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 San Fernando (America/Port of Spain, AST). 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 Jan8:44 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
14 Jan8:31 am
Surya enters Makara
15 Jan1:13 am
Budha enters Makara
20 Jan12:03 am
Mangala enters Tula
21 Jan6:58 pm
Shukra turns direct at 9°11′ Dhanu

February 2046

1 Feb1:29 pm
Budha enters Kumbha
5 Feb3:15 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
12 Feb9:30 pm
Surya enters Kumbha
21 Feb2:00 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 23°45′ Kumbha
24 Feb1:01 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 8 Mar^†
28 Feb5:36 pm
Shukra enters Makara
28 Feb10:47 pm
Guru becomes combust (asta) until 30 Mar^†

March 2046

8 Mar7:36 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
10 Mar10:06 pm
Mangala turns retrograde at 11°44′ Tula
12 Mar3:47 pm
Guru enters Meena
14 Mar6:18 pm
Surya enters Meena
15 Mar10:12 pm
Budha turns direct at 9°22′ Kumbha
30 Mar2:00 am
Guru rises again (asta ends)^†
30 Mar3:21 pm
Shukra enters Kumbha

April 2046

1 Apr10:13 am
Shani turns retrograde at 28°44′ Vrishchika
9 Apr12:45 pm
Budha enters Meena
14 Apr2:41 am
Surya enters Mesha
26 Apr12:21 pm
Shukra enters Meena
26 Apr4:00 pm
Mangala enters Kanya (moving backward)
27 Apr3:45 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 May^†
27 Apr7:52 pm
Budha enters Mesha

May 2046

12 May7:34 am
Budha enters Vrishabha
14 May11:27 pm
Surya enters Vrishabha
22 May8:48 am
Shukra enters Mesha
22 May9:20 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
27 May4:49 am
Budha enters Mithuna
28 May11:35 am
Mangala turns direct at 23°36′ Kanya

June 2046

15 Jun5:59 am
Surya enters Mithuna
16 Jun5:26 pm
Shukra enters Vrishabha
24 Jun10:57 am
Budha turns retrograde at 26°37′ Mithuna
29 Jun1:25 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 15 Jul^†

July 2046

1 Jul3:21 am
Mangala enters Tula
11 Jul6:05 pm
Shukra enters Mithuna
15 Jul11:40 pm
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
16 Jul4:51 pm
Surya enters Karka
18 Jul3:51 pm
Budha turns direct at 17°01′ Mithuna

August 2046

4 Aug7:25 am
Budha enters Karka
5 Aug11:28 am
Shukra enters Karka
7 Aug11:56 pm
Guru turns retrograde at 24°30′ Meena
9 Aug11:17 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 8 Sep^†
17 Aug1:18 am
Surya enters Simha
20 Aug4:41 am
Budha enters Simha
20 Aug3:46 pm
Shani turns direct at 22°06′ Vrishchika
29 Aug8:47 am
Mangala enters Vrishchika
29 Aug9:52 pm
Shukra enters Simha

September 2046

5 Sep2:30 am
Budha enters Kanya
7 Sep7:34 pm
Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 24 Nov^†
8 Sep9:47 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
17 Sep1:19 am
Surya enters Kanya
23 Sep2:26 am
Shukra enters Kanya
24 Sep2:08 pm
Budha enters Tula

October 2046

12 Oct9:40 pm
Mangala enters Dhanu
17 Oct3:07 am
Shukra enters Tula
17 Oct1:22 pm
Surya enters Tula
19 Oct2:55 pm
Budha turns retrograde at 22°21′ Tula
25 Oct12:19 pm
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 6 Nov^†

November 2046

6 Nov12:37 am
Budha rises again (asta ends)^†
9 Nov3:26 am
Budha turns direct at 6°29′ Tula
10 Nov1:53 am
Shukra enters Vrishchika
16 Nov1:15 pm
Surya enters Vrishchika
22 Nov6:29 am
Mangala enters Makara
24 Nov6:05 am
Shukra rises again (asta ends)^†
30 Nov2:14 pm
Shani becomes combust (asta) until 2 Jan^†
30 Nov3:21 pm
Budha enters Vrishchika

December 2046

1 Dec2:34 am
Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Jan^†
3 Dec9:23 pm
Guru turns direct at 14°33′ Meena
4 Dec12:04 am
Shukra enters Dhanu
7 Dec1:06 pm
Shani enters Dhanu
16 Dec3:59 am
Surya enters Dhanu
19 Dec11:57 pm
Budha enters Dhanu
27 Dec10:38 pm
Shukra enters Makara
31 Dec12:44 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