Planet Sign Change (Ingress) Finder

People most often look up the next sign change of Saturn and Jupiter, because these mark long transits such as Sade Sati or a new Jupiter year. The Sun's entry into Capricorn gives the date of Makar Sankranti, and its entry into Aries marks the solar new year in many regional calendars. Mars and Venus ingresses are watched for shorter phases. The Moon is the fastest, so a search for the Moon returns a date within a few days. Choose the planet and sign below, and set the start date to today or any date you want to check from.

An ingress is the moment a planet crosses from one sign into the next. In Vedic astrology sign changes of slow planets, such as Jupiter, Saturn and the nodes, are watched closely because they mark broad shifts in transit. The Sun's ingresses define the solar months and the festival of Makar Sankranti.

Fast planets change sign often. The Moon spends about two and a half days in a sign, the Sun about a month and Mercury and Venus a few weeks, while Saturn spends about two and a half years and Jupiter about one.

Choose a planet and the sign you are interested in, then set the date to search from. You can also set an end date up to 400 days later; without one, the search runs about a year ahead. For Saturn or Rahu the sign you want may not be reached within the range, in which case no ingress is reported.

Times you enter and the times in the result use the time zone of this device. If the planet is already in the chosen sign at the start, the tool looks for its next entry. A retrograde planet can leave a sign and come back, so the tool reports the first entry after the start.

Sign boundaries are sidereal with the Lahiri ayanamsa. Rahu and Ketu are true nodes, which wobble slightly, so their ingress times can differ from tables that use mean nodes by hours or days.

The search is performed by an established open-source astrology library that we have not yet replaced with our own code. These results have not yet been checked against published ingress tables.