Sun in Purva Ashadha Nakshatra (Surya in पूर्वाषाढ़ा)

Purva Ashadha, the 20th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 253°20′ – 266°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Sagittarius. Purva Ashadha is ruled by Venus, so the Sun in Purva Ashadha stands in Venus’s star.

The Sun and Venus count each other an enemy, so in Purva Ashadha the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras Venus rules, Bharani and Purva Phalguni, put the Sun under the same star lord.

The Sun in Purva Ashadha, Pada by Pada

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

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

When the Sun Is in Purva Ashadha, 2026–2028

• The Sun is already in Purva Ashadha when the table opens on 1 January 2026, and leaves on 11 January 2026.
• 29 December 2026: the Sun enters Purva Ashadha, and leaves on 11 January 2027 — 13 days.
• 29 December 2027: the Sun enters Purva Ashadha, and leaves on 11 January 2028 — 13 days.
• 29 December 2028: the Sun enters Purva Ashadha, and is still there when the table closes on 1 January 2029.

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

Inside Purva Ashadha: 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 Purva Ashadha is level with the shortest.

• 6 January 2026: the Sun meets Venus at 22° Sagittarius, in Purva Ashadha pada 3.
• 9 January 2026: the Sun meets Mars at 25° Sagittarius, in Purva Ashadha pada 4.
• 1 January 2027: the Sun meets Mercury at 16° Sagittarius, in Purva Ashadha pada 2.

The lunation table puts the new moon of 8 January 2027 in Purva Ashadha: the Moon joins the Sun there, inside one of the spells listed above.

Purva Ashadha as the Setting for the Sun

In the nakshatra tables Purva Ashadha’s deity is listed as Apas and its symbol as fan; its gana is Manushya, and the muhurta texts put it in the Ugra class (fierce). Those belong to Purva Ashadha whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Purva Ashadha page. What changes with the Sun is everything above: the dignities in Sagittarius, the relation to Venus, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with the Sun in Purva Ashadha; 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 Sagittarius; the Sun in all 27 nakshatras is on the Sun nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Purva Ashadha article.

The Other Grahas in Purva Ashadha