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Gochar 2040: when each graha changes sign

In 2040, Guru moves into Simha on 6 Apr; Guru moves into Kanya on 29 Jun; Rahu moves into Mesha on 17 Nov; Guru moves into Tula on 3 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

The grahas on 1 January 2040

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

Gochar calendar for 2040

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 2040

  • 11 Jan12:04 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 15 Jan5:11 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 16 Jan6:30 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 7°26′ Kanya

  • 18 Jan1:56 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 21 Jan9:12 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 17°37′ Kanya

  • 26 Jan7:42 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Jan9:36 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

February 2040

  • 9 Feb5:22 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 8°37′ Mithuna

  • 11 Feb8:49 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 12 Feb7:08 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 14°13′ Kumbha

  • 13 Feb6:11 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 15 Feb8:47 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Feb†

  • 27 Feb5:04 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

March 2040

  • 2 Mar2:39 am

    Budha enters Makara (moving backward)

  • 5 Mar4:50 pm

    Budha turns direct at 29°17′ Makara

  • 6 Mar1:59 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 9 Mar11:57 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 14 Mar3:03 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 30 Mar7:23 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

April 2040

  • 6 Apr12:15 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 6 Apr9:42 am

    Guru enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 13 Apr11:31 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 17 Apr9:14 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 13 May†

  • 21 Apr8:12 am

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 22 Apr10:38 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 23 Apr2:58 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 6 Jul†

  • 24 Apr2:10 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

May 2040

  • 7 May3:32 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 13 May5:14 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 May8:22 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 18 May9:45 am

    Guru turns direct at 27°28′ Simha

  • 18 May10:39 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 23 May4:23 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

June 2040

  • 6 Jun11:56 pm

    Shani turns direct at 10°49′ Kanya

  • 11 Jun8:21 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 13 Jun5:48 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 15°07′ Mithuna

  • 15 Jun2:57 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 16 Jun6:42 pm

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 17 Jun3:39 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 Jul†

  • 29 Jun5:48 pm

    Guru enters Kanya

July 2040

  • 4 Jul10:51 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 6 Jul6:30 am

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 6 Jul9:27 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 7 Jul7:51 am

    Budha turns direct at 6°07′ Mithuna

  • 16 Jul1:48 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 30 Jul4:52 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 31 Jul6:31 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 31 Jul7:21 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 28 Aug†

August 2040

  • 5 Aug8:37 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 15 Aug2:48 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 16 Aug10:12 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 24 Aug4:11 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 28 Aug7:56 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 31 Aug12:51 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

September 2040

  • 16 Sep10:08 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep5:49 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 20 Sep12:28 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 25 Oct†

  • 20 Sep4:59 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 19 Oct†

  • 21 Sep9:48 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 21 Sep2:30 pm

    Budha enters Tula

October 2040

  • 9 Oct5:34 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 13°06′ Tula

  • 12 Oct11:17 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 15 Oct10:52 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Oct†

  • 17 Oct10:06 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 19 Oct7:17 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 19 Oct1:35 pm

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 24 Feb†

  • 25 Oct4:46 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Oct8:49 am

    Budha enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 27 Oct4:58 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Oct2:36 pm

    Budha turns direct at 27°26′ Kanya

November 2040

  • 4 Nov2:14 am

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 5 Nov3:12 am

    Budha enters Tula

  • 6 Nov10:55 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 16 Nov9:54 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 17 Nov3:01 am

    Rahu enters Mesha (moving backward)

  • 17 Nov3:01 am

    Ketu enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 19 Nov11:04 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 7 Jan†

  • 26 Nov10:45 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

December 2040

  • 1 Dec10:59 pm

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 3 Dec9:14 pm

    Guru enters Tula

  • 15 Dec9:19 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 15 Dec1:04 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 16 Dec12:33 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 28 Dec6:58 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

† 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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