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Gochar 2047: when each graha changes sign

In 2047, Rahu moves into Dhanu on 29 Jan; Guru moves into Mesha on 21 Mar; Guru moves into Vrishabha on 18 Aug; Guru moves into Mesha on 11 Oct. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Dubai (Asia/Dubai, GST).

The grahas on 1 January 2047

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

Gochar calendar for 2047

Times in Dubai (Asia/Dubai, GST). 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 2047

  • 3 Jan6:30 am

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 8 Jan12:05 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 14 Jan10:45 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 18 Jan8:12 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 21 Jan7:03 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 26 Jan7:23 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 29 Jan1:23 pm

    Rahu enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 29 Jan1:23 pm

    Ketu enters Mithuna (moving backward)

February 2047

  • 5 Feb11:00 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 7°14′ Kumbha

  • 7 Feb11:55 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 8 Feb3:14 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 20 Feb†

  • 13 Feb11:44 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 14 Feb12:04 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 15 Feb4:08 am

    Budha enters Makara (moving backward)

  • 20 Feb4:47 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 27 Feb1:05 am

    Budha turns direct at 21°58′ Makara

March 2047

  • 11 Mar2:07 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 12 Mar7:38 pm

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 15 Mar8:34 am

    Surya enters Meena

  • 19 Mar1:19 pm

    Mangala enters Mesha

  • 21 Mar7:58 pm

    Guru enters Mesha

April 2047

  • 3 Apr7:46 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 5 Apr7:52 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 7 Apr11:51 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 7 May†

  • 10 Apr9:22 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 7 May†

  • 13 Apr3:13 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 10°06′ Dhanu

  • 14 Apr4:58 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 20 Apr1:26 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 23 Apr6:35 am

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 20 Aug†

  • 29 Apr5:55 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

May 2047

  • 1 May5:42 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 4 May6:31 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 7 May6:47 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 7 May8:53 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 May1:43 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 23 May11:30 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 30 May7:37 pm

    Shukra enters Karka

June 2047

  • 5 Jun4:04 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 6°36′ Mithuna

  • 9 Jun2:34 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 26 Jun†

  • 11 Jun10:07 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 15 Jun8:14 pm

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 21 Jun9:15 pm

    Budha enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

  • 26 Jun2:05 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 29 Jun4:36 pm

    Budha turns direct at 27°53′ Vrishabha

July 2047

  • 6 Jul9:32 pm

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 16 Jul3:45 am

    Shukra turns retrograde at 27°35′ Karka

  • 17 Jul7:04 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 25 Jul9:25 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 22 Aug†

  • 27 Jul12:41 am

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 28 Jul2:33 pm

    Budha enters Karka

August 2047

  • 1 Aug12:14 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 11 Aug†

  • 11 Aug5:37 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 12 Aug4:56 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 17 Aug3:31 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 18 Aug5:48 pm

    Guru enters Vrishabha

  • 20 Aug6:02 pm

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

  • 22 Aug12:48 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 28 Aug6:08 am

    Shukra turns direct at 11°10′ Karka

  • 29 Aug3:29 am

    Budha enters Kanya

September 2047

  • 1 Sep11:03 pm

    Shani turns direct at 3°28′ Dhanu

  • 11 Sep6:07 pm

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 14 Sep4:20 pm

    Guru turns retrograde at 1°10′ Vrishabha

  • 17 Sep3:31 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 21 Sep9:15 am

    Budha enters Tula

October 2047

  • 3 Oct4:45 am

    Budha turns retrograde at 6°14′ Tula

  • 3 Oct1:22 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 9 Oct3:47 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Oct†

  • 11 Oct8:11 am

    Guru enters Mesha (moving backward)

  • 13 Oct5:01 am

    Budha enters Kanya (moving backward)

  • 18 Oct3:31 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 21 Oct2:56 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Oct9:21 am

    Budha turns direct at 20°44′ Kanya

  • 29 Oct7:55 pm

    Mangala enters Kanya

November 2047

  • 2 Nov5:25 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 4 Nov5:09 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 11 Nov11:11 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 31 Dec†

  • 17 Nov3:22 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 24 Nov1:02 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 29 Nov2:01 am

    Shukra enters Tula

December 2047

  • 12 Dec8:21 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 14 Jan†

  • 13 Dec2:04 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 16 Dec6:01 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 18 Dec3:29 pm

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 24 Dec3:00 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 31 Dec5:14 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

† 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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