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Gochar 2046: when each graha changes sign

In 2046, Guru moves into Meena on 13 Mar; Shani moves into Dhanu on 7 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

The grahas on 1 January 2046

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

Gochar calendar for 2046

Times in IST. 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 2046

  • 6 Jan6:14 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 14 Jan6:01 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 15 Jan10:43 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 20 Jan9:33 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 22 Jan4:28 am

    Shukra turns direct at 9°11′ Dhanu

February 2046

  • 1 Feb10:59 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 5 Feb12:45 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 13 Feb7:00 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 21 Feb11:30 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 23°45′ Kumbha

  • 24 Feb10:31 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 9 Mar†

March 2046

  • 1 Mar3:06 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 1 Mar8:17 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 30 Mar†

  • 9 Mar5:06 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 11 Mar7:36 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 11°44′ Tula

  • 13 Mar1:17 am

    Guru enters Meena

  • 15 Mar3:48 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 16 Mar7:42 am

    Budha turns direct at 9°22′ Kumbha

  • 30 Mar11:30 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 31 Mar12:51 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

April 2046

  • 1 Apr7:43 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 28°44′ Vrishchika

  • 9 Apr10:15 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 14 Apr12:11 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 26 Apr9:51 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 27 Apr1:30 am

    Mangala enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 27 Apr1:15 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 May†

  • 28 Apr5:22 am

    Budha enters Mesha

May 2046

  • 12 May5:04 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 15 May8:57 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 22 May6:18 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 22 May6:50 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 May2:19 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 28 May9:05 pm

    Mangala turns direct at 23°36′ Kanya

June 2046

  • 15 Jun3:29 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 17 Jun2:56 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 24 Jun8:27 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 26°37′ Mithuna

  • 29 Jun10:55 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 16 Jul†

July 2046

  • 1 Jul12:51 pm

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 12 Jul3:35 am

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 16 Jul9:10 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 17 Jul2:21 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 19 Jul1:21 am

    Budha turns direct at 17°01′ Mithuna

August 2046

  • 4 Aug4:55 pm

    Budha enters Karka

  • 5 Aug8:58 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 8 Aug9:26 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 24°30′ Meena

  • 9 Aug8:47 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 8 Sep†

  • 17 Aug10:48 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 20 Aug2:11 pm

    Budha enters Simha

  • 21 Aug1:16 am

    Shani turns direct at 22°06′ Vrishchika

  • 29 Aug6:17 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 30 Aug7:22 am

    Shukra enters Simha

September 2046

  • 5 Sep12:00 pm

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 8 Sep5:04 am

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 24 Nov†

  • 8 Sep7:17 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 17 Sep10:49 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 23 Sep11:56 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 24 Sep11:38 pm

    Budha enters Tula

October 2046

  • 13 Oct7:10 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 17 Oct12:37 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 17 Oct10:52 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 20 Oct12:25 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 22°21′ Tula

  • 25 Oct9:49 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Nov†

November 2046

  • 6 Nov10:07 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Nov12:56 pm

    Budha turns direct at 6°29′ Tula

  • 10 Nov11:23 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov10:45 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 22 Nov3:59 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 24 Nov3:35 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Nov11:44 pm

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 3 Jan†

December 2046

  • 1 Dec12:51 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 1 Dec12:04 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Jan†

  • 4 Dec6:53 am

    Guru turns direct at 14°33′ Meena

  • 4 Dec9:34 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 7 Dec10:36 pm

    Shani enters Dhanu

  • 16 Dec1:29 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 20 Dec9:27 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 28 Dec8:08 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 31 Dec10:14 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

† 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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