Sun in Hasta Nakshatra (Surya in हस्त)

Hasta, the 13th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 160°00′ – 173°20′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Virgo. Hasta is ruled by the Moon, so the Sun in Hasta stands in the Moon’s star.

The Sun and the Moon count each other a friend, so in Hasta the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras the Moon rules, Rohini and Shravana, put the Sun under the same star lord.

The Sun in Hasta, Pada by Pada

By rashi, the Sun is in a neutral sign in all four padas of Hasta, because the whole nakshatra lies in Virgo. By navamsa the four padas fall in Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. The Sun’s strongest navamsa in Hasta is pada 1 (Aries, exalted), and its weakest is pada 2 (Taurus, in an enemy's sign).

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

When the Sun Is in Hasta, 2026–2028

• 27 September 2026: the Sun enters Hasta, and leaves on 11 October 2026 — 14 days.
• 27 September 2027: the Sun enters Hasta, and leaves on 11 October 2027 — 14 days.
• 27 September 2028: the Sun enters Hasta, and leaves on 10 October 2028 — 13 days.

Those are the three spells the Sun spends in Hasta between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 41 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 Hasta a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Hasta: 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 Hasta is level with the longest.

• 30 September 2028: the Sun meets Jupiter at 13° Virgo, in Hasta pada 2.
• 2 October 2028: the Sun meets Mercury at 15° Virgo, in Hasta pada 2.

The lunation table puts the new moons of 10 October 2026 and 30 September 2027 in Hasta: the Moon joins the Sun there, inside one of the spells listed above.

Hasta as the Setting for the Sun

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

The Other Grahas in Hasta