| Planet | Current sign | Next sign change | Moves to |
|---|---|---|---|
| SaturnRules discipline, karma and long structures — its sign rules where life asks patience and maturity (and drives the Sade Sati cycle). | Pisces | 3 June 2027 | Aries |
| JupiterRules growth, wisdom and fortune — the sign it transits receives expansion and opportunity for about a year. | Cancer | 31 October 2026 | Leo |
| RahuRules ambition and the unconventional — the nodal axis marks where desire and disruption are amplified. | Aquarius | 25 November 2026 | Capricorn |
| KetuRules detachment and past-life skill — the south node marks where life turns inward and lets go. | Leo | 25 November 2026 | Cancer |
| MarsRules energy, drive and courage — a faster transit that colours action for about six weeks per sign. | Aries | 20 June 2026 | Taurus |
| SunRules vitality and self — the Sun spends about a month in each sign, marking the solar month. | Gemini | 16 July 2026 | Cancer |
A transit (gochar) is where a planet is in the sky right now, moving in real time through the signs, read against the fixed positions of your birth chart. Your chart never changes, but the planets keep travelling, and the relationship between today's sky and your chart is what Vedic astrology uses to read timing and current events.
Saturn, Jupiter and the lunar nodes Rahu and Ketu move slowly, staying in a single sign for months or years, so they set the larger themes of any period. Saturn's transit through a sign drives the well-known Sade Sati cycle; Jupiter's roughly yearly change of sign shifts where growth and opportunity flow; and the Rahu-Ketu axis marks longer swings between ambition and release. Mars and the Sun move faster and colour shorter stretches of weeks.
The same sky affects everyone differently because a transit is judged against each person's own chart. What matters is the house a transiting planet activates for you and what that planet rules in your chart. A transit that is quiet for one person can be pivotal for another, which is why the personal step is to read these positions against your own Kundli.
A transit, or gochar, is the movement of a planet through the signs of the zodiac as it travels in real time, read against your birth chart. While your birth chart is fixed, transiting planets keep moving, and where a planet is today relative to your chart is what shapes current events and timing.
As of 17 June 2026, the slow-moving planets sit as follows: Saturn is in Pisces until 3 June 2027. Jupiter is in Cancer until 31 October 2026. The full table above lists every transit body with its current sidereal sign and the date of its next sign change, computed on the Swiss Ephemeris with Lahiri ayanamsa.
Saturn, Jupiter, Rahu and Ketu move slowly, so they stay in one sign for months or years and define the larger chapters of a period. Saturn's transit drives the Sade Sati cycle, Jupiter's yearly move brings expansion, and the Rahu-Ketu axis marks shifts in desire and detachment. Faster bodies like Mars and the Sun colour shorter stretches.
A transit is read against your own birth chart, so the same sky affects two people differently. What matters is which house a transiting planet activates for you and what it rules in your chart. To see how today's transits fall on your chart, generate your free Kundli and read it against the positions above.
These positions use the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa, the standard in Vedic astrology, computed on the Swiss Ephemeris. Sidereal positions differ from the tropical zodiac used in Western astrology by roughly 24 degrees.