, June 2027, August 2027 and November 2027.

• October 2026: 24–26 October (Revati–Ashwini)
• November 2026: 2–4 November (Ashlesha–Magha); 11–13 November (Jyeshtha–Moola); 21–23 November (Revati–Ashwini); 29 November – 1 December (Ashlesha–Magha)
• December 2026: 29 November – 1 December (Ashlesha–Magha); 8–10 December (Jyeshtha–Moola); 18–20 December (Revati–Ashwini); 26–28 December (Ashlesha–Magha)
• January 2027: 5–7 January (Jyeshtha–Moola); 14–16 January (Revati–Ashwini); 23–25 January (Ashlesha–Magha)
• February 2027: 1–3 February (Jyeshtha–Moola); 11–13 February (Revati–Ashwini); 19–21 February (Ashlesha–Magha); 28 February – 2 March (Jyeshtha–Moola)
• March 2027: 28 February – 2 March (Jyeshtha–Moola); 10–12 March (Revati–Ashwini); 19–20 March (Ashlesha–Magha); 27–30 March (Jyeshtha–Moola)
• April 2027: 6–8 April (Revati–Ashwini); 15–17 April (Ashlesha–Magha); 24–26 April (Jyeshtha–Moola)
• May 2027: 4–6 May (Revati–Ashwini); 12–14 May (Ashlesha–Magha); 21–23 May (Jyeshtha–Moola); 31 May – 2 June (Revati–Ashwini)
• June 2027: 31 May – 2 June (Revati–Ashwini); 8–10 June (Ashlesha–Magha); 17–20 June (Jyeshtha–Moola); 27–29 June (Revati–Ashwini)
• July 2027: 6–8 July (Ashlesha–Magha); 15–17 July (Jyeshtha–Moola); 25–27 July (Revati–Ashwini)
• August 2027: 2–4 August (Ashlesha–Magha); 11–13 August (Jyeshtha–Moola); 21–23 August (Revati–Ashwini); 30–31 August (Ashlesha–Magha)
• September 2027: 7–9 September (Jyeshtha–Moola); 17–19 September (Revati–Ashwini); 26–28 September (Ashlesha–Magha)
• October 2027: 5–7 October (Jyeshtha–Moola); 14–16 October (Revati–Ashwini); 23–25 October (Ashlesha–Magha)
• November 2027: 1–3 November (Jyeshtha–Moola); 11–13 November (Revati–Ashwini); 20–21 November (Ashlesha–Magha); 28–30 November (Jyeshtha–Moola)
• December 2027: 8–10 December (Revati–Ashwini); 17–19 December (Ashlesha–Magha); 26–28 December (Jyeshtha–Moola)

Birth Time, Not the Calendar Day

In the tradition the site’s nakshatra table records, a child born while the Moon is in one of these six nakshatras is the case that calls for a Gandmool shanti. That makes the minute of birth the thing to check, not the date. A wall calendar marks each day with the nakshatra in force at sunrise, and a stretch rarely lines up with sunrises. Thirty-four of the forty-six stretches still to come, leaving aside the undecided December 2027 morning, begin after sunrise on their first date, so the panchang for that date prints the nakshatra before, even though a birth later that day falls inside the stretch.

The July 2027 Ashlesha–Magha stretch shows the gap most clearly. It begins at 06:33 on 6 July, after that day’s sunrise, and ends at 01:55 on 8 July, before the next one, so it touches three dates but a New Delhi calendar marks only 7 July. Three stretches hold a single sunrise in this way: 21–23 November 2026, 23–25 January 2027 and 6–8 July 2027. At the other end, three begin before a sunrise and end after the second one following it, and so hold three: 1–3 February 2027, 15–17 July 2027 and 25–27 July 2027.

Near the ends of a stretch, a few minutes decide the matter. The instants above are cut to the minute and use one ayanamsa; an almanac using a slightly different ayanamsa will move each of them by a few minutes. For a birth close to one of these times, the reliable answer is a chart cast for the recorded time and place, which the free kundli and the nakshatra finder both give.

Why the Scorpio–Sagittarius Seam Takes Longest

Every stretch covers the same arc, two nakshatras of 13°20′ each, so its length depends only on how fast the Moon is moving at the time, and the Moon’s speed along the zodiac is not constant. Across these months the difference is consistent. All sixteen Jyeshtha–Moola stretches run between 50 hours 50 minutes and 53 hours 58 minutes, longer than any of the others. Ashlesha–Magha runs between 42 hours 27 minutes and 46 hours 56 minutes, and Revati–Ashwini between 45 hours 9 minutes and 50 hours 33 minutes. Over the span of this table, then, the Moon is at its slowest when it crosses from Scorpio into Sagittarius.

Within a stretch, the seam falls close to the middle: in no row do the water-side and fire-side halves differ by more than 50 minutes. Between one stretch and the next there are always seven other nakshatras for the Moon to cross, which takes between 6 days 5 hours and 7 days 19 hours.

The Moon’s Return to the Same Pair

The Moon comes back to any given nakshatra once every sidereal month. In this table, the seam crossings of the same pair are 27 days plus 5 hours 22 minutes to 27 days plus 11 hours 14 minutes apart, so the next row for the same pair, three rows down, shows when the Moon is next in the nakshatra of a given birth. Families who time a shanti to that return can read the dates from there; which rite to perform, and on which day, is a question for the family’s own priest. This page gives the dates and attaches no reading to a birth in any of these stretches.

Related Pages

Four of the six have their own guides on the blog: Ashwini, Magha, Moola and Revati. All twenty-seven are introduced together in the 27 nakshatras guide, and the sunrise-by-sunrise record of each is under the panchang nakshatra pages. The same generator gives the Moon’s other monthly passages on the Panchak list and the Guru and Ravi Pushya dates. In Hindi: गंडमूल नक्षत्र कब है: नवम्बर 2026 से दिसम्बर 2027 तक.