Good morning beautiful people. Welcome to my channel. Thank you for your likes and
subscribes. Now I am beginning the Rahu Ketu study series. The axis of Rahu Ketu,
how it plays out in each and single one of the zodiac signs going by nakshatra,
going by padha. So if you don't know what the padha is, you will have to go through
the 27 nakshatra playlist. I will be covering it in the series also just like
a recap but the details are before. If you want to know what exaltation and
debilitation is there, even that is covered in my earlier videos. So the
importance of understanding the Rahu and Ketu in our charts is to understand the
polarization of duality as it plays in our lives. It's very crucial to
understand although it is not be all and end all of things. This is not the
ultimate anything but this is one of the very important factors. We shall start
seeing that one by one. Some parts of this video I will leave it for each
and every one because people bump into different videos at different times and
we will cover this by house. We will cover this the importance. We will cover
this from the classical Sanskrit Vedic texts understanding how it plays out in
the modern understanding and how you can self evaluate your own chart to see
where this Rahu Ketu axis is playing out. It's on always on opposite sides. Rahu
Ketu are 180 degrees apart. So we will analyze this and we will analyze this of
how it benefits or debilitates or gives you a propensity for or against
anything in your life. It's going to be very interesting once you get into the
analytics of it. So take care. Be safe. Keep watching. I'll come to the
presentation parts and each one of these presentations is going to be similar in
pattern. So it's like a study. Literally this is more like a virtual classroom and
this way you can figure out what to focus on in your chart. So it will be easier to grasp.
This is easier to understand, easier to evaluate. This is where my focus is
going and this is how it is playing out in my life. So let's get into it.
Take care. Be safe. So number one, the classical characteristics of Rahu and
Ketu as described by the classical Vedic literature. What is Rahu and Ketu?
These are the north and the south nodes of the moon found by the virtual points
which are the intersection points between orbit of the moon around the earth
and orbit of the earth around the Sun. So basically if you take two eclipses,
ellipses, it will form two intersection points. So these two intersection points
are called the north node and the south node. They are virtual nodes although they
behave like planets and we shall see why in a minute. So who is Rahu? The symbols
are there like a horseshoe and the reverse horseshoe. This is typically
how it is portrayed in Western astrology. So I'm using the same symbol here.
Rahu is mythologically depicted as the seeded head of a demon symbolizing
constant and less insatiable hunger and appetite be it sensual or physical yet
it is unable to hold on to or grasp it. Rahu is the one who constantly wants
something. Think of it as a live head only not the body. Okay. So it can't
hold on to anything or be satisfied even if it gets that thing since it has no
arms or body or stomach. Just a head which is alive. This gives Rahu the
title of Bhoga Karaka or meaning one who is after sensory materialistic pursuits.
So think any earth sign for example they want sensory materialistic pursuits or
think any of the signs literally whatever they are after Rahu wants that
and wants that very badly and goes after it with everything. This is an energy
in us by the way. It is not a planet. It's a virtual node but it will behave like a
planet which we shall see why. So it is unable to satisfy that hunger or hold on
to anything even though it gets something. It wants to move on to the next
and then to the next and then to the next. This is why Rahu is also called as the
guy who wants foreign things not of the native land or not of what the person is
natively born in. Why? Because of that insatiable hunger. There's always
insatiable hunger to go after one thing after the another without being able to
hold on to it. That's Rahu. Ketu on the other hand is mythologically depicted as
the severe body the remaining half of the demon symbolizing constant and less
insatiable search for identity. It is looking for the head but it doesn't have
a head. So it is looking for that identity. Everybody's identity ego is
centered in the head what you look like. It is also seeking for true purpose
sense of self. As a result of this it tries to hold and grab on to everything
that can find its hands on because it has got hands. Ketu has got hands. It's
trying to hold on to everything but it releases immediately because it knows
that's not the head. It's like trying to grasp on to everything thinking oh I
want this or I am this I am that I am this. Not getting any identity because
not finding the head there. Since it has arms and walks everywhere it goes
around through life walking from place to place people situation circumstances
but not knowing who or what it is. It doesn't have a head. This is why Ketu
is referred to as Mokshakaraka or the seekers path the one energy in us which
seeks something. That's why Ketu is called the Mokshakaraka. Now this is the
classical interpretation. Okay now we shall see how this plays out in the
modern interpretation. Very important to connect the bridges. Now here you have
the Rahu Ketu general characteristics as modern interpretation. This I have
borrowed from the book Light on Life by Robert Suvala excellent book. I have put
it in the community tab if you want to go through it or purchase it and read it.
I should seriously suggest that. Okay the North node of the moon Rahu. What does it
become because of the characteristics which classically is told in the texts?
What does Rahu lead to in the modern context? Rahu is responsible for
originality, individuality, independence, insight, ingenuity, inspiration and
imagination on the positive side. Because Rahu and Ketu both love to explore
foreign stuff. Things out of the box. Things not taught by tradition. Rahu and
Ketu will be anything but traditional. Okay think of it as something foreign to
the culture to the way you are taught things. Looking for original stuff. If
there is one singular force that is responsible for creating everything that
keep modernizing so to speak. Thinking out of the box it is this. That's why it's
important to pay attention to this. Okay back to this. So Rahu on the downside
leads to confusion, escapism, neurosis, psychosis, deception, addiction,
vagueness, illusion, delusion. This is the downside. How this plays out and
why we'll have to see individually in the charts which you will see that. Okay
Ketu. Ketu the guy with only the body, no head there, gives us the feeling of
universality, impressionability, idealism, intuition, compassion, spirituality, self
sacrifice, subtleness on the positive side. On the downside it can lead to
eccentricity, fanaticism, explosiveness, violence, unconventionality,
immorality, iconoclasm, impulsiveness and emotional tensions. This is on the
downside. This is what it plays out and Rahu Ketu is typically an axis like
it's shown over there. Right? Rahu Ketu let me remove myself for the time being
from that axis. Okay there you are. So you see it as an axis. Okay 180 degrees
apart and it can play out in any one of the opposite houses. It can play out in
one seven two eight three nine four ten etc etc. We will see that later. But this
axis becomes a definition point of where in your life in your different houses
are you looking for these two aspects and they are always opposite to each other
as you can see. Okay to stand opposite to each other. So if it plays out in
second house it detaches itself from the eighth house. If Rahu is in second house
Ketu will be in the eighth house. You see what I mean? And so you will bring the
eighth house aspect with these aspects shown here. Second house with that aspect
shown over there. Of course it plays out with something called as dispositors. We
shall see that next. Now if you go to a traditional Vedic Astrology they will go
on and on endlessly about dispositors. What the hell is a dispositor? It's an
invented term by the Vedic Astrologers. It is no meaning of its own. It shows the
disposition and what's the story on this? Rahu and Ketu both are enemies of the
Sun and the Moon. This is the basic principle. So it has the Solar aspect and
the lunar aspect. The Solar aspect is called the dispositor and the lunar
aspect is the nakshatra which gives the entire characteristics and the ball game
of Rahu and Ketu. The Solar or the dispositor means since Rahu and Ketu
are enemies with the Sun and do not have a full identity of their own. Remember
it's a virtual node. It is not a planet. They both do not have any planetary
characteristic individually. So they take on the identity or the disposition of
the Lord of the zodiac sign that they sit in and borrow the attributes of the
house from which that Lord sits in. Suppose Mercury is in the third house.
Rahu sits in the house of Mercury somewhere else. So it will borrow
the attributes of Mercury sitting in the third house and bring it to that
particular house. Wherever Rahu is sitting in. Got it? Nakshatra. Since Rahu and Ketu
are enemies with the Moon and do not have a full identity of their own,
individually they take on the shade of personality. Nakshatra is essentially a
shade of personality. It's coloring of a personality. It's seeing the world through
different colored glasses that they sit in and borrow the nakshatra traits and
attributes which color their propensities. So Rahu and Ketu do two things at the
same time. At the solar level it goes with the dispositor that is all of the
planets, physical planets, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Sun, Moon, so on. So they take on
attributes of whichever house they are sitting in. If it sits in Rahu, it's in
Cancer. You have to look for where Moon is sitting, which house and what it is
doing there and even the Moon Nakshatra. If it is sitting in Leo, Rahu in Leo,
that means you have to look for where Sun is sitting and which Nakshatra and
which house. So it will bring those attributes. That's the way you have to
analyze this. Let's see some aspects of which house they play in and why.
Now there are some vital aspects that you need to keep in mind when evaluating
Rahu and Ketu because this is important especially for people who are sort of
looking for self-development to understand where they are coming from.
If you're not interested in changing yourself, this entire channel is useless
for you. But if you're the one who is interested in knowing what is happening
in my life, where do I need to go, what are my talents and you question these
kinds of things, excuse the noise somebody is drilling about, so then you need
to understand these aspects. Now there's a typical Indian chart and
house numbers are depicted as 1, 2, 3, 4, up till 12.
Dharma Artha, Kama Moksha is there. I have stuck Rahu, Ketu as possible
axis on the 1, 7 that is Aries and Libra that is the top and the bottom.
So either it can go to house number one or seven. Rahu, Ketu can be reversed, it's
okay, it doesn't matter. Or in four and ten. Now one, four, seven and ten in
Vedic Astrology are given very vital importance because they are the
foundational aspects that define who you are, that define how you operate in life,
throughout life. So these become crucial. Why? The one, seven
axis effects if Rahu and Ketu fall on there has a direct effect on yourself
and other concept. One and seven is self and other. How you
relate to yourself and how you relate, look at the world around you as others
including the spouse because seventh house is the house of the spouse but
also others. So how you develop through life and how
you develop a relationship with others. So it defines who you are in a very
broad sense. One, seven axis of Rahu, Ketu. The fourth
pen on the other hand, fourth house being the house of the mother, tenth being
father, fourth being home, tenth being career. You see this as a you know all
kinds of implications which define who you are.
The fourth and axis has effects on the heart versus mind.
Mind is the one who goes out there in the world and
being used in the career. You dissipate your energy
as the mind in the external world. Heart is your home, your home center where
you feel comfortable. Home is where the heart is that kind of a thing.
So heart and home is affected by this Rahu, Ketu axis. Again Rahu and Ketu might
be reversed. Rahu might be in the fourth, Ketu might be in the tenth or vice versa.
Same way with one and seven but these are the vital relating aspects of Rahu and
Ketu. Now what about the rest of the houses?
Now rest of the houses are called the Kona or Kona
in Sanskrit. These are the things that come and go in your life.
The second house, third house, fifth house, sixth, eighth,
ninth, eleventh, and twelve. These are the things that come and go in our life
through life, through your entire life. These are things that are added and
to subtracted from us but this is not us. One for seven and ten is us.
Everything else is secondary which revolves around you as life comes and
goes. All other axes depict what attachments and
detachments we have towards different areas of our life. That's all it is.
They are less significant in terms of Rahu and Ketu when compared to one, seven,
four, and ten axes of Rahu and Ketu. Please remember this. When you're
evaluating, you just have more propensity towards one
part of life and less towards others. Rahu is attachment, Ketu is detachment,
Rahu is expansion, Ketu is reduction and they stand
opposite to each other all this. Now let's take the cases one by one.
Now let us take the first axis and we'll begin with the fourth Pada in
Ashwini Nakshatra. In Aries, we'll begin with Rahu in Aries and we'll rotate
this axis as you see in the pie chart counterclockwise to finish this
entire series one Pada at a time. So it's going to be a long set of parts here.
Okay so if you're seeing this in the series somewhere in the in between, you
can see for your Rahu, Ketu axes in which Nakshatra,
which house, etc. they fall in. You can directly fast forward to that area.
Okay but I'll be covering some basics in every one of them just for benefit of
everyone. But you can fast forward and check this.
Right. Rahu in Aries and Ketu in Libra. First of all let us see what Aries is.
Aries is ruled by Mars. It is Rajasic, Moable, and a male sign
and so is Libra. Rajasic, Moable, and male sign.
Opposite to each other, one and seven. The sign number one and sign number seven.
Right. So what do we first look for? We look for the solar aspect, a dispositor.
Rahu's dispositor in this case being in Aries,
his Mars. Ketu's dispositor in this case being Libra, being Venus.
Okay. Different dispositors. So different kind of energies each one will face.
Nakshatra, Partway will get to. But let's just see this table over there,
which I'll stick in every one. The table shows the ascendents.
All the ascendents are covered there and the friendly houses, enemy houses, and
the neutral houses based on rulership. The rulers of each one are
opposed to each other. You can see exaltation, debilitation series if you
are not clear about this. Okay. So within Aries, Aries and Scorpio are
friendly to Leo, Cancer, Sagittarius, and Pisces houses wherever they fall in.
Gemina and Virgo because it is ruled by Mercury, it's uncomfortable in.
So if the Mars, which is the dispositor of
Rahu in this particular case, if it falls in the house of Gemina and Virgo,
depending upon whichever ascendent you are, right? The houses of Mercury, so it
will be opposed to it. This will go to the downside of Rahu Ketu,
which we saw in the earlier slides. If you want to go to the positive aspects,
Mars does very well in fire science, Leo and Sagittarius for example, or even Aries,
right? It does very well in that. It will also do very well in air science.
It will do well in Libra, it will do well in Aquarius, it will do well in,
which is the other one we are missing here, air science. Gemini because fire and air
support each other. Okay. In water it kind of tends to get
subdued and go internal. It doesn't go extinguished, it just goes
internal. Yeah. In Scorpio for example, it's a
water sign ruled by Mars, right? Okay. So what happens here in this
Rahu Ketu axis? It's the last pada of
Ashwini nakshatra. We are starting from last and going to the first.
Okay. So it transcends from Aries to Cancer in
Navamsa. I have marked the line over there in that
table and it goes to Swati in the Artha pada, which goes from air to
earth. You have to follow me quickly here. Yeah.
All the previous videos will give you a background.
So it goes from Aries to Cancer in Navamsa and that axis is going towards in
Ketu, Libra to Capricorns. What happens with this
individual's life through life is it starts off in a very fiery manner and
with a lot of mental energy. Detachment from mental energy but
wanting like Aries, like initiator. This person is a powerful initiator in the
beginning phases of life. As they mature over 36, what will happen
is they go, Rahu here will want more of an emotional
connect coming down to Cancer. Cancer is a water sign. So it wants to have an
emotional connect with things and on the detachment part, the Ketu part, you can
see the Ketu characteristics, it will want more detachment from
earthly aspects. Capricorn is an earthly movable sign.
So it wants detachment from that. It is not so much concerned with
earthly aspects. It is more concerned with deriving the emotional content out
of the experience of life. This is just the fourth Pada of Ashwini
nakshatra. Now let's see the third Pada.
Now we come to the third Pada of Ashwini which
is shown over there in the table which is going from Aries to Gemini. So it's
going from fire to air in the Navamsa and the Rahu there is linked
to Ketu on Swati nakshatra which is going into
Dharma Pada, the first one, Libra going into Sagittarius.
So fire going into air and air going into fire.
So there's a lot of movement here, both zodiacs being
such, Rajasmova and male signs. There is a lot of activity in this particular
Rahu Ketu axis. Very important to find some kind of a grounding for them.
They require some earth element here which is missing.
So they can be highly, this Rahu Ketu can be highly
erratic in nature. Moving from lots of ideas, lots of creativity, lots of
passion and going into mental energy and getting
detachment from how to ground that wisdom. Sagittarius is the 9th house. It is
grounding. It is not grounding that energy enough in
terms of wisdom. It is wanting to go more into a mental
plane later on in life. They start with the fire but they go into
air sign. So they become more of thinkers kind of mentality.
Very difficult to ground the thinkers, isn't it? But this is what this Rahu Ketu
axis will provide and of course we got to see the dispositors. Where the Mars
is and where the Venus is will show you where this person's creativity and
drive really lies and whether Mars or Venus are
exalted and debilitated. Look at the table over there.
Mars and Venus can be exalted and debilitated in different signs like
that in the table. So compare this. Okay.
Now let's see the second Pada.
Now you see the second Pada Rahu Ketu axis in that by over there.
In the second Pada what happens in Ashwini and which leads to the fourth
Pada of Chitranakshatra now here. Change the nakshatra. See there it's coming in
Chitranakshatra in the fourth Pada. So what does this mean?
Chitranakshatra is about creativity on the one side.
High degree of creativity. It's a celestial architect Vishwakarma and Ashwini
is represented by the horse heredity who are the initiators.
The proper areas here and now we also come to the
Gandanta point, the transformation points. You can see the
Gandanta, the point of transformation video of mine earlier in this
in my channel. So the second Pada, the first Pada of Ashwini and the
fourth and third Pada of Revati. These are the transformational points. So for
Rahu and Ketu this becomes a highly transformational point in life.
Okay. Through life. Why is that? Because it's going from Artha,
Artha Pada of Ashwini going from Aries to Tauras. That means air going into
earth later in life. Meaning they are becoming more and more grounded through
life on the one hand and on the opposite side they are
going getting detachment. The Moksha sign. They want to get detached from
everything. They want to just distill it to the emotional
content of whatever they have learned. Okay. Libra going into Scorpio. Highly
internal. Ketu does very well in Scorpio. So Ketu here goes into Scorpio in the
Navamsa and Rahu goes into Tauras in the Navamsa which are
exactly opposite ways of functioning. Rahu is very exalted in Tauras and Ketu
is very exalted in Scorpio. So on the one hand they have this push and pull
drive between extreme amount of materialism to extreme amount of
spirituality and detachment. This is the push and pull.
Remember Rahu and Ketu is all about push and pull of the energies.
Your drive. What is it leading you to? What do you want on one hand and what
are you what are you running away from on another hand?
That's what Rahu Ketu teaches in life. Now let's get into the next gandhanda
point. The first Pada of Ashwini. The highest
exaltation of Ashwini. Because it's Aries meeting Aries
and in Chitra it means Libra also. Very interesting
gandhanda point because that's the beginning of all the zodiacs.
Right now the first Pada of Aries is as you can see in the table
Dharmapada which is going Aries to Aries. It leads to the right opposite sign
is the Kamapada or Libra going into Libra. So this is
called Vargotama or the same sign going into the same sign in Navamsa.
Basically which means the energy of Aries is very strong and the energy of
Libra is also very strong in this. Which means to say what? You have to pay
close attention to the dispositors in this case.
Where Mars is situated in the horoscope? Whether Mars is exalted or debilitated?
You can see my earlier video on that. Where the Venus is placed and where it
is exalted or debilitated? In both the Bachat and in the Navamsa.
You need to know the kind of progression of maturity
of this Rahu and Ketu through life. That's what we are looking at.
When we are looking at Rahu and Ketu and I shall close with this
is what we are understanding is how a person is maturing in their desires,
drives, intelligence. Basically spiritual maturity isn't it?
That's what we are looking for here. So ladies and gentlemen that's my take on
Ashwini Swati Chitra. Next we shall be taking the Revati Nakshtra because we
are going counterclockwise. Rahu and Ketu move opposite to all the other
planets. So it is going counterclockwise. We'll take the
Revati Nakshtra. In the meantime take care be safe.