Jupiter in Uttara Phalguni Nakshatra (Guru in उत्तर फाल्गुनी)

Uttara Phalguni, the 12th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 146°40′ – 160°00′ of the sidereal zodiac, across the boundary between Leo and Virgo. Uttara Phalguni is ruled by the Sun, so Jupiter in Uttara Phalguni stands in the Sun’s star.

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

Jupiter in Uttara Phalguni, Pada by Pada

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

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

When Jupiter Is in Uttara Phalguni, 2026–2028

• 4 November 2027: Jupiter enters Uttara Phalguni, and leaves on 25 March 2028 moving backwards — 142 days.
• 2 July 2028: Jupiter enters Uttara Phalguni, and leaves on 13 September 2028 — 73 days.

Those are the two spells Jupiter spends in Uttara Phalguni between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 215 days in all. Over the same span Jupiter stands in 8 of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Jupiter in Uttara Phalguni a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Uttara Phalguni: what the tables locate there for Jupiter

Of the ten complete spells Jupiter has in the table, in any nakshatra, the shortest is 62 days and the longest 152; the Uttara Phalguni spells, at 142 and 73 days, sit inside that range.

• 28 August 2028: Jupiter meets Mercury at 6° Virgo, in Uttara Phalguni pada 3.

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places one of Jupiter's stations in Uttara Phalguni. On 12 January 2028 Jupiter stations retrograde inside Uttara Phalguni, in pada 2. At a station Jupiter’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Uttara Phalguni.

Uttara Phalguni as the Setting for Jupiter

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

The Other Grahas in Uttara Phalguni