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Gochar 2029: when each graha changes sign

In 2029, Guru moves into Kanya on 29 Mar; Shani moves into Vrishabha on 7 Aug; Guru moves into Tula on 24 Aug; Shani moves into Mesha on 5 Oct. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Washington, D.C. (America/New York, EST/EDT).

The grahas on 1 January 2029

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

Gochar calendar for 2029

Times in Washington, D.C. (America/New York, EST/EDT). 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 2029

  • 3 Jan7:50 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 5 Jan8:08 am

    Shani turns direct at 10°10′ Mesha

  • 7 Jan2:56 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 9°23′ Makara

  • 10 Jan8:46 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Jan†

  • 13 Jan10:44 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 17 Jan8:20 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 21 Jan3:11 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Jan6:07 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 27 Jan1:40 pm

    Budha turns direct at 23°17′ Dhanu

February 2029

  • 8 Feb6:29 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 10 Feb7:49 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 3°10′ Tula

  • 11 Feb1:37 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 1 May†

  • 12 Feb11:45 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 14 Feb3:11 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 19°40′ Kanya

  • 20 Feb4:54 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

March 2029

  • 2 Mar10:59 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 10 Mar6:08 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 9 Apr†

  • 14 Mar9:40 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 16 Mar6:29 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 20 Mar8:50 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 29 Mar6:46 am

    Guru enters Kanya (moving backward)

April 2029

  • 4 Apr7:42 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 9 Apr4:03 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Apr9:54 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 13 Apr6:11 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 16 Apr7:17 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 22 May†

  • 24 Apr1:58 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

May 2029

  • 1 May12:56 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 1 May7:04 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 2°25′ Vrishabha

  • 3 May4:51 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 4 May9:47 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 20 May†

  • 5 May3:04 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 0°40′ Kanya

  • 9 May6:17 pm

    Budha enters Mesha (moving backward)

  • 14 May3:03 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 20 May10:47 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 22 May10:42 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 May3:21 pm

    Budha turns direct at 23°18′ Mesha

  • 28 May3:32 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

June 2029

  • 8 Jun6:49 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 13 Jun5:24 pm

    Guru turns direct at 23°14′ Kanya

  • 14 Jun9:38 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 21 Jun6:11 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 27 Jun11:25 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Jul†

  • 28 Jun12:02 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

July 2029

  • 12 Jul3:46 pm

    Budha enters Karka

  • 16 Jul8:29 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 16 Jul1:46 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 22 Jul5:18 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Jul7:41 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 28 Jul12:59 pm

    Mangala enters Tula

August 2029

  • 7 Aug10:38 pm

    Shani enters Vrishabha

  • 10 Aug4:45 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 16 Aug4:52 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 19 Aug10:54 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 24 Aug2:13 pm

    Guru enters Tula

September 2029

  • 2 Sep8:17 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 7°34′ Kanya

  • 5 Sep7:31 am

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 6 Sep4:04 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 0°45′ Vrishabha

  • 9 Sep10:51 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Sep†

  • 14 Sep6:17 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 14 Sep7:00 pm

    Budha enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 16 Sep4:46 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 22 Sep11:55 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Sep10:02 pm

    Budha turns direct at 23°11′ Simha

October 2029

  • 1 Oct7:17 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 4 Oct9:35 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 5 Oct11:33 am

    Shani enters Mesha (moving backward)

  • 10 Oct7:21 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 25 Nov†

  • 16 Oct4:29 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 13 Nov†

  • 17 Oct4:42 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 22 Oct4:43 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 27 Oct3:19 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 30 Oct9:14 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

November 2029

  • 10 Nov12:52 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 13 Nov7:12 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Nov3:29 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 25 Nov12:35 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Nov6:30 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

December 2029

  • 5 Dec3:33 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 15 Dec6:07 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 16 Dec6:46 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 29°46′ Dhanu

  • 22 Dec12:50 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 23°26′ Dhanu

  • 25 Dec5:09 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Jan†

† 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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