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Gochar 2025: when each graha changes sign

In 2025, Shani moves into Meena on 30 Mar; Guru moves into Mithuna on 15 May; Rahu moves into Kumbha on 19 May; Guru moves into Karka on 19 Oct; Guru moves into Mithuna on 6 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

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

The grahas on 1 January 2025

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

Gochar calendar for 2025

Times in Wellington (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 2025

  • 4 Jan7:31 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 14 Jan4:19 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 18 Jan2:33 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Feb†

  • 21 Jan5:50 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna (moving backward)

  • 25 Jan1:06 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 28 Jan2:25 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

February 2025

  • 4 Feb10:56 pm

    Guru turns direct at 17°04′ Vrishabha

  • 11 Feb8:21 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb5:19 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 23 Feb10:21 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 30 Mar†

  • 24 Feb3:04 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 22°49′ Mithuna

  • 27 Feb4:22 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Feb7:08 am

    Budha enters Meena

March 2025

  • 2 Mar1:34 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 16°38′ Meena

  • 15 Mar2:14 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 15 Mar7:45 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 15°23′ Meena

  • 18 Mar2:59 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 1 Apr†

  • 18 Mar2:45 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 28 Mar†

  • 28 Mar2:03 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Mar4:25 am

    Shani enters Meena

  • 30 Mar4:59 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

April 2025

  • 1 Apr1:24 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 3 Apr8:41 am

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 7 Apr11:08 pm

    Budha turns direct at 2°37′ Meena

  • 13 Apr1:03 pm

    Shukra turns direct at 0°25′ Meena

  • 14 Apr9:45 am

    Surya enters Mesha

May 2025

  • 7 May10:34 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 15 May4:38 am

    Guru enters Mithuna

  • 15 May6:35 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 18 May6:52 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 Jun†

  • 19 May3:54 am

    Rahu enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 19 May3:54 am

    Ketu enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 23 May7:29 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 31 May5:57 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

June 2025

  • 6 Jun3:53 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 7 Jun8:30 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 10 Jun12:12 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 10 Jul†

  • 11 Jun6:31 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Jun1:07 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 23 Jun3:54 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 29 Jun8:33 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

July 2025

  • 10 Jul6:48 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 13 Jul3:34 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 7°43′ Meena

  • 16 Jul11:54 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 18 Jul4:44 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 21°22′ Karka

  • 25 Jul2:16 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 9 Aug†

  • 26 Jul3:20 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 29 Jul2:17 am

    Mangala enters Kanya

August 2025

  • 9 Aug9:16 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Aug7:30 pm

    Budha turns direct at 10°02′ Karka

  • 17 Aug8:15 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 21 Aug7:43 am

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 29 Aug10:20 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Oct†

  • 30 Aug11:11 pm

    Budha enters Simha

September 2025

  • 14 Sep3:42 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 15 Sep6:41 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 15 Sep5:33 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep8:10 am

    Surya enters Kanya

October 2025

  • 3 Oct1:06 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 3 Oct11:09 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 9 Oct6:13 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 17 Oct9:09 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 19 Oct1:46 am

    Guru enters Karka

  • 24 Oct7:57 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 27 Oct11:03 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

November 2025

  • 2 Nov8:40 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 7 Nov7:21 am

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 26 Mar†

  • 10 Nov8:01 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 12°39′ Vrishchika

  • 12 Nov5:24 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 0°56′ Karka

  • 15 Nov10:35 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Nov†

  • 16 Nov9:00 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 24 Nov3:43 am

    Budha enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 26 Nov1:35 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Nov6:46 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 26 Nov7:21 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 17 Feb†

  • 28 Nov5:22 pm

    Shani turns direct at 0°56′ Meena

  • 30 Nov6:38 am

    Budha turns direct at 26°29′ Tula

December 2025

  • 6 Dec2:31 am

    Guru enters Mithuna (moving backward)

  • 7 Dec4:07 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 8 Dec3:37 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 16 Dec11:42 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 20 Dec3:09 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 28 Dec7:45 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 10 Feb†

  • 29 Dec2:48 pm

    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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