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Transits — Where the Planets Are Right Now.

Transits (Gochar) describe the current, real-time positions of the Grahas relative to your fixed birth chart. While your Dasha sets the broad theme of a period, transits provide the day-to-day and month-to-month texture within it.

Right now

Today's planetary snapshot.

These values change daily (Moon) or over longer cycles (other Grahas) and form the raw input for transit analysis. Updated automatically.

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Transits vs. your birth chart

Your birth chart (Kundli) is fixed forever — it reflects the sky at the exact moment you were born. Transits describe where the Grahas are moving today, and Jyotish evaluates the relationship between the two: which houses of your birth chart the transiting Grahas are currently passing through, and what aspects they form to your natal placements.

Why transit speed matters

Different Grahas move at very different speeds, which is why transit analysis operates at multiple time scales simultaneously:

  • Moon — changes Rashi roughly every 2.25 days. Used for very short-term, day-level timing.
  • Sun, Mercury, Venus — change Rashi roughly monthly. Used for month-level themes.
  • Mars — changes Rashi roughly every 45 days.
  • Jupiter — changes Rashi roughly once a year. Often used for major yearly themes.
  • Saturn — changes Rashi roughly every 2.5 years. Associated with longer structural life phases (including the well-known "Sade Sati" cycle relative to natal Moon).
  • Rahu & Ketu — change Rashi roughly every 1.5 years, always moving in retrograde motion.

How Prajvia layers transits with Dashas

A complete Jyotish timing picture typically combines three layers: your birth chart, your current Dasha period, and current transits. Prajvia's Daily Individual Horoscope specifically combines your Dasha with the day's transits to produce a personalized, dated reading rather than a generic transit description shared by millions of people.

Frequently asked questions

Transits, in plain language.

What is Sade Sati?

A well-known Saturn transit cycle referring to the roughly 7.5-year period when transiting Saturn moves through the sign before, the sign of, and the sign after your natal Moon Rashi — traditionally associated with a phase of significant restructuring.

Do transits matter without knowing my birth chart?

General transit information (like today's Moon Rashi) is useful on its own, but personalized transit analysis requires knowing your natal chart to see which houses and planets are actually being activated.

How is "today's Moon Rashi" different for everyone?

It isn't — today's transiting Moon position is the same for every person on Earth on a given day. What differs between people is how that transiting position relates to each person's unique birth chart.

How often is this page's data updated?

The values shown above are recalculated for the current date each time you load the page, using Prajvia's deterministic astronomical formulas.