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Gochar 2030: when each graha changes sign

In 2030, Rahu moves into Vrishchika on 11 Jan; Guru moves into Vrishchika on 24 Jan; Shani moves into Vrishabha on 17 Apr; Guru moves into Tula on 1 May; Guru moves into Vrishchika on 22 Sep. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Cape Town (Africa/Johannesburg, UTC+2).

The grahas on 1 January 2030

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

Gochar calendar for 2030

Times in Cape Town (Africa/Johannesburg, UTC+2). 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 2030

  • 1 Jan4:23 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 11 Jan†

  • 6 Jan12:56 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Jan2:47 am

    Rahu enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

  • 11 Jan2:47 am

    Ketu enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

  • 11 Jan7:45 am

    Budha turns direct at 7°10′ Dhanu

  • 11 Jan2:20 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 13 Jan5:51 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

  • 14 Jan11:52 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 19 Jan6:23 am

    Shani turns direct at 23°49′ Mesha

  • 24 Jan8:45 pm

    Guru enters Vrishchika

  • 26 Jan11:34 pm

    Shukra turns direct at 14°22′ Dhanu

February 2030

  • 4 Feb3:26 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 13 Feb12:53 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 19 Feb6:19 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 24 Mar†

  • 20 Feb12:00 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 24 Feb2:55 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 27 Feb11:32 pm

    Shukra enters Makara

March 2030

  • 12 Mar12:59 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 13 Mar4:15 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 3°22′ Vrishchika

  • 14 Mar9:46 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 16 Mar3:32 am

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 26 Jul†

  • 24 Mar5:33 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Mar8:19 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 31 Mar2:56 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 31 Mar4:04 pm

    Mangala enters Mesha

April 2030

  • 13 Apr4:32 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 13°31′ Mesha

  • 14 Apr6:15 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 15 Apr12:41 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 1 May†

  • 17 Apr3:56 am

    Shani enters Vrishabha

  • 27 Apr8:04 am

    Shukra enters Meena

May 2030

  • 1 May3:15 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 1 May10:54 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 6 Jun†

  • 1 May12:26 pm

    Guru enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 6 May10:15 pm

    Budha turns direct at 3°10′ Mesha

  • 11 May11:15 am

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 15 May3:04 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 23 May8:15 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

June 2030

  • 5 Jun12:23 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 6 Jun9:20 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Jun6:18 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Jul†

  • 15 Jun9:39 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 17 Jun6:58 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 20 Jun11:06 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 23 Jun7:27 am

    Mangala enters Mithuna

July 2030

  • 4 Jul1:14 pm

    Budha enters Karka

  • 6 Jul8:25 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Jul8:52 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 15 Jul3:44 am

    Guru turns direct at 23°29′ Tula

  • 16 Jul8:31 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 22 Jul8:13 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 26 Jul5:44 pm

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

August 2030

  • 6 Aug2:58 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 7 Aug6:33 am

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 16 Aug3:19 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 20°13′ Simha

  • 17 Aug4:58 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 23 Aug6:41 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Sep†

  • 31 Aug1:44 am

    Shukra enters Simha

September 2030

  • 6 Sep2:57 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 8 Sep11:27 am

    Budha turns direct at 6°50′ Simha

  • 12 Sep3:48 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 29 Nov†

  • 17 Sep4:57 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 20 Sep10:59 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 14°40′ Vrishabha

  • 22 Sep9:43 pm

    Guru enters Vrishchika

  • 23 Sep6:56 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 24 Sep6:26 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 24 Sep9:27 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 Nov†

  • 28 Sep8:49 am

    Budha enters Kanya

October 2030

  • 15 Oct8:30 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 17 Oct4:58 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 18 Oct7:04 am

    Shukra enters Tula

November 2030

  • 3 Nov6:23 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 4 Nov6:53 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Nov5:38 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 11 Nov3:17 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 16 Nov4:47 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov5:26 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 14 Dec†

  • 25 Nov1:39 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 29 Nov2:02 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

December 2030

  • 5 Dec3:31 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 6 Dec4:47 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 7°35′ Dhanu

  • 10 Dec9:17 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Dec†

  • 14 Dec2:21 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Dec1:44 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

  • 16 Dec7:26 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 21 Dec8:09 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Dec11:14 pm

    Budha turns direct at 21°16′ Vrishchika

  • 29 Dec1:44 am

    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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