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Gochar 1992: when each graha changes sign

In 1992, Guru moves into Kanya on 11 Sep; Rahu moves into Vrishchika on 29 Oct. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Houston (America/Chicago, CST/CDT).

The grahas on 1 January 1992

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

Gochar calendar for 1992

Times in Houston (America/Chicago, CST/CDT). 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 1992

  • 4 Jan5:06 am

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 5 Jan5:51 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 12 Jan10:55 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 15 Feb†

  • 14 Jan9:59 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 19 Jan10:29 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 21 Jan12:41 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 29 Feb†

  • 25 Jan5:08 pm

    Budha enters Makara

February 1992

  • 9 Feb5:46 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 12 Feb2:10 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 12 Feb10:58 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb8:48 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 15 Feb10:00 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Feb9:50 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 29 Feb12:08 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

March 1992

  • 8 Mar4:20 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 13 Mar7:51 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 16 Mar6:32 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 17°34′ Meena

  • 19 Mar1:34 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 2 Apr†

  • 19 Mar6:18 pm

    Mangala enters Kumbha

April 1992

  • 1 Apr11:35 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 2 Apr3:06 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Apr1:26 am

    Budha turns direct at 4°59′ Meena

  • 13 Apr5:24 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 26 Apr8:45 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 27 Apr1:27 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 30 Apr2:56 pm

    Guru turns direct at 10°53′ Simha

May 1992

  • 7 May12:26 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 7 May5:03 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 19 Jul†

  • 14 May2:20 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 19 May3:01 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 12 Jun†

  • 20 May6:09 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 23 May5:01 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 28 May8:01 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 24°44′ Makara

June 1992

  • 6 Jun12:39 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 6 Jun1:44 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 12 Jun1:56 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Jun4:12 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 14 Jun8:59 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 22 Jun5:10 pm

    Budha enters Karka

July 1992

  • 8 Jul2:05 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 15 Jul7:54 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 17 Jul12:16 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 19 Jul7:11 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 19 Jul7:52 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 23°44′ Karka

  • 26 Jul7:52 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 10 Aug†

August 1992

  • 1 Aug11:29 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 10 Aug11:58 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Aug9:53 pm

    Budha turns direct at 12°13′ Karka

  • 16 Aug4:19 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 26 Aug9:03 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 30 Aug5:22 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 30 Aug6:05 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 Oct†

September 1992

  • 1 Sep9:33 am

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 3 Sep12:31 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 1 Oct†

  • 11 Sep7:18 am

    Guru enters Kanya

  • 15 Sep2:16 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 16 Sep4:13 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 19 Sep7:59 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

October 1992

  • 1 Oct10:53 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 3 Oct4:14 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 4 Oct7:39 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Oct9:31 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 15 Oct9:38 pm

    Shani turns direct at 18°04′ Makara

  • 16 Oct4:08 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 24 Oct4:29 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 29 Oct7:49 pm

    Rahu enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

  • 29 Oct7:49 pm

    Ketu enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

November 1992

  • 3 Nov12:04 pm

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 8 Nov2:18 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 11 Nov3:48 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 14°38′ Vrishchika

  • 15 Nov2:53 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov4:30 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Nov†

  • 26 Nov11:58 pm

    Budha enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 27 Nov6:51 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Nov5:26 pm

    Mangala turns retrograde at 3°52′ Karka

December 1992

  • 1 Dec1:30 am

    Budha turns direct at 28°27′ Tula

  • 3 Dec4:31 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 5 Dec11:51 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 15 Dec5:29 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 22 Dec9:56 am

    Mangala enters Mithuna (moving backward)

  • 29 Dec3:13 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 29 Dec5:33 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 29 Dec6:48 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 Feb†

† 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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