graha in nakshatra
Venus in Rohini Nakshatra (Shukra in रोहिणी)
40°00′ – 53°20′ sidereal · Taurus · star of Moon
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 Venus in Rohini stands in the Moon’s star.
Venus counts the Moon an enemy, while the Moon counts Venus neutral. The table is not symmetric, so Venus in Rohini has to be described from both sides, as it is here. The other two nakshatras the Moon rules, Hasta and Shravana, put Venus under the same star lord.
Venus in Rohini, Pada by Pada
| Pada | Arc | Venus by rashi | Navamsa | Venus by navamsa |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rohini 1 | Taurus 10°00′ – 13°20′ | in its own sign | Aries | in a neutral sign |
| Rohini 2 | Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′ | in its own sign | Taurus (vargottama) | in its own sign |
| Rohini 3 | Taurus 16°40′ – 20°00′ | in its own sign | Gemini | in a friend's sign |
| Rohini 4 | Taurus 20°00′ – 23°20′ | in its own sign | Cancer | in an enemy's sign |
By rashi, Venus is in its own 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. Venus’s strongest navamsa in Rohini is pada 2 (Taurus, in its own sign), and its weakest is pada 4 (Cancer, in an enemy's sign).
Rohini pada 2 is vargottama — Taurus in rashi and in navamsa — so Venus there is in its own sign on both counts. Of the 108 padas only twelve are vargottama, one for each sign.
Neither Venus’s deepest exaltation (Pisces) nor its deepest debilitation (Virgo) degree falls inside Rohini, and Venus’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Rohini the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of Venus’s dignity.
When Venus Is in Rohini, 2026–2028
- 27 April 2026: Venus enters Rohini, and leaves on 8 May 2026 — 11 days.
- 12 June 2027: Venus enters Rohini, and leaves on 23 June 2027 — 11 days.
- 9 April 2028: Venus enters Rohini, and leaves on 30 April 2028 — 21 days.
- 21 May 2028: Venus enters Rohini while retrograde, backing in from the next nakshatra, and leaves on 15 June 2028 moving backwards — 25 days.
- 30 June 2028: Venus enters Rohini, and leaves on 24 July 2028 — 24 days.
Those are the five spells Venus spends in Rohini between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 92 days in all. Over the same span Venus stands in every one of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Venus in Rohini a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.
Inside Rohini: 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 Rohini spells, at 11, 11, 21, 25 and 24 days, sit inside that range.
- 25 May 2028: Venus meets Mercury at 21° Taurus, in Rohini pada 4.
- 1 June 2028: Venus meets the Sun at 17° Taurus, in Rohini pada 3.
- 14 June 2028: Venus meets Mars at 10° Taurus, in Rohini pada 1.
Rohini as the Setting for Venus
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 Venus 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 Venus 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 Venus in Taurus; Venus in all 27 nakshatras is on the Venus nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Rohini article.
The Other Grahas in Rohini
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