Venus in Uttara Bhadrapada Nakshatra (Shukra in उत्तर भाद्रपद)

Uttara Bhadrapada, the 26th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 333°20′ – 346°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Pisces. Uttara Bhadrapada is ruled by Saturn, so Venus in Uttara Bhadrapada stands in Saturn’s star.

Venus and Saturn count each other a friend, so in Uttara Bhadrapada the graha and the lord of its star agree about each other. The other two nakshatras Saturn rules, Pushya and Anuradha, put Venus under the same star lord.

Venus in Uttara Bhadrapada, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Venus is exalted in all four padas of Uttara Bhadrapada, because the whole nakshatra lies in Pisces. By navamsa the four padas fall in Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. Venus’s strongest navamsa in Uttara Bhadrapada 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 Uttara Bhadrapada, and Venus’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Uttara Bhadrapada the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of Venus’s dignity.

When Venus Is in Uttara Bhadrapada, 2026–2028

• 4 March 2026: Venus enters Uttara Bhadrapada, and leaves on 15 March 2026 — 11 days.
• 18 April 2027: Venus enters Uttara Bhadrapada, and leaves on 29 April 2027 — 11 days.
• 5 February 2028: Venus enters Uttara Bhadrapada, and leaves on 17 February 2028 — 12 days.

Those are the three spells Venus spends in Uttara Bhadrapada 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 Bhadrapada a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Uttara 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; the Uttara Bhadrapada spells, at 11, 11 and 12 days, sit inside that range.

• 8 March 2026: Venus meets Saturn at 8° Pisces, in Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2.

The retrograde table runs from 2024 to 2031, wider than the ingress table, and it places one of Venus's stations in Uttara Bhadrapada. On 2 March 2025 Venus stations retrograde at the edge of Uttara Bhadrapada, close enough that the nakshatra depends on the ayanamsa. At a station Venus’s motion is at its slowest, so these are the days it is most nearly still in Uttara Bhadrapada.

Uttara Bhadrapada as the Setting for Venus

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