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Gochar 2034: when each graha changes sign

In 2034, Guru moves into Meena on 27 Mar; Shani moves into Karka on 12 Jul; Rahu moves into Simha on 5 Sep. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in San Francisco (America/Los Angeles, PST/PDT).

The grahas on 1 January 2034

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

Gochar calendar for 2034

Times in San Francisco (America/Los Angeles, PST/PDT). 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 2034

  • 4 Jan8:47 am

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 6 Jan1:08 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 12 Jan3:34 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 14 Jan2:49 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 15 Jan5:56 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Jan11:42 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

February 2034

  • 2 Feb3:21 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 4°47′ Kumbha

  • 4 Feb8:34 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 16 Feb†

  • 5 Feb12:47 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 9 Feb3:49 pm

    Budha enters Makara (moving backward)

  • 12 Feb3:48 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 14 Feb12:17 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Feb1:34 pm

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 16 Feb8:00 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 23 Feb2:54 pm

    Budha turns direct at 19°25′ Makara

  • 23 Feb9:30 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 24 Mar†

March 2034

  • 1 Mar12:34 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 11 Mar5:46 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 14 Mar1:38 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 15 Mar7:59 pm

    Shani turns direct at 20°02′ Mithuna

  • 24 Mar11:21 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Mar5:52 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 27 Mar4:55 pm

    Guru enters Meena

  • 30 Mar9:29 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

April 2034

  • 1 Apr10:48 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 7 Apr12:30 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 May†

  • 13 Apr10:04 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 17 Apr11:32 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 18 Apr4:45 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

May 2034

  • 2 May6:01 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 4 May3:15 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 13 May12:22 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 14 May4:29 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 14 May6:51 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 23 May7:16 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

June 2034

  • 1 Jun10:22 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 3°35′ Mithuna

  • 5 Jun5:06 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Jun†

  • 7 Jun8:09 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 12 Jun3:33 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

  • 15 Jun1:22 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 22 Jun5:31 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Jun10:24 pm

    Budha turns direct at 24°56′ Vrishabha

  • 26 Jun6:52 am

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 8 Oct†

  • 28 Jun10:21 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 4 Aug†

  • 29 Jun7:58 pm

    Mangala enters Karka

July 2034

  • 3 Jul11:37 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 7 Jul4:21 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 12 Jul3:08 pm

    Shani enters Karka

  • 16 Jul12:11 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 22 Jul6:07 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Aug†

  • 26 Jul1:36 pm

    Budha enters Karka

  • 31 Jul6:31 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

August 2034

  • 2 Aug8:24 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 19°37′ Meena

  • 4 Aug6:18 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 10 Aug3:24 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 15 Aug7:07 pm

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 16 Aug8:34 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 18 Aug2:49 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Aug7:16 am

    Budha enters Kanya

September 2034

  • 2 Sep7:45 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 5 Sep2:40 am

    Rahu enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 5 Sep2:40 am

    Ketu enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 16 Sep8:32 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 20 Sep8:54 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 29 Sep7:59 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 3°47′ Tula

  • 30 Sep12:35 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 11°47′ Tula

October 2034

  • 1 Oct9:20 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 6 Oct8:53 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Oct†

  • 7 Oct3:18 pm

    Budha enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 8 Oct11:40 am

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Oct8:56 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 26 Oct†

  • 17 Oct8:33 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 18 Oct9:56 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 21 Oct3:22 am

    Budha turns direct at 18°22′ Kanya

  • 26 Oct10:34 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Oct8:04 am

    Shukra enters Kanya (moving backward)

November 2034

  • 3 Nov2:54 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 8 Nov6:58 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Dec†

  • 11 Nov6:03 am

    Shukra turns direct at 26°07′ Kanya

  • 16 Nov3:31 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 11°02′ Karka

  • 16 Nov7:25 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 17 Nov12:32 pm

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 22 Nov2:16 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 25 Nov8:53 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 28 Nov6:40 pm

    Guru turns direct at 9°41′ Meena

December 2034

  • 11 Dec3:18 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 15 Dec10:08 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 27 Dec10:55 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Dec4:50 am

    Budha 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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