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Gochar 2049: when each graha changes sign

In 2049, Shani moves into Makara on 6 Mar; Guru moves into Mithuna on 3 Apr; Shani moves into Dhanu on 9 Jul; Guru moves into Karka on 27 Aug; Shani moves into Makara on 3 Dec. Below is every sign change, station and asta period of the nine grahas.

Times in Montreal (America/Toronto, EST/EDT).

The grahas on 1 January 2049

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

Gochar calendar for 2049

Times in Montreal (America/Toronto, EST/EDT). 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 2049

  • 2 Jan6:14 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 4°59′ Makara

  • 6 Jan2:41 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 17 Jan†

  • 10 Jan1:22 am

    Budha enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 14 Jan1:55 am

    Surya enters Makara

  • 14 Jan9:36 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

  • 17 Jan7:07 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 23 Jan1:19 am

    Budha turns direct at 18°49′ Dhanu

  • 24 Jan4:06 pm

    Shani rises again (asta ends)†

  • 30 Jan3:09 am

    Shukra enters Meena

February 2049

  • 7 Feb6:40 pm

    Budha enters Makara

  • 12 Feb2:54 pm

    Surya enters Kumbha

  • 13 Feb7:40 pm

    Guru turns direct at 26°25′ Vrishabha

  • 22 Feb3:41 pm

    Shukra turns retrograde at 9°20′ Meena

  • 24 Feb9:28 pm

    Mangala enters Mesha

March 2049

  • 1 Mar3:04 am

    Budha enters Kumbha

  • 5 Mar6:03 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 4 Apr†

  • 6 Mar3:39 am

    Shani enters Makara

  • 10 Mar5:22 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 20 Mar†

  • 14 Mar12:47 pm

    Surya enters Meena

  • 17 Mar3:04 pm

    Shukra enters Kumbha (moving backward)

  • 18 Mar5:13 am

    Budha enters Meena

  • 20 Mar5:03 pm

    Shukra rises again (asta ends)†

April 2049

  • 2 Apr5:08 am

    Budha enters Mesha

  • 3 Apr2:43 am

    Guru enters Mithuna

  • 4 Apr10:27 pm

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 5 Apr2:38 pm

    Shukra turns direct at 23°12′ Kumbha

  • 8 Apr8:32 am

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

  • 13 Apr9:16 pm

    Surya enters Mesha

  • 25 Apr6:10 pm

    Shukra enters Meena

  • 26 Apr2:19 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 27°07′ Mesha

  • 29 Apr2:23 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 15 May†

May 2049

  • 6 May4:38 am

    Shani turns retrograde at 2°52′ Makara

  • 14 May6:05 pm

    Surya enters Vrishabha

  • 15 May9:54 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 20 May9:57 am

    Budha turns direct at 17°43′ Mesha

  • 22 May12:21 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna

  • 31 May3:30 am

    Shukra enters Mesha

June 2049

  • 8 Jun5:51 am

    Budha enters Vrishabha

  • 10 Jun3:04 am

    Mangala becomes combust (asta) until 24 Sep†

  • 15 Jun12:36 am

    Surya enters Mithuna

  • 19 Jun3:05 am

    Guru becomes combust (asta) until 19 Jul†

  • 23 Jun7:05 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Jul†

  • 26 Jun8:34 am

    Budha enters Mithuna

  • 28 Jun10:33 am

    Shukra enters Vrishabha

July 2049

  • 7 Jul5:53 am

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 9 Jul6:42 pm

    Shani enters Dhanu (moving backward)

  • 10 Jul8:59 am

    Budha enters Karka

  • 16 Jul11:24 am

    Surya enters Karka

  • 18 Jul7:25 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 19 Jul8:27 am

    Guru rises again (asta ends)†

  • 24 Jul10:00 pm

    Shukra enters Mithuna

  • 26 Jul11:14 am

    Budha enters Simha

August 2049

  • 16 Aug7:46 pm

    Surya enters Simha

  • 19 Aug10:46 am

    Shukra enters Karka

  • 20 Aug10:17 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 23 Aug12:49 am

    Mangala enters Simha

  • 27 Aug2:25 am

    Guru enters Karka

  • 28 Aug3:20 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 2°52′ Kanya

September 2049

  • 4 Sep6:45 pm

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 18 Sep†

  • 5 Sep4:30 am

    Budha enters Simha (moving backward)

  • 13 Sep7:46 am

    Shukra enters Simha

  • 16 Sep7:44 pm

    Surya enters Kanya

  • 18 Sep12:49 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 20 Sep10:09 am

    Budha turns direct at 18°44′ Simha

  • 24 Sep12:07 pm

    Shani turns direct at 26°13′ Dhanu

  • 24 Sep9:29 pm

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

October 2049

  • 3 Oct2:08 am

    Budha enters Kanya

  • 6 Oct5:09 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 19 Nov†

  • 7 Oct5:17 pm

    Shukra enters Kanya

  • 9 Oct5:45 am

    Mangala enters Kanya

  • 17 Oct7:46 am

    Surya enters Tula

  • 20 Oct4:10 pm

    Budha enters Tula

  • 31 Oct7:17 pm

    Shukra enters Tula

November 2049

  • 8 Nov2:41 am

    Budha enters Vrishchika

  • 16 Nov6:40 am

    Surya enters Vrishchika

  • 18 Nov12:20 pm

    Shukra becomes combust (asta) until 9 Feb†

  • 19 Nov7:15 am

    Budha rises again (asta ends)†

  • 20 Nov7:24 am

    Guru turns retrograde at 9°49′ Karka

  • 24 Nov4:16 pm

    Shukra enters Vrishchika

  • 25 Nov9:19 am

    Mangala enters Tula

  • 28 Nov4:05 am

    Budha enters Dhanu

December 2049

  • 3 Dec7:21 pm

    Shani enters Makara

  • 15 Dec9:23 pm

    Surya enters Dhanu

  • 17 Dec3:58 pm

    Budha turns retrograde at 19°04′ Dhanu

  • 18 Dec12:38 pm

    Shukra enters Dhanu

  • 21 Dec11:28 am

    Budha becomes combust (asta) until 1 Jan†

† 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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