Gochar 2046: planet transit calendar · School of Vedic Sciences, FORE

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 Birmingham (Europe/London, GMT/BST). 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 Jan12:44 pm
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
14 Jan12:31 pm
Surya enters Makara
15 Jan5:13 am
Budha enters Makara
20 Jan4:03 am
Mangala enters Tula
21 Jan10:58 pm
Shukra turns direct at 9°11′ Dhanu

February 2046

1 Feb5:29 pm
Budha enters Kumbha
5 Feb7:15 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
13 Feb1:30 am
Surya enters Kumbha
21 Feb6:00 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 23°45′ Kumbha
24 Feb5:01 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 8 Mar^†
28 Feb9:36 pm
Shukra enters Makara

March 2046

1 Mar2:47 am
Guru becomes combust (asta) until 30 Mar^†
8 Mar11:36 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
11 Mar2:06 am
Mangala turns retrograde at 11°44′ Tula
12 Mar7:47 pm
Guru enters Meena
14 Mar10:18 pm
Surya enters Meena
16 Mar2:12 am
Budha turns direct at 9°22′ Kumbha
30 Mar7:00 am
Guru rises again (asta ends)^†
30 Mar8:21 pm
Shukra enters Kumbha

April 2046

1 Apr3:13 pm
Shani turns retrograde at 28°44′ Vrishchika
9 Apr5:45 pm
Budha enters Meena
14 Apr7:41 am
Surya enters Mesha
26 Apr5:21 pm
Shukra enters Meena
26 Apr9:00 pm
Mangala enters Kanya (moving backward)
27 Apr8:45 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 May^†
28 Apr12:52 am
Budha enters Mesha

May 2046

12 May12:34 pm
Budha enters Vrishabha
15 May4:27 am
Surya enters Vrishabha
22 May1:48 pm
Shukra enters Mesha
22 May2:20 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
27 May9:49 am
Budha enters Mithuna
28 May4:35 pm
Mangala turns direct at 23°36′ Kanya

June 2046

15 Jun10:59 am
Surya enters Mithuna
16 Jun10:26 pm
Shukra enters Vrishabha
24 Jun3:57 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 26°37′ Mithuna
29 Jun6:25 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 16 Jul^†

July 2046

1 Jul8:21 am
Mangala enters Tula
11 Jul11:05 pm
Shukra enters Mithuna
16 Jul4:40 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
16 Jul9:51 pm
Surya enters Karka
18 Jul8:51 pm
Budha turns direct at 17°01′ Mithuna

August 2046

4 Aug12:25 pm
Budha enters Karka
5 Aug4:28 pm
Shukra enters Karka
8 Aug4:56 am
Guru turns retrograde at 24°30′ Meena
9 Aug4:17 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 8 Sep^†
17 Aug6:18 am
Surya enters Simha
20 Aug9:41 am
Budha enters Simha
20 Aug8:46 pm
Shani turns direct at 22°06′ Vrishchika
29 Aug1:47 pm
Mangala enters Vrishchika
30 Aug2:52 am
Shukra enters Simha

September 2046

5 Sep7:30 am
Budha enters Kanya
8 Sep12:34 am
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 24 Nov^†
8 Sep2:47 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
17 Sep6:19 am
Surya enters Kanya
23 Sep7:26 am
Shukra enters Kanya
24 Sep7:08 pm
Budha enters Tula

October 2046

13 Oct2:40 am
Mangala enters Dhanu
17 Oct8:07 am
Shukra enters Tula
17 Oct6:22 pm
Surya enters Tula
19 Oct7:55 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 22°21′ Tula
25 Oct5:19 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Nov^†

November 2046

6 Nov4:37 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
9 Nov7:26 am
Budha turns direct at 6°29′ Tula
10 Nov5:53 am
Shukra enters Vrishchika
16 Nov5:15 pm
Surya enters Vrishchika
22 Nov10:29 am
Mangala enters Makara
24 Nov10:05 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
30 Nov6:14 pm
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 3 Jan^†
30 Nov7:21 pm
Budha enters Vrishchika

December 2046

1 Dec6:34 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Jan^†
4 Dec1:23 am
Guru turns direct at 14°33′ Meena
4 Dec4:04 am
Shukra enters Dhanu
7 Dec5:06 pm
Shani enters Dhanu
16 Dec7:59 am
Surya enters Dhanu
20 Dec3:57 am
Budha enters Dhanu
28 Dec2:38 am
Shukra enters Makara
31 Dec4:44 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.

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 2046: when each graha changes sign