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Gochar 1995: when each graha changes sign

In 1995, Shani moves into Meena on 2 Jun; Shani moves into Kumbha on 10 Aug; Rahu moves into Kanya on 6 Dec; Guru moves into Dhanu on 7 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Durban (Africa/Johannesburg, UTC+2).

The grahas on 1 January 1995

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

Gochar calendar for 1995

Times in Durban (Africa/Johannesburg, UTC+2). 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 1995

  • 1 Jan12:03 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 2 Jan11:22 pm

    Mangala turns retrograde at 8°53′ Simha

  • 3 Jan3:40 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 7 Jan5:51 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Jan12:26 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 26 Jan3:15 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 27°29′ Makara

  • 28 Jan11:30 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 9 Feb†

  • 30 Jan7:54 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

February 1995

  • 9 Feb5:04 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Feb11:34 pm

    Mangala enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 13 Feb1:25 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 16 Feb7:06 am

    Budha turns direct at 11°50′ Makara

  • 17 Feb4:12 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 23 Mar†

  • 25 Feb4:40 pm

    Shukra enters Makara

March 1995

  • 10 Mar10:32 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 14 Mar10:18 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 23 Mar2:21 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 23 Mar7:03 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Mar7:22 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 19°23′ Karka

  • 29 Mar10:27 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 31 Mar1:55 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Apr†

April 1995

  • 1 Apr1:45 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 21°36′ Vrishchika

  • 14 Apr6:51 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 14 Apr11:05 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 17 Apr2:28 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 27 Apr10:34 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Apr3:05 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

May 1995

  • 11 May12:30 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 11 May10:17 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 15 May3:46 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 24 May11:01 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 24°34′ Vrishabha

  • 27 May7:04 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 13 Jun†

June 1995

  • 2 Jun4:07 am

    Shani enters Meena

  • 5 Jun3:42 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 13 Jun8:07 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Jun10:24 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 17 Jun8:59 am

    Budha turns direct at 16°01′ Vrishabha

  • 30 Jun6:42 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

July 1995

  • 6 Jul9:12 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 0°58′ Meena

  • 6 Jul5:12 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 10 Jul6:11 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 15 Jul2:15 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 Aug†

  • 15 Jul4:31 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 27 Sep†

  • 16 Jul9:20 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 23 Jul2:06 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 24 Jul6:23 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

August 1995

  • 2 Aug7:01 pm

    Guru turns direct at 11°44′ Vrishchika

  • 6 Aug5:47 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 10 Aug1:39 am

    Shani enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 11 Aug4:55 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 17 Aug5:47 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 18 Aug2:19 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 24 Aug5:05 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 28 Aug9:14 pm

    Mangala enters Tula

September 1995

  • 11 Sep7:06 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep5:46 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 22 Sep11:14 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 26°23′ Kanya

  • 27 Sep2:07 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Sep5:02 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 Oct†

October 1995

  • 5 Oct10:05 am

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 11 Oct12:04 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Oct5:11 am

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 14 Oct2:47 am

    Budha turns direct at 11°12′ Kanya

  • 17 Oct5:44 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 29 Oct12:37 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 31 Oct8:08 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Dec†

  • 31 Oct2:54 pm

    Budha enters Tula

November 1995

  • 16 Nov5:30 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 19 Nov2:58 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 21 Nov10:18 pm

    Shani turns direct at 24°12′ Kumbha

  • 22 Nov10:20 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 22 Nov3:33 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

December 1995

  • 5 Dec1:12 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 1 Jan†

  • 6 Dec9:43 am

    Rahu enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 6 Dec9:43 am

    Ketu enters Meena (moving backward)

  • 7 Dec2:49 am

    Guru enters Dhanu

  • 8 Dec5:26 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 16 Dec8:05 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 16 Dec7:59 pm

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 18 Dec10:19 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Dec10:21 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 31 Dec2:30 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

† 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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