Gochar 2044: planet transit calendar · School of Vedic Sciences, FORE

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 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 2044

7 Jan11:38 am
Shukra enters Kumbha
7 Jan8:05 pm
Budha enters Dhanu
14 Jan4:13 pm
Surya enters Makara
19 Jan11:05 am
Guru rises again (asta ends)^†
30 Jan6:28 am
Budha enters Makara
31 Jan3:06 pm
Mangala turns retrograde at 6°25′ Kanya

February 2044

1 Feb1:17 pm
Shukra enters Meena
2 Feb7:50 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 10 Mar^†
13 Feb5:08 am
Surya enters Kumbha
15 Feb8:55 pm
Guru enters Makara
17 Feb3:12 pm
Budha enters Kumbha
27 Feb8:47 pm
Shukra enters Mesha

March 2044

3 Mar5:28 pm
Mangala enters Simha (moving backward)
4 Mar5:42 pm
Budha enters Meena
8 Mar1:53 pm
Shani turns retrograde at 5°46′ Vrishchika
10 Mar3:22 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
14 Mar2:59 am
Surya enters Meena
27 Mar6:30 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 28°07′ Meena
28 Mar3:01 pm
Shukra enters Vrishabha
30 Mar1:02 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 13 Apr^†

April 2044

13 Apr11:27 am
Surya enters Mesha
13 Apr5:37 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
20 Apr6:34 am
Budha turns direct at 16°26′ Meena
21 Apr4:40 pm
Mangala turns direct at 17°07′ Simha

May 2044

6 May2:00 am
Shukra turns retrograde at 20°54′ Vrishabha
10 May12:38 am
Budha enters Mesha
14 May8:19 am
Surya enters Vrishabha
22 May9:32 am
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 1 Jun^†
24 May6:45 am
Guru turns retrograde at 12°29′ Makara
28 May10:46 pm
Budha enters Vrishabha
28 May11:53 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Jun^†

June 2044

1 Jun2:03 pm
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
12 Jun2:49 am
Budha enters Mithuna
12 Jun4:03 pm
Mangala enters Kanya
14 Jun2:55 pm
Surya enters Mithuna
17 Jun11:38 pm
Shukra turns direct at 4°23′ Vrishabha
22 Jun9:23 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
22 Jun9:42 pm
Shani enters Tula (moving backward)
27 Jun12:45 am
Budha enters Karka

July 2044

16 Jul1:48 am
Surya enters Karka
19 Jul5:48 pm
Budha enters Simha
27 Jul1:02 am
Shani turns direct at 29°06′ Tula
31 Jul1:21 am
Budha turns retrograde at 4°53′ Simha

August 2044

1 Aug9:07 am
Shukra enters Mithuna
6 Aug10:00 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Aug^†
8 Aug12:04 pm
Mangala enters Tula
11 Aug12:50 am
Budha enters Karka (moving backward)
16 Aug10:12 am
Surya enters Simha
21 Aug12:33 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
23 Aug9:12 pm
Budha turns direct at 22°34′ Karka
29 Aug3:52 pm
Shani enters Vrishchika
30 Aug10:41 pm
Shukra enters Karka

September 2044

3 Sep2:59 pm
Budha enters Simha
9 Sep4:09 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 16 Oct^†
16 Sep10:09 am
Surya enters Kanya
20 Sep6:50 pm
Budha enters Kanya
22 Sep8:09 am
Guru turns direct at 2°38′ Makara
23 Sep4:25 pm
Mangala enters Vrishchika
26 Sep12:30 pm
Shukra enters Simha

October 2044

7 Oct10:51 pm
Budha enters Tula
16 Oct4:54 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
16 Oct10:08 pm
Surya enters Tula
21 Oct6:15 pm
Shukra enters Kanya
27 Oct6:45 pm
Budha enters Vrishchika

November 2044

4 Nov10:45 am
Mangala enters Dhanu
7 Nov6:05 am
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 10 Dec^†
15 Nov5:33 am
Shukra enters Tula
15 Nov8:59 pm
Surya enters Vrishchika
21 Nov8:51 am
Budha turns retrograde at 24°08′ Vrishchika
26 Nov12:50 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 7 Dec^†

December 2044

7 Dec12:52 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
9 Dec8:42 am
Shukra enters Vrishchika
10 Dec8:41 pm
Shani rises again (asta ends)^†
11 Dec3:31 am
Budha turns direct at 7°52′ Vrishchika
13 Dec5:20 pm
Mangala enters Makara
15 Dec11:39 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.

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.

Gochar 2044: when each graha changes sign