Gochar 1984: planet transit calendar · School of Vedic Sciences, FORE

The grahas on 1 January 1984

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

Gochar calendar for 1984

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 1984

5 Jan11:37 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
11 Jan6:07 am
Budha turns direct at 6°45′ Dhanu
14 Jan8:24 pm
Surya enters Makara
20 Jan7:16 pm
Shukra enters Dhanu

February 1984

4 Feb8:29 pm
Budha enters Makara
13 Feb9:21 am
Surya enters Kumbha
14 Feb6:14 am
Shukra enters Makara
19 Feb3:18 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 23 Mar^†
24 Feb6:52 am
Budha enters Kumbha
24 Feb7:34 pm
Shani turns retrograde at 22°45′ Tula

March 1984

6 Mar10:30 pm
Mangala enters Vrishchika
9 Mar2:13 pm
Shukra enters Kumbha
11 Mar4:28 pm
Budha enters Meena
14 Mar6:15 am
Surya enters Meena
23 Mar4:16 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
27 Mar1:09 pm
Budha enters Mesha

April 1984

2 Apr9:47 pm
Shukra enters Meena
5 Apr5:47 pm
Mangala turns retrograde at 4°43′ Vrishchika
12 Apr1:53 am
Budha turns retrograde at 13°04′ Mesha
13 Apr2:50 pm
Surya enters Mesha
14 Apr10:00 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 30 Apr^†
27 Apr6:14 am
Shukra enters Mesha
29 Apr11:49 pm
Guru turns retrograde at 19°20′ Dhanu
30 Apr12:03 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†

May 1984

3 May11:32 am
Mangala enters Tula (moving backward)
5 May7:36 pm
Budha turns direct at 2°40′ Mesha
9 May11:18 pm
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 22 Jul^†
14 May11:48 am
Surya enters Vrishabha
21 May3:49 pm
Shukra enters Vrishabha

June 1984

4 Jun5:00 am
Budha enters Vrishabha
11 Jun5:06 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Jul^†
14 Jun6:29 pm
Surya enters Mithuna
15 Jun1:58 am
Shukra enters Mithuna
19 Jun2:19 pm
Budha enters Mithuna
19 Jun11:50 pm
Mangala turns direct at 18°04′ Tula

July 1984

3 Jul4:50 pm
Budha enters Karka
5 Jul7:02 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
9 Jul11:48 am
Shukra enters Karka
13 Jul12:19 pm
Shani turns direct at 16°04′ Tula
16 Jul5:25 am
Surya enters Karka
21 Jul1:52 pm
Budha enters Simha
22 Jul10:59 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†

August 1984

2 Aug9:04 pm
Shukra enters Simha
5 Aug4:16 am
Mangala enters Vrishchika
15 Aug1:03 am
Budha turns retrograde at 19°46′ Simha
16 Aug1:52 pm
Surya enters Simha
22 Aug4:19 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Sep^†
27 Aug6:24 am
Shukra enters Kanya
30 Aug4:48 am
Guru turns direct at 9°29′ Dhanu

September 1984

5 Sep1:01 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
7 Sep9:32 am
Budha turns direct at 6°23′ Simha
16 Sep1:49 pm
Surya enters Kanya
20 Sep4:58 pm
Shukra enters Tula
23 Sep7:50 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Nov^†
26 Sep2:31 am
Mangala enters Dhanu
27 Sep12:49 pm
Budha enters Kanya

October 1984

14 Oct12:29 pm
Budha enters Tula
15 Oct5:57 am
Shukra enters Vrishchika
17 Oct1:45 am
Surya enters Tula
25 Oct12:37 pm
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 28 Nov^†

November 1984

2 Nov10:53 am
Budha enters Vrishchika
3 Nov2:52 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
7 Nov10:36 am
Mangala enters Makara
8 Nov10:54 pm
Shukra enters Dhanu
16 Nov1:30 am
Surya enters Vrishchika
24 Nov8:43 am
Budha enters Dhanu
28 Nov8:42 am
Shani rises again (asta ends)^†

December 1984

3 Dec11:45 pm
Shukra enters Makara
5 Dec3:16 am
Budha turns retrograde at 7°10′ Dhanu
9 Dec8:02 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 20 Dec^†
14 Dec5:10 am
Budha enters Vrishchika (moving backward)
15 Dec4:03 pm
Surya enters Dhanu
17 Dec4:27 am
Mangala enters Kumbha
20 Dec6:54 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
21 Dec8:46 am
Shani enters Vrishchika
24 Dec9:41 pm
Budha turns direct at 20°52′ Vrishchika
29 Dec7:43 pm
Shukra enters Kumbha

† 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.

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.

Gochar 1984: when each graha changes sign