Sun in Pushya Nakshatra (Surya in पुष्य)

Pushya, the 8th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 93°20′ – 106°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Cancer. Pushya is ruled by Saturn, so the Sun in Pushya stands in Saturn’s star.

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

The Sun in Pushya, Pada by Pada

By rashi, the Sun is in a friend's sign in all four padas of Pushya, because the whole nakshatra lies in Cancer. By navamsa the four padas fall in Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. The Sun’s strongest navamsa in Pushya 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 Pushya, and the Sun’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Pushya the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of the Sun’s dignity.

When the Sun Is in Pushya, 2026–2028

• 20 July 2026: the Sun enters Pushya, and leaves on 3 August 2026 — 14 days.
• 20 July 2027: the Sun enters Pushya, and leaves on 3 August 2027 — 14 days.
• 19 July 2028: the Sun enters Pushya, and leaves on 2 August 2028 — 14 days.

Those are the three spells the Sun spends in Pushya between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 42 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 Pushya a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Pushya: 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 Pushya is level with the longest.

• 29 July 2026: the Sun meets Jupiter at 12° Cancer, in Pushya pada 3.
• 25 July 2028: the Sun meets Mercury at 8° Cancer, in Pushya pada 2.

The lunation table puts the new moons of 2 August 2027 and 22 July 2028 in Pushya: the Moon joins the Sun there, inside one of the spells listed above.

Pushya as the Setting for the Sun

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

The Other Grahas in Pushya