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 Edison (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 2033

13 Jan12:35 pm
Budha enters Makara
13 Jan11:30 pm
Surya enters Makara
19 Jan1:39 pm
Guru becomes combust (asta) until 16 Feb^†
27 Jan8:17 am
Mangala enters Vrishchika
28 Jan10:00 am
Shukra enters Meena
31 Jan2:01 am
Budha enters Kumbha

February 2033

2 Feb3:13 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
12 Feb12:27 pm
Surya enters Kumbha
16 Feb1:42 am
Rahu enters Kanya (moving backward)
16 Feb1:42 am
Ketu enters Meena (moving backward)
16 Feb9:26 pm
Guru rises again (asta ends)^†
18 Feb4:19 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 21°15′ Kumbha
21 Feb3:59 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Mar^†
27 Feb10:39 am
Shukra turns retrograde at 14°13′ Meena

March 2033

1 Mar11:31 am
Shani turns direct at 5°53′ Mithuna
5 Mar7:46 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
12 Mar9:57 pm
Budha turns direct at 6°43′ Kumbha
14 Mar10:17 am
Surya enters Meena
15 Mar12:51 pm
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 25 Mar^†
17 Mar4:29 pm
Guru enters Kumbha
24 Mar10:01 am
Mangala enters Dhanu
25 Mar11:52 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
31 Mar2:10 pm
Shukra enters Kumbha (moving backward)

April 2033

8 Apr9:34 am
Budha enters Meena
10 Apr11:28 am
Shukra turns direct at 28°02′ Kumbha
13 Apr6:46 pm
Surya enters Mesha
20 Apr7:28 pm
Shukra enters Meena
24 Apr7:47 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 19 May^†
26 Apr6:39 am
Budha enters Mesha

May 2033

10 May3:50 pm
Budha enters Vrishabha
14 May3:38 pm
Surya enters Vrishabha
19 May4:42 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
25 May8:44 pm
Budha enters Mithuna
26 May7:43 pm
Mangala turns retrograde at 18°11′ Dhanu
31 May3:16 am
Shukra enters Mesha

June 2033

13 Jun11:19 pm
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 20 Jul^†
14 Jun10:13 pm
Surya enters Mithuna
21 Jun6:04 am
Budha turns retrograde at 23°37′ Mithuna
25 Jun5:35 pm
Guru turns retrograde at 13°00′ Kumbha
26 Jun4:12 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 12 Jul^†
28 Jun10:46 pm
Shukra enters Vrishabha

July 2033

12 Jul5:03 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
15 Jul10:20 am
Budha turns direct at 14°11′ Mithuna
16 Jul9:04 am
Surya enters Karka
20 Jul8:20 am
Shani rises again (asta ends)^†
25 Jul3:00 pm
Shukra enters Mithuna

August 2033

1 Aug10:28 am
Mangala turns direct at 5°28′ Dhanu
3 Aug1:53 am
Budha enters Karka
6 Aug6:40 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Sep^†
16 Aug5:28 pm
Surya enters Simha
18 Aug1:50 pm
Budha enters Simha
20 Aug6:10 am
Shukra enters Karka

September 2033

3 Sep2:19 pm
Budha enters Kanya
5 Sep7:46 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
14 Sep4:27 am
Shukra enters Simha
16 Sep5:26 pm
Surya enters Kanya
23 Sep9:59 am
Budha enters Tula

October 2033

8 Oct10:31 am
Mangala enters Makara
8 Oct2:38 pm
Shukra enters Kanya
16 Oct6:02 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 19°56′ Tula
17 Oct5:26 am
Surya enters Tula
22 Oct5:31 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Nov^†
23 Oct3:35 am
Guru turns direct at 3°08′ Kumbha

November 2033

1 Nov4:55 pm
Shukra enters Tula
2 Nov2:34 am
Shani turns retrograde at 27°00′ Mithuna
3 Nov7:13 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
6 Nov7:39 am
Budha turns direct at 4°07′ Tula
16 Nov4:19 am
Surya enters Vrishchika
23 Nov4:41 am
Mangala enters Kumbha
23 Nov12:36 pm
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 14 Feb^†
25 Nov1:58 pm
Shukra enters Vrishchika
27 Nov4:36 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 15 Jan^†
29 Nov5:42 am
Budha enters Vrishchika

December 2033

15 Dec7:03 pm
Surya enters Dhanu
18 Dec12:04 pm
Budha enters Dhanu
19 Dec10:21 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