Jupiter in Uttara Ashadha Nakshatra (Guru in उत्तराषाढ़ा)

Uttara Ashadha, the 21st of the 27 nakshatras, covers 266°40′ – 280°00′ of the sidereal zodiac, across the boundary between Sagittarius and Capricorn. Uttara Ashadha is ruled by the Sun, so Jupiter in Uttara Ashadha stands in the Sun’s star.

Jupiter and the Sun count each other a friend, so in Uttara Ashadha the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras the Sun rules, Krittika and Uttara Phalguni, put Jupiter under the same star lord.

Jupiter in Uttara Ashadha, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Jupiter in Uttara Ashadha is in its own sign in pada 1 (Sagittarius) and debilitated in padas 2, 3 and 4 (Capricorn), because Uttara Ashadha crosses from Sagittarius into Capricorn. By navamsa the four padas fall in Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. Jupiter’s strongest navamsas in Uttara Ashadha are padas 1 (Sagittarius, in its own sign) and 4 (Pisces, in its own sign), and its weakest is pada 2 (Capricorn, debilitated).

Uttara Ashadha pada 1 is vargottama — Sagittarius in rashi and in navamsa — so Jupiter there is in its own sign on both counts. Uttara Ashadha pada 2 is vargottama — Capricorn in rashi and in navamsa — so Jupiter there is debilitated on both counts. Of the 108 padas only twelve are vargottama, one for each sign.

Jupiter’s deepest debilitation, 5° Capricorn in the classical table, falls inside Uttara Ashadha, in pada 3 (Capricorn 3°20′ – 6°40′, the Aquarius navamsa).

When Jupiter Is in Uttara Ashadha, 2026–2028

Jupiter does not enter Uttara Ashadha 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 Uttara Ashadha is 7 nakshatras further on. So Jupiter in Uttara Ashadha is, for these years, a birth-chart placement and not a transit anyone can wait for.

Uttara Ashadha as the Setting for Jupiter

In the nakshatra tables Uttara Ashadha’s deity is listed as Vishvedevas and its symbol as elephant tusk; its gana is Manushya, and the muhurta texts put it in the Dhruva class (fixed). Those belong to Uttara Ashadha whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Uttara Ashadha page. What changes with Jupiter is everything above: the dignities in Sagittarius and Capricorn, the relation to the Sun, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Jupiter in Uttara Ashadha; 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 Sagittarius and Jupiter in Capricorn; Jupiter in all 27 nakshatras is on the Jupiter nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and astrology for beginners.

The Other Grahas in Uttara Ashadha