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Gochar 2027: when each graha changes sign

In 2027, Guru moves into Karka on 24 Jan; Shani moves into Mesha on 2 Jun; Guru moves into Simha on 25 Jun; Shani moves into Meena on 20 Oct; Guru moves into Kanya on 26 Nov. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in London (Europe/London, GMT/BST).

The grahas on 1 January 2027

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

Gochar calendar for 2027

Times in London (Europe/London, GMT/BST). 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 2027

  • 1 Jan5:42 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 9 Jan7:01 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 10 Jan12:54 pm

    Mangala turns retrograde at 16°12′ Simha

  • 14 Jan3:30 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 23 Jan1:21 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Jan9:31 pm

    Guru enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 27 Jan9:57 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 29 Jan1:02 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

February 2027

  • 9 Feb5:35 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 11°45′ Kumbha

  • 12 Feb8:05 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 24 Feb†

  • 13 Feb4:28 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 23 Feb11:22 pm

    Budha enters Makara (moving backward)

  • 24 Feb9:37 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 24 Feb1:55 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

March 2027

  • 3 Mar12:32 pm

    Budha turns direct at 26°41′ Makara

  • 9 Mar7:19 pm

    Mangala enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 11 Mar11:22 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 15 Mar1:19 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 21 Mar8:16 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 25 Apr†

  • 21 Mar1:13 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

April 2027

  • 1 Apr3:12 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 26°41′ Karka

  • 5 Apr11:40 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 13 Apr3:28 am

    Guru turns direct at 22°46′ Karka

  • 14 Apr10:48 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 15 Apr7:47 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 May†

  • 15 Apr10:42 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 22 Apr3:37 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 25 Apr8:09 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Apr6:36 am

    Mangala enters Simha

May 2027

  • 6 May8:01 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 10 May4:10 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 11 May8:12 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 May7:39 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 23 May1:54 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

June 2027

  • 2 Jun11:14 pm

    Shani enters Mesha

  • 3 Jun8:02 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 10 Jun7:14 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 12°07′ Mithuna

  • 15 Jun1:00 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 1 Jul†

  • 15 Jun2:14 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 25 Jun11:46 pm

    Guru enters Simha

  • 28 Jun10:00 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

July 2027

  • 1 Jul9:59 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 4 Jul8:40 pm

    Budha turns direct at 3°14′ Mithuna

  • 4 Jul11:44 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 6 Jul4:12 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 17 Sep†

  • 17 Jul1:07 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 22 Jul9:07 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 29 Jul10:27 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Aug†

  • 30 Jul1:55 pm

    Budha enters Karka

August 2027

  • 9 Aug6:34 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 3°38′ Mesha

  • 14 Aug7:17 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 16 Aug4:55 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 16 Aug3:12 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 14 Sep†

  • 17 Aug9:31 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 24 Aug5:04 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 26 Aug3:16 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Aug9:23 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

September 2027

  • 9 Sep10:01 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 14 Sep10:42 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 17 Sep9:29 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep6:18 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 21 Sep1:40 pm

    Budha enters Tula

October 2027

  • 3 Oct1:45 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 7 Oct3:36 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 10°41′ Tula

  • 7 Oct8:43 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 13 Oct10:57 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 25 Oct†

  • 17 Oct9:28 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 20 Oct4:56 am

    Shani enters Meena (moving backward)

  • 21 Oct3:51 am

    Budha enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 25 Oct6:45 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Oct5:18 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 28 Oct3:10 pm

    Budha turns direct at 25°04′ Kanya

November 2027

  • 5 Nov11:31 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 16 Nov8:17 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov11:17 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Jan†

  • 18 Nov3:01 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 20 Nov8:29 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 25 Nov6:52 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 26 Nov11:52 am

    Guru enters Kanya

December 2027

  • 14 Dec8:29 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 15 Dec2:31 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 16 Dec10:57 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 24 Dec3:15 am

    Shani turns direct at 26°47′ Meena

  • 27 Dec7:20 am

    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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