Planetary transits · gochar

Ketu in the skyTRANSIT.

When Ketu changes sign, turns retrograde, or slips combust — the dates that matter, and what each brings to detachment, insight & the past.

Ketu governs detachment, insight & the past. A Ketu transit is its movement through the sidereal zodiac — each sign change, retrograde and combustion colours how detachment, insight & the past plays out for everyone. Below are Ketu's 1 moves in 2026; pick another year to the right.

DatePlanetTransitRāśi (sign)Nakshatra · padaStatusWhat it means
November
Wed25NovKetuSign change♌︎ Leo♋︎ CancerAshlesha · 4—A fresh chapter for detachment, insight & the past — Ketu leaves Leo for Cancer.

Every ingress (from → to), retrograde/direct station and combustion begin/end — computed from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The Status column carries a planet's ongoing retrograde / combustion until it changes. Dates are IST and may shift a day for your timezone.

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Ketu transit by year

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Other planets

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FAQ

Transit questions

What does a Ketu transit mean?

It's Ketu moving from one rāśi (and nakshatra) to the next in the sky. Because Ketu rules detachment, insight & the past, its transits time shifts in those areas for everyone — sharpened when it stations retrograde or direct, or moves in and out of the Sun's combustion.

What is a planetary transit (gochar)?

A transit is where a planet is in the sky at a given time, as opposed to where it was at your birth. Vedic astrology reads these moving positions — which sign and nakshatra each graha occupies, and whether it is retrograde or combust — to time the texture of a period.

What does "still retrograde / combust" mean in the table?

A planet stays retrograde from its retrograde station until its direct station, and combust while it is within a few degrees of the Sun. The Status column flags that ongoing state on every event in between — so a sign change that happens while a planet is still retrograde is marked as such.

Which ayanamsa and which planets are used?

Positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides. The eight non-Moon grahas are listed (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu); the Moon changes sign every ~2¼ days, so it is shown on the live board instead.