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Gochar 2005: when each graha changes sign

In 2005, Shani moves into Mithuna on 13 Jan; Rahu moves into Meena on 25 Mar; Shani moves into Karka on 26 May; Guru moves into Tula on 28 Sep. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Auckland (Pacific/Auckland, NZDT/NZST).

The grahas on 1 January 2005

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

Gochar calendar for 2005

Times in Auckland (Pacific/Auckland, NZDT/NZST). 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 2005

  • 5 Jan9:28 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 6 Jan3:11 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 13 Jan11:13 pm

    Shani enters Mithuna (moving backward)

  • 14 Jan1:08 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 24 Jan7:46 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Mar†

  • 26 Jan10:30 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 29 Jan8:17 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 29 Jan4:28 pm

    Mangala enters Dhanu

February 2005

  • 2 Feb3:08 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 24°56′ Kanya

  • 13 Feb2:09 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb10:03 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 19 Feb10:46 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 9 May†

  • 22 Feb7:27 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

March 2005

  • 2 Mar3:10 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 3 Mar2:46 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Mar8:43 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 14 Mar11:04 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 18 Mar8:18 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 20 Mar12:13 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 20°10′ Meena

  • 22 Mar3:23 pm

    Shani turns direct at 26°28′ Mithuna

  • 22 Mar7:02 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Apr†

  • 25 Mar1:27 pm

    Rahu enters Meena (moving backward)

  • 25 Mar1:27 pm

    Ketu enters Kanya (moving backward)

April 2005

  • 6 Apr12:14 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Apr10:54 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 12 Apr7:46 pm

    Budha turns direct at 7°49′ Meena

  • 14 Apr6:35 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 23 Apr6:08 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

May 2005

  • 5 May5:50 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 8 May9:46 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 9 May4:52 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 May3:29 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 22 May1:57 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 16 Jun†

  • 26 May12:41 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 26 May1:22 pm

    Shani enters Karka

  • 30 May4:12 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

June 2005

  • 3 Jun10:51 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 5 Jun7:38 pm

    Guru turns direct at 15°00′ Kanya

  • 8 Jun10:18 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 15 Jun10:06 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 16 Jun12:09 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 23 Jun6:02 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 24 Jun4:42 pm

    Budha enters Karka

July 2005

  • 6 Jul12:57 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 11 Aug†

  • 16 Jul8:59 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 18 Jul12:07 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 18 Jul3:36 pm

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 23 Jul2:59 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 26°32′ Karka

  • 30 Jul5:34 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 14 Aug†

August 2005

  • 11 Aug7:24 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Aug12:34 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 14 Aug6:17 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Aug3:51 pm

    Budha turns direct at 14°49′ Karka

  • 17 Aug5:23 am

    Surya enters Simha

September 2005

  • 1 Sep7:55 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 3 Sep4:51 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 8 Oct†

  • 6 Sep11:03 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 17 Sep5:17 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep9:02 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 28 Sep11:45 am

    Guru enters Tula

October 2005

  • 2 Oct10:59 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 29°26′ Mesha

  • 3 Oct3:44 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 5 Oct9:06 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 8 Oct9:37 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 8 Oct8:55 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 6 Nov†

  • 17 Oct6:12 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 26 Oct12:35 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 30 Oct9:00 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

November 2005

  • 6 Nov3:29 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Nov6:42 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 17°00′ Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov5:57 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 19 Nov5:12 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 30 Nov†

  • 22 Nov9:31 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 17°23′ Karka

  • 30 Nov6:51 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

December 2005

  • 4 Dec12:54 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 4 Dec3:23 pm

    Budha turns direct at 0°48′ Vrishchika

  • 10 Dec5:07 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 14°18′ Mesha

  • 16 Dec8:34 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 24 Dec10:35 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 7°32′ Makara

  • 31 Dec9:13 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

† 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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