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Gochar 1983: when each graha changes sign

In 1983, Rahu moves into Vrishabha on 13 Jul; Guru moves into Dhanu on 22 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

The grahas on 1 January 1983

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

Gochar calendar for 1983

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 1983

  • 7 Jan8:29 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 8°58′ Makara

  • 9 Jan3:39 pm

    Mangala enters Kumbha

  • 10 Jan2:30 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Jan†

  • 14 Jan2:21 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 17 Jan6:00 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 21 Jan8:45 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Jan8:15 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 27 Jan6:55 pm

    Budha turns direct at 22°52′ Dhanu

February 1983

  • 8 Feb9:40 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 12 Feb4:16 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 10°49′ Tula

  • 13 Feb3:21 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 16 Feb11:52 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 17 Feb11:07 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

March 1983

  • 3 Mar10:25 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 10 Mar10:38 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 9 Apr†

  • 14 Mar9:19 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 15 Mar12:15 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 20 Mar6:25 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 27 Mar1:51 pm

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 3 Aug†

  • 28 Mar5:07 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 17°18′ Vrishchika

  • 28 Mar6:24 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

April 1983

  • 4 Apr5:12 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 8 Apr7:32 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 9 Apr8:51 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Apr8:47 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 25 Apr11:14 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

May 1983

  • 1 May10:05 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 1°56′ Vrishabha

  • 4 May1:16 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 4 May12:34 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 May†

  • 8 May4:21 am

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 8 May10:47 pm

    Budha enters Mesha (moving backward)

  • 15 May5:41 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 21 May1:11 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 May6:19 pm

    Budha turns direct at 22°48′ Mesha

  • 31 May7:43 am

    Shukra enters Karka

June 1983

  • 8 Jun10:20 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 15 Jun12:17 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 20 Jun2:48 am

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 27 Jun4:17 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Jul†

  • 28 Jun9:37 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

July 1983

  • 1 Jul6:34 pm

    Shani turns direct at 4°06′ Tula

  • 1 Jul10:05 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 13 Jul12:58 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 13 Jul1:37 pm

    Rahu enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

  • 13 Jul1:37 pm

    Ketu enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

  • 16 Jul11:10 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 22 Jul9:44 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Jul5:52 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 29 Jul12:51 pm

    Guru turns direct at 7°27′ Vrishchika

August 1983

  • 3 Aug12:04 am

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 4 Aug1:12 am

    Shukra turns retrograde at 15°52′ Simha

  • 4 Aug2:53 am

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 17 Aug7:36 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 20 Aug1:42 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 20 Aug7:32 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 30 Aug†

  • 30 Aug12:13 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

September 1983

  • 2 Sep12:10 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 7°07′ Kanya

  • 9 Sep2:49 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Sep†

  • 11 Sep7:20 am

    Shukra enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 14 Sep1:04 pm

    Budha enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 15 Sep10:53 pm

    Shukra turns direct at 29°34′ Karka

  • 17 Sep7:33 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 20 Sep12:42 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 20 Sep4:38 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 22 Sep4:16 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Sep2:19 am

    Budha turns direct at 22°46′ Simha

October 1983

  • 4 Oct9:41 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 10 Oct11:24 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 25 Nov†

  • 14 Oct8:08 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 17 Nov†

  • 17 Oct7:29 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 23 Oct2:43 am

    Budha enters Tula

November 1983

  • 3 Nov9:30 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 7 Nov10:22 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 10 Nov12:06 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov7:13 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 17 Nov10:26 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Nov3:37 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Nov6:18 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 30 Nov7:52 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 28 Dec†

December 1983

  • 1 Dec8:11 am

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 16 Dec9:45 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 22 Dec3:04 am

    Guru enters Dhanu

  • 22 Dec6:22 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 23°01′ Dhanu

  • 25 Dec10:56 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Jan†

  • 26 Dec11:59 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 28 Dec3:51 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Dec7:24 am

    Mangala enters Tula

† 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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