Good evening my wonderful friends welcome to my channel. So we are on Rahu and Ketu study part 13.
Now we come to the Aries Libra axis in the zodiac right because Rahu is now getting into Libra in Vishakha nakshatra.
Now the word Vishakha means branch like the branches of a tree. Vishakha is the unifying force of that branch where it splits from.
So right off the bat you should understand anything which Rahu when it comes and sits in Vishakha wants to have an unconventional approach to solving problems of their life.
Trying to find the unifying forces to opposing or divergent forces and trying to find the unifying part of it.
That's Vishakha and Rahu will do it in an unconventional way. The only thing about Rahu and Ketu you got to understand right off the bat is it's unconventional.
It's not the straight way of doing things. It will try to find a different approach not conventional. Rahu is anything but conventional.
So the dispositor of Rahu will also what energy it will take. In this case if it's centresing in Libra where the first one is I think Scorpio 4th Pada.
So Mars remaining three padas in Libra is all about that dispositor energy being rooted through the Rahu.
Always remember this about Rahu and Ketu. The dispositor is giving you the color to Rahu. Rahu by itself is just unconventional headless.
Well bodyless. So you got to understand that about Rahu where it goes to.
And on the other side the opposite side the Ketu axis goes from Krittika to Bharani in Aries. This is where we are doing.
So let's get into it right away. If you have seen my earlier videos of introduction to what exactly Rahu and Ketu is.
Why do we need to worry about such things in life. You do.
And we can skip the introduction part if you have seen before. Otherwise I suggest you go through it just like a recap and then we will get into the pie chart.
So let's get into it. 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 severe 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.
So 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 Bhogakaraka 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 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 another without being able to hold on to it.
Rahu Ketu on the other hand is mythologically depicted as the severe body the remaining half of the demons 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 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 seekers 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 the community tab if you want to go through it or purchase it and read it. I seriously suggest that.
Okay the north note of the moon Rahu. What does it become because of the characteristics which classical 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.
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 is why it is 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 will have to see individually in the charts. You will see that.
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, unconvincenality, immorality, iconoclasm, impulsiveness and emotional tensions. This is on the downside.
This is what it plays out and Rahu and Ketu is typically an axis like we shown over there. Rahu and Ketu let me remove myself for the time being from that axis.
There you are. So you see it as an axis, 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.
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.
Now Ketu is the opposite to each other. So if it plays out in 2nd house, it detaches itself from the 8th house. If Rahu is in 2nd 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, 2nd 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 has 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 volume 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.
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 Rahu sits in the house of Mercury somewhere else.
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, Sun.
They take on the attributes of whichever house they are sitting in. If it sits in Rahu, if it's in Cancer, you have to look for where Moon is sitting, which house and what it is doing there.
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.
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 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 that's the 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, there is a Libra, that is the top and the bottom.
So either it can go to house number 1 or 7. Rahu 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 Rahu 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, 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 Rahu Ketu.
The 4th house being the house of the mother, 10th being father, 4th being home, 10th being carrier. You see, this has all kinds of implications which define who you are.
The 4th and 10 axis has effects on the heart versus mind. Mind is the one who goes out there in the world and being used in the carrier. 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 4th, Ketu might be in the 10th or vice versa. Same way with 1 and 7.
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 Thikona or Kona. These are the things that come and go in your 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 attachments 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 1, 7, 4 and 10 axis of Rahu and Ketu. Please remember this.
When you are 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. Now let's take the cases for Rahu.
So there you have it. The axis now has to go wide circle so you can see that Rahu and Ketu.
This side on the downside is Rahu. What you can see. So again we are talking in Navamsa about the cancer Capricorn axis.
The puzzle between the mind and the heart. Capricorn is the mind. Cancer is the heart. Mother, father.
Think of that. The two souls to the spines.
What does it do in the first one? In the first one it is still in the first pada of Scorpio.
It is still in the pada of Scorpio. As you can see Anuradha.
There is a little bit of shading there going on. As you can see in the table over there, it is a tiny table of stock.
Scorpio going into cancer. And on the Ketu side of the things, there is areas going into Sagittarius.
So on the one side we have two water signs. On the other side Ketu side we have two fire signs.
So this axis will have a lot of emotion in Ketu. Which it is struggling with a lot of emotion.
It is detached from the emotion. And on the Rahu side it wants to go and feel the emotion.
In the Ketu side it is detached from the fire, from the passion of things, from the drive.
It lacks drive to fulfill things. Now you have to understand the theme of Visakha.
When we stick Rahu into Visakha, what is Visakha themes about? Unifying forces.
Working to have single mindedness. Their life purpose becomes to have single mindedness.
They are always caught between problem of choices. Sometimes we have problem of choices.
What do I choose? Do I choose this career path or this career path? This partner or this partner?
This is Visakha theme. Especially if it happens in Ascendant.
Problem of multiple choices. They are trying to work through choices. They have a very determined mind.
They can do things. They can accomplish things. But they need to make up their mind. Make up your mind.
That is the fourth Pada. The third one. Let's see what the third one is.
In the third Pada, in Visakha, Rahu enters the Gemini Sagittarius axis.
The Guru and the Shishya. The teacher and the student axis.
Rahu is still in the student axis. Again, go with the birth chart first.
We are talking about the dispositors of Venus, Libra and Paurus.
Both Paurus and Venus are in Aries.
The second and third Pada are in Aries.
We have come to the first Pada of Krithika.
There is a mistake there. The first Pada of Krithika is in Aries.
Aries is going into Libra. Meaning Mars as the dispositor of Ketu.
If Mars becomes the dispositor of Ketu, it has a lot of drive. But Ketu becomes detached from it.
So it wants to stay away. They take their internal power. They take their drive for granted.
Ketu takes things for granted.
Rahu who wants to achieve stuff, doesn't have anything really.
He comes and takes on the color of Venus.
These people become very passionate in achieving something.
They become more artistic in nature. They become more drawn towards music.
They become more drawn towards literature. Libra and Gemini. Venus and Mercury.
This axis will lead to a person who is more artistically driven.
Not so much bothered about too many passions or too much of drive, too much of anger.
They are softer people. Libra is all about other people.
They are fired up about giving to the masses. Libra is all about the masses.
When Rahu you take it and stick it in Libra, it becomes about the masses.
See what happens in the second Pada.
In the second Pada, it becomes Libra going into Taurus in Navamsa, Rahu and Ketu goes from Aries to Scorpio.
It is a Taurus-Corpio pull. It is the pull between material and emotional gains.
Both want gains. One wants an emotional gain and one wants a materialistic gain.
In this axis, in Taurus, Libra and Taurus are both ruled by Venus. Aries and Scorpio are both ruled by Mars.
It is a tussle between Venus and Mars.
Detachment from Mars and attachment towards Venus.
Wherever Venus is in the chart of this kind of a person and wherever it is falling in the dispositor Venus will be a strong driver for this Rahu.
We have to look at where Venus is.
That will give the disposition of Rahu. That is what Rahu wants to achieve.
For example, if Venus is sitting in the fifth house, it will do very well because it is a house of creativity, education.
These people might want to get educated in the field of arts, culture and music.
It is a very strong driver in this particular Pada.
Let us see the first Pada.
In the first Pada, we see a reversal again. See those two tables.
Tiny tables are put below Vishakha and Varani.
Now we have gone into Aries which is proper Varani.
Rahu here in the native chart is in Libra and Navamsa goes into Aries.
On the other side is in Aries in Natal and goes into Libra in the Navamsa.
So it is Aries to Libra and Libra to Aries.
In the first half of the life, they may be more like Libra.
In the second half, they may be more like Aries. What is the difference?
The dispositor reversal is there.
If the dispositor reversal is there, it is picked as a general rule between Navamsa and Natal.
There is a flip in the personality type.
Meaning, Mars is all about action, action, action.
Venus is all about sensitivity, sensitivity, sensitivity.
So there is a flip in personality.
If you go from an action oriented person to being a sensitive person, later on in life, you have a change in personality.
That is how powerful Rahu and Ketu can get.
On the other side, if you are detached from it, you are detached from the action side.
Later on in life, you may be attached towards a more sensitive side.
You see how these things can flip between one thing to another.
But Vishaka's theme will remain, which is trying to unify opposing choices, different choices,
trying to make up your mind and transformation in the process.
Next one, let's take up Swati Naksatra.
Rahu in Swati Naksatra.
And it will transit through Ashwini and Harani, I would think.
Yes, it will.
Okay, let's take up that.
We will take a piece of.