Sun in Swati Nakshatra (Surya in स्वाती)

Swati, the 15th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 186°40′ – 200°00′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Libra. Swati is ruled by Rahu, so the Sun in Swati stands in Rahu’s star.

Rahu’s row in the friendship lists counts the Sun an enemy; the Sun’s own row names no node, so the Sun’s view of the lord of Swati has no entry, and this page does not supply one. The other two nakshatras Rahu rules, Ardra and Shatabhisha, put the Sun under the same star lord.

The Sun in Swati, Pada by Pada

By rashi, the Sun is debilitated in all four padas of Swati, because the whole nakshatra lies in Libra. By navamsa the four padas fall in Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. The Sun’s strongest navamsas in Swati are padas 1 (Sagittarius, in a friend's sign) and 4 (Pisces, in a friend's sign), and its weakest are padas 2 (Capricorn, in an enemy's sign) and 3 (Aquarius, in an enemy's sign).

The Sun’s deepest debilitation, 10° Libra in the classical table, falls inside Swati, in pada 2 (Libra 10°00′ – 13°20′, the Capricorn navamsa).

When the Sun Is in Swati, 2026–2028

• 24 October 2026: the Sun enters Swati, and leaves on 6 November 2026 — 13 days.
• 24 October 2027: the Sun enters Swati, and leaves on 7 November 2027 — 14 days.
• 24 October 2028: the Sun enters Swati, and leaves on 6 November 2028 — 13 days.

Those are the three spells the Sun spends in Swati between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 40 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 Swati a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Swati: 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 Swati is level with the longest.

• 4 November 2026: the Sun meets Mercury at 17° Libra, in Swati pada 4.

The lunation table puts the new moon of 29 October 2027 in Swati: the Moon joins the Sun there, inside one of the spells listed above.

Swati as the Setting for the Sun

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

The Other Grahas in Swati