Venus in Uttara Ashadha Nakshatra (Shukra in उत्तराषाढ़ा)

Uttara Ashadha, the 21st of the 27 nakshatras, covers 266°40′ – 280°00′ of the sidereal zodiac, across the boundary between Sagittarius and Capricorn. Uttara Ashadha is ruled by the Sun, so Venus in Uttara Ashadha stands in the Sun’s star.

Venus and the Sun count each other an enemy, so in Uttara Ashadha the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras the Sun rules, Krittika and Uttara Phalguni, put Venus under the same star lord.

Venus in Uttara Ashadha, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Venus in Uttara Ashadha is in a neutral sign in pada 1 (Sagittarius) and in a friend's sign in padas 2, 3 and 4 (Capricorn), because Uttara Ashadha crosses from Sagittarius into Capricorn. By navamsa the four padas fall in Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. Venus’s strongest navamsa in Uttara Ashadha is pada 4 (Pisces, exalted), and its weakest is pada 1 (Sagittarius, in a neutral sign).

Uttara Ashadha pada 1 is vargottama — Sagittarius in rashi and in navamsa — so Venus there is in a neutral sign on both counts. Uttara Ashadha pada 2 is vargottama — Capricorn in rashi and in navamsa — so Venus there is in a friend's 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 Uttara Ashadha, and Venus’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Uttara Ashadha the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of Venus’s dignity.

When Venus Is in Uttara Ashadha, 2026–2028

• 10 January 2026: Venus enters Uttara Ashadha, and leaves on 21 January 2026 — 11 days.
• 21 February 2027: Venus enters Uttara Ashadha, and leaves on 5 March 2027 — 12 days.
• 12 December 2027: Venus enters Uttara Ashadha, and leaves on 23 December 2027 — 11 days.

Those are the three spells Venus spends in Uttara Ashadha between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 34 days in all. Over the same span Venus stands in every one of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Venus in Uttara Ashadha a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Uttara Ashadha: 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 Uttara Ashadha spells, at 11, 12 and 11 days, sit inside that range.

• 23 December 2027: Venus meets Rahu at 9° Capricorn, in Uttara Ashadha pada 4.

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places one of Venus's stations in Uttara Ashadha. On 17 December 2029 Venus stations retrograde inside Uttara Ashadha, in pada 1. At a station Venus’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Uttara Ashadha.

Uttara Ashadha as the Setting for Venus

In the nakshatra tables Uttara Ashadha’s deity is listed as Vishvedevas and its symbol as elephant tusk; its gana is Manushya, and the muhurta texts put it in the Dhruva class (fixed). Those belong to Uttara Ashadha whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Uttara Ashadha page. What changes with Venus is everything above: the dignities in Sagittarius and Capricorn, the relation to the Sun, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Venus in Uttara Ashadha; 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 Sagittarius and Venus in Capricorn; 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 Uttara Ashadha