Ketu in Purva Ashadha Nakshatra (Ketu in पूर्वाषाढ़ा)

Purva Ashadha, the 20th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 253°20′ – 266°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Sagittarius. Purva Ashadha is ruled by Venus, so Ketu in Purva Ashadha stands in Venus’s star.

Ketu’s row in the friendship lists counts Venus a friend; Venus’s row names no node, so the star lord of Purva Ashadha has no entry for Ketu, and this page does not supply one. The other two nakshatras Venus rules, Bharani and Purva Phalguni, put Ketu under the same star lord.

Ketu in Purva Ashadha, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Ketu is in a neutral sign in all four padas of Purva Ashadha, because the whole nakshatra lies in Sagittarius. By navamsa the four padas fall in Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. Ketu’s strongest navamsa in Purva Ashadha is pada 4 (Scorpio, exalted on the commoner reckoning), and its weakest is pada 1 (Leo, in an enemy's sign).

The classical table of deepest exaltation and debilitation degrees covers the seven grahas and gives Ketu none, so for Ketu in Purva Ashadha no degree of special dignity can be located; the sign-level verdicts above carry the hedge the planet pages use for Ketu.

When Ketu Is in Purva Ashadha, 2026–2028

Ketu does not enter Purva Ashadha at any point between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029. It stands in Purva Phalguni when the table opens and in Ardra when it closes, having visited 6 of the 27 nakshatras, and from Ardra Purva Ashadha is 13 nakshatras further, counted backwards, the way the nodes move. So Ketu in Purva Ashadha is, for these years, a birth-chart placement and not a transit anyone can wait for.

Purva Ashadha as the Setting for Ketu

In the nakshatra tables Purva Ashadha’s deity is listed as Apas and its symbol as fan; its gana is Manushya, and the muhurta texts put it in the Ugra class (fierce). Those belong to Purva Ashadha whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Purva Ashadha page. What changes with Ketu is everything above: the dignities in Sagittarius, the relation to Venus, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Ketu in Purva 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 Ketu in Sagittarius; Ketu in all 27 nakshatras is on the Ketu nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Purva Ashadha article.

The Other Grahas in Purva Ashadha