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Planetary transits — Gochar

Scans a date range for planetary sign ingresses (Moon included) and retrograde/direct station events, each with its exact UTC time. Lahiri sidereal by default; set ayanamsa to 'tropical' for Western (tropical) sign changes, or 'raman' / 'kp' for those ayanamsas. Also known as Gochar.

post/v1/astro/transits

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.asterwise.com
  • URL: https://api.asterwise.com/v1/astro/transits
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Request body

from_datestring required

Start of the date range to scan, in YYYY-MM-DD format.

to_datestring required

End of the date range to scan, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Maximum range is 3 years (1095 days) from from_date.

ayanamsa'lahiri' | 'raman' | 'kp' | 'tropical'

Zodiac for the sign changes. lahiri (default), raman and kp are sidereal ayanamsas (Vedic). tropical is the Western zodiac with no ayanamsa, so ingresses become Western sign changes (Sun into Aries at the March equinox, Moon sign changes every ~2.5 days). Station moments do not depend on this; only their reported longitude does.

Example request

{
  "from_date": "2026-01-01",
  "to_date": "2026-12-31",
  "ayanamsa": "lahiri"
}

Response

Transit ingress and station event collections

successboolean

True if the request succeeded

messagestring

Human-readable status message

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "ayanamsa": "lahiri",
    "ingresses": [
      {
        "from_sign_name": "Pisces",
        "to_sign_name": "Aries"
      }
    ],
    "stations": [
      {
        "sign_name": "Gemini"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Changes

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