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Gochar 2041: when each graha changes sign

In 2041, Shani moves into Tula on 28 Jan; Shani moves into Kanya on 6 Feb; Guru moves into Kanya on 6 May; Guru moves into Tula on 31 Jul; Shani moves into Tula on 26 Sep. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

The grahas on 1 January 2041

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

Gochar calendar for 2041

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 2041

  • 3 Jan6:40 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 7 Jan3:37 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Jan11:18 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 23 Jan9:47 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 26 Jan11:44 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 27°53′ Makara

  • 28 Jan1:13 am

    Shani enters Tula

  • 29 Jan7:50 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 10 Feb†

  • 29 Jan2:33 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

February 2041

  • 1 Feb9:00 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 0°01′ Tula

  • 6 Feb5:06 pm

    Shani enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 10 Feb1:40 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 13 Feb12:19 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 15 Feb1:34 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 7°20′ Tula

  • 16 Feb3:57 pm

    Budha turns direct at 12°14′ Makara

  • 24 Feb1:36 pm

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Feb11:35 am

    Shukra turns retrograde at 11°46′ Meena

March 2041

  • 3 Mar9:18 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

  • 10 Mar12:08 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 13 Mar1:06 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 23 Mar†

  • 14 Mar9:13 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 23 Mar11:55 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Mar11:51 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 30 Mar1:47 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 31 Mar10:54 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Apr†

April 2041

  • 8 Apr10:39 am

    Shukra turns direct at 25°37′ Kumbha

  • 10 Apr4:01 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 14 Apr5:43 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 14 Apr3:01 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 24 Apr6:52 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 27 Apr6:40 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Apr6:16 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

May 2041

  • 6 May6:09 pm

    Guru enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 15 May2:33 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 19 May3:22 pm

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 24 May9:07 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 25°03′ Vrishabha

  • 28 May5:39 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 14 Jun†

  • 31 May1:29 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

June 2041

  • 14 Jun6:43 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Jun9:06 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 17 Jun7:11 pm

    Budha turns direct at 16°30′ Vrishabha

  • 18 Jun12:02 pm

    Guru turns direct at 27°25′ Kanya

  • 20 Jun7:14 am

    Shani turns direct at 23°16′ Kanya

  • 29 Jun2:26 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 29 Jun5:51 am

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

July 2041

  • 6 Jul6:37 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 15 Jul10:22 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 Aug†

  • 16 Jul7:56 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 23 Jul5:58 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 25 Jul4:12 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 31 Jul5:27 am

    Guru enters Tula

August 2041

  • 6 Aug9:21 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 11 Aug1:47 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Aug2:30 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 17 Aug4:19 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 20 Aug6:07 am

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 24 Aug7:20 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

September 2041

  • 14 Sep3:45 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 17 Sep4:15 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 22 Sep8:13 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 26°49′ Kanya

  • 26 Sep6:09 am

    Shani enters Tula

  • 28 Sep8:47 pm

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 29 Sep1:47 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 Oct†

October 2041

  • 3 Oct8:01 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 6 Nov†

  • 8 Oct1:34 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 11 Oct8:32 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Oct11:21 am

    Budha turns direct at 11°37′ Kanya

  • 17 Oct4:12 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 21 Oct9:29 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 18 Nov†

  • 31 Oct5:31 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 31 Oct5:40 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 19 Dec†

November 2041

  • 1 Nov3:41 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 6 Nov4:37 pm

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Nov4:02 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 18 Nov11:53 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 19 Nov5:59 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 21 Nov11:02 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 12 Feb†

  • 25 Nov1:41 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

December 2041

  • 4 Dec10:27 pm

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 8 Dec8:20 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 16 Dec6:42 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 19 Dec8:46 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 19 Dec10:02 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 28 Dec12:08 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 28 Dec11:05 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 3°13′ Simha

† 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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