Sun in Anuradha Nakshatra (Surya in अनुराधा)

Anuradha, the 17th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 213°20′ – 226°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Scorpio. Anuradha is ruled by Saturn, so the Sun in Anuradha stands in Saturn’s star.

The Sun and Saturn count each other an enemy, so in Anuradha the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras Saturn rules, Pushya and Uttara Bhadrapada, put the Sun under the same star lord.

The Sun in Anuradha, Pada by Pada

By rashi, the Sun is in a friend's sign in all four padas of Anuradha, because the whole nakshatra lies in Scorpio. By navamsa the four padas fall in Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. The Sun’s strongest navamsa in Anuradha is pada 1 (Leo, in its own sign), and its weakest is pada 3 (Libra, debilitated).

Anuradha pada 4 is vargottama — Scorpio in rashi and in navamsa — so the Sun there is in a friend's sign on both counts. Of the 108 padas only twelve are vargottama, one for each sign.

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

When the Sun Is in Anuradha, 2026–2028

• 20 November 2026: the Sun enters Anuradha, and leaves on 3 December 2026 — 13 days.
• 20 November 2027: the Sun enters Anuradha, and leaves on 3 December 2027 — 13 days.
• 19 November 2028: the Sun enters Anuradha, and leaves on 2 December 2028 — 13 days.

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

Inside Anuradha: what the tables locate there for the Sun

Of the 80 complete spells the Sun has in the table, in any nakshatra, the shortest is 13 days and the longest 14, and a spell in Anuradha is level with the shortest.

• 20 November 2028: the Sun meets Mercury at 4° Scorpio, in Anuradha pada 1.

The lunation table puts the new moon of 28 November 2027 in Anuradha: the Moon joins the Sun there, inside one of the spells listed above.

Anuradha as the Setting for the Sun

In the nakshatra tables Anuradha’s deity is listed as Mitra and its symbol as lotus; its gana is Deva, and the muhurta texts put it in the Mridu class (tender). Those belong to Anuradha whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Anuradha page. What changes with the Sun is everything above: the dignities in Scorpio, the relation to Saturn, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with the Sun in Anuradha; the house it occupies and the dasha running decide what the placement does in a chart.

Related Placements

The sign-level reading is on Sun in Scorpio; the Sun in all 27 nakshatras is on the Sun nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Anuradha article.

The Other Grahas in Anuradha