Venus in Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra (Shukra 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 Venus in Purva Bhadrapada stands in Jupiter’s star.

Venus counts Jupiter neutral, while Jupiter counts Venus an enemy. The table is not symmetric, so Venus in Purva Bhadrapada has to be described from both sides, as it is here. The other two nakshatras Jupiter rules, Punarvasu and Vishakha, put Venus under the same star lord.

Venus in Purva Bhadrapada, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Venus in Purva Bhadrapada is in a friend's sign in padas 1, 2 and 3 (Aquarius) and exalted in pada 4 (Pisces), because Purva Bhadrapada crosses from Aquarius into Pisces. By navamsa the four padas fall in Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. Venus’s strongest navamsa in Purva Bhadrapada is pada 2 (Taurus, in its own sign), and its weakest is pada 4 (Cancer, in an enemy's sign).

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

When Venus Is in Purva Bhadrapada, 2026–2028

• 22 February 2026: Venus enters Purva Bhadrapada, and leaves on 4 March 2026 — 10 days.
• 7 April 2027: Venus enters Purva Bhadrapada, and leaves on 18 April 2027 — 11 days.
• 25 January 2028: Venus enters Purva Bhadrapada, and leaves on 5 February 2028 — 11 days.

Those are the three spells Venus spends in Purva Bhadrapada between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 32 days in all. Over the same span Venus stands in every one of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Venus in Purva Bhadrapada a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Purva Bhadrapada: 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, and a spell in Purva Bhadrapada is level with the shortest.

• 28 February 2026: Venus meets Mercury at 28° Aquarius, in Purva Bhadrapada pada 3.

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places one of Venus's stations in Purva Bhadrapada. On 13 April 2025 Venus stations direct inside Purva Bhadrapada, in pada 4. At a station Venus’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Purva Bhadrapada.

Purva Bhadrapada as the Setting for Venus

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 Venus 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 Venus 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 Venus in Aquarius and Venus in Pisces; Venus in all 27 nakshatras is on the Venus nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and astrology for beginners.

The Other Grahas in Purva Bhadrapada