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Gochar 1970: when each graha changes sign

In 1970, Guru moves into Vrishchika on 11 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

The grahas on 1 January 1970

Sidereal (Lahiri) sign, and from when to when. Open a graha for its whole year.

Gochar calendar for 1970

Times in IST. Each is the same instant everywhere on Earth. The Moon changes sign every two and a half days, so its list is on its own page.

Sign changeRetrograde / directAsta / rising

January 1970

  • 4 Jan3:05 am

    Shani turns direct at 8°37′ Mesha

  • 4 Jan1:39 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 6°34′ Makara

  • 7 Jan9:04 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 19 Jan†

  • 13 Jan2:51 am

    Budha enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 14 Jan6:07 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 16 Jan6:23 am

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 16 Jan7:35 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 19 Jan2:15 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Jan10:08 pm

    Budha turns direct at 20°26′ Dhanu

February 1970

  • 8 Feb6:27 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 9 Feb4:52 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 12 Feb7:08 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 20 Feb3:10 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 12°32′ Tula

  • 26 Feb3:58 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

March 1970

  • 2 Mar12:50 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 5 Mar4:31 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 7 Mar7:36 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 7 Mar7:41 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Apr†

  • 14 Mar4:05 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 19 Mar4:31 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 29 Mar8:06 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

April 1970

  • 3 Apr3:41 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 6 Apr3:41 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Apr12:32 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 14 Apr12:39 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 15 Apr11:41 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 21 May†

  • 22 Apr5:11 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 28 Apr4:20 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 29°03′ Mesha

May 1970

  • 1 May5:22 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 17 May†

  • 14 May9:35 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 17 May9:13 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 17 May3:06 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 21 May2:21 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 22 May12:17 pm

    Budha turns direct at 19°46′ Mesha

  • 23 May3:21 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna

June 1970

  • 8 Jun3:35 am

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 23 Sep†

  • 8 Jun1:56 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 11 Jun10:19 am

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 15 Jun4:14 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 23 Jun3:32 pm

    Guru turns direct at 2°38′ Tula

  • 24 Jun11:44 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 20 Jul†

  • 27 Jun7:57 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

July 1970

  • 7 Jul12:51 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 8 Jul8:24 am

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 11 Jul9:20 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 16 Jul3:07 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 20 Jul2:09 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Jul7:45 am

    Budha enters Simha

August 1970

  • 2 Aug2:53 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 16 Aug11:31 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 20 Aug12:04 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 24 Aug3:13 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 30 Aug12:56 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 4°34′ Kanya

  • 31 Aug9:16 am

    Shukra enters Tula

September 1970

  • 4 Sep6:56 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 29°11′ Mesha

  • 6 Sep4:04 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 19 Sep†

  • 9 Sep1:43 am

    Budha enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 16 Sep11:25 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 19 Sep8:10 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 22 Sep5:47 am

    Budha turns direct at 20°20′ Simha

  • 23 Sep7:00 am

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

October 1970

  • 3 Oct7:32 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 8 Oct1:31 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Nov†

  • 10 Oct8:31 am

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 11 Oct1:47 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 17 Oct11:19 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 20 Oct9:25 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 1°46′ Vrishchika

  • 21 Oct2:32 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 26 Oct11:09 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 23 Nov†

  • 30 Oct8:01 am

    Shukra enters Tula (moving backward)

November 1970

  • 5 Nov1:52 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 15 Nov†

  • 9 Nov1:07 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 15 Nov2:17 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Nov11:02 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 21 Nov3:20 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 23 Nov11:58 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Nov2:29 pm

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 28 Nov11:20 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

December 1970

  • 1 Dec5:34 am

    Shukra turns direct at 16°20′ Tula

  • 11 Dec3:08 pm

    Guru enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Dec1:36 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 19 Dec11:28 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 20°39′ Dhanu

  • 23 Dec5:43 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Jan†

  • 30 Dec1:37 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

† Practice varies. Texts and almanacs give slightly different asta limits, and some almanacs use the true rather than the mean node for Rahu and Ketu, which can move the nodes’ sign changes by some weeks.

See also: Transits over your chart · Gochar (glossary) · Sade Sati · Ayanamsa · Sankranti

Understand

What gochar is

Gochar means the movement of the grahas: each moves on through the zodiac, and when it crosses from one rasi into the next, that is its sign change (sankramana). This page only says which graha is where, and when. In the classical method gochar is read by counting from a person’s natal Moon sign; to see today’s sky against your own chart, open the transits tool.

Retrograde (vakri) and direct (margi)

Seen from the Earth, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn now and then appear to move backward for a while. That is retrograde motion; the instant the graha stops and turns is a station, and moving forward again is turning direct. It is an effect of the Earth and the planet moving on their orbits at different speeds. The Sun and Moon are never retrograde; Rahu and Ketu (mean) always move backward.

Combustion (asta)

A graha very close to the Sun is lost in its glare; the texts call it asta (set), and its reappearance udaya (rising). The Surya Siddhanta gives a distance limit for each graha. The limits used here: Mangala 17°, Budha 14° (12° when retrograde), Guru 11°, Shukra 10° (8° when retrograde), Shani 15°. Almanacs leave out the asta periods of Guru and Shukra when choosing times for samskaras such as weddings.

Sidereal signs

Indian almanacs count the rasis against the stars (nirayana). Western (tropical) signs run about 24° ahead, so the dates printed there are about three weeks earlier than these. The ayanamsa used here is Lahiri.

How this is calculated

Each graha’s apparent geocentric position from NASA JPL’s DE421 ephemeris, less the Lahiri ayanamsa. The instants of crossing a rasi edge, of zero speed and of reaching the asta limit are found by bisection to under a second. Small differences in ayanamsa can move a slow graha’s time (Shani above all) by a few hours against other almanacs.

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