Jupiter in Anuradha Nakshatra (Guru in अनुराधा)

Anuradha, the 17th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 213°20′ – 226°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Scorpio. Anuradha is ruled by Saturn, so Jupiter in Anuradha stands in Saturn’s star.

Jupiter and Saturn count each other neutral, so in Anuradha the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras Saturn rules, Pushya and Uttara Bhadrapada, put Jupiter under the same star lord.

Jupiter in Anuradha, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Jupiter is in a friend's sign in all four padas of Anuradha, because the whole nakshatra lies in Scorpio. By navamsa the four padas fall in Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. Jupiter’s strongest navamsas in Anuradha are padas 1 (Leo, in a friend's sign) and 4 (Scorpio, in a friend's sign), and its weakest are padas 2 (Virgo, in an enemy's sign) and 3 (Libra, in an enemy's sign).

Anuradha pada 4 is vargottama — Scorpio in rashi and in navamsa — so Jupiter there is in a friend's sign on both counts. Of the 108 padas only twelve are vargottama, one for each sign.

Neither Jupiter’s deepest exaltation (Cancer) nor its deepest debilitation (Capricorn) degree falls inside Anuradha, and Jupiter’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Anuradha the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of Jupiter’s dignity.

When Jupiter Is in Anuradha, 2026–2028

Jupiter does not enter Anuradha at any point between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029. It stands in Punarvasu when the table opens and in Chitra when it closes, having visited 8 of the 27 nakshatras, and from Chitra Anuradha is 3 nakshatras further on. So Jupiter in Anuradha is, for these years, a birth-chart placement and not a transit anyone can wait for.

Inside Anuradha: what the tables locate there for Jupiter

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places one of Jupiter's stations in Anuradha. On 13 March 2030 Jupiter stations retrograde at the edge of Anuradha, close enough that the nakshatra depends on the ayanamsa. At a station Jupiter’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Anuradha.

Anuradha as the Setting for Jupiter

In the nakshatra tables Anuradha’s deity is listed as Mitra and its symbol as lotus; its gana is Deva, and the muhurta texts put it in the Mridu class (tender). Those belong to Anuradha whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Anuradha page. What changes with Jupiter is everything above: the dignities in Scorpio, the relation to Saturn, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Jupiter in Anuradha; the house it occupies and the dasha running decide what the placement does in a chart.

Related Placements

The sign-level reading is on Jupiter in Scorpio; Jupiter in all 27 nakshatras is on the Jupiter nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Anuradha article.

The Other Grahas in Anuradha