Sidereal positions of all nine grahas — the rāśi and nakshatra each one is passing through, whether it's retrograde or combust, and how strong it is. See the whole year's transits below.
A transit — gochar — is simply where a planet sits in the sky right now, against the fixed band of the sidereal zodiac. Vedic astrology watches these moving positions to time the texture of a period: a slow graha settling into a new rāśi, a planet turning retrograde to make you revisit its themes, or one slipping combust beside the Sun. The board above is computed live to the arc-minute; the year table below lays out the whole calendar of transits.
Pick any year — past or future — and see every planet's sign changes (from → to), the times the classical planets turn retrograde or direct, and when each slips into or out of the Sun's glare (combustion), with the nakshatra it lands in.
Four things shape how a transit actually feels. Here's what each column on the board means.
A planet never truly reverses — from Earth it only appears to, as we overtake it in orbit. Vedic tradition reads a retrograde graha as unusually strong but inward-turned: a time to revisit, refine and finish rather than launch something new in its domain.
When a planet sits within a few degrees of the Sun its light is lost in the glare. Astrologically its significations dim or turn erratic for the days it stays combust — Mercury within 14°, Venus 10°, Mars 17°, Jupiter 11°, Saturn 15°, the Moon 12°.
Every graha has one sign where it is exalted (uccha) — at full strength — and the opposite sign where it is debilitated (neecha) — at its weakest. Own sign and moolatrikona are its comfortable home seats; a friend or rival's sign colours it accordingly.
Each sign is split into finer 13°20′ nakshatras, every one ruled by a planet and split again into four padas. The nakshatra a planet occupies — and its ruling lord — shades how that transit actually feels, well beyond the sign alone.
Want the story behind these movements? Transit News covers what each major transit means in plain language, and the Panchang ties today's sky to your local hours.
Retrograde, combustion, dignity and how to read the board.
A transit, or gochar, is simply where a planet is in the sky right now — as opposed to where it was when you were born. Vedic astrology reads these live positions against your birth chart to time events: which sign and nakshatra each graha occupies, and how it aspects your natal planets.
The board above shows it live — any graha marked ℞ is retrograde. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn each turn retrograde periodically; the Sun and Moon never do, and Rahu and Ketu (the lunar nodes) are always retrograde by nature.
A planet within a few degrees of the Sun is "combust" (moudhya) — its light lost in the glare. Astrologically its significations weaken for the days it stays combust. The orbs used here are Mercury 14°, Venus 10°, Mars 17°, Jupiter 11°, Saturn 15° and the Moon 12° from the Sun.
Every planet has one sign where it is exalted (strongest) and the opposite sign where it is debilitated (weakest). It is also comfortable in its own sign and moolatrikona. The Dignity column shows each planet's current standing so you can see at a glance which grahas are well-placed today.
The sign, nakshatra, retrograde and combustion of every planet are the same everywhere on Earth at a given instant, so the table is accurate worldwide. Only the rising sign (Lagna) in the chart depends on location — that one is shown for New Delhi. All times are IST, computed with the Lahiri ayanamsa.
The "Upcoming transits" timeline lists the next sign ingress for every graha and the next retrograde and direct stations for Mercury through Saturn, scanned forward from the live sky. It is the calendar of what is coming.
The board here is the sky for everyone. In the app it becomes personal — which transits are crossing your chart right now, what they touch, and a nudge before the big ones land. Free on your phone.
free · nothing to sign up for ↓Positions are computed live with full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides and the Lahiri ayanamsa. Sign, nakshatra, retrograde and combustion are identical worldwide; the rising sign shown is for New Delhi.