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Gochar 2032: when each graha changes sign

In 2032, Guru moves into Makara on 5 Mar; Shani moves into Mithuna on 30 May; Guru moves into Dhanu on 12 Aug; Guru moves into Makara on 23 Oct. 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 2032

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

Gochar calendar for 2032

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 2032

  • 2 Jan1:38 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 9 Jan7:40 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 20 Feb†

  • 15 Jan12:13 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 15 Jan8:33 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 18 Jan7:48 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 22 Jan4:42 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 30 Jan9:24 am

    Mangala enters Meena

February 2032

  • 8 Feb7:02 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 11 Feb3:10 pm

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 13 Feb1:09 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 16 Feb9:28 am

    Shani turns direct at 21°46′ Vrishabha

  • 20 Feb9:20 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Feb2:48 am

    Budha enters Meena

March 2032

  • 5 Mar9:44 am

    Guru enters Makara

  • 6 Mar8:41 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 7 Mar6:21 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 8°05′ Meena

  • 10 Mar2:19 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 23 Mar†

  • 10 Mar8:30 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 14 Mar10:00 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 20 Mar1:03 am

    Budha enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 23 Mar2:47 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Mar4:29 pm

    Budha turns direct at 24°44′ Kumbha

  • 31 Mar2:23 am

    Shukra enters Meena

April 2032

  • 11 Apr2:37 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 13 Apr6:30 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 20 Apr10:09 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 24 Apr9:24 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 25 Apr8:03 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 8 Jul†

May 2032

  • 3 May11:24 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 10 May6:41 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 Jun†

  • 12 May10:13 pm

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 3 Sep†

  • 14 May3:22 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 18 May6:01 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 19 May11:41 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 19 May4:30 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 7°50′ Makara

  • 30 May3:19 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 5 Jul†

  • 30 May10:13 pm

    Shani enters Mithuna

June 2032

  • 2 Jun10:22 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 3 Jun9:55 am

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 4 Jun10:18 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Jun3:46 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 14 Jun9:59 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 20 Jun3:11 pm

    Budha enters Karka

July 2032

  • 5 Jul11:04 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 6 Jul1:52 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 8 Jul11:30 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 10 Jul4:32 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 13°14′ Karka

  • 16 Jul4:51 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 31 Jul†

  • 16 Jul8:52 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 18 Jul4:58 pm

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 31 Jul12:04 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 31 Jul9:28 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

August 2032

  • 3 Aug8:52 am

    Budha turns direct at 2°31′ Karka

  • 12 Aug5:42 pm

    Guru enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 16 Aug5:19 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 22 Aug1:01 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 24 Sep†

  • 24 Aug11:05 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 27 Aug12:03 am

    Budha enters Simha

September 2032

  • 3 Sep6:23 am

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 3 Sep9:18 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 11 Sep2:46 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 16 Sep5:19 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep10:09 pm

    Guru turns direct at 28°00′ Dhanu

  • 18 Sep12:15 am

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 24 Sep1:47 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Sep6:12 pm

    Budha enters Tula

October 2032

  • 12 Oct5:01 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 17 Oct5:20 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 18 Oct11:56 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 12°52′ Mithuna

  • 20 Oct11:55 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 22 Oct11:56 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 23 Oct4:28 pm

    Guru enters Makara

November 2032

  • 2 Nov1:56 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 5°54′ Vrishchika

  • 6 Nov3:36 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 7 Nov10:40 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 19 Nov†

  • 11 Nov8:43 am

    Budha enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 16 Nov5:10 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 19 Nov4:09 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 22 Nov4:01 pm

    Budha turns direct at 19°49′ Tula

December 2032

  • 2 Dec1:47 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 5 Dec8:47 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 8 Dec10:51 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 15 Dec7:49 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 18 Dec12:50 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 2 Feb†

  • 25 Dec10:18 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 28 Dec5:24 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

† 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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