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Mangala gochar in 1992

Mangala changes sign 9 times in 1992: Dhanu on 1 Jan, Makara on 10 Feb, Kumbha on 20 Mar, Meena on 27 Apr …. Retrograde from 29 Nov.

Mangala’s signs through 1992

  1. Vrishchika20 Nov, 11:08 am 1991 → 1 Jan, 3:55 am 1992· 42 days
  2. Dhanu1 Jan, 3:55 am 1992 → 10 Feb, 5:16 am 1992· 40 days
  3. Makara10 Feb, 5:16 am 1992 → 20 Mar, 5:48 am 1992· 39 days
  4. Kumbha20 Mar, 5:48 am 1992 → 27 Apr, 11:57 pm 1992· 39 days
  5. Meena27 Apr, 11:57 pm 1992 → 6 Jun, 11:09 am 1992· 39 days
  6. Mesha6 Jun, 11:09 am 1992 → 17 Jul, 10:46 pm 1992· 41 days
  7. Vrishabha17 Jul, 10:46 pm 1992 → 1 Sep, 8:03 pm 1992· 46 days
  8. Mithuna1 Sep, 8:03 pm 1992 → 3 Nov, 11:34 pm 1992· about 2 months
  9. Karka3 Nov, 11:34 pm 1992 → 22 Dec, 9:26 pm 1992· 49 days
  10. Mithuna(entered moving backward)22 Dec, 9:26 pm 1992 → 14 Apr, 11:44 am 1993· about 4 months

Date by date

Times in IST.

January 1992

  • 1 Jan3:55 am

    Mangala enters Dhanu

  • 4 Jan4:36 pm

    Mangala rises again (asta ends)†

February 1992

  • 10 Feb5:16 am

    Mangala enters Makara

March 1992

  • 20 Mar5:48 am

    Mangala enters Kumbha

April 1992

  • 27 Apr11:57 pm

    Mangala enters Meena

June 1992

  • 6 Jun11:09 am

    Mangala enters Mesha

July 1992

  • 17 Jul10:46 pm

    Mangala enters Vrishabha

September 1992

  • 1 Sep8:03 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna

November 1992

  • 3 Nov11:34 pm

    Mangala enters Karka

  • 29 Nov4:56 am

    Mangala turns retrograde at 3°52′ Karka

December 1992

  • 22 Dec9:26 pm

    Mangala enters Mithuna (moving backward)

† Practice varies. Mangala is counted asta within 17° of the Sun (Surya Siddhanta); some almanacs use another limit or a visibility rule.

See also: Mangala (glossary) · Gochar 1992: all grahas · Transits over your chart

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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