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Gochar 2043: when each graha changes sign

In 2043, Guru moves into Dhanu on 27 Jan; Guru moves into Vrishchika on 30 Jul; Guru moves into Dhanu on 11 Sep; Shani moves into Vrishchika on 11 Dec; Rahu moves into Kumbha on 24 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Johannesburg (Africa/Johannesburg, UTC+2).

The grahas on 1 January 2043

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

Gochar calendar for 2043

Times in Johannesburg (Africa/Johannesburg, UTC+2). 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 2043

  • 1 Jan9:51 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 4 Jan3:40 am

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 8 Jan6:42 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Jan3:50 am

    Budha turns direct at 9°34′ Dhanu

  • 14 Jan8:00 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 27 Jan4:35 pm

    Guru enters Dhanu

  • 29 Jan4:24 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

February 2043

  • 5 Feb8:15 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 11 Feb7:25 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb8:57 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 23 Feb12:35 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 27 Mar†

  • 23 Feb8:04 pm

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 25 Feb2:28 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 26 Feb1:08 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 24°04′ Tula

March 2043

  • 14 Mar3:05 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 15 Mar5:48 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 20 Mar9:06 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 21 Mar8:41 am

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 27 Mar11:21 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Mar3:26 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

April 2043

  • 14 Apr2:16 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 14 Apr4:02 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 16 Apr8:17 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 16°18′ Mesha

  • 18 Apr4:55 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 May†

  • 20 Apr5:44 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 9°08′ Dhanu

  • 29 Apr4:53 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

May 2043

  • 4 May11:10 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 May8:29 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 10 May2:20 am

    Budha turns direct at 6°09′ Mesha

  • 11 May11:34 pm

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 May11:06 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

June 2043

  • 2 Jun11:38 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 6 Jun7:05 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 8 Jun2:49 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 14 Jun11:08 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 9 Jul†

  • 15 Jun5:40 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 22 Jun2:49 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 27 Jun1:07 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

July 2043

  • 2 Jul5:24 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 13 Sep†

  • 6 Jul3:30 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 9 Jul2:51 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Jul8:40 pm

    Shani turns direct at 17°22′ Tula

  • 17 Jul4:33 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 21 Jul6:29 am

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 21 Jul11:58 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 23 Jul11:54 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 30 Jul8:36 am

    Guru enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

August 2043

  • 15 Aug7:47 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 17 Aug1:00 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 19 Aug3:32 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 22°52′ Simha

  • 20 Aug8:52 pm

    Guru turns direct at 29°17′ Vrishchika

  • 26 Aug7:16 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 9 Sep†

September 2043

  • 4 Sep7:55 pm

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 8 Sep1:08 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 9 Sep12:31 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Sep8:44 am

    Guru enters Dhanu

  • 11 Sep9:04 am

    Budha turns direct at 9°18′ Simha

  • 13 Sep4:46 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 17 Sep1:01 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 27 Sep5:21 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 7 Nov†

  • 29 Sep8:13 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

October 2043

  • 2 Oct5:18 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 16 Oct8:49 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 18 Oct1:03 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 24 Oct7:57 pm

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 26 Oct9:23 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 27 Oct7:10 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 30 Nov†

November 2043

  • 4 Nov4:05 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 7 Nov7:13 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 17 Nov12:54 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 20 Nov2:14 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 25 Nov10:21 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 30 Nov2:42 pm

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

December 2043

  • 8 Dec11:57 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 9°57′ Dhanu

  • 11 Dec7:00 pm

    Shani enters Vrishchika

  • 13 Dec2:29 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 24 Dec†

  • 14 Dec9:10 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 16 Dec3:32 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 20 Dec1:38 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

  • 22 Dec10:37 pm

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 19 Jan†

  • 24 Dec1:23 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Dec5:27 am

    Rahu enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 24 Dec5:27 am

    Ketu enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 27 Dec10:47 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 28 Dec6:45 pm

    Budha turns direct at 23°38′ 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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