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Rahu and Ketu Study Part 8
One more thing about Rahu and Ketu.
These are energetic points which are always in the same axis.
Just to recap, 180 degrees apart.
We are talking about an axis really.
Think of it as a Rahu and Ketu axis always as if you hold a torch light in a dark room.
If you hold a torch light directly pointing in front of you into a dark space,
trying to find out what is there in a dark room.
It is pitch dark.
The torch light is the Ketu point.
What is shining on is Rahu at the opposite end.
Think of it as a torch light.
The point of light rests in Ketu and it shines outward like a cone of light into the opposite direction.
This is another analogy that just came to me.
This is how Rahu and Ketu behave.
Ketu is where it brings in wisdom from past lives.
Ketu is where it shines more.
The closeness to the pasp of the ascendant, the nakshatra, all of these things are giving you more details.
Adding more layers of the behavior of Ketu in any chart.
So is Rahu at the opposite end.
Rahu is where the light is being shown on.
That is how you have to use it.
That is the hint right there.
You have to use the aspects of Ketu which you already do have.
You have to bring it towards Rahu which it wants to achieve in this life-climb.
This will create the balance of light and dark in your life.
Meaning Rahu wants to over amplify something.
Ketu wants to over shrink something.
So this over amplification, over achievement, expansion, over expansion.
This over shrinkage, withdrawing from everything, going away from everything, shrinking down of Ketu.
Come into balance when one is being used with the other.
They only are the two ones that can balance out each other.
There is too much of Rahu going towards the Ketu side.
There is too much of Ketu going towards the Rahu side.
This happens automatically by the way.
You don't have to sit and do something.
You don't have to sit and silently pray 20,000 times a day.
It is happening anyway.
What this channel attempts is to bring you consciousness to the astrology.
Only if you engage with it consciously can you determine these things.
And understand these things of how they are working.
Why they are working the way they do.
What if I do this?
What if I do that?
Become a student of your own child.
Become a student of your own life.
This way you will find things far more easier to go with in your life.
This will explain a lot of things.
It is like a puzzle.
You are trying to uncover the puzzle.
We are just doing these kind of studies in this channel.
That is all we are doing.
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And if you have already watched the previous series,
I encourage you to watch each and every one of them.
It does not matter what your own Rahu Ketu is in your chart.
Because each one I get a newer insight about the Rahu Ketu itself.
The middle portion of this, I will give an introduction to the Rahu Ketu,
which I am covering in every video.
And if you have seen the introduction of Rahu and Ketu,
you just can skip fast forward this video to the point where we get to that pie chart.
And we will analyze by padha, by each and every padha.
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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 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 am 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.
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,
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 is 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 is always insatiable hunger to go after one thing after the other
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 it 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 it's 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 Moksha Karaka or the seeker's path,
the one energy in us which seeks something.
That's why Ketu is called the Moksha Karaka.
Now this is the classical interpretation.
Now we shall see how this plays out in the modern interpretation.
Very important to connect the bridges.
Now here you have the Rahuketu general characteristics as modern interpretation.
This I have borrowed from the book, Light on Life by Robert Sova.
The excellent book.
I have put it in a community tab if you want to go through it or purchase it and read it.
I seriously suggest that.
Okay, the North node of the moon, Raho,
what does it become because of the characteristics which classically is told in the texts?
What does Raho lead to in the modern context?
Raho is responsible for originality, individuality, independence, insight, ingenuity,
inspiration and imagination on the positive side.
Because Raho and Ketu both love to explore foreign stuff, things out of the box,
things not taught by tradition, Raho 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 keeps 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 Raho on the downside,
Ketu leads to confusion, escapism, neurosis, psychosis, deception, addiction, vagueness, illusion, delusion.
This is the downside.
Now how this plays out and why we are allowed to see individually in the charts, which you will see that.
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 Raho Ketu is typically an axis like Rishon over there.
Raho 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 1, 7, 2, 8, 3, 9, 4, 10, 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 8th house.
If Raho is in the second house, Ketu will be in the 8th house.
You see what I mean?
And so you will bring the 8th 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?
Raho 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 Raho and Ketu.
The Solar or the dispositor means, since Raho 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.
And Raho sits in the house of Mercury somewhere else.
So it will borrow the attributes of Mercury sitting in that third house and bring it to that particular house.
Wherever Raho is sitting in.
Got it?
Nakshatra, since Raho 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 Raho 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 the attributes of whichever house they are sitting in.
If Raho sits 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, Raho 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.
There are some vital aspects that you need to keep in mind when evaluating Raho 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 are not interested in changing yourself, this entire channel is useless for you.
But if you are 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 is 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 Raho 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 1 or 7.
Raho Ketu can be reversed, it's okay, it doesn't matter.
Or in 4 and 10.
Now 1, 4, 7 and 10 in Vedic Astrology are given very vital importance because they are the foundational aspects that define who you are.
They define how you operate in life, throughout life.
So these become crucial.
Why?
The 1, 7 axis effects if Raho and Ketu fall on there has a direct effect on yourself and other concept.
1 and 7 is self and other, how you relate to yourself and how you relate to look at the world around you as others.
Including the spouse because 7th 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.
1, 7 axis of Raho Ketu.
The 4th house being the house of the mother, 10th being father, 4th being home, 10th being career.
You see this has all kinds of implications which define who you are.
The 4th 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 Raho Ketu axis.
Again Raho and Ketu might be reversed.
Raho might be in the 4th, Ketu might be in the 10th or vice versa.
Same way with 1 and 7 but these are the vital relating aspects of Raho and Ketu.
Now what about the rest of the houses?
Now rest of the houses are called Thai Kona or Kona.
These are the things that come and go in your life.
Let's say 2nd house, 3rd house, 5th house, 6th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th.
These are the things that come and go in our life through life, through your entire life.
These are things that are added and subtracted from us.
But this is not us.
1, 4, 7 and 10 is us.
Everything else is secondary which revolves around you as life comes and goes.
All other axes depict what attachments and detachment we have towards different areas of our life.
That's all it is.
They are less significant in terms of Raho in Ketu when compared to 1, 7, 4 and 10 axes of Raho in Ketu.
Please remember this.
When you are evaluating, you just have more propensity towards one part of life and less towards others.
Raho is attachment, Ketu is detachment.
Raho is expansion, Ketu is reduction.
They stand opposite to each other always.
Now let's take the cases for Raho.
Now we are talking about Raho in Uttarashada Nakshatra.
Which falls most of it as you can see on the pie chart mark there.
He is in Capricorn.
And the first Pada falls within Sagittarius.
It is even there on the table that Dharma Pada falls in Sagittarius in Natal, Sagittarius in Navamsa, Uttarashada.
And in the second one, Artha goes from Capricorn to Capricorn.
So this has got two Vargutama points which are very important.
Meaning Vargutama meaning whatever is there, the position in birth chart is the same in the Navamsa.
So the themes become very dominant of Sagittarius in the first Pada, of Capricorn in the second Pada, for the Uttarashada Nakshatra.
First order of business, what is the dispositor and what sign is it sitting on?
Raho in this case is still in Capricorn.
We are still in the Cancer Capricorn axis as in the previous one in part 7.
So first of all, Raho and Ketu do very well in movable signs.
Capricorn is a movable sign and so is Cancer a movable sign.
Because Raho, Ketu need room to move and grow, they are moving energies.
They can't be made to sit still.
In any place they become in a chart.
So they do very well when it comes to moving energies.
These kind of people become very dynamic in nature.
They want to get stuff done and they move to get stuff done.
It provides them the energy.
Raho, Ketu provides them this energy to do so.
What happens now in the fourth Pada of Uttarashada?
We are beginning, remember, in the reverse direction, which is Pisces in Navamsa.
And Ketu is in Leo in the Navamsa, in the Pushya Nakshatra, in Cancer.
First let's see what the themes are there.
So we are talking about Saturn and Moon once again.
We are talking about the mind and heart once again.
Capricorn and Cancer, the Dispositors in the natal chart.
And in Navamsa, in this case, the Dispositor becomes for Raho, Jupiter and for Ketu, it becomes Mercury.
Cancer going into Virgo.
So it becomes the play between understanding something, wisdom and intelligence in the Navamsa later on in life.
And they become mature.
They will think more about, do I need this more?
I need to do this more intelligently.
I have the talent and the intellect capacity for doing this thing logically.
But I am kind of detached from it because Ketu is there.
But they want a driven more towards the emotional intelligence, wisdom part of it, Pisces.
Jupiter and Pisces are like emotional intelligence because it is a Moksha sign.
So they want to go there and it becomes active like that in this case.
You have to see the theme of Uttar Asadana.
Uttar Asadana is the previous one, which we will get to the next one.
It is about going after victory.
Purva Asadana, Uttar Asadana is all about victory.
But Purva Asadana is about going after victory, getting victorious while Uttar Asadana is about maintaining that victory.
Final victory.
What is the final victory?
We are all seeking.
The final victory will always be of light over dark.
That is the final victory.
And Uttar Asadana wants to maintain that. That is why it is a very powerful nakshatra to have.
These people will want leadership positions. They will want materialistic stuff.
It is a Capricorn ruled zodiac sign falconer, most of it.
At least the last three padas.
So it becomes very driven in practical terms.
In the last padak, however, it becomes more of emotionally wise person, this Rahu.
It wants to seek emotional satisfaction in doing things, rather than going after being earthly stuff.
Mercury in Virgo is the highest exalted sign of Mercury.
You have to see where Mercury is placed, in which house and so on. The Dispersators.
So that is what it does in the fourth padha.
Let us see the third one.
In the second padha, we see it is going into Leo Aquarius axis.
So Leo Aquarius axis in the Navamsa, what does it mean?
Leo Aquarius axis is about self and others. Now both are fixed signs.
It is the puzzle between the father and the son kind of energy.
So Dispositor in Ketu becomes the son.
So Ketu with the energy of the son becomes something very ancestral in nature.
For all your sensitives, if you want to take note.
And it is falling in the Dharma axis, meaning you are bringing wisdom from past life.
Okay, your ancestral support, ancestral energy.
That Ketu, that torch light, you want to be shining onto the Aquarius, bringing it to the masses, bringing it to the collective.
So in the initial stages, these people might be driven initial stages, meaning the natal chart,
they might be driven in Capricorn by a need to wherever Saturn is placed.
Like I want to do this and this, the work. Saturn is the work, the worker.
So they might want to be driven by that.
And in the latest stages, they might want to graduate that particular need and going into giving it for the masses.
And this can become powerful in terms of leadership, leadership roles.
Uttarashada is very good at maintaining leadership roles because it's Capricorn.
It's falling in the sign of Capricorn.
The work to be done, the work for the masses.
You will see especially this when we come to the second bada of Uttarashada, which is Capricorn going into Capricorn.
Now Capricorn goes into Aquarius, which is all about the masses.
So they might be in leadership positions of government.
They might be in leadership positions of top companies.
This would be very good for that access.
And Rahu sitting there wants to amplify, wants to go unorthodox ways, liberal minded, independent thinking, expansion of that.
It will give that energy to Saturn to go towards it and make it happen.
This is the crucial part you need to understand.
But they need to do what here?
Because most ignored in every chart is always the Kedu, the Moksha Karaka.
In this case, you need to bring the wisdom and the support of your ancestry.
Always remember your ancestors.
The indigenous on every civilization knew this.
The indigenous in this land knew this.
Whoever wrote the Vedas knew this.
That's this particular access.
Now let's take the first and second Pada, or second Pada and then the first Pada, because these are very interesting.
These are Vargotama Padas and they behave very differently.
We shall see that.
Now in the third Pada, or the second Pada of Uttarashada, we are talking about the Artha and Moksha access.
As you can see, marked in between the two tables.
So here Ketu takes the light from Cancer to Cancer, Vargotama of Cancer in Punar Vasyunakshatra.
Going towards Uttarashada in Capricorn to Capricorn.
So Rahu is in Vargotama in Uttarashada and Ketu is in Vargotama in Cancer in this axis.
Very very interesting.
And the best way to figure this out, what I just received is Punar Vasyunakshatra's themes versus Uttarashada's themes.
Punar Vasyunakshatra has got the thing of return of the light, winning the second time, losing first time and winning the second time.
Always winning the second time.
Meaning they have a repeated theme of attempting something in the first attempt, losing it, not working out.
But if they do the same thing the second time, they are going to win or they are going to become successful.
That's the theme of Punar Vasyunakshatra.
I will link it up here for you, the 27 Nakshatras.
So you've got to see the theme of Nakshatra, how is it playing out with respect to Rahu and Ketu, where the unorthodoxy comes into play, where the liberalism comes into play.
So Rahu and Ketu in this axis, especially Rahu, in Capricorn to Capricorn, will is all about the satanian means, all about working for the masses, all about achievement of success, maintaining of success.
Uttarashada is of maintaining of success.
They have got the success and they know how to maintain it.
Again, we are talking about leadership roles in all kinds of institutions.
So Rahu will do very well here.
But it has to get the energy from the Ketu.
What does Ketu tell here?
It is going from cancer to cancer, which is all about moon.
So moon and satan.
Ketu in moon as dispositor, birth to Namahamsa and satan as dispositor, natal to Namahamsa, Rahu.
What the mind wants to achieve and what the heart wants to give permission for.
So the heart should be giving the permission to the mind to go forward and achieve.
So see where the satan and moon are placed in the natal and Namahamsa, if this is what you have, because it will be very critical and very important to examine what areas of life these people will shine in.
Because they will shine in. This is the very good nakshatra.
And this axis, Punarvasu is going to lose the first time and win the second time.
And Uttarashada is wanting to maintain victory in that area.
You see what I am saying.
So one is failure first success the second time.
The other one is about maintaining success whatever you have got.
So those are the themes that will play out in the Rahu Ketu axis.
Now we will go to the last one.
So now we are seeing the first Pada axis.
So the first Pada of Uttarashada goes into the third Pada of Punarvasu.
Again this is exalted but in a very different way.
Compare the two tables of Uttarashada and Punarvasu there.
The themes of Punarvasu and Uttarashada are same.
One is losing the first time, winning the second time.
Uttarashada wanted to maintain that victory which came at a cost.
Who are the people who know the value of victory?
The ones who have struggled had a failure a number of times and then they have won victory.
They know the value of victory.
Not someone who inherited all the wealth.
Like let's say the father who set up the business, the company, the corporation with his hard work
struggled against all kinds of odds in the real world.
Failure after failure and then succeeding Punarvasu.
And now he knows how to maintain that victory because he has earned it.
He or she has earned it through their own efforts.
Okay so last first Pada of Uttarashada is Sagittarius going into Sagittarius.
So we are talking Jupiter as the dispositor in Natal and Navamsa.
Look where Jupiter is falling in the chart.
That's the first order of business.
And the third Pada is Gemini which is all about Mercury.
So Mercury in the Natal and Mercury in Navamsa.
So you got to look at Mercury graduating to Jupiter.
Meaning even if you want wisdom you got to start at the intellectual level.
Start at the brain level, analytical, logical reasoning using the mental faculties.
First use the head that you have which is Gemini.
Gemini going into Gemini.
So Mercury has to be used to bring that energy towards Sagittarius which is all about and it's in the first Pada.
So it's exalted Dharma by the way.
So meaning what?
It is desirous to make idealistic change.
This Jupiter becomes very idealistic in nature.
It's all about good stuff.
You know we have to do good things for the planet, for the people, for the society.
Do good to everyone.
But only thinking about that isn't good.
Help.
You need some grounded reality.
You need to know how to bring it. Intellectual knowledge.
So using the intellect which they have because it's Mercury very exalted there.
You need to bring that knowledge wherever Mercury is sitting in,
whichever house it is sitting in, in birth and in Navamsa and then get that into the Jupiter.
Wherever Jupiter is sitting in.
So it's like Mercury giving the back end fuel to Jupiter.
It's fueling Jupiter.
But it's needed.
Mercury's astrology is like this. It's never about one thing to the exclusion of others.
It's how you use what you have to bring in what you need to go.
The soul is just playing out in this duality in these two kind of planes.
Okay so next we will be talking more about Purva Asadha.
Rahu in Purva Asadha which will fall into Punarvasu.
Probably going into Aardhara.
So we will see that.
Which is about the beginning of the victory stages.
So I leave you with this much to think about.
You can have a look at the other ones of Rahu Ketu as well.
If you want to understand Nakshatras there is 27 Nakshatra playlist.
Keep watching for I will bring you more stuff later on.
Be safe.