There are two key Jupiter transit 2026 dates. On June 1, Jupiter enters Cancer (June 2 in India). On October 31, it enters Leo. The big Saturn transit of 2027 comes on June 2, when Saturn enters Aries (June 3 in India). The Rahu Ketu transit of 2026 falls on November 25, when Rahu moves into Capricorn and Ketu into Cancer. This guide lists every sign change of the four slow planets in 2026 and 2027, with times. It also shows how to read each one from your own Moon sign.
All positions here are sidereal, which means measured against the stars. They use the Lahiri ayanamsa, the usual choice in India. An ayanamsa is the gap between the two zodiacs. The Western (tropical) zodiac is now about 24 degrees away from the sidereal one. So Western sign dates for these slow planets differ by many months.
What gochar means in Vedic astrology
Gochar is the Sanskrit word for transits. It means where the planets are moving right now, compared with where they were when you were born. You can read the full idea in our gochar glossary entry.
In the classical method, transits are counted from your birth Moon sign, not from your rising sign. A daily horoscope by sign is read the same way, from the Moon sign. The old result tables were written that way. Many modern astrologers also look at the house from the rising sign. But the traditional good and difficult results are tied to the Moon. Not sure of your Moon sign? See what a Moon sign is and how it is found.
Why Jupiter and Saturn matter most
Speed is the main reason. The Moon changes sign about every two and a quarter days, so its transit is read for single days. Jupiter spends about a year in each sign, and Saturn about two and a half years. A transit that lasts that long is read as shaping a whole stage of life, not just a week.
Each planet gives a good result from some houses counted from the Moon. It gives a difficult one from all the others. There is no neutral house in this scheme. Here are the classical good houses for the four slow planets, as stated in rule TR-02:
Planet | Good houses from the Moon | Time in one sign |
|---|---|---|
Jupiter | 2, 5, 7, 9, 11 | About 1 year |
Saturn | 3, 6, 11 | About 2.5 years |
Rahu | 3, 6, 10, 11 | About 18 months |
Ketu | 3, 6, 10, 11 | About 18 months |
One more rule can block a good result. Under vedha, a good transit can be blocked when another transiting planet sits in a paired house. Rahu and Ketu have no vedha in the classical sources, so their good transits are never blocked.
Jupiter transit 2026 and 2027: all dates
Jupiter starts 2026 in Gemini, where it has been since December 5, 2025. Over the next two years it moves back and forth across two sign lines. When a planet turns retrograde (appears to move backward), it can slip back into the sign it just left. Each of those returns is listed below.
Times are shown for New York (Eastern Time) with the date in India beside them. The same moment can fall on a different calendar date depending on where you live.
New York (ET) | Date in India (IST) | Jupiter enters | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Jun 1, 2026, 4:20 PM | Jun 2, 2026 | Cancer | Second entry; it first entered Cancer on Oct 18, 2025, then went back into Gemini |
Oct 31, 2026, 2:32 AM | Oct 31, 2026 | Leo | First entry |
Jan 24, 2027, 3:01 PM | Jan 25, 2027 | Cancer | Retrograde return |
Jun 25, 2027, 7:49 PM | Jun 26, 2027 | Leo | Moves forward into Leo again |
Nov 26, 2027, 8:14 AM | Nov 26, 2027 | Virgo | First entry; it returns to Leo on Feb 28, 2028 |
Cancer is the sign where Jupiter is called exalted, meaning it is read as especially strong there. Jupiter is retrograde until March 11, 2026, and again from December 13, 2026 to April 13, 2027 (dates in UTC).
Saturn transit 2026 and 2027
Saturn stays in Pisces for all of 2026. It entered Pisces on March 29, 2025. The big change comes in mid-2027, when it crosses into Aries. Then it steps back into Pisces while retrograde. It enters Aries for good in early 2028.
New York (ET) | Date in India (IST) | Saturn enters | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Jun 2, 2027, 7:58 PM | Jun 3, 2027 | Aries | First entry |
Oct 19, 2027, 9:42 PM | Oct 20, 2027 | Pisces | Retrograde return |
Feb 23, 2028, 8:54 AM | Feb 23, 2028 | Aries | Final entry, just past this two-year window |
Saturn is retrograde from July 26 to December 11, 2026, and from August 9 to December 24, 2027 (dates in UTC). In Vedic astrology, Aries is Saturn's sign of debilitation, the sign where it is read as weakest. Classical texts treat that as one factor among many, not as a verdict on its own.
Rahu Ketu transit 2026
Rahu and Ketu are not bodies you can see. They mark the two points where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's yearly path. So they always sit exactly opposite each other, six signs apart. They move backward through the zodiac, and Vedic astrology treats them as always retrograde. That is why Rahu goes from Aquarius to Capricorn, not to Pisces.
Rahu has been in Aquarius, and Ketu in Leo, since May 29, 2025 (May 30 in India). The next shift comes late in 2026:
New York (ET) | Date in India (IST) | Rahu enters | Ketu enters |
|---|---|---|---|
Nov 25, 2026, 7:34 AM | Nov 25, 2026, 6:04 PM | Capricorn | Cancer |
They then stay in Capricorn and Cancer for all of 2027, until May 24, 2028. These dates use the true node. Some calendars use the mean node, a smoothed average, which gives December 5, 2026 for this change. Both methods are in common use. Our note on the true and mean node explains the difference.
How to find your transit house from your Moon sign
You only need your Moon sign and the sign a planet is in. Then count:
Call your Moon sign house 1.
Count forward through the signs in order (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and so on) until you reach the planet's sign.
The number you land on is the house from your Moon. Check it against the good houses in the table above.
Worked example. John Doe was born on August 15, 1990, at 10:30 AM in New York. His sidereal Moon sign is Taurus. So Taurus is house 1, Gemini is 2, Cancer is 3, Leo is 4, and so on, up to Aries as house 12. Here is how the classical tables read his 2026 and 2027 transits:
Transit | House from his Moon | Classical result |
|---|---|---|
Jupiter in Gemini (to Jun 1, 2026) | 2 | Good |
Jupiter in Cancer | 3 | Difficult |
Jupiter in Leo | 4 | Difficult |
Jupiter in Virgo (from Nov 26, 2027) | 5 | Good |
Saturn in Pisces | 11 | Good |
Saturn in Aries (from Jun 2, 2027) | 12 | Difficult |
Rahu in Aquarius, then Capricorn | 10, then 9 | Good, then difficult |
Ketu in Leo, then Cancer | 4, then 3 | Difficult, then good |
These are textbook labels, not forecasts. A full reading also weighs vedha, the birth chart and the running dasha (planetary period).
Sade sati and Saturn's move into Aries
Sade sati is Saturn's transit over your Moon. It runs while Saturn is in the sign before your Moon sign, in your Moon sign, and in the sign after it. That is about seven and a half years, in a rising, a peak and a setting phase. The sade sati glossary entry covers the phases in more detail.
With Saturn in Pisces through 2026, sade sati is running for these Moon signs:
Aries Moon: rising phase (Saturn in the 12th).
Pisces Moon: peak phase (Saturn on the Moon's own sign).
Aquarius Moon: setting phase (Saturn in the 2nd).
When Saturn enters Aries on June 2, 2027, a new sade sati begins for Taurus Moon signs, like John Doe's. It pauses while Saturn steps back into Pisces from October 2027 to February 2028. For Aquarius Moon signs, the reverse happens. There is a break while Saturn is in Aries. Then the period ends for good on February 23, 2028. Traditions read sade sati in very different ways. Many astrologers stress that it is a time of effort and lessons, not only hardship.
Check your own transits
To find your Moon sign, make a free birth chart with our kundli tool. To see whether sade sati is running for you, with dated phases, try the free sade sati calculator.
Faster planets move too. Mercury turns retrograde about three times a year. Our Mercury retrograde dates for 2026 and 2027 list each period with its Vedic sign.
If you build astrology apps, the same ingress dates and Moon-based house counts come from our transits and forecasts API.
