Guru Pushya Yoga 2027 dates and IST windows

Guru Pushya Yoga 2027: All Four Dates with Exact IST Windows

The Moon crosses Pushya nakshatra thirteen times in 2027 and only four of those crossings touch a Thursday. This page lists every Pushya window of the year with hour-level IST times, flags the four Guru Pushya Thursdays with their exact usable spans and explains how the calendar was computed rather than copied.

Guru Pushya Yoga is one of the most requested dates in the muhurta calendar and one of the rarest. The Moon spends roughly a day in Pushya every sidereal month, but for the yoga to form that day must coincide with a Thursday. In 2027 the alignment happens exactly four times: 18 February, 18 March, 15 April and 16 December. Two of those, 18 March and 16 December, cover the entire working Thursday. The other two are partial, and anyone planning around them needs the exact hours, which is what the tables below provide.

What the yoga is

Pushya is the eighth of the 27 nakshatras, the band of the sidereal zodiac running from 93°20' to 106°40', sitting in the middle of Cancer. Its planetary ruler is Saturn and its presiding deity is Brihaspati, the priest of the gods, who in the planetary scheme is Jupiter. The classical texts single Pushya out as the nakshatra of nourishment. Its name comes from a root meaning to thrive or to nourish, and the tradition treats a Moon in Pushya as steadying whatever is begun under it. A fuller portrait of the star is in the Pushya nakshatra profile.

Thursday is Guruvar, the weekday assigned to Jupiter. When the Moon's transit of Brihaspati's star lands on Jupiter's own day, the two significations stack, and the muhurta tradition rates the combination as strongly supportive for beginnings, purchases and initiations: starting a venture, buying gold or property, opening a ledger, beginning a course of study, taking a mantra. That rating is the tradition's claim about the quality of the time. It describes how the classical electional framework scores the window, and it is not a promise that anything started in it will succeed.

Because the yoga depends on two independent cycles, the Moon's 27-nakshatra circuit and the 7-day week, it drifts through the year. Some years hold five or six Guru Pushya Thursdays. 2027 holds four, and two of them are only partly usable, which makes the exact spans worth reading closely.

The four Guru Pushya Thursdays of 2027

A window counts as Guru Pushya here when the Moon's Pushya transit overlaps a Thursday by the IST calendar day. The usable span is the part of the Pushya window that actually falls on the Thursday itself.

Date	Usable Thursday span (IST)	Coverage
Thursday 18 February 2027	19:30 to midnight	Evening only. The Moon enters Pushya at 19:30 and the window runs on to Friday 17:30.
Thursday 18 March 2027	05:30 through the whole day	Full day. The window opens at 05:30 and ends Friday 01:30.
Thursday 15 April 2027	Midnight to 08:30	Early morning only. The window began Wednesday 09:30 and closes at 08:30.
Thursday 16 December 2027	07:30 through the whole day	Full day. The window opens at 07:30 and ends Friday 05:30.

Read plainly: 18 March and 16 December are the two full-day Guru Pushya Thursdays of 2027. 18 February starts only in the evening, which suits an evening purchase or signing but not a morning opening. 15 April offers only the early morning, with the yoga dissolving at 08:30 before most business hours begin. If a plan needs a full Guru Pushya working day, the year gives exactly two of them, one in March and one in December. Those planning a gold purchase specifically can cross-reference the gold buying muhurat calendar for 2027, which applies further filters on top of the Pushya windows listed here.

All 13 Pushya windows of 2027

The full calendar below is the raw material. Every entry is the Moon's transit of Pushya, reported at hour resolution in IST. The four highlighted rows are the windows that overlap a Thursday and therefore form Guru Pushya Yoga.

#	Window opens (IST)	Window closes (IST)	Guru Pushya?
1	Fri 22 Jan, 09:30	Sat 23 Jan, 06:30	No
2	Thu 18 Feb, 19:30	Fri 19 Feb, 17:30	Yes, Thursday evening
3	Thu 18 Mar, 05:30	Fri 19 Mar, 01:30	Yes, full Thursday
4	Wed 14 Apr, 09:30	Thu 15 Apr, 08:30	Yes, Thursday morning
5	Tue 11 May, 15:30	Wed 12 May, 13:30	No
6	Mon 7 Jun, 22:30	Tue 8 Jun, 20:30	No
7	Mon 5 Jul, 08:30	Tue 6 Jul, 05:30	No
8	Sun 1 Aug, 18:30	Mon 2 Aug, 15:30	No
9	Sun 29 Aug, 05:30	Mon 30 Aug, 02:30	No
10	Sat 25 Sep, 13:30	Sun 26 Sep, 11:30	No
11	Fri 22 Oct, 18:30	Sat 23 Oct, 17:30	No
12	Fri 19 Nov, 00:30	Fri 19 Nov, 23:30	No
13	Thu 16 Dec, 07:30	Fri 17 Dec, 05:30	Yes, full Thursday

Windows computed from Swiss Ephemeris under the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsha, scanned at three-hour resolution and refined to the hour, reported in IST. Regenerate with tools/gen_muhurat_2027.py rather than editing.

Notice the near miss on 19 November: the Moon sits in Pushya for almost the entire Friday, one day off from forming the yoga. Near misses like this are common, which is part of why the four true hits carry the weight they do in the electional calendar.

Map the 2027 windows against your own chart

A muhurta window is generic. Kaal reads it against your birth configuration, computed with Swiss Ephemeris and True Pushya Paksha ayanamsha, and shows where the year's timing actually lands for you.

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How the computation works

These times are computed from the ephemeris, not transcribed from another almanac, and the method is short enough to state in full.

Fix the span. Pushya occupies a fixed 13°20' arc of the sidereal zodiac, from 93°20' to 106°40'. Every nakshatra window reduces to the question of when the Moon's sidereal longitude sits inside its arc. The full arc table for all 27 stars is in the nakshatra position lookup.
Compute the Moon. The engine reads the Moon's position from Swiss Ephemeris and subtracts the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsha to get the sidereal longitude. The ayanamsha choice matters: it anchors Pushya itself at the midpoint of sidereal Cancer, and a different ayanamsha would shift every boundary crossing.
Scan and refine. The scan steps through 2027 at three-hour resolution, detects each entry into and exit from the Pushya arc and then refines each crossing to the hour. The Moon moves about half a degree per hour, so hour resolution corresponds to roughly a third of a degree of arc.
Overlay the weekday. Each window is converted to IST and checked against the calendar day. Any window that overlaps a Thursday, whether fully or for a few hours, is flagged as Guru Pushya, and the overlapping span is reported separately from the window itself.

The arithmetic is deliberately plain. What distinguishes the table is not cleverness but reproducibility: anyone running the generator against the same ephemeris and ayanamsha gets the same thirteen windows, and when the underlying ephemeris updates, the calendar regenerates rather than accumulating hand edits. The Moon's side of the calculation is only half the 2027 sky. For the slower half, Jupiter's own movement through the year, see the Jupiter transit 2027 note, which covers the sign changes that muhurta practitioners often weigh alongside the weekday.

Limitations

Muhurta is election astrology: it selects a traditionally favoured time to begin something, and that is the entire scope of the claim. A Guru Pushya window marks a slot the classical framework scores highly. It does not guarantee the outcome of anything started in it, and Tempora publishes no evidence that it shifts outcomes. Treat the yoga as a scheduling convention with a long textual history, not as a lever on results.

The hour-level times also carry stated tolerances. Regional panchangas may differ by minutes at window boundaries because of sunrise conventions: a traditional panchanga assigns tithis and nakshatras to days anchored at local sunrise, so a window opening near dawn can be printed under different days in different towns. Ayanamsha choice adds a second source of divergence, since a Lahiri-based almanac places the Pushya boundaries a few arc minutes away from the True Pushya Paksha values used here. Where a specific ritual requires the traditional local reckoning, follow the local panchanga. This table answers the narrower, civil-time question: when, on the IST clock, the Moon is inside Pushya's arc.

Finally, classical practice layers further filters over any window, such as the running tithi, lagna and the avoidance of certain combinations. The four Thursdays above clear the Guru Pushya condition alone. An electional astrologer would prune them further for a given purpose, which is why purpose-built calendars such as the gold buying calendar can list fewer usable slots than this page does.

Frequently asked

What is Guru Pushya Yoga?

Guru Pushya Yoga occurs when the Moon occupies Pushya nakshatra, the span from 93 degrees 20 minutes to 106 degrees 40 minutes of the sidereal zodiac, on a Thursday. Thursday is Guruvar, the day of Jupiter, and Pushya is the nakshatra presided over by Brihaspati, the priest of the gods, while being ruled by Saturn. The classical muhurta texts treat the meeting of Jupiter's day with Brihaspati's star as a strongly supportive combination for beginnings, purchases and initiations. That rating is the tradition's claim about the quality of the time, not a guarantee about outcomes.

When is Guru Pushya Yoga in 2027?

There are exactly four Guru Pushya Thursdays in 2027 by the IST calendar day: Thursday 18 February from 19:30 IST, Thursday 18 March from 05:30 IST through the whole day, Thursday 15 April until 08:30 IST in the early morning only, and Thursday 16 December from 07:30 IST through the whole day. These are the only Thursdays of the year that overlap a Pushya window in Tempora's computed calendar.

Which Guru Pushya dates in 2027 cover the full working day?

Two of the four: 18 March and 16 December. On 18 March the Moon enters Pushya at 05:30 IST and stays through the entire Thursday, with the window ending on Friday at 01:30. On 16 December the Moon enters Pushya at 07:30 IST and again holds through the whole Thursday, with the window ending on Friday at 05:30. The other two dates are partial. 18 February begins only at 19:30 in the evening and 15 April offers only the early morning, ending at 08:30.

What is Guru Pushya Yoga traditionally used for?

The muhurta tradition rates Guru Pushya for starting ventures, making significant purchases, buying gold, opening accounts, beginning studies and taking initiations. Pushya's name derives from a root meaning to nourish, and the texts read it as the nakshatra of sustenance and steady growth. Pairing it with Jupiter's weekday is held to add the graha of expansion to the star of nourishment. Tempora reports this as the tradition's own framing. The combination marks a traditionally favoured window and does not promise any particular result.

Why do these timings differ slightly from my panchanga?

Three reasons. First, ayanamsha: Tempora computes sidereal positions under the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsha, and a panchanga using Lahiri or another ayanamsha will shift every nakshatra boundary by several minutes of arc, which can move an entry or exit time by an hour or more. Second, resolution: these windows are scanned at three-hour resolution and refined to the hour, so the published times are hour-level, not minute-level. Third, convention: regional panchangas anchor the day to local sunrise, so a window that straddles sunrise can be assigned to different calendar days in different towns.

How are the 2027 Pushya windows computed?

The engine computes the Moon's sidereal longitude from Swiss Ephemeris under the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsha, then finds every interval where that longitude sits between 93 degrees 20 minutes and 106 degrees 40 minutes, the span of Pushya. The scan runs at three-hour steps across all of 2027 and each boundary crossing is refined to the hour. Each window is then checked against the IST weekday, and any window overlapping a Thursday calendar day is flagged as Guru Pushya. The whole calendar regenerates from tools/gen_muhurat_2027.py, so the numbers are reproducible rather than copied from another almanac.