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Gochar 2037: when each graha changes sign

In 2037, Guru moves into Mithuna on 26 Apr; Guru moves into Karka on 16 Sep; Rahu moves into Mithuna on 11 Oct. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Mombasa (Africa/Nairobi, UTC+3).

The grahas on 1 January 2037

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

Gochar calendar for 2037

Times in Mombasa (Africa/Nairobi, UTC+3). 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 2037

  • 3 Jan5:29 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 4 Jan1:57 am

    Budha turns direct at 0°23′ Dhanu

  • 14 Jan8:15 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 24 Jan4:17 pm

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 27 Jan3:36 am

    Shukra enters Makara

February 2037

  • 1 Feb7:45 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 8 Feb8:11 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 29 Apr†

  • 9 Feb10:57 am

    Guru turns direct at 21°48′ Vrishabha

  • 11 Feb3:36 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 17 Mar†

  • 12 Feb9:16 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 20 Feb2:17 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 20 Feb3:49 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

March 2037

  • 7 Mar8:18 am

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 8 Mar8:37 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 14 Mar6:11 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 16 Mar2:46 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 17 Mar5:10 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Mar7:19 am

    Budha enters Mesha

April 2037

  • 5 Apr3:05 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 5°44′ Mesha

  • 7 Apr10:12 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Apr†

  • 9 Apr6:08 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 14 Apr2:41 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 16 Apr6:10 pm

    Budha enters Meena (moving backward)

  • 17 Apr3:05 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

  • 22 Apr1:52 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Apr12:46 pm

    Guru enters Mithuna

  • 27 Apr8:28 am

    Shani turns direct at 1°37′ Simha

  • 28 Apr6:56 pm

    Budha turns direct at 24°43′ Meena

  • 29 Apr11:44 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

May 2037

  • 3 May1:06 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 10 May3:52 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 14 May11:31 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 27 May9:41 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 27 May11:54 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

June 2037

  • 1 Jun9:03 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 5 Jun8:59 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 29 Jun†

  • 14 Jun1:46 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 14 Jul†

  • 15 Jun6:02 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 16 Jun12:43 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 21 Jun2:48 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 29 Jun7:48 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Jun10:14 pm

    Budha enters Karka

July 2037

  • 9 Jul1:07 pm

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 14 Jul7:46 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Jul10:55 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 16 Jul4:49 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 20 Jul9:51 am

    Budha enters Simha

August 2037

  • 8 Aug8:45 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 12°37′ Simha

  • 10 Aug2:47 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 11 Aug12:02 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 16 Sep†

  • 15 Aug9:31 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 29 Aug†

  • 17 Aug1:10 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 29 Aug2:42 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Aug3:37 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 29 Aug11:26 pm

    Budha enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 31 Aug11:07 pm

    Budha turns direct at 29°44′ Karka

September 2037

  • 2 Sep9:59 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 5 Sep7:08 am

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 16 Sep4:19 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Sep12:06 pm

    Guru enters Karka

  • 17 Sep1:06 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep5:19 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Oct†

  • 24 Sep8:39 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

October 2037

  • 1 Oct10:03 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 11 Oct6:35 pm

    Rahu enters Mithuna (moving backward)

  • 11 Oct6:35 pm

    Ketu enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 11 Oct8:46 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 13 Oct2:05 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 11°53′ Vrishabha

  • 17 Oct1:05 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 26 Oct3:42 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Oct8:42 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 31 Oct4:02 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

November 2037

  • 16 Nov5:00 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 5°24′ Karka

  • 16 Nov12:57 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 25 Nov4:36 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 28 Nov2:58 am

    Mangala enters Mesha (moving backward)

  • 29 Nov1:00 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 0°50′ Dhanu

December 2037

  • 2 Dec3:33 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

  • 3 Dec11:11 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 14 Dec†

  • 14 Dec10:22 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Dec3:45 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 27°08′ Dhanu

  • 16 Dec3:39 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 18 Dec7:12 pm

    Budha turns direct at 14°34′ Vrishchika

  • 23 Dec9:35 am

    Mangala turns direct at 25°44′ Mesha

  • 26 Dec2:06 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 21°52′ Simha

  • 30 Dec5:31 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 9 Jan†

† 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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