Jupiter in Rohini Nakshatra (Guru in रोहिणी)

Rohini, the 4th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 40°00′ – 53°20′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Taurus. Rohini is ruled by the Moon, so Jupiter in Rohini stands in the Moon’s star.

Jupiter counts the Moon a friend, while the Moon counts Jupiter neutral. The table is not symmetric, so Jupiter in Rohini has to be described from both sides, as it is here. The other two nakshatras the Moon rules, Hasta and Shravana, put Jupiter under the same star lord.

Jupiter in Rohini, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Jupiter is in an enemy's sign in all four padas of Rohini, because the whole nakshatra lies in Taurus. By navamsa the four padas fall in Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. Jupiter’s strongest navamsa in Rohini is pada 4 (Cancer, exalted), and its weakest are padas 2 (Taurus, in an enemy's sign) and 3 (Gemini, in an enemy's sign).

Rohini pada 2 is vargottama — Taurus in rashi and in navamsa — so Jupiter there is in an enemy'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 Rohini, and Jupiter’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Rohini the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of Jupiter’s dignity.

When Jupiter Is in Rohini, 2026–2028

Jupiter does not enter Rohini 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 Rohini is 17 nakshatras further on. So Jupiter in Rohini is, for these years, a birth-chart placement and not a transit anyone can wait for.

Inside Rohini: 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 Rohini. On 4 February 2025 Jupiter stations direct inside Rohini, in pada 3. At a station Jupiter’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Rohini.

Rohini as the Setting for Jupiter

In the nakshatra tables Rohini’s deity is listed as Brahma and its symbol as cart; its gana is Manushya, and the muhurta texts put it in the Dhruva class (fixed). Those belong to Rohini whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Rohini page. What changes with Jupiter is everything above: the dignities in Taurus, the relation to the Moon, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Jupiter in Rohini; 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 Taurus; Jupiter in all 27 nakshatras is on the Jupiter nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Rohini article.

The Other Grahas in Rohini