Mars in Purva Phalguni Nakshatra (Mangal in पूर्व फाल्गुनी)

Purva Phalguni, the 11th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 133°20′ – 146°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Leo. Purva Phalguni is ruled by Venus, so Mars in Purva Phalguni stands in Venus’s star.

Mars and Venus count each other neutral, so in Purva Phalguni the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras Venus rules, Bharani and Purva Ashadha, put Mars under the same star lord.

Mars in Purva Phalguni, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Mars is in a friend's sign in all four padas of Purva Phalguni, because the whole nakshatra lies in Leo. By navamsa the four padas fall in Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. Mars’s strongest navamsa in Purva Phalguni is pada 4 (Scorpio, in its own sign), and its weakest is pada 2 (Virgo, in an enemy's sign).

Purva Phalguni pada 1 is vargottama — Leo in rashi and in navamsa — so Mars there is in a friend's sign on both counts. Of the 108 padas only twelve are vargottama, one for each sign.

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

When Mars Is in Purva Phalguni, 2026–2028

• 19 December 2026: Mars enters Purva Phalguni, and leaves on 31 January 2027 moving backwards — 43 days.
• 2 June 2027: Mars enters Purva Phalguni, and leaves on 29 June 2027 — 27 days.
• 6 November 2028: Mars enters Purva Phalguni, and leaves on 2 December 2028 — 26 days.

Those are the three spells Mars spends in Purva Phalguni between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 96 days in all. Over the same span Mars stands in every one of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Mars in Purva Phalguni a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Purva Phalguni: what the tables locate there for Mars

Of the 49 complete spells Mars has in the table, in any nakshatra, the shortest is 16 days and the longest 47; the Purva Phalguni spells, at 43, 27 and 26 days, sit inside that range.

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places one of Mars's stations in Purva Phalguni. On 10 January 2027 Mars stations retrograde inside Purva Phalguni, in pada 1. At a station Mars’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Purva Phalguni.

Purva Phalguni as the Setting for Mars

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

The Other Grahas in Purva Phalguni