Sun in Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra (Surya in पूर्व भाद्रपद)

Purva Bhadrapada, the 25th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 320°00′ – 333°20′ of the sidereal zodiac, across the boundary between Aquarius and Pisces. Purva Bhadrapada is ruled by Jupiter, so the Sun in Purva Bhadrapada stands in Jupiter’s star.

The Sun and Jupiter count each other a friend, so in Purva Bhadrapada the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras Jupiter rules, Punarvasu and Vishakha, put the Sun under the same star lord.

The Sun in Purva Bhadrapada, Pada by Pada

By rashi, the Sun in Purva Bhadrapada is in an enemy's sign in padas 1, 2 and 3 (Aquarius) and in a friend's sign in pada 4 (Pisces), because Purva Bhadrapada crosses from Aquarius into Pisces. By navamsa the four padas fall in Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. The Sun’s strongest navamsa in Purva Bhadrapada 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 Purva Bhadrapada, and the Sun’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Purva Bhadrapada the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of the Sun’s dignity.

When the Sun Is in Purva Bhadrapada, 2026–2028

• 5 March 2026: the Sun enters Purva Bhadrapada, and leaves on 18 March 2026 — 13 days.
• 5 March 2027: the Sun enters Purva Bhadrapada, and leaves on 18 March 2027 — 13 days.
• 4 March 2028: the Sun enters Purva Bhadrapada, and leaves on 17 March 2028 — 13 days.

Those are the three spells the Sun spends in Purva Bhadrapada 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 Purva Bhadrapada a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Purva Bhadrapada: 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 Bhadrapada is level with the shortest.

• 7 March 2026: the Sun meets Mercury at 22° Aquarius, in Purva Bhadrapada pada 1.

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

Purva Bhadrapada as the Setting for the Sun

In the nakshatra tables Purva Bhadrapada’s deity is listed as Aja Ekapada and its symbol as two-faced man; its gana is Manushya, and the muhurta texts put it in the Ugra class (fierce). Those belong to Purva Bhadrapada whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Purva Bhadrapada page. What changes with the Sun is everything above: the dignities in Aquarius and Pisces, the relation to Jupiter, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with the Sun in Purva Bhadrapada; 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 Aquarius and Sun in Pisces; the Sun in all 27 nakshatras is on the Sun nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and astrology for beginners.

The Other Grahas in Purva Bhadrapada