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Gochar 2042: when each graha changes sign

In 2042, Guru moves into Vrishchika on 1 Jan; Rahu moves into Meena on 5 Jun; Guru moves into Tula on 9 Jun; Guru moves into Vrishchika on 27 Aug. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Seattle (America/Los Angeles, PST/PDT).

The grahas on 1 January 2042

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

Gochar calendar for 2042

Times in Seattle (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 2042

  • 1 Jan10:49 pm

    Guru enters Vrishchika

  • 9 Jan6:47 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 11°46′ Makara

  • 11 Jan4:44 pm

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 12 Jan11:15 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 24 Jan†

  • 14 Jan3:59 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 18 Jan9:50 pm

    Mangala enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 22 Jan1:31 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 24 Jan6:50 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Jan7:32 am

    Budha turns direct at 25°43′ Dhanu

February 2042

  • 4 Feb1:58 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 8 Feb9:40 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 11 Feb11:08 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Feb5:01 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb2:18 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 12°10′ Tula

  • 28 Feb1:50 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

March 2042

  • 4 Mar4:58 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 13 Mar6:29 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 11 Apr†

  • 14 Mar2:55 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 17 Mar7:29 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 7°38′ Vrishchika

  • 18 Mar12:55 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 13°44′ Karka

  • 21 Mar7:37 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 24 Mar7:18 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

April 2042

  • 5 Apr6:46 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 11 Apr6:05 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 13 Apr11:23 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 18 Apr6:28 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 24 Apr2:50 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

May 2042

  • 4 May10:12 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 5°19′ Vrishabha

  • 7 May2:31 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 24 May†

  • 13 May2:36 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 14 May8:12 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 18 May12:29 am

    Budha enters Mesha (moving backward)

  • 18 May7:32 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 24 May6:05 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 May6:32 pm

    Budha turns direct at 26°20′ Mesha

June 2042

  • 5 Jun5:29 pm

    Rahu enters Meena (moving backward)

  • 5 Jun5:29 pm

    Ketu enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 7 Jun11:24 am

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 7 Jun6:20 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 9 Jun4:41 pm

    Guru enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 15 Jun2:43 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 29 Jun9:51 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 30 Jun12:52 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 25 Jul†

July 2042

  • 2 Jul5:21 pm

    Shani turns direct at 5°26′ Tula

  • 3 Jul4:55 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 14 Jul4:29 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 14 Jul5:00 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 16 Jul1:30 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 19 Jul6:06 am

    Guru turns direct at 27°46′ Tula

  • 25 Jul10:06 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Jul3:32 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 31 Jul4:51 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

August 2042

  • 16 Aug9:53 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 19 Aug8:08 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 27 Aug2:48 pm

    Guru enters Vrishchika

September 2042

  • 1 Sep5:09 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 3 Sep8:02 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 5 Sep4:20 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 10°07′ Kanya

  • 12 Sep6:15 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 25 Sep†

  • 16 Sep9:50 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 19 Sep11:03 pm

    Budha enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 25 Sep4:45 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Sep3:18 pm

    Budha turns direct at 25°36′ Simha

  • 28 Sep1:40 am

    Shukra turns retrograde at 9°20′ Tula

October 2042

  • 5 Oct1:59 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 13 Oct2:41 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 28 Nov†

  • 13 Oct10:14 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 24 Oct†

  • 15 Oct6:37 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 18 Nov†

  • 15 Oct9:09 am

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 17 Oct9:49 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 21 Oct12:57 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 24 Oct12:07 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Oct1:40 am

    Budha enters Tula

November 2042

  • 8 Nov8:05 pm

    Shukra turns direct at 23°38′ Kanya

  • 11 Nov8:59 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov8:39 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 18 Nov7:13 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 20 Nov4:00 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 18 Dec†

  • 25 Nov12:47 pm

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 27 Nov11:16 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 28 Nov9:34 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Nov11:16 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

December 2042

  • 15 Dec11:17 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 18 Dec12:23 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Dec4:43 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 25°49′ Dhanu

  • 28 Dec7:21 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 8 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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