Gochar 2033: planet transit calendar · School of Vedic Sciences, FORE

The grahas on 1 January 2033

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

Gochar calendar for 2033

Times in Sydney (Australia/Sydney, AEDT/AEST). 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 2033

14 Jan4:35 am
Budha enters Makara
14 Jan3:30 pm
Surya enters Makara
20 Jan5:39 am
Guru becomes combust (asta) until 17 Feb^†
28 Jan12:17 am
Mangala enters Vrishchika
29 Jan2:00 am
Shukra enters Meena
31 Jan6:01 pm
Budha enters Kumbha

February 2033

2 Feb7:13 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
13 Feb4:27 am
Surya enters Kumbha
16 Feb5:42 pm
Rahu enters Kanya (moving backward)
16 Feb5:42 pm
Ketu enters Meena (moving backward)
17 Feb1:26 pm
Guru rises again (asta ends)^†
19 Feb8:19 am
Budha turns retrograde at 21°15′ Kumbha
21 Feb7:59 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Mar^†
28 Feb2:39 am
Shukra turns retrograde at 14°13′ Meena

March 2033

2 Mar3:31 am
Shani turns direct at 5°53′ Mithuna
6 Mar11:46 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
13 Mar1:57 pm
Budha turns direct at 6°43′ Kumbha
15 Mar1:17 am
Surya enters Meena
16 Mar3:51 am
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 26 Mar^†
18 Mar7:29 am
Guru enters Kumbha
25 Mar1:01 am
Mangala enters Dhanu
26 Mar2:52 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†

April 2033

1 Apr5:10 am
Shukra enters Kumbha (moving backward)
8 Apr11:34 pm
Budha enters Meena
11 Apr1:28 am
Shukra turns direct at 28°02′ Kumbha
14 Apr8:46 am
Surya enters Mesha
21 Apr9:28 am
Shukra enters Meena
24 Apr9:47 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 20 May^†
26 Apr8:39 pm
Budha enters Mesha

May 2033

11 May5:50 am
Budha enters Vrishabha
15 May5:38 am
Surya enters Vrishabha
20 May6:42 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
26 May10:44 am
Budha enters Mithuna
27 May9:43 am
Mangala turns retrograde at 18°11′ Dhanu
31 May5:16 pm
Shukra enters Mesha

June 2033

14 Jun1:19 pm
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 20 Jul^†
15 Jun12:13 pm
Surya enters Mithuna
21 Jun8:04 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 23°37′ Mithuna
26 Jun7:35 am
Guru turns retrograde at 13°00′ Kumbha
26 Jun6:12 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 13 Jul^†
29 Jun12:46 pm
Shukra enters Vrishabha

July 2033

13 Jul7:03 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
16 Jul12:20 am
Budha turns direct at 14°11′ Mithuna
16 Jul11:04 pm
Surya enters Karka
20 Jul10:20 pm
Shani rises again (asta ends)^†
26 Jul5:00 am
Shukra enters Mithuna

August 2033

2 Aug12:28 am
Mangala turns direct at 5°28′ Dhanu
3 Aug3:53 pm
Budha enters Karka
7 Aug8:40 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Sep^†
17 Aug7:28 am
Surya enters Simha
19 Aug3:50 am
Budha enters Simha
20 Aug8:10 pm
Shukra enters Karka

September 2033

4 Sep4:19 am
Budha enters Kanya
5 Sep9:46 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
14 Sep6:27 pm
Shukra enters Simha
17 Sep7:26 am
Surya enters Kanya
23 Sep11:59 pm
Budha enters Tula

October 2033

9 Oct1:31 am
Mangala enters Makara
9 Oct5:38 am
Shukra enters Kanya
17 Oct9:02 am
Budha turns retrograde at 19°56′ Tula
17 Oct8:26 pm
Surya enters Tula
23 Oct8:31 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Nov^†
23 Oct6:35 pm
Guru turns direct at 3°08′ Kumbha

November 2033

2 Nov7:55 am
Shukra enters Tula
2 Nov5:34 pm
Shani turns retrograde at 27°00′ Mithuna
3 Nov10:13 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
6 Nov11:39 pm
Budha turns direct at 4°07′ Tula
16 Nov8:19 pm
Surya enters Vrishchika
23 Nov8:41 pm
Mangala enters Kumbha
24 Nov4:36 am
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 15 Feb^†
26 Nov5:58 am
Shukra enters Vrishchika
28 Nov8:36 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 16 Jan^†
29 Nov9:42 pm
Budha enters Vrishchika

December 2033

16 Dec11:03 am
Surya enters Dhanu
19 Dec4:04 am
Budha enters Dhanu
20 Dec2:21 am
Shukra 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.

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.

Gochar 2033: when each graha changes sign