Moon (Chandra) transit

14 October 2026: Moon is in Scorpio; next change of sign: 16 October 2026.

The next sign changes of the Moon

Why the Moon's sign matters most

The sign the Moon occupied at your birth is your Moon sign (rashi), the main reference point of Vedic transits. The Moon is the mind (BPHS ch. 3, sl. 12–13), and by general convention its passage through the signs is read as the mood of the days. Its daily position also underlies the panchang: the nakshatra of the day and the chandrabala, the Moon's strength for you on that day (a rule of the muhurat tradition).

How to use it

Count from your Moon sign to the sign the Moon is in now: that is the house it is passing through for you today. For a full day view with the tithi, nakshatra and auspicious hours, see the panchang. The Moon never turns retrograde and is never combust in the usual sense; near the new moon it is simply close to the Sun.

How we calculate and verify

Positions come from the same engine as the charts in JyotiSoft: sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsha, apparent positions (as the Indian Astronomical Ephemeris and Drik Panchang; since 14 October 2026), moments to the minute, stored in UTC. Rahu and Ketu are given by the mean node first, the date most calendars print, and by the true node that our charts use.

• Checked against independent sources. Every sign change and every retrograde or direct turn is compared, in automated tests that fail the build on a mismatch, with the published tables of Drik Panchang (New Delhi, Lahiri); eclipses with the NASA GSFC catalogue; tithi and Ekadashi with Drik Panchang. Drik's Lahiri runs a few arcseconds ahead of the standard one of the Indian ephemeris, so its moments are later than ours by about 3 minutes for the Sun and up to an hour for Jupiter and Saturn, more when they move slowly; the tests model exactly that difference and allow nothing more. Last cross-check: 14 October 2026.
• What follows the classical texts. What a graha signifies and which are benefic or malefic: Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, ch. 3 sl. 12–15, ch. 32 sl. 18–21, ch. 34 sl. 8–10 and 16; combustion limits: BPHS ch. 7 (table of degrees in the translator's note; our charts use it as printed, Saturn 16° in direct and retrograde motion alike); strength of a retrograde graha: BPHS ch. 27 sl. 21–23; transits counted from the Moon sign: Phaladeepika ch. 26, the Ashtakavarga method: BPHS ch. 66. Chapters and verses follow R. Santhanam's English edition.
• What does not. Sade Sati, Guru Peyarchi and the sankranti festivals are later or regional traditions. Practical readings such as “Mercury retrograde, a time to review” are modern conventions. We mark them as such.

How the site's texts are written and checked

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See also

• Sun (Surya) transit
• Mars (Mangala) transit
• Horoscope 2027
• Planetary transits 2027
• Planetary transits
• Ekadashi 2027
• Hindu festivals 2026–2027
• Wedding
• Moving into a home
• Buying a car
• Buying property
• 2026 or 2027 for a wedding?
• Purnima and Amavasya 2027
• Eclipses of 2027
• Annular solar eclipse, 6 February 2027
• Jupiter back in Cancer, January – June 2027
• Saturn in Aries 2027
• Mars retrograde, January – April 2027
• Mercury retrograde, February – March 2027

Positions and tables: sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsha — the same as professional Jyotish astrologers use, and the same calculation as the charts in JyotiSoft. Updated 2026-10-14.