Mars in Uttara Phalguni Nakshatra (Mangal 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 Mars in Uttara Phalguni stands in the Sun’s star.

Mars 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 Mars under the same star lord.

Mars in Uttara Phalguni, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Mars 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. Mars’s strongest navamsa in Uttara Phalguni is pada 2 (Capricorn, exalted), and its weakest is pada 3 (Aquarius, in a neutral sign).

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

When Mars Is in Uttara Phalguni, 2026–2028

• 29 June 2027: Mars enters Uttara Phalguni, and leaves on 22 July 2027 — 23 days.
• 2 December 2028: Mars enters Uttara Phalguni, and is still there when the table closes on 1 January 2029.

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

Inside Uttara 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 Uttara Phalguni spell, at 23 days, sits 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 Uttara Phalguni. On 5 May 2029 Mars stations direct inside Uttara Phalguni, in pada 2. At a station Mars’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 Mars

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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars in Leo and Mars in Virgo; Mars in all 27 nakshatras is on the Mars nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Uttara Phalguni article.

The Other Grahas in Uttara Phalguni