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Gochar 2045: when each graha changes sign

In 2045, Guru moves into Kumbha on 1 Mar; Rahu moves into Makara on 11 Jul. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Vancouver (America/Vancouver, PDT).

The grahas on 1 January 2045

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

Gochar calendar for 2045

Times in Vancouver (America/Vancouver, 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 2045

  • 2 Jan8:48 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 2 Jan11:20 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 12 Jan12:01 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Feb†

  • 13 Jan11:22 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 20 Jan10:21 pm

    Mangala enters Kumbha

  • 22 Jan6:49 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 24 Jan3:57 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 21 Feb†

  • 26 Jan6:47 am

    Shukra enters Makara

February 2045

  • 5 Feb8:54 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 26 Apr†

  • 8 Feb10:42 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 12 Feb12:20 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 16 Feb3:40 am

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 8 Jul†

  • 19 Feb5:19 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 21 Feb1:31 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 21 Feb9:00 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Feb8:32 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 28 Feb1:15 am

    Mangala enters Meena

March 2045

  • 1 Mar11:39 am

    Guru enters Kumbha

  • 10 Mar7:41 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 10°39′ Meena

  • 12 Mar3:22 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Mar†

  • 14 Mar9:11 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 15 Mar5:41 am

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 20 Mar10:39 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 17°18′ Vrishchika

  • 26 Mar1:40 am

    Budha enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 26 Mar7:14 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

April 2045

  • 2 Apr8:10 am

    Budha turns direct at 27°30′ Kumbha

  • 8 Apr1:33 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 8 Apr9:00 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 10 Apr12:49 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 13 Apr5:39 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 26 Apr5:34 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

May 2045

  • 2 May3:59 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 4 May11:29 pm

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 13 May4:12 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Jun†

  • 14 May2:29 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 18 May4:38 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 20 May6:15 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 27 May2:56 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

June 2045

  • 3 Jun3:34 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 6 Jun6:14 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Jun9:03 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 20 Jun6:10 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 21 Jun3:23 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 30 Jun9:34 am

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 30 Jun5:20 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 17°49′ Kumbha

July 2045

  • 8 Jul10:51 am

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Jul11:25 pm

    Rahu enters Makara (moving backward)

  • 11 Jul11:25 pm

    Ketu enters Karka (moving backward)

  • 12 Jul10:37 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 16°07′ Karka

  • 15 Jul2:51 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 16 Jul7:52 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 19 Jul2:15 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 3 Aug†

August 2045

  • 3 Aug3:31 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 6 Aug2:28 am

    Budha turns direct at 5°11′ Karka

  • 8 Aug8:34 am

    Shani turns direct at 10°40′ Vrishchika

  • 9 Aug7:40 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 14 Aug8:56 am

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 16 Aug4:15 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 24 Aug9:18 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Sep†

  • 28 Aug4:02 am

    Budha enters Simha

September 2045

  • 4 Sep1:39 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 12 Sep7:16 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 16 Sep4:11 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 26 Sep10:34 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Sep6:32 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 30 Sep6:42 pm

    Mangala enters Simha

October 2045

  • 1 Oct7:53 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 17 Oct4:11 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 23 Oct4:24 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 27 Oct9:51 pm

    Guru turns direct at 7°56′ Kumbha

  • 30 Oct4:18 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

November 2045

  • 5 Nov1:07 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 8°17′ Vrishchika

  • 10 Nov7:41 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Nov†

  • 15 Nov1:47 pm

    Budha enters Tula (moving backward)

  • 16 Nov4:02 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 18 Nov10:56 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 22 Dec†

  • 20 Nov1:22 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 21 Nov12:15 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 25 Nov1:54 am

    Budha turns direct at 22°11′ Tula

December 2045

  • 5 Dec10:36 pm

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 11 Dec6:27 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 24°32′ Dhanu

  • 15 Dec6:45 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 21 Dec4:42 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Feb†

  • 22 Dec9:48 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 26 Dec11:10 pm

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 27 Dec7:41 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 6 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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