Gochar 1994: planet transit calendar · School of Vedic Sciences, FORE

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 New York (America/New York, EST/EDT). 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 Jan1:50 am
Budha enters Makara
13 Jan11:17 pm
Surya enters Makara
14 Jan12:32 pm
Shukra enters Makara
19 Jan10:18 pm
Mangala enters Makara
25 Jan3:27 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
28 Jan12:04 am
Budha enters Kumbha

February 1994

4 Feb3:38 pm
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 10 Mar^†
7 Feb9:48 am
Shukra enters Kumbha
11 Feb3:29 am
Budha turns retrograde at 13°49′ Kumbha
12 Feb12:20 pm
Surya enters Kumbha
13 Feb5:16 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Feb^†
26 Feb1:13 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
27 Feb7:55 am
Mangala enters Kumbha
27 Feb8:09 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
28 Feb8:32 am
Guru turns retrograde at 20°53′ Tula
28 Feb12:54 pm
Budha enters Makara (moving backward)

March 1994

3 Mar9:29 am
Shukra enters Meena
5 Mar12:49 am
Budha turns direct at 28°51′ Makara
8 Mar10:03 pm
Mangala rises again (asta ends)^†
9 Mar8:32 pm
Budha enters Kumbha
10 Mar12:03 pm
Shani rises again (asta ends)^†
14 Mar9:16 am
Surya enters Meena
27 Mar1:16 pm
Shukra enters Mesha

April 1994

5 Apr3:40 pm
Budha enters Meena
6 Apr2:14 pm
Mangala enters Meena
13 Apr6:49 pm
Surya enters Mesha
16 Apr6:29 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 12 May^†
20 Apr11:56 pm
Shukra enters Vrishabha
22 Apr12:54 pm
Budha enters Mesha

May 1994

6 May5:40 pm
Budha enters Vrishabha
12 May3:05 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
14 May3:42 pm
Surya enters Vrishabha
15 May12:33 pm
Mangala enters Mesha
15 May5:11 pm
Shukra enters Mithuna
19 May12:46 am
Rahu enters Tula (moving backward)
19 May12:46 am
Ketu enters Mesha (moving backward)
23 May9:03 am
Budha enters Mithuna

June 1994

9 Jun8:33 pm
Shukra enters Karka
12 Jun1:47 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 14°38′ Mithuna
14 Jun10:17 pm
Surya enters Mithuna
16 Jun11:02 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Jul^†
22 Jun11:23 pm
Shani turns retrograde at 18°38′ Kumbha
25 Jun1:41 am
Mangala enters Vrishabha

July 1994

1 Jul11:51 pm
Guru turns direct at 10°59′ Tula
3 Jul6:31 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
5 Jul3:21 pm
Shukra enters Simha
6 Jul3:43 pm
Budha turns direct at 5°38′ Mithuna
16 Jul9:08 am
Surya enters Karka
30 Jul5:12 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 28 Aug^†
30 Jul9:13 pm
Budha enters Karka

August 1994

1 Aug2:19 pm
Shukra enters Kanya
7 Aug5:30 am
Mangala enters Mithuna
14 Aug4:58 pm
Budha enters Simha
16 Aug5:32 pm
Surya enters Simha
28 Aug4:40 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
31 Aug3:44 am
Budha enters Kanya
31 Aug10:47 am
Shukra enters Tula

September 1994

16 Sep5:27 pm
Surya enters Kanya
21 Sep7:39 am
Budha enters Tula
23 Sep5:28 pm
Mangala enters Karka

October 1994

9 Oct2:43 am
Budha turns retrograde at 12°42′ Tula
13 Oct1:39 am
Shukra turns retrograde at 24°14′ Tula
15 Oct8:18 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Oct^†
17 Oct5:23 am
Surya enters Tula
24 Oct8:28 am
Budha enters Kanya (moving backward)
27 Oct2:37 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
28 Oct6:26 pm
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 7 Nov^†
30 Oct12:05 am
Budha turns direct at 27°02′ Kanya

November 1994

3 Nov2:17 pm
Guru becomes combust (asta) until 1 Dec^†
4 Nov10:20 pm
Budha enters Tula
7 Nov6:31 pm
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
9 Nov4:07 am
Shani turns direct at 11°54′ Kumbha
11 Nov1:00 am
Guru enters Vrishchika
16 Nov4:09 am
Surya enters Vrishchika
18 Nov5:58 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Jan^†
22 Nov8:30 am
Mangala enters Simha
23 Nov11:58 am
Shukra turns direct at 8°42′ Tula
26 Nov12:48 am
Budha enters Vrishchika

December 1994

1 Dec12:57 pm
Guru rises again (asta ends)^†
15 Dec2:59 am
Budha enters Dhanu
15 Dec6:45 pm
Surya enters Dhanu
31 Dec5:03 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.

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 1994: when each graha changes sign