Transits

Gochar (transits) in Vedic astrology

Gochar is the Vedic word for transits: where the planets are moving now, judged against a birth chart. Vedic astrology counts each planet's house from the birth Moon's sign, not from the ascendant. Each planet gives good results from some houses and difficult results from others. Another planet can block a good transit; this is called vedha.

Updated Nov 3, 2026

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Gochar: how the API computes it

For a given date, the API places each planet in a house, counted from the birth Moon's sign, not from the ascendant (TR-01). Each planet gives good results from some of those houses and difficult results from others (TR-02). Another planet in a matching house can block a good transit. This block is called vedha (TR-03).

POST /v1/transits returns every planet for the date you send in as_of. For each one, it gives the house from the Moon, the traditional result and any planet that blocks it. It also gives the result after the block.

Transit dates, such as when Saturn changes sign, are worked out from the ephemeris (a table of planet positions). They are not copied from a printed calendar (TR-06). Pair transits with the running dasha (planet period) when a screen needs both.

Gochar in a real API answer

POST /v1/transits?as_of=2026-10-01200 OK

{
  "transits": [
    {
      "graha": "Jupiter",
      "sign": "Cancer",
      "house_from_moon": 3,
      "result": "unfavorable"
    },
    {
      "graha": "Saturn",
      "sign": "Pisces",
      "house_from_moon": 11,
      "result": "favorable"
    }
  ]
}

Where Jupiter and Saturn are on Oct 1, 2026, counted in houses from John Doe's birth Moon, and the traditional result of each. Real output for John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York.

Get it from the API

Current transits read against a chart. Here is the call to API for Astrology (apiforastrology.com) for our sample, John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York.

POST /v1/transits

# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/transits?as_of=2026-10-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASTROLOGY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"year":1990,"month":8,"day":15,"hour":10,"minute":30,"second":0,"latitude":40.7128,"longitude":-74.006,"timezone":"America/New_York"}'

Answer (long lists shortened)200 OK

{
  "meta": {
    "ayanamsa": "lahiri",
    "ayanamsa_value": 23.7260727,
    "julian_day": 2448119.10483,
    "ephemeris": "JPL DE440s",
    "node": "true",
    "timezone": {
      "source": "zone",
      "offset_hours": -4,
      "zone": "America/New_York",
      "abbreviation": "EDT",
      "dst": true,
      "dst_hours": 1,
      "ambiguous_resolved_by_fold": null,
      "note": "read from the IANA tz database at this instant, so daylight saving and historical offset changes are included"
    }
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-01T00:00:00",
  "natal_moon_sign": "Taurus",
  "ascendant_sign": "Virgo",
  "transits": [
    {
      "graha": "Sun",
      "sign": "Virgo",
      "sign_number": 6,
      "house_from_moon": 5,
      "house_from_ascendant": 1,
      "result": "unfavorable",
      "vedha_house": null,
      "obstructed_by": [],
      "obstructed": false,
      "net": "unfavorable",
      "speed": 0.9827528302048448,
      "retrograde": false
    },
    {
      "graha": "Moon",
      "sign": "Taurus",
      "sign_number": 2,
      "house_from_moon": 1,
      "house_from_ascendant": 9,
      "result": "favorable",
      "vedha_house": 5,
      "obstructed_by": [
        "Sun"
      ],
      "obstructed": true,
      "net": "obstructed",
      "speed": 14.283114921087416,
      "retrograde": false
    },
    {
      "graha": "Mars",
      "sign": "Cancer",
      "sign_number": 4,
      "house_from_moon": 3,
      "house_from_ascendant": 11,
      "result": "favorable",
      "vedha_house": 12,
      "obstructed_by": [],
      "obstructed": false,
      "net": "favorable",
      "speed": 0.5825257867134042,
      "retrograde": false
    }
  ],
  "summary": {
    "favorable": 4,
    "unfavorable": 4,
    "obstructed": 1
  },
  "rule": "house counted from the natal Moon; favorable houses per graha from the classical gochara table, obstructed where another transiting graha occupies the vedha house"
}

Where the API returns it

POST	/v1/transits	Current transits read against a chart
POST	/v1/transits/forecast	Upcoming transit periods for a chart
POST	/v1/sadesati	Sade sati: Saturn's 7.5-year transit around the birth Moon
POST	/v1/forecast/annual	Yearly forecast: a year of sky events read against a chart
POST	/v1/reading/daily	Daily reading for a chart
POST	/v1/reading/weekly	Weekly reading for a chart

What the API reference says

Each line is quoted from the reference page of the endpoint named above it.

POST /v1/transits · Current transits read against a chartVedha is a traditional rule: a planet's transit effect is blocked when another planet occupies a paired house.
POST /v1/transits/forecast · Upcoming transit periods for a chartFor one specific day, call /v1/transits with that as_of.

Feature page: Transits and forecasts. Who uses it: Publishers and media. The classical rules the API follows are in the rulebook.

How we check the numbers

Every value here starts from planet positions worked out from NASA JPL planet data (DE440). We test them against NASA JPL Horizons, NASA's planet position service. On 25,571 positions from 1850 to 2149, the Sun and planets agree within 0.001 arc seconds. The Moon agrees within 0.011. On 2,000 random birth charts, the rising sign agrees with Swiss Ephemeris within 0.004 arc seconds. An arc second is 1/3,600 of a degree. A practicing astrologer reviews the rules behind these answers. See how we test.

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John Doe, New York

POST /v1/planets200 OK

RisingVirgoHast
SunCancerAshlesha
MoonTaurusMrigashira
MarsAriesKrittika

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