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Gochar 2036: when each graha changes sign

In 2036, Rahu moves into Karka on 24 Mar; Guru moves into Vrishabha on 14 Apr; Shani moves into Simha on 27 Aug; Guru moves into Mithuna on 9 Sep; Guru moves into Vrishabha on 16 Nov. 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 2036

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

Gochar calendar for 2036

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 2036

  • 4 Jan6:22 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 15 Jan†

  • 4 Jan8:14 pm

    Guru turns direct at 16°21′ Mesha

  • 6 Jan12:11 am

    Budha enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 7 Jan8:43 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 14 Jan3:08 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 15 Jan9:53 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Jan10:11 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 21 Jan1:42 am

    Budha turns direct at 16°23′ Dhanu

February 2036

  • 1 Feb9:06 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 7 Feb6:08 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 13 Feb4:07 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 28 Feb1:41 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 28 Feb1:54 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

March 2036

  • 1 Mar11:13 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 2 Apr†

  • 5 Mar5:24 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 14 Mar2:00 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 16 Mar12:20 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 24 Mar5:38 am

    Rahu enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 24 Mar5:38 am

    Ketu enters Makara (moving backward)

  • 28 Mar9:46 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 31 Mar1:51 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

April 2036

  • 2 Apr2:10 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Apr4:07 pm

    Shani turns direct at 17°58′ Karka

  • 13 Apr10:27 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 14 Apr3:21 pm

    Guru enters Vrishabha

  • 22 Apr5:43 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 23 Apr6:17 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 24°16′ Mesha

  • 25 Apr5:11 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 May†

May 2036

  • 8 May8:56 am

    Shukra turns retrograde at 23°10′ Vrishabha

  • 8 May1:37 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 7 Jun†

  • 11 May9:28 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 May7:16 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 17 May1:30 am

    Budha turns direct at 14°41′ Mesha

  • 24 May5:09 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 3 Jun†

June 2036

  • 3 Jun9:45 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 7 Jun7:11 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 7 Jun7:48 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Jun4:33 pm

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 14 Jun1:49 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 20 Jun7:13 am

    Shukra turns direct at 6°40′ Vrishabha

  • 20 Jun11:32 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 15 Jul†

  • 24 Jun3:09 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

July 2036

  • 8 Jul2:48 pm

    Budha enters Karka

  • 15 Jul9:16 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Jul12:40 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 24 Jul11:41 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 27 Jul1:12 pm

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 27 Jul3:37 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 1 Sep†

August 2036

  • 1 Aug5:18 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 2 Aug4:06 pm

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 13 Nov†

  • 16 Aug9:03 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 23 Aug2:39 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 25 Aug12:47 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 0°16′ Kanya

  • 27 Aug7:56 am

    Shani enters Simha

  • 27 Aug9:19 pm

    Budha enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 31 Aug4:01 am

    Shukra enters Karka

September 2036

  • 1 Sep2:47 pm

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 1 Sep4:28 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 15 Sep†

  • 9 Sep11:15 am

    Guru enters Mithuna

  • 12 Sep6:24 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 15 Sep1:20 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Sep9:00 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep10:20 am

    Budha turns direct at 16°16′ Simha

  • 26 Sep8:42 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

October 2036

  • 1 Oct4:34 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 3 Oct4:54 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 15 Nov†

  • 13 Oct6:21 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 1°52′ Mithuna

  • 16 Oct8:59 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 19 Oct1:03 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 22 Oct3:43 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 28 Oct6:37 pm

    Mangala enters Tula

November 2036

  • 6 Nov1:15 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 13 Nov1:19 am

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Nov3:39 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 15 Nov3:40 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Nov7:50 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov4:22 pm

    Guru enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

  • 26 Nov8:05 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

December 2036

  • 9 Dec7:10 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 12 Dec5:44 am

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 12 Dec6:28 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 8°31′ Simha

  • 14 Dec6:05 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 16°41′ Dhanu

  • 15 Dec10:30 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 18 Dec3:18 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 29 Dec†

  • 29 Dec2:49 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

† 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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