Gochar is the study of where the grahas are right now and what that means for you specifically. The reading is always counted from your Chandra rashi, not from a general position in the sky, which is why the same transit is favourable for one person and demanding for another.
Transits are shown against your own chart, with the house each graha currently occupies from your Moon and from your lagna.
What is tracked
All nine grahas, live
Current positions from the Swiss Ephemeris, with retrograde status, updated continuously rather than fixed at a monthly summary.
Counted from your Moon
The house each transiting graha occupies from your Chandra rashi, which is how classical gochar is judged.
Sade Sati and Dhaiya
Whether Shani is in your 12th, 1st or 2nd (Sade Sati) or your 4th or 8th (Dhaiya), and which phase you are in.
Slow-graha changes
Guru and Shani sign changes, and the nodal axis, which set the tone of a year rather than a week.
What it will not do
A transit triggers, it does not create. If a chart never promised something, no transit delivers it, and a transit landing during an unrelated dasha is usually a quiet one.
Questions
Is a transit read from my Sun sign or Moon sign?
The Moon sign, your Chandra rashi. That is the standard in Jyotish and is why Vedic transit predictions differ from Western ones.
How do I know if I am in Sade Sati?
Sade Sati runs while Shani transits the 12th, 1st or 2nd house from your Chandra rashi, roughly seven and a half years in three phases.
Which transits matter most?
The slow ones. Shani and Guru set the tone of a year; the fast grahas colour weeks.
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