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Graha
Mercury
बुधBudhIntellect, speech, business, communication.
Where Mercury is now
Mithun 29°53', in Punarvasu pada 3
- Sign lord
- Mercury
- Western sign
- Gemini
- Dignity here
- Own sign (swakshetra)
Computed for Wed, 5 Aug, 2026, 5:30 pm IST, sidereal Lahiri.
Classical attributes
From the standard texts. These do not change.
- Exalted in
- Kanya (deep exaltation at 15°)
- Debilitated in
- Meen (deep debilitation at 15°)
- Moolatrikona
- Kanya 16°–20°
- Aspects (drishti)
- 7th house from itself
- Natural friends
- Sun, Venus
- Neutral toward
- Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
- Natural enemies
- Moon
- Karaka of
- Intellect and speech, trade and commerce, education, writing and analysis.
- Presiding deity
- Vishnu
- Weekday
- Wednesday
- Gemstone
- Emerald (Panna)
- Metal
- Brass or bronze
- Direction
- North
- Beeja mantra
- Om Braam Breem Braum Sah Budhaya Namah
- Vimshottari mahadasha
- 17 years
Mercury in the Vimshottari cycle
Intellect, business, communication, study and trade; sharp, versatile, commercial years.
Mercury rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras, evenly spaced through the zodiac. A birth Moon in any of them starts life in a Mercury mahadasha of 17 years.