Yearly Horoscope
This year
Yearly readings for all twelve rashis, with both the sidereal and the tropical date range shown for each. Below the signs: the one Guru sankranti a year turns on, why the Sun cancels out over that interval, and the three signs that put each rashi into Sade Sati.
Choose Your Rashi
Two date ranges are given for every sign because there are two zodiacs. The sidereal range is the one the reading is computed from; the tropical range is the one most people recognise from a newspaper column. They differ by the ayanamsa, currently about 24 degrees.
Aries
मेष · Mesha
Sidereal Apr 14 – May 14 Tropical Mar 21 – Apr 19
Taurus
वृषभ · Vrishabha
Sidereal May 15 – Jun 14 Tropical Apr 20 – May 20
Gemini
मिथुन · Mithuna
Sidereal Jun 15 – Jul 16 Tropical May 21 – Jun 20
Cancer
कर्क · Karka
Sidereal Jul 17 – Aug 16 Tropical Jun 21 – Jul 22
Leo
सिंह · Simha
Sidereal Aug 17 – Sep 16 Tropical Jul 23 – Aug 22
Virgo
कन्या · Kanya
Sidereal Sep 17 – Oct 17 Tropical Aug 23 – Sep 22
Libra
तुला · Tula
Sidereal Oct 18 – Nov 16 Tropical Sep 23 – Oct 22
Scorpio
वृश्चिक · Vrishchika
Sidereal Nov 17 – Dec 15 Tropical Oct 23 – Nov 21
Sagittarius
धनु · Dhanu
Sidereal Dec 16 – Jan 14 Tropical Nov 22 – Dec 21
Capricorn
मकर · Makara
Sidereal Jan 15 – Feb 12 Tropical Dec 22 – Jan 19
Aquarius
कुम्भ · Kumbha
Sidereal Feb 13 – Mar 14 Tropical Jan 20 – Feb 18
Pisces
मीन · Meena
Sidereal Mar 15 – Apr 13 Tropical Feb 19 – Mar 20
What actually changes in 365 days
| Graha | Full circuit | Holds one rashi | Moves in 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 27.32 days | about 2¼ days | 4810° — 13.4 circuits |
| Sun | one year | about 30½ days | 359.7° — one full circuit less 0.3° |
| Mercury | about a year (geocentric) | roughly 3 weeks to 2 months | Tracks the Sun Its average rate is the Sun's own, but it loops forward and back around it, so no single figure for this interval would be honest |
| Venus | about a year (geocentric) | roughly 3 weeks to 2 months | Tracks the Sun Its average rate is the Sun's own, but it loops forward and back around it, so no single figure for this interval would be honest |
| Mars | 687 days | about 8 weeks | 191° — 6.4 rashis |
| Jupiter | 11.86 years | about one year | 30° — 1.0 rashis |
| Saturn | 29.46 years | about 2½ years | 12.2° |
| Rahu and Ketu | 18.6 years (retrograde) | about 18 months | 19.3° Retrograde always, so the motion runs backwards through the rashis |
Every figure in the last column is 360 divided by the circuit length, times 365 — the arithmetic is on the page so it can be checked rather than trusted. Mercury and Venus are the two exceptions and are left without a figure on purpose: their mean rate is the Sun's, so the arithmetic would return the Sun's number for a motion that is nothing like it. Past two full circuits the figure is divided by 360 as well and given in circuits, because a count of rashis stops describing anything once a graha has been round twice. A year is a real astronomical interval and the table is what it does to the sky; it is not a forecast, and nothing here says what will happen to anybody.
A year is one Guru sankranti
Jupiter moves 0.083 degrees a day, so over 365 days it covers 30.3 degrees. A rashi is thirty degrees wide. Those two numbers being almost equal is the whole reason a yearly reading exists as a category, and it is the same coincidence the monthly hub is built on, one rung up: there the Sun covers 29.6 degrees in thirty days and a month holds one sankranti, here Jupiter covers 30.3 in a year and a year holds one Guru sankranti.
The inversion repeats too. On a monthly scale the Moon completes a circuit and a bit, visits every rashi and comes back past its own starting point, so whatever it does to a chart in a month it does all twelve versions of — which is the same as doing none. On a yearly scale the Sun does exactly that. In 365 days it covers 359.7 degrees, a full circuit less about a quarter of a degree, and that missing quarter degree is not a rounding error: the Sun needs 365.26 days to get back, not 365. A year is not a whole number of days, which is the reason a calendar needs leap years at all. So the graha that carries a monthly reading is the one that cancels out of a yearly one, and the table above is where that reversal is visible in a single column.
Saturn sets the limit at the other end. Its 12.2 degrees a year does not cover half a rashi, so Saturn needs about 2½ years to cross one and a single year usually cannot show it moving at all. Rahu and Ketu cover 19.3 degrees, backwards. A year is therefore long enough to resolve exactly one of the slow grahas and not the other, which is why a yearly reading describes Jupiter as something that happens and Saturn as something that is the case. Mars sits oddly in between: 191 degrees is more than half the zodiac and nowhere near a return, because its circuit is 687 days and its year is nearly two of ours.
A Guru return is not a birthday
Jupiter's twelve-year cycle is the most quoted interval in this subject and it is a rounded one. The circuit is 4,332 days, which is 11.86 years — eleven years and about 314 days. So Jupiter arrives back at the rashi it started from roughly 51 days before the twelfth anniversary, not on it. Per rashi it works out at about 361 days, 4.3 days short of a year, which is why Jupiter changing sign drifts a little earlier in the calendar each time instead of landing on the same fortnight.
The drift compounds in the ordinary way. In twelve calendar years Jupiter covers 12.14 rashis rather than twelve, so it ends up about 4.2 degrees past where it began. Five circuits take 59.3 years, not sixty. None of this is a correction to the tradition, which has always given Jupiter a twelve-rashi path and never claimed the path takes exactly twelve of our years; it is a correction to the arithmetic people do with the round number afterwards. Nothing is claimed to happen at a return, at any of these intervals, or at any age. They are the graha's period and nothing else.
The same two circuit lengths give the interval between the two slow grahas meeting. Jupiter gains on Saturn at the difference of their rates, so the gap from one Guru–Shani conjunction to the next is 7,251 days — 19.85 years. Of the 21 pairs the seven classical grahas make, 18 have two different mean rates and so eventually repeat, and the pair of Jupiter and Saturn is the longest of those by a wide margin: nearly nine times the second longest, which is Mars and Jupiter at 2.24 years. The remaining three never separate in a table of mean motions at all, because geocentrically Mercury and Venus keep the Sun's own average pace and the rate difference is exactly zero — a superlative over this set has to say which pairs it is counting. That margin is why a Guru–Shani conjunction is traditionally treated as marking an era rather than a year: on the scale this page reads at, it is the one recurrence slower than the reading.
The three rashis that put each sign into Sade Sati
Sade Sati is the one Saturn reading a yearly page can honestly attempt, because it is a position and not a date: Saturn crossing the 12th, the 1st and the 2nd houses counted from the natal Moon. Since those three houses are three consecutive signs, every rashi's triplet is the sign before it, itself, and the sign after — read below in the order Saturn meets them. At about 2½ years per sign the whole passage runs about seven and a half years, which is what the name says. It is read from the Chandra rashi, not the Sun sign.
| Janma rashi | Ruler | Saturn in these three, in order | Yearly reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesha (Aries) | Mars | Pisces → Aries → Taurus | Aries yearly |
| Vrishabha (Taurus) | Venus | Aries → Taurus → Gemini | Taurus yearly |
| Mithuna (Gemini) | Mercury | Taurus → Gemini → Cancer | Gemini yearly |
| Karka (Cancer) | Moon | Gemini → Cancer → Leo | Cancer yearly |
| Simha (Leo) | Sun | Cancer → Leo → Virgo | Leo yearly |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Mercury | Leo → Virgo → Libra | Virgo yearly |
| Tula (Libra) | Venus | Virgo → Libra → Scorpio | Libra yearly |
| Vrishchika (Scorpio) | Mars | Libra → Scorpio → Sagittarius | Scorpio yearly |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Jupiter | Scorpio → Sagittarius → Capricorn | Sagittarius yearly |
| Makara (Capricorn) | Saturn | Sagittarius → Capricorn → Aquarius | Capricorn yearly |
| Kumbha (Aquarius) | Saturn | Capricorn → Aquarius → Pisces | Aquarius yearly |
| Meena (Pisces) | Jupiter | Aquarius → Pisces → Aries | Pisces yearly |
The middle sign of every triplet is the rashi itself, which is the phase the name is usually attached to, and it is the shortest thing to say about the table: the column is not twelve separate rules but one rule read from twelve starting points. Read the other way round, the same arithmetic gives the figure a per-sign page cannot — whichever rashi Saturn is holding, exactly three of the twelve janma rashis are in Sade Sati at once — one rashi in four, and so that share of all readers at any given moment. With Saturn in Aries, for instance, they are Pisces, Aries, Taurus. Each sign's own yearly page takes it further, into the phase-by-phase reading and into the two Saturn positions classically ranked beside Sade Sati.
The written year-by-year readings, and how they differ from the twelve above
Everything linked so far on this page is computed: a sign's yearly reading works the four slow grahas through the twelve bhavas from whatever position they hold when you load it, so it has no year in its address and never needs one. The posts below are the other kind. Each is written for one named year and carries that year's actual ingress and station dates — which rashi Jupiter is in on 1 January and which it leaves for, the days Saturn turns retrograde and direct, the day the nodes change sign — because those dates are properties of the year and cannot be read off a page that has to be true of every year. Neither is a better version of the other, and both are on this hub because a reader arriving without a sign in mind should be able to reach either.
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Every year listed covers all twelve rashis, so the set is a grid rather than a selection — no sign is there because its year was more interesting. A post for a year that has passed is left published and left dated, because it is a record of where the grahas actually were and its value does not expire; it is simply not a reading of the year you are in. The date on each post says which year it describes, and the address does too. For the reading that is always the current one, use the twelve links in the table above.
Questions readers ask
Why is a yearly horoscope a Jupiter reading?
Because Jupiter is the graha whose pace matches the interval. In 365 days it covers 30.3 degrees, and a rashi is thirty degrees wide, so a year holds very nearly exactly one Guru sankranti — Jupiter's crossing from one sign into the next. That is one clean event on a yearly timescale, which is what a reading can be built on. The Sun over the same interval goes round the whole zodiac and finishes where it started, so it cannot tell one year from another. On a monthly scale the Sun is the reading and the Moon cancels; on a yearly scale it is the Sun that cancels. The arithmetic for every graha is in the table above.
Does a year change Saturn's position at all?
Barely. Saturn covers 12.2 degrees in 365 days, which is about four tenths of a rashi — it needs about 2½ years to cross one. So a yearly reading can say which rashi Saturn holds, and it cannot say that Saturn changed rashi unless the year happens to contain the crossing. That is why Saturn appears in a yearly reading as a standing condition rather than as an event, and why anything described as a Saturn period is longer than the reading describing it. Rahu and Ketu are in the same category from the other direction: 19.3 degrees a year, moving backwards, about 18 months to a rashi.
Which three signs put my rashi into Sade Sati?
The rashi before yours, your own, and the one after — because Sade Sati is Saturn crossing the 12th, the 1st and the 2nd houses counted from the natal Moon, and those three houses are three consecutive signs. Saturn takes about 2½ years over each, which is where the name comes from: sade sati, seven and a half. The table on this page gives all twelve triplets in order. This site gives no start date, no end date and no countdown for it — those need an ephemeris and a birth chart, not a table — and the classical reading is a period of load and consequence, not a verdict.
Is the astrological year the same as the calendar year?
No, and there is more than one astrological year. The solar year begins when the Sun enters Mesha, not on 1 January. A lunar year begins on the first day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra, which is a different day again and moves against the solar one. And Jupiter's own year — the time it takes to cross one rashi — is about 361 days, so it is shorter than all of them. Several different intervals are all called a year on this subject, and a reading is only as clear as the one it names.
What can a yearly reading not tell me?
Which part of your life a transit touches, and when inside the year it does. Both need a birth chart. The house a transiting graha is crossing is counted from the lagna, and the lagna cannot be known without a birth time; the moment a graha crosses a given degree needs an ephemeris. A yearly column has neither, so it reads Jupiter's rashi against your janma rashi and produces one reading for a twelfth of everybody. That is a real astronomical position honestly described. It is not a statement about one person's year, and nothing on this page or on the twelve it links to is a prediction.
Read your Moon sign as well
A sun-sign column is written for a twelfth of everybody at once. Jyotish treats the Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon held at your birth — as the primary one, so if you know it, read that page too. If you do not, the calculator will tell you from a birth date, time and place.