Mars in Rohini Nakshatra (Mangal in रोहिणी)

Rohini, the 4th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 40°00′ – 53°20′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Taurus. Rohini is ruled by the Moon, so Mars in Rohini stands in the Moon’s star.

Mars counts the Moon a friend, while the Moon counts Mars neutral. The table is not symmetric, so Mars in Rohini has to be described from both sides, as it is here. The other two nakshatras the Moon rules, Hasta and Shravana, put Mars under the same star lord.

Mars in Rohini, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Mars is in a neutral sign in all four padas of Rohini, because the whole nakshatra lies in Taurus. By navamsa the four padas fall in Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. Mars’s strongest navamsa in Rohini is pada 1 (Aries, in its own sign), and its weakest is pada 4 (Cancer, debilitated).

Rohini pada 2 is vargottama — Taurus in rashi and in navamsa — so Mars there is in a neutral 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 Rohini, and Mars’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Rohini the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of Mars’s dignity.

When Mars Is in Rohini, 2026–2028

• 4 July 2026: Mars enters Rohini, and leaves on 24 July 2026 — 20 days.
• 13 June 2028: Mars enters Rohini, and leaves on 2 July 2028 — 19 days.

Those are the two spells Mars spends in Rohini between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 39 days in all. Over the same span Mars stands in every one of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Mars in Rohini a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Rohini: 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 Rohini spells, at 20 and 19 days, sit inside that range.

• 14 June 2028: Mars meets Venus at 10° Taurus, in Rohini pada 1.
• 21 June 2028: Mars meets Mercury at 15° Taurus, in Rohini pada 2.
• 25 June 2028: Mars meets Mercury at 18° Taurus, in Rohini pada 3.

Rohini as the Setting for Mars

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

The Other Grahas in Rohini