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Gochar 1994: when each graha changes sign

In 1994, Rahu moves into Tula on 18 May; Guru moves into Vrishchika on 11 Nov. 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 1994

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

Gochar calendar for 1994

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 1994

  • 10 Jan12:50 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 13 Jan10:17 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 14 Jan11:32 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 19 Jan9:18 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 25 Jan2:27 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Jan11:04 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

February 1994

  • 4 Feb2:38 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 10 Mar†

  • 7 Feb8:48 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 11 Feb2:29 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 13°49′ Kumbha

  • 12 Feb11:20 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb4:16 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Feb†

  • 26 Feb12:13 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Feb6:55 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

  • 27 Feb7:09 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Feb7:32 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 20°53′ Tula

  • 28 Feb11:54 am

    Budha enters Makara (moving backward)

March 1994

  • 3 Mar8:29 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 4 Mar11:49 pm

    Budha turns direct at 28°51′ Makara

  • 8 Mar9:03 pm

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Mar7:32 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 10 Mar11:03 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Mar8:16 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 27 Mar12:16 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

April 1994

  • 5 Apr2:40 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 6 Apr1:14 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 13 Apr5:49 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 16 Apr5:29 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 12 May†

  • 20 Apr10:56 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 22 Apr11:54 am

    Budha enters Mesha

May 1994

  • 6 May4:40 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 12 May2:05 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 May2:42 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 15 May11:33 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 15 May4:11 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 18 May11:46 pm

    Rahu enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 18 May11:46 pm

    Ketu enters Mesha (moving backward)

  • 23 May8:03 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

June 1994

  • 9 Jun7:33 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 12 Jun12:47 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 14°38′ Mithuna

  • 14 Jun9:17 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 16 Jun10:02 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Jul†

  • 22 Jun10:23 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 18°38′ Kumbha

  • 25 Jun12:41 am

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

July 1994

  • 1 Jul10:51 pm

    Guru turns direct at 10°59′ Tula

  • 3 Jul5:31 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 5 Jul2:21 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 6 Jul2:43 pm

    Budha turns direct at 5°38′ Mithuna

  • 16 Jul8:08 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 30 Jul4:12 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 28 Aug†

  • 30 Jul8:13 pm

    Budha enters Karka

August 1994

  • 1 Aug1:19 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 7 Aug4:30 am

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 14 Aug3:58 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 16 Aug4:32 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 28 Aug3:40 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 31 Aug2:44 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 31 Aug9:47 am

    Shukra enters Tula

September 1994

  • 16 Sep4:27 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 21 Sep6:39 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 23 Sep4:28 pm

    Mangala enters Karka

October 1994

  • 9 Oct1:43 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 12°42′ Tula

  • 13 Oct12:39 am

    Shukra turns retrograde at 24°14′ Tula

  • 15 Oct7:18 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Oct†

  • 17 Oct4:23 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 24 Oct7:28 am

    Budha enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 27 Oct1:37 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Oct5:26 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 7 Nov†

  • 29 Oct11:05 pm

    Budha turns direct at 27°02′ Kanya

November 1994

  • 3 Nov1:17 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 1 Dec†

  • 4 Nov9:20 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 7 Nov5:31 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Nov3:07 am

    Shani turns direct at 11°54′ Kumbha

  • 11 Nov12:00 am

    Guru enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov3:09 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 18 Nov4:58 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Jan†

  • 22 Nov7:30 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 23 Nov10:58 am

    Shukra turns direct at 8°42′ Tula

  • 25 Nov11:48 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

December 1994

  • 1 Dec11:57 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Dec1:59 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 15 Dec5:45 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 31 Dec4:03 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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