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Gochar 2039: when each graha changes sign

In 2039, Guru moves into Karka on 3 Mar; Shani moves into Simha on 5 Apr; Rahu moves into Vrishabha on 1 May; Guru moves into Simha on 2 Jun; Shani moves into Kanya on 13 Jul; Guru moves into Kanya on 4 Nov. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

The grahas on 1 January 2039

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

Gochar calendar for 2039

Times in IST. 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 2039

  • 4 Jan3:48 pm

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 8 Jan4:55 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 4°53′ Kanya

  • 14 Jan11:12 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 18 Jan9:57 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 21 Jan7:05 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

February 2039

  • 5 Feb9:38 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb2:11 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 13 Feb12:11 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb9:19 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 14 Feb11:47 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 26 Feb2:58 am

    Budha enters Meena

March 2039

  • 1 Mar9:41 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 0°52′ Meena

  • 3 Mar6:33 pm

    Guru enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 3 Mar6:56 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 16 Mar†

  • 4 Mar5:42 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 11 Mar1:17 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 15 Mar9:02 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 16 Mar10:02 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Mar12:50 am

    Budha turns direct at 16°58′ Kumbha

  • 25 Mar1:44 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

April 2039

  • 5 Apr5:56 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 5 Apr8:48 pm

    Shani enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 11 Apr9:28 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 14 Apr5:28 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 17 Apr8:39 pm

    Guru turns direct at 27°02′ Karka

May 2039

  • 1 May12:03 am

    Rahu enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

  • 1 May12:03 am

    Ketu enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

  • 1 May6:42 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 2 May1:19 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 2 May11:36 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 4 May6:33 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 29 May†

  • 15 May2:17 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 16 May4:24 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 25 May9:07 am

    Shani turns direct at 28°04′ Simha

  • 29 May4:06 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 May7:55 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 30 May10:44 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

June 2039

  • 2 Jun6:18 am

    Guru enters Simha

  • 11 Jun3:07 pm

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 15 Jun8:50 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 21 Jun12:55 pm

    Budha enters Karka

July 2039

  • 3 Jul3:16 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 4°58′ Karka

  • 8 Jul5:18 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 24 Jul†

  • 13 Jul2:06 am

    Shani enters Kanya

  • 15 Jul10:31 am

    Budha enters Mithuna (moving backward)

  • 17 Jul7:39 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 18 Jul2:04 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 29°51′ Karka

  • 23 Jul10:58 am

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 24 Jul7:11 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Jul8:37 am

    Budha turns direct at 24°50′ Mithuna

August 2039

  • 3 Aug9:44 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 14 Aug†

  • 6 Aug10:27 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 14 Aug3:06 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Aug6:17 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 16 Sep†

  • 17 Aug4:02 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 21 Aug7:12 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 19 Sep†

  • 24 Aug10:01 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 30 Aug3:45 pm

    Shukra turns direct at 13°26′ Karka

September 2039

  • 8 Sep7:10 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 13 Oct†

  • 8 Sep12:29 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 9 Sep2:30 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 16 Sep10:04 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 17 Sep3:58 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 19 Sep12:41 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Sep7:42 pm

    Budha enters Tula

October 2039

  • 3 Oct5:29 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 13 Oct7:35 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 18 Oct3:56 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 27 Oct9:23 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 29°08′ Tula

November 2039

  • 2 Nov12:31 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 13 Nov†

  • 2 Nov10:56 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 4 Nov6:58 am

    Guru enters Kanya

  • 13 Nov9:06 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Nov4:08 pm

    Budha turns direct at 13°09′ Tula

  • 17 Nov3:46 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 24 Nov2:13 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 27°20′ Mithuna

  • 29 Nov10:59 am

    Shukra enters Tula

December 2039

  • 3 Dec11:53 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 10 Dec11:51 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Jan†

  • 16 Dec6:26 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 23 Dec6:16 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 24 Dec1:26 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

† 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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