Sun in Rohini Nakshatra (Surya in रोहिणी)

Rohini, the 4th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 40°00′ – 53°20′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Taurus. Rohini is ruled by the Moon, so the Sun in Rohini stands in the Moon’s star.

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

The Sun in Rohini, Pada by Pada

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

Rohini pada 2 is vargottama — Taurus in rashi and in navamsa — so the Sun there is in an enemy'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 Rohini, and the Sun’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Rohini the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of the Sun’s dignity.

When the Sun Is in Rohini, 2026–2028

• 25 May 2026: the Sun enters Rohini, and leaves on 8 June 2026 — 14 days.
• 25 May 2027: the Sun enters Rohini, and leaves on 8 June 2027 — 14 days.
• 25 May 2028: the Sun enters Rohini, and leaves on 8 June 2028 — 14 days.

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

Inside Rohini: 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 Rohini is level with the longest.

• 1 June 2028: the Sun meets Venus at 17° Taurus, in Rohini pada 3.
• 2 June 2028: the Sun meets Mercury at 17° Taurus, in Rohini pada 3.

The lunation table puts the new moon of 5 June 2027 in Rohini: the Moon joins the Sun there, inside one of the spells listed above.

Rohini as the Setting for the Sun

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

The Other Grahas in Rohini