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Gochar 2014: when each graha changes sign

In 2014, Guru moves into Karka on 18 Jun; Rahu moves into Kanya on 12 Jul; Shani moves into Vrishchika on 2 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 2014

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

Gochar calendar for 2014

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 2014

  • 6 Jan7:41 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 16 Jan†

  • 6 Jan12:20 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 8 Jan1:42 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 14 Jan1:32 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 16 Jan5:17 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 20 Jan6:05 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Jan12:12 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 31 Jan2:49 pm

    Shukra turns direct at 19°31′ Dhanu

February 2014

  • 4 Feb2:14 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 6 Feb3:43 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 9°17′ Kumbha

  • 9 Feb7:07 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Feb†

  • 12 Feb2:33 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 18 Feb6:13 am

    Budha enters Makara (moving backward)

  • 21 Feb10:37 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Feb12:17 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 28 Feb8:00 am

    Budha turns direct at 24°07′ Makara

March 2014

  • 1 Mar10:19 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 3°29′ Tula

  • 2 Mar9:47 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 29°16′ Tula

  • 6 Mar4:58 am

    Guru turns direct at 16°23′ Mithuna

  • 11 Mar10:58 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 14 Mar12:26 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 24 Mar11:55 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 30 Mar11:25 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

April 2014

  • 3 Apr8:57 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 12 Apr4:33 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 8 May†

  • 13 Apr8:57 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 20 Apr7:03 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 27 Apr2:02 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

May 2014

  • 4 May11:32 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 8 May9:40 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 May5:49 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 19 May8:35 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 14°58′ Kanya

  • 22 May3:45 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 23 May6:22 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

June 2014

  • 7 Jun6:55 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 9°07′ Mithuna

  • 11 Jun8:43 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 28 Jun†

  • 15 Jun12:23 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 18 Jun7:20 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 18 Jun9:35 pm

    Guru enters Karka

  • 28 Jun7:11 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

July 2014

  • 1 Jul7:50 am

    Budha turns direct at 0°20′ Mithuna

  • 9 Jul3:13 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 8 Aug†

  • 12 Jul2:11 pm

    Rahu enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 12 Jul2:11 pm

    Ketu enters Meena (moving backward)

  • 13 Jul10:34 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 13 Jul9:56 pm

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 16 Jul11:13 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 20 Jul4:08 pm

    Shani turns direct at 22°35′ Tula

  • 26 Jul12:06 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 23 Aug†

  • 28 Jul7:04 pm

    Budha enters Karka

August 2014

  • 7 Aug5:28 am

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 8 Aug2:45 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Aug10:29 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 16 Aug7:36 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 23 Aug9:32 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Aug5:03 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 31 Aug4:37 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

September 2014

  • 4 Sep3:50 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Sep7:32 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 16 Sep11:45 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 4 Dec†

  • 20 Sep3:34 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 24 Sep9:26 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

October 2014

  • 4 Oct12:01 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 8°15′ Tula

  • 10 Oct9:24 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Oct†

  • 16 Oct2:46 am

    Budha enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 17 Oct7:32 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 18 Oct3:08 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 18 Oct10:01 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 22 Oct6:58 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Oct2:16 pm

    Budha turns direct at 22°42′ Kanya

November 2014

  • 1 Nov5:32 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 4 Dec†

  • 2 Nov8:20 am

    Shani enters Vrishchika

  • 4 Nov9:50 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 11 Nov7:27 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 13 Nov11:41 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 1 Jan†

  • 16 Nov6:23 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 24 Nov2:22 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 27 Nov1:18 am

    Mangala enters Makara

December 2014

  • 4 Dec8:27 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 4 Dec9:44 pm

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 5 Dec5:07 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 8 Dec2:24 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 28°34′ Karka

  • 13 Dec3:35 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 15 Dec9:05 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 29 Dec3:03 pm

    Shukra 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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