Saturn in Rohini Nakshatra (Shani 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 Saturn in Rohini stands in the Moon’s star.

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

Saturn in Rohini, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Saturn is in a friend's 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. Saturn’s strongest navamsas in Rohini are padas 2 (Taurus, in a friend's sign) and 3 (Gemini, in a friend's sign), and its weakest is pada 1 (Aries, debilitated).

Rohini pada 2 is vargottama — Taurus in rashi and in navamsa — so Saturn there is in a friend's sign on both counts. Of the 108 padas only twelve are vargottama, one for each sign.

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

When Saturn Is in Rohini, 2026–2028

Saturn does not enter Rohini at any point between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029. It stands in Purva Bhadrapada when the table opens and in Ashwini when it closes, having visited 5 of the 27 nakshatras, and from Ashwini Rohini is 3 nakshatras further on. So Saturn in Rohini is, for these years, a birth-chart placement and not a transit anyone can wait for.

Inside Rohini: what the tables locate there for Saturn

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places two of Saturn's stations in Rohini. On 21 September 2030 Saturn stations retrograde inside Rohini, in pada 2. On 16 February 2032 Saturn stations direct inside Rohini, in pada 4. At a station Saturn’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Rohini.

Rohini as the Setting for Saturn

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 Saturn 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 Saturn 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 Saturn in Taurus; Saturn in all 27 nakshatras is on the Saturn nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Rohini article.

The Other Grahas in Rohini