Panchang · Gochar
Gochar 2025: when each graha changes sign
In 2025, Shani moves into Meena on 29 Mar; Guru moves into Mithuna on 15 May; Rahu moves into Kumbha on 18 May; Guru moves into Karka on 18 Oct; Guru moves into Mithuna on 5 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.
Times in Perth (Australia/Perth, AWST).
The grahas on 1 January 2025
Sidereal (Lahiri) sign, and from when to when. Open a graha for its whole year.
- Surya (Sun)In Dhanusince 16 Dec 2024, until 14 Jan 2025
- Chandra (Moon)In Dhanusince 30 Dec 2024, until 1 Jan 2025
- Mangala (Mars)RetrogradeIn Karkasince 20 Oct 2024, until 21 Jan 2025
- Budha (Mercury)In Vrishchikasince 30 Oct 2024, until 4 Jan 2025
- Guru (Jupiter)RetrogradeIn Vrishabhasince 1 May 2024, until 15 May 2025
- Shukra (Venus)In Kumbhasince 29 Dec 2024, until 28 Jan 2025
- Shani (Saturn)In Kumbhasince 17 Jan 2023, until 29 Mar 2025
- RahuIn Meenasince 30 Oct 2023, until 18 May 2025
- KetuIn Kanyasince 30 Oct 2023, until 18 May 2025
Gochar calendar for 2025
Times in Perth (Australia/Perth, AWST). 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 2025
4 Jan2:31 pm
Budha enters Dhanu
14 Jan11:19 am
Surya enters Makara
18 Jan9:33 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Feb†
21 Jan12:50 pm
Mangala enters Mithuna (moving backward)
24 Jan8:06 pm
Budha enters Makara
28 Jan9:25 am
Shukra enters Meena
February 2025
4 Feb5:56 pm
Guru turns direct at 17°04′ Vrishabha
11 Feb3:21 pm
Budha enters Kumbha
13 Feb12:19 am
Surya enters Kumbha
23 Feb5:21 pm
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 29 Mar†
24 Feb10:04 am
Mangala turns direct at 22°49′ Mithuna
26 Feb11:22 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)†
28 Feb2:08 am
Budha enters Meena
March 2025
2 Mar8:34 am
Shukra turns retrograde at 16°38′ Meena
14 Mar9:14 pm
Surya enters Meena
15 Mar2:45 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 15°23′ Meena
17 Mar9:59 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 31 Mar†
18 Mar9:45 am
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 28 Mar†
28 Mar9:03 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)†
29 Mar11:25 pm
Shani enters Meena
29 Mar11:59 pm
Shani rises again (asta ends)†
31 Mar8:24 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)†
April 2025
3 Apr3:41 am
Mangala enters Karka
7 Apr7:08 pm
Budha turns direct at 2°37′ Meena
13 Apr9:03 am
Shukra turns direct at 0°25′ Meena
14 Apr5:45 am
Surya enters Mesha
May 2025
7 May6:34 am
Budha enters Mesha
15 May12:38 am
Guru enters Mithuna
15 May2:35 am
Surya enters Vrishabha
18 May2:52 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 Jun†
18 May11:54 pm
Rahu enters Kumbha (moving backward)
18 May11:54 pm
Ketu enters Simha (moving backward)
23 May3:29 pm
Budha enters Vrishabha
31 May1:57 pm
Shukra enters Mesha
June 2025
6 Jun11:53 am
Budha enters Mithuna
7 Jun4:30 am
Mangala enters Simha
9 Jun8:12 pm
Guru becomes combust (asta) until 10 Jul†
11 Jun2:31 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)†
15 Jun9:07 am
Surya enters Mithuna
22 Jun11:54 pm
Budha enters Karka
29 Jun4:33 pm
Shukra enters Vrishabha
July 2025
10 Jul2:48 am
Guru rises again (asta ends)†
13 Jul11:34 am
Shani turns retrograde at 7°43′ Meena
16 Jul7:54 pm
Surya enters Karka
18 Jul12:44 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 21°22′ Karka
24 Jul10:16 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 9 Aug†
26 Jul11:20 am
Shukra enters Mithuna
28 Jul10:17 pm
Mangala enters Kanya
August 2025
9 Aug5:16 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)†
11 Aug3:30 pm
Budha turns direct at 10°02′ Karka
17 Aug4:15 am
Surya enters Simha
21 Aug3:43 am
Shukra enters Karka
29 Aug6:20 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 2 Oct†
30 Aug7:11 pm
Budha enters Simha
September 2025
13 Sep11:42 pm
Mangala enters Tula
15 Sep2:41 am
Shukra enters Simha
15 Sep1:33 pm
Budha enters Kanya
17 Sep4:10 am
Surya enters Kanya
October 2025
2 Oct8:06 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)†
3 Oct6:09 am
Budha enters Tula
9 Oct1:13 pm
Shukra enters Kanya
17 Oct4:09 pm
Surya enters Tula
18 Oct8:46 pm
Guru enters Karka
24 Oct2:57 pm
Budha enters Vrishchika
27 Oct6:03 pm
Mangala enters Vrishchika
November 2025
2 Nov3:40 pm
Shukra enters Tula
7 Nov2:21 am
Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 26 Mar†
10 Nov3:01 am
Budha turns retrograde at 12°39′ Vrishchika
12 Nov12:24 am
Guru turns retrograde at 0°56′ Karka
15 Nov5:35 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Nov†
16 Nov4:00 pm
Surya enters Vrishchika
23 Nov10:43 pm
Budha enters Tula (moving backward)
26 Nov8:35 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)†
26 Nov1:46 pm
Shukra enters Vrishchika
26 Nov2:21 pm
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 17 Feb†
28 Nov12:22 pm
Shani turns direct at 0°56′ Meena
30 Nov1:38 am
Budha turns direct at 26°29′ Tula
December 2025
5 Dec9:31 pm
Guru enters Mithuna (moving backward)
6 Dec11:07 pm
Budha enters Vrishchika
7 Dec10:37 pm
Mangala enters Dhanu
16 Dec6:42 am
Surya enters Dhanu
20 Dec10:09 am
Shukra enters Dhanu
28 Dec2:45 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 10 Feb†
29 Dec9:48 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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