See Today's Planetary Positions on a Live Transit Wheel
How to use this wheel
This wheel shows where every planet is right now, live. Grab any planet and drag it clockwise to jump into the future, or anticlockwise to rewind into the past (it's reversed for Rahu & Ketu, since they always travel backwards). Or just type in a date and hit Warp. Hover over any planet to see its details.
This page shows the present planetary position for all nine grahas, live — the current transit of planets exactly as they sit in the sky right now, recalculated continuously rather than pulled from a cached snapshot taken this morning. Every planet's position updates as time passes, and dragging the wheel lets you step to any other moment, past or future, and see the same live positions for that date instead.
Next major ingress: Jupiter enters Leo on 31 October 2026
First, a quick definition, since this word trips a lot of beginners up: a gochar, or planetary transit, is just a planet moving out of one zodiac sign and into the next — nothing more mystical than that. This page's wheel already shows gochar today the moment it loads, live, rather than a static snapshot. Vedic astrology pays the closest attention to the slow-moving planets, because they linger in a sign for months or years, long enough to shape a whole chapter of life rather than just a passing mood. Drag the wheel above to any of the dates below and you'll see the entire sky exactly as it will look that day.
| Jupiter | enters Leo | |
| Ketu | enters Cancer | |
| Rahu | enters Capricorn | |
| Jupiter | re-enters Cancerretrograde | |
| Saturn | enters Aries | |
| Jupiter | enters Leo | |
| Saturn | re-enters Piscesretrograde | |
| Jupiter | enters Virgo |
These are sidereal positions using the Lahiri ayanamsa (the standard reference point for Vedic astrology). Dates marked retrograde are re-entries — the planet backs into a sign it had already left, then crosses forward into it again later. Most published transit tables quietly skip these extra crossings, which is why their dates sometimes don't match ours.
Picture standing on Earth and looking straight up at a ring of constellations wrapped all the way around you — that's basically what this wheel represents, with Earth at the centre. The twelve segments are the rasis (the Vedic zodiac signs), running anticlockwise starting from Aries, and each planet sits at its real position for whatever moment is shown in the readout above. This isn't an artist's impression — it's pulled from a real astronomical dataset, so what you see is genuinely where the sky is right now.
One thing to get straight before you start dragging: moving the wheel moves time, not the planets themselves. Drag clockwise and the date moves forward; drag anticlockwise and it rewinds. Rahu and Ketu are the odd ones out — these two points (more on what they are below) always travel backwards through the zodiac no matter which way you drag everything else. That's not a bug, it's how they actually move.
You'll notice thin lines connecting some of the planets — these mark what astrologers call "aspects," meaning the angular relationships between planets, a bit like noting which players on a field can see each other. In Vedic practice, every planet aspects (looks toward) the sign directly opposite it, and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn each get a few extra special aspects of their own. Being "aspected" by a planet isn't automatically good or bad news — think of it as one planet's energy touching another point in the chart, and the rest of the chart decides what that actually means.
Here's a fun one: no planet ever actually reverses direction in space. Retrograde is an optical illusion caused by relative motion — much like how a slower car seems to drift backwards when you overtake it on the highway. Earth, moving faster in its orbit, overtakes a slower outer planet, and for a few weeks that planet appears to creep backwards against the background stars. Scrub the wheel slowly through a retrograde window and you can actually watch a planet slow down, appear to reverse, pause again, and then resume forward — the looping path that gave "retrograde" its name in the first place.
This matters for transit dates because a planet sitting near the edge of a sign can cross into the next one, then turn retrograde and slip back, then cross forward again months later. Saturn does exactly this on its way into Aries. A transit table that only lists the first crossing is really only telling you one of three dates that matter.
"Graha" is simply the Sanskrit word for the planets Vedic astrology tracks — nine of them, including the Sun, the Moon, and two shadow points called Rahu and Ketu. Each one moves at a completely different speed, and that speed changes what its transit actually means for you:
Here's the honest truth: a transit by itself only tells you half the story. What a planet's movement actually means for you depends on where it lands relative to your own birth chart. Take two people born under different Moon signs — the exact same Saturn transit could be a heavy, defining Sade Sati chapter for one of them, and barely noticeable for the other. To see how these live positions line up against your own chart, generate your free birth chart first, then come back here and scrub to whichever date you're curious about.
Two other tools on this site go deeper on specific transits: the Sade Sati calculator works out Saturn's full seven-and-a-half-year passage over your Moon sign, and the Vimshottari dasha calculator tells you which planetary period you're currently running underneath any given transit. Tamil readers can find the same Saturn ingresses listed as sani peyarchi dates.
Jupiter's sign change — guru gochar in Sanskrit — gets tracked almost as closely as Saturn's, just on a faster clock: about thirteen months in each sign instead of Saturn's two and a half years. Where it's positioned relative to your Moon sign is traditionally read for its effect on finance, higher learning, marriage timing and general expansion — Jupiter is the one graha most classical texts treat as reliably favourable rather than needing careful handling like Saturn or Mars. The table above lists Jupiter's upcoming sign changes by exact date, including any retrograde re-entry; drag the wheel to Jupiter directly (it's the largest sphere) to scrub through its current transit day by day.
Just load the page — the wheel opens right on the current moment and keeps updating live, so whatever you see is today's sky. Hover or tap any planet to get its exact degree, sign and nakshatra.
The Today's Panchang panel above the wheel shows all four — nakshatra, tithi, yoga and vara (weekday) — for whichever date the wheel is currently showing, computed the same way as the rest of this page: live from the Moon and Sun's real positions, not a static lookup table. Drag the wheel or hit Warp to a different date and the panchang updates to match that date instead of staying fixed on today.
A gochar is simply a planet moving from one zodiac sign into the next — that's the whole definition. The slow-moving planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Rahu and Ketu, matter the most, because they stay in one sign long enough to shape an extended period of life rather than just a passing mood.
Sidereal, using the Lahiri ayanamsa — the standard reference point for Vedic astrology, and the same one used across every calculator on this site. If you're used to Western tropical astrology, positions here will differ by roughly 24 degrees.
They really do move backwards, and it's not a glitch. Rahu and Ketu aren't physical planets — they're the two points where the Moon's orbit crosses the Sun's apparent path across the sky. That crossing point drifts backwards through the zodiac on its own, completing a full loop in about eighteen years. Since they're points rather than bodies, they always sit exactly opposite each other.
Several centuries in either direction. The wheel loads its astronomical data in chunks as you drag, so a long trip through time might pause for a moment while the next chunk arrives.
No. This wheel and every calculator on this site are free, and none of them require a signup.