Venus in Mrigashira Nakshatra (Shukra in मृगशिरा)

Mrigashira, the 5th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 53°20′ – 66°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, across the boundary between Taurus and Gemini. Mrigashira is ruled by Mars, so Venus in Mrigashira stands in Mars’s star.

Venus and Mars count each other neutral, so in Mrigashira the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras Mars rules, Chitra and Dhanishta, put Venus under the same star lord.

Venus in Mrigashira, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Venus in Mrigashira is in its own sign in padas 1 and 2 (Taurus) and in a friend's sign in padas 3 and 4 (Gemini), because Mrigashira crosses from Taurus into Gemini. By navamsa the four padas fall in Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. Venus’s strongest navamsa in Mrigashira is pada 3 (Libra, in its own sign), and its weakest is pada 2 (Virgo, debilitated).

Neither Venus’s deepest exaltation (Pisces) nor its deepest debilitation (Virgo) degree falls inside Mrigashira, and Venus’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Mrigashira the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of Venus’s dignity.

When Venus Is in Mrigashira, 2026–2028

• 8 May 2026: Venus enters Mrigashira, and leaves on 20 May 2026 — 12 days.
• 23 June 2027: Venus enters Mrigashira, and leaves on 4 July 2027 — 11 days.
• 30 April 2028: Venus enters Mrigashira, and leaves on 21 May 2028 moving backwards — 21 days.
• 24 July 2028: Venus enters Mrigashira, and leaves on 8 August 2028 — 15 days.

Those are the four spells Venus spends in Mrigashira between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 59 days in all. Over the same span Venus stands in every one of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Venus in Mrigashira a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Mrigashira: what the tables locate there for Venus

Of the 84 complete spells Venus has in the table, in any nakshatra, the shortest is 10 days and the longest 43; the Mrigashira spells, at 12, 11, 21 and 15 days, sit inside that range.

• 1 July 2027: Venus meets Mercury at 3° Gemini, in Mrigashira pada 4.

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places one of Venus's stations in Mrigashira. On 11 May 2028 Venus stations retrograde inside Mrigashira, in pada 1. At a station Venus’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Mrigashira.

Mrigashira as the Setting for Venus

In the nakshatra tables Mrigashira’s deity is listed as Soma and its symbol as deer's head; its gana is Deva, and the muhurta texts put it in the Mridu class (tender). Those belong to Mrigashira whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Mrigashira page. What changes with Venus is everything above: the dignities in Taurus and Gemini, the relation to Mars, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Venus in Mrigashira; the house it occupies and the dasha running decide what the placement does in a chart.

Related Placements

The sign-level reading is on Venus in Taurus and Venus in Gemini; Venus in all 27 nakshatras is on the Venus nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Mrigashira article.

The Other Grahas in Mrigashira