Jwalamukhi Yoga 2026-2027: Dates, Times and the Rule

Jwalamukhi Yoga is a meeting of two limbs of the panchang and nothing else: one of five named tithis while the Moon is in the one nakshatra paired with it. Read off the ephemeris, the pairs meet eleven times between today, 28 October 2026, and 8 January 2028, where the site’s computed spans stop. The first is on the night of Wednesday 9 December 2026, from 21:00 until 08:46 the next morning, and it is the only one left in 2026; the other ten fall in 2027.

The Five Pairs and Where They Are Printed

The rule circulates as a Hindi couplet that north-Indian almanacs quote. Its first half names the pairs: पड़वा मूल, पंचमी भरणी, आठें कृत्तिका, नवमी रोहिणी, दशमी अश्लेषा. In order, that is Pratipada with Moola, Panchami with Bharani, Ashtami with Krittika, Navami with Rohini and Dashami with Ashlesha. The couplet says nothing about the paksha, so this page computes the bright and the dark fortnight alike and keeps them apart in every table. Those almanacs list the combination among the inauspicious yogas to be passed over when choosing a time to begin work. No older Sanskrit text that uses the name Jwalamukhi is known to this site, and the page does not supply one.

There is no weekday in the rule. That sets it apart from Dwipushkar and Tripushkar, which need a weekday as well, from Amrit Siddhi, a weekday with a nakshatra, and from Dagdha tithi, a weekday with a tithi. A Jwalamukhi window is therefore a single stretch of sky time and is not cut at sunrise.

Jwalamukhi Yoga Dates, 28 October 2026 to January 2028

The tithi and nakshatra instants come from the JPL DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa, in IST, and are the same for the whole of India. Only the vaar and the sunrise column are local: they use New Delhi’s sunrises from the daily panchang. The nearest any window edge comes to a New Delhi sunrise is 51 minutes, on 19 June 2027, where the window opens after the sun is up, so a town would need a sunrise that much later than Delhi’s for that row to change.

Why the Shukla Windows Come December to April and the Krishna Ones June to October

Look down the table and the pakshas sort themselves by season. The six Shukla windows fall in December, February, March and April; the five Krishna windows fall in June, August, September and October. That follows from what a tithi and a nakshatra each measure. A tithi is a band of 12° in the Moon’s lead over the Sun; a nakshatra is a band of 13°20′ in the Moon’s own sidereal longitude. Fix both and the Sun’s position is fixed too, to within an arc 25°20′ wide: the Sun has to lie between the nakshatra’s start less the tithi’s end and the nakshatra’s end less the tithi’s start. A Krishna tithi is the same lead plus 180°, so its arc is the Shukla arc on the far side of the zodiac, half a year away.

The Sun positions are sidereal, from the site’s Meeus series with the same ayanamsa, and the build checks that every window’s Sun sits inside its arc. The Pratipada-Moola pair shows the arc at work: it opens the range with the Sun at Scorpio 23°35′ and closes it at Sagittarius 11°40′, both inside one arc. Twelve lunar months fall about 11 days short of the Sun’s year and thirteen overrun it by about 19, so a tithi creeps back through the zodiac year on year and jumps forward when the count runs to thirteen. These two are thirteen lunar months apart, 383 days, and the second sits about 18° further along. Two pairs sit next to each other in both lists: Ashtami and Navami are consecutive tithis, and Krittika and Rohini are consecutive nakshatras, so their arcs nearly coincide and their windows arrive a day apart, here on 14 and 15 February, and 24 and 25 August.

Roughly Once a Year, Never Twice: A 1950-2050 Count

An arc of 25°20′ is a little narrower than the Sun’s travel from one new moon to the next, which over these years is never less than 27° and never more than 31°. So one passage of the Sun through a pair’s arc can hold that tithi at most once, and in some passages the tithi falls just outside it. To count how that works out, the page runs the same Meeus series over 101 years, 1950 to 2050. Over the DE421 range it finds the same eleven windows as the table above, with start and length within four minutes of the ephemeris.

Each combination comes between 86 times (Shukla Navami with Rohini) and 95 times (Krishna Pratipada with Moola) in 101 years, 907 windows in all. None comes twice in one calendar year. The gap between one window and the next of the same kind is twelve or thirteen lunar months, 354 days at the shortest, or, where a passage is missed, 25 lunar months, 739 days at the longest; the century holds 97 such gaps. The two neighbouring pairs keep each other company: Krittika with Ashtami comes without a Rohini-Navami window within two days only four times in 182, while every Rohini-Navami window has a Krittika-Ashtami one beside it. Twelve of the century’s windows last under a quarter of an hour; at that size a different ephemeris could add or remove one, which is why the counts are given for the pattern and not as exact for any single year outside the table.

How Long the Windows Last, and Which a Sunrise Calendar Sees

A window opens when the later of tithi and nakshatra arrives and closes when the earlier of them leaves. Across the table the tithi opens eight windows and the nakshatra three; the tithi closes three and the nakshatra eight. Every Krishna window runs from the start of the tithi to the end of the nakshatra, while the Shukla windows go both ways, three of the six opened by the tithi and three closed by it. The longest, and the only one to reach twenty hours, is 20 h 05 min of Shukla Panchami with Bharani from 12 March; four last under twelve hours. The shortest stands apart: 3 h 24 min in the small hours of 28 December 2027, under half the 9 h 48 min of the next shortest.

Seven of the eleven windows hold at a New Delhi sunrise, and none holds at two. The other four, on 19 June, 20 September, 24 October and 28 December, begin after sunrise or end before it, so a calendar that prints one tithi and one nakshatra per day, both read at sunrise, never shows the pair on those dates. The site’s muhurat pages work that way, and they do not test the couplet. Run on the seven sunrises that fall inside a window, all ten of their occasion filters already reject the day on its tithi or nakshatra: Moola, Bharani, Krittika and Ashlesha are in none of the occasions’ nakshatra sets, and Rohini’s partner Navami is a Rikta tithi (Chaturthi, Navami and Chaturdashi are the three), which those filters exclude. The four windows that miss a sunrise are outside what such a filter can see.

A Verse That Limits Tithi-Nakshatra Kuyogas to Three Lands

The Muhurta Chintamani, the handbook of electional rules by Rama, son of Ananta Daivajna, has a verse on exactly this class of combination (Shubhashubha Prakarana, verse 31): कुयोगास्तिथिवारोत्थास्तिथिभोत्था भवारजाः । हूणबङ्गखशेष्वेव वर्ज्यास्त्रितयजास्तथा ॥ Word for word: kuyogas arising from tithi and weekday, from tithi and nakshatra, and from nakshatra and weekday are to be avoided in the Huna, Banga and Khasha lands only, and likewise those born of all three. The verse names no individual kuyoga and does not mention Jwalamukhi, but a tithi-and-nakshatra pairing is the second kind it lists, and the word “only” (एव) is what restricts the avoidance to those regions. That is the verse’s position, reported as it stands. The same text’s list of tithi lords is read word by word on another page.

What This Page Does Not Give

It gives no effects. The couplet’s second half lists what it holds will follow from the combination, and that half is left out on purpose: a timetable of tithis and nakshatras can show when two limbs overlap, but nothing in it can check a claim about what happens to the people or places involved. For the same reason there is no list of things to do or to avoid during a window, and no remedy.

In Brief

• Jwalamukhi Yoga: Pratipada with Moola, Panchami with Bharani, Ashtami with Krittika, Navami with Rohini and Dashami with Ashlesha, in either paksha, with no weekday involved.
• Eleven windows from 28 October 2026 to 8 January 2028: one in 2026, on 9 December, and the rest in 2027.
• Shukla windows fall in December, February, March and April, Krishna ones in June, August, September and October, because each pair needs the Sun in one 25°20′ arc and the Krishna arcs lie opposite the Shukla ones.
• Over 1950-2050 each combination comes 86 to 95 times in 101 years, never twice in a calendar year.
• Lengths run from 3 h 24 min to 20 h 05 min; four windows hold at no sunrise and are invisible to a sunrise-only calendar.
• The Muhurta Chintamani confines the avoidance of two-limb kuyogas to the Huna, Banga and Khasha lands.

Related Pages

The daily panchang prints the tithi and nakshatra at New Delhi sunrise for each day of 2026 and 2027, though not the time either one changes, so it can show a pair at sunrise but not a window that opens later in the day. How the five limbs of a day fit together is on the panchang guide, the nakshatras are introduced in the 27 nakshatras guide, and the Rikta and other tithi groups are set out in the five tithi groups. The weekday-and-nakshatra pairing that almanacs treat as favourable for most beginnings is Sarvartha Siddhi. In Hindi: ज्वालामुखी योग 2026-2027: तारीखें, समय और नियम.