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Gochar 2048: when each graha changes sign

In 2048, Guru moves into Vrishabha on 28 Mar; Guru moves into Mithuna on 13 Aug; Rahu moves into Vrishchika on 18 Aug; Guru moves into Vrishabha on 28 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Lautoka (Pacific/Fiji, UTC+12).

The grahas on 1 January 2048

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

Gochar calendar for 2048

Times in Lautoka (Pacific/Fiji, UTC+12). 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 2048

  • 1 Jan8:36 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 10 Jan2:34 pm

    Guru turns direct at 21°09′ Mesha

  • 14 Jan11:20 pm

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Jan12:46 pm

    Surya enters Makara

  • 17 Jan10:42 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 20 Jan1:47 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 21°01′ Makara

  • 23 Jan1:09 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 Feb†

February 2048

  • 4 Feb2:03 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 10 Feb10:45 am

    Budha turns direct at 5°10′ Makara

  • 11 Feb3:49 am

    Mangala enters Vrishchika

  • 11 Feb5:05 am

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 14 Feb1:45 am

    Surya enters Kumbha

March 2048

  • 6 Mar9:53 am

    Shukra enters Kumbha

  • 8 Mar6:28 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 14 Mar10:37 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 24 Mar12:09 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 21 Apr†

  • 26 Mar7:15 pm

    Budha enters Meena

  • 28 Mar3:37 pm

    Guru enters Vrishabha

  • 30 Mar3:01 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

April 2048

  • 11 Apr12:16 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 14 Apr7:05 am

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 21 Apr3:50 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 21 Apr12:51 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 4 Jul†

  • 23 Apr9:36 pm

    Shukra enters Mesha

  • 24 Apr7:20 pm

    Shani turns retrograde at 21°28′ Dhanu

  • 26 Apr10:48 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

May 2048

  • 1 May4:48 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 25°51′ Vrishchika

  • 14 May8:25 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 13 Jun†

  • 15 May3:53 am

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 16 May1:31 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 16°36′ Vrishabha

  • 18 May5:58 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

  • 19 May1:40 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 5 Jun†

June 2048

  • 5 Jun12:29 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 9 Jun9:57 am

    Budha turns direct at 7°58′ Vrishabha

  • 11 Jun3:36 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 13 Jun3:26 pm

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 15 Jun10:24 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

July 2048

  • 4 Jul10:43 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 4 Jul10:34 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

  • 6 Jul1:47 am

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 9 Jul8:37 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 Aug†

  • 11 Jul10:42 am

    Mangala turns direct at 10°59′ Vrishchika

  • 16 Jul9:14 pm

    Surya enters Karka

  • 19 Jul2:08 pm

    Budha enters Karka

  • 30 Jul12:20 pm

    Shukra enters Simha

August 2048

  • 3 Aug11:21 am

    Budha enters Simha

  • 4 Aug9:31 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 13 Aug7:45 am

    Guru enters Mithuna

  • 17 Aug5:39 am

    Surya enters Simha

  • 18 Aug12:20 am

    Rahu enters Vrishchika (moving backward)

  • 18 Aug12:20 am

    Ketu enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

  • 22 Aug9:45 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 24 Aug12:00 am

    Shukra enters Kanya

September 2048

  • 8 Sep9:58 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 13 Sep5:29 am

    Shani turns direct at 14°50′ Dhanu

  • 15 Sep1:08 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 19°47′ Kanya

  • 17 Sep5:38 am

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 17 Sep2:10 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

  • 22 Sep10:49 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 Oct†

October 2048

  • 4 Oct11:54 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 7 Oct12:30 pm

    Budha turns direct at 4°50′ Kanya

  • 12 Oct8:25 am

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 17 Oct5:40 pm

    Surya enters Tula

  • 19 Oct3:41 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 6°29′ Mithuna

  • 24 Oct2:06 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 10 Dec†

  • 25 Oct4:27 pm

    Mangala enters Makara

  • 28 Oct6:12 pm

    Budha enters Tula

November 2048

  • 6 Nov9:12 am

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 16 Nov2:09 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov5:31 pm

    Surya enters Vrishchika

December 2048

  • 1 Dec11:15 pm

    Shukra enters Makara

  • 5 Dec7:52 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

  • 6 Dec4:56 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

  • 10 Dec6:25 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 16 Dec8:11 am

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 23 Dec1:57 am

    Shani becomes combust (asta) until 25 Jan†

  • 26 Dec9:17 am

    Budha enters Makara

  • 28 Dec6:36 am

    Guru enters Vrishabha (moving backward)

  • 28 Dec11:56 pm

    Shukra 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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