Mars in Pushya Nakshatra (Mangal in पुष्य)

Pushya, the 8th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 93°20′ – 106°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Cancer. Pushya is ruled by Saturn, so Mars in Pushya stands in Saturn’s star.

Mars counts Saturn neutral, while Saturn counts Mars an enemy. The table is not symmetric, so Mars in Pushya has to be described from both sides, as it is here. The other two nakshatras Saturn rules, Anuradha and Uttara Bhadrapada, put Mars under the same star lord.

Mars in Pushya, Pada by Pada

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

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

When Mars Is in Pushya, 2026–2028

• 24 September 2026: Mars enters Pushya, and leaves on 17 October 2026 — 23 days.
• 1 September 2028: Mars enters Pushya, and leaves on 22 September 2028 — 21 days.

Those are the two spells Mars spends in Pushya between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 44 days in all. Over the same span Mars stands in every one of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Mars in Pushya a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Pushya: 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 Pushya spells, at 23 and 21 days, sit inside that range.

• 8 September 2028: Mars meets Venus at 7° Cancer, in Pushya pada 2.

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places one of Mars's stations in Pushya. On 7 December 2024 Mars stations retrograde inside Pushya, in pada 3. At a station Mars’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Pushya.

Pushya as the Setting for Mars

In the nakshatra tables Pushya’s deity is listed as Brihaspati and its symbol as cow's udder; its gana is Deva, and the muhurta texts put it in the Kshipra class (swift and light). Those belong to Pushya whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Pushya page. What changes with Mars is everything above: the dignities in Cancer, the relation to Saturn, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Mars in Pushya; 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 Cancer; Mars in all 27 nakshatras is on the Mars nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Pushya article.

The Other Grahas in Pushya