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Gochar 2044: when each graha changes sign

In 2044, Guru moves into Makara on 16 Feb; Shani moves into Tula on 23 Jun; Shani moves into Vrishchika on 30 Aug. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Melbourne (Australia/Melbourne, AEDT/AEST).

The grahas on 1 January 2044

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

Gochar calendar for 2044

Times in Melbourne (Australia/Melbourne, AEDT/AEST). 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 2044

  • 8 Jan6:38 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 8 Jan3:05 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 15 Jan11:13 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 20 Jan6:05 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 31 Jan1:28 am

    Budha enters Makara

February 2044

  • 1 Feb10:06 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 6°25′ Kanya

  • 2 Feb8:17 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 3 Feb2:50 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 10 Mar†

  • 14 Feb12:08 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 16 Feb3:55 pm

    Guru enters Makara

  • 18 Feb10:12 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 28 Feb3:47 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

March 2044

  • 4 Mar12:28 pm

    Mangala enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 5 Mar12:42 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 9 Mar8:53 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 5°46′ Vrishchika

  • 10 Mar10:22 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Mar8:59 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 28 Mar12:30 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 28°07′ Meena

  • 29 Mar9:01 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 30 Mar7:02 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 14 Apr†

April 2044

  • 14 Apr4:27 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 14 Apr10:37 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 20 Apr11:34 pm

    Budha turns direct at 16°26′ Meena

  • 22 Apr9:40 am

    Mangala turns direct at 17°07′ Simha

May 2044

  • 6 May7:00 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 20°54′ Vrishabha

  • 10 May5:38 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 15 May1:19 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 23 May2:32 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 2 Jun†

  • 24 May11:45 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 12°29′ Makara

  • 29 May3:46 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 29 May4:53 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 23 Jun†

June 2044

  • 2 Jun7:03 am

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Jun7:49 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 13 Jun9:03 am

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 15 Jun7:55 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 18 Jun4:38 pm

    Shukra turns direct at 4°23′ Vrishabha

  • 23 Jun2:23 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 23 Jun2:42 pm

    Shani enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 27 Jun5:45 pm

    Budha enters Karka

July 2044

  • 16 Jul6:48 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 20 Jul10:48 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 27 Jul6:02 pm

    Shani turns direct at 29°06′ Tula

  • 31 Jul6:21 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 4°53′ Simha

August 2044

  • 2 Aug2:07 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 7 Aug3:00 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Aug†

  • 9 Aug5:04 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 11 Aug5:50 pm

    Budha enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 17 Aug3:12 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 22 Aug5:33 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Aug2:12 pm

    Budha turns direct at 22°34′ Karka

  • 30 Aug8:52 am

    Shani enters Vrishchika

  • 31 Aug3:41 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

September 2044

  • 4 Sep7:59 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 10 Sep9:09 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 17 Oct†

  • 17 Sep3:09 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 21 Sep11:50 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 23 Sep1:09 am

    Guru turns direct at 2°38′ Makara

  • 24 Sep9:25 am

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 27 Sep5:30 am

    Shukra enters Simha

October 2044

  • 8 Oct4:51 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 17 Oct10:54 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 17 Oct4:08 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 22 Oct12:15 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 28 Oct12:45 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

November 2044

  • 5 Nov4:45 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 8 Nov1:05 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 11 Dec†

  • 16 Nov12:33 am

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 16 Nov3:59 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 22 Nov3:51 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 24°08′ Vrishchika

  • 26 Nov7:50 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 7 Dec†

December 2044

  • 7 Dec7:52 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 10 Dec3:42 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 11 Dec3:41 pm

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Dec10:31 pm

    Budha turns direct at 7°52′ Vrishchika

  • 14 Dec12:20 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 16 Dec6:39 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

† 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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