Gochar 2035: planet transit calendar · School of Vedic Sciences, FORE

The grahas on 1 January 2035

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

Gochar calendar for 2035

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 2035

1 Jan11:22 am
Shukra enters Vrishchika
2 Jan2:05 pm
Mangala enters Vrishchika
14 Jan8:53 am
Surya enters Makara
16 Jan10:44 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 18°35′ Makara
19 Jan11:22 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 31 Jan^†
28 Jan11:59 pm
Shukra enters Dhanu
31 Jan10:46 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†

February 2035

6 Feb5:25 pm
Budha turns direct at 2°41′ Makara
12 Feb9:51 pm
Surya enters Kumbha
17 Feb4:10 am
Mangala enters Dhanu
23 Feb6:01 pm
Shukra enters Makara

March 2035

7 Mar4:40 am
Budha enters Kumbha
14 Mar7:41 pm
Surya enters Meena
20 Mar9:17 pm
Shukra enters Kumbha
21 Mar4:46 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Apr^†
25 Mar11:31 am
Budha enters Meena
30 Mar6:42 am
Shani turns direct at 4°05′ Karka

April 2035

2 Apr12:40 am
Guru becomes combust (asta) until 1 May^†
3 Apr7:58 pm
Mangala enters Makara
5 Apr11:15 pm
Guru enters Mesha
9 Apr2:18 pm
Budha enters Mesha
14 Apr4:05 am
Surya enters Mesha
14 Apr4:57 pm
Shukra enters Meena
18 Apr4:05 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
25 Apr11:53 am
Budha enters Vrishabha

May 2035

1 May7:39 pm
Guru rises again (asta ends)^†
9 May9:53 am
Shukra enters Mesha
13 May11:39 am
Budha turns retrograde at 13°38′ Vrishabha
15 May12:52 am
Surya enters Vrishabha
16 May9:29 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 2 Jun^†
21 May3:08 am
Mangala enters Kumbha

June 2035

2 Jun6:51 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
3 Jun1:22 am
Shukra enters Vrishabha
6 Jun7:53 am
Budha turns direct at 4°58′ Vrishabha
15 Jun7:26 am
Surya enters Mithuna
27 Jun3:05 pm
Shukra enters Mithuna

July 2035

3 Jul7:13 am
Budha enters Mithuna
4 Jul2:29 am
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 15 Sep^†
6 Jul9:20 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 1 Aug^†
13 Jul9:36 pm
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 19 Aug^†
16 Jul6:19 pm
Surya enters Karka
18 Jul3:25 am
Budha enters Karka
20 Jul9:34 pm
Mangala enters Meena
22 Jul2:05 am
Shukra enters Karka

August 2035

1 Aug5:48 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
2 Aug3:36 am
Budha enters Simha
15 Aug2:57 am
Mangala turns retrograde at 4°05′ Meena
15 Aug9:54 am
Shukra enters Simha
17 Aug2:47 am
Surya enters Simha
19 Aug2:14 am
Shani rises again (asta ends)^†
21 Aug1:05 pm
Budha enters Kanya

September 2035

8 Sep3:09 pm
Shukra enters Kanya
9 Sep6:57 am
Guru turns retrograde at 26°22′ Mesha
9 Sep10:26 pm
Mangala enters Kumbha (moving backward)
12 Sep7:27 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 17°16′ Kanya
15 Sep3:04 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
17 Sep2:49 am
Surya enters Kanya
19 Sep6:28 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 2 Oct^†

October 2035

2 Oct9:54 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
2 Oct7:06 pm
Shukra enters Tula
4 Oct9:53 pm
Budha turns direct at 2°26′ Kanya
15 Oct1:36 am
Mangala turns direct at 23°24′ Kumbha
17 Oct2:51 pm
Surya enters Tula
21 Oct6:54 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 7 Dec^†
26 Oct10:55 pm
Shukra enters Vrishchika
27 Oct12:29 pm
Budha enters Tula

November 2035

14 Nov7:01 pm
Budha enters Vrishchika
16 Nov1:43 pm
Surya enters Vrishchika
17 Nov1:20 pm
Mangala enters Meena
20 Nov2:26 am
Shukra enters Dhanu
30 Nov2:37 am
Shani turns retrograde at 24°53′ Karka

December 2035

4 Dec2:26 am
Budha enters Dhanu
7 Dec12:05 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
14 Dec8:55 am
Shukra enters Makara
16 Dec4:23 am
Surya enters Dhanu
26 Dec5:29 am
Budha enters Makara
31 Dec8:24 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 2°35′ 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.

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 2035: when each graha changes sign