yuti · Budh–Guru
Mercury–Jupiter Conjunction: Every Meeting, 2026 to 2028
5 meetings · Cancer, Leo and Virgo
Between 2026 and 2028 the site’s DE421 table records five conjunctions of Mercury and Jupiter — days on which the two share a sidereal longitude — in Cancer, Leo and Virgo. Successive meetings come 19 to 374 days apart.
Mercury counts Jupiter neutral, while Jupiter counts Mercury an enemy: for Mercury–Jupiter the table is not symmetric. In three of the five meetings the sign belongs to one of the pair itself (Virgo, 28 August 2028, Virgo, 3 October 2028 and Virgo, 22 October 2028).
The Five Meetings
| Day | Sign, degree | Nakshatra | Mercury | Jupiter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2026 | Cancer 15° | Pushya 4 | in an enemy's sign | exalted |
| 20 August 2027 | Leo 10° | Magha 4 | in a friend's sign | in a friend's sign |
| 28 August 2028 | Virgo 6° | Uttara Phalguni (near a pada edge) | exalted | in an enemy's sign |
| 3 October 2028 | Virgo 14° | Hasta 2 | exalted, retrograde | in an enemy's sign |
| 22 October 2028 | Virgo 18° | Hasta 3 | exalted | in an enemy's sign |
The dignity columns are each graha’s standing in the sign of the meeting, as the planet-in-sign pages give it; the nakshatra is the one the shared longitude falls in. “Retrograde” marks a meeting inside one of the graha’s retrograde windows. For Mercury–Jupiter every date is a day, not a time: the table does carry a minute, but the site publishes a conjunction to the day, the resolution independent tables agree on.
A conjunction in the sky touches every chart at once, in whichever house that sign falls for it; it is not a reading of anyone’s chart. For Mercury and Jupiter in a birth chart, see the Mercury and Jupiter pages, and for how grahas are read together, astrology for beginners and what Vedic astrology is.