Good morning wonderful people, welcome to my channel.
This is Rahu and Ketu study part 16.
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A personal note before we get to this next one,
analyzing this next axis of Rahu and Ketu.
One of the things that you need to understand in this new shifting energies of the Earth,
what is happening right now and what will continue to happen,
is one word, integrity.
Integrity in all things.
Integrity one human to another, one country to another, one state to another,
one institution to another, everywhere where we humans interact all over the Earth,
there's going to be a play of strong calling for integrity.
In what do I mean by integrity in this context?
What we speak versus what action we take.
In the old energy, understanding is only from an energetic concept,
in the old energy people would have hidden agendas,
institutions would have hidden agendas,
companies would have hidden agendas.
And it worked like that for quite some time including now,
you can see that happening everywhere right.
But in this shifting energies, when energy moves from northern hemisphere to south,
it's about integrity.
The feminine energy knows integrity more than the masculine energy.
Remember this, this is the principle, this is the feminine principle.
So the women of the Earth are being more internally empowered
to bring this non-integrity to the forefront and splash it in front of everyone.
Social media, this and that, they will keep on telling all the non-integrity issues,
the Me Too movement.
This is all about shift, what's going on in Persia right now.
That again, all women's empowerment is coming back.
Why the feminine energy is rising and it will want integrity from everyone,
from all leadership, from all corporate governance, every single one.
So what you speak and what actually you're doing,
you may go to all your buildings of worship,
but what you do when you come out, you know,
the same people who go into all these buildings of worship,
they come out and they play all nonsense, that has to stop, it will.
You have seen it come out and it will do so more and more and more
because it wants to build integrity, Earth wants integrity now.
So back to study, Uttara Falguni, this is Rahu in Uttara Falguni,
most of which is in Uwarko, going from Leo to Uwarko.
So what are the themes of Uttara Falguni?
What does Rahu, the unconventional Maverick want with Uttara Falguni?
Let's see the themes first.
Success through partnerships and marriage.
Poorva Falguni was all about falling in love, getting partnerships, right?
It's about that part of Leo.
Uttara Falguni is trying to maintain that,
maintain the marriage, maintain the harmony,
maintain relationships, is main theme of Uttara Falguni.
So they do very well through partnerships and marriage,
it's about conscience.
They are highly focused on enduring relationships.
They want to keep relationships.
And remember this is Uwarko, this is the earth sign,
this is the sign of the virgin.
So it wants to have, maintain balance and peace at all costs.
They are all about charity, they are all about adventurousness,
negotiation, friendly, happy, righteous, kindness, favors.
It's a very good nakshatra.
Initially they might have struggles in life,
they might create success later in life.
Late success of life is another one of the themes.
And because it's in Virgo, you can see in the padas also later,
you can see the nakshatras.
Uttara Falguni has got three padas in Virgo, so it's very grounded.
So it's all about commitment, contracts, deals with intelligence and dedication.
These people may do very well in organizations,
wherever it requires contracts, legal stuff,
corporate governance, that kind of thing.
So it's a leadership because Leo is also here and Virgo is also here.
They are very, very keen enforcers of legal stuff, law, accounting,
corporate governance, that kind of a thing.
So when Rahu comes here, he wants to do the same things,
but in an unconventional way.
We'll see that with padas.
So let's get right into it.
So number one, the classical characteristics of Rahu in Ketu
as described by the classical Vedic literature.
What is Rahu in 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'm using the same symbol here.
Rahu is mythologically depicted as the city or 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 karka
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 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 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 Rahu Ketu general characteristics as modern interpretation.
This I have borrowed from the book, Light on Life by Robert Sova.
That was an 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 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.
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 Rahu on the downside leads to confusion, escapism, neurosis, psychosis, deception, addiction, vagueness, illusion and delusion.
This is the downside.
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,
he 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 we shown over there.
Rahu 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.
To stand opposite to each other.
So if it plays out in second house, it detaches itself from the 8th house.
If Rahu is in 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.
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.
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 Rahu 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 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 is coloring of a personality.
It is 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 the attributes of whichever house they are sitting in.
If Rahu 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, 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 is the way you have to analyze this.
Okay?
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 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 chart, Indian chart.
And house numbers are depicted as 1, 2, 3, 4, up till 12.
Dharmartha 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 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 one on the other hand, 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 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 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?
The rest of the houses are called Thaykona or Kona in Sanskrit.
These are the things that come and go in your life.
Like the 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 axis 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 all this.
Right?
Now let's take the cases for now.
Right. So there we are.
In the 4th pada of Uttara Phalguni.
What does that do?
That's this axis, yellow mark over here which I am pointing towards.
So we are going from Artha to Moksha which falls between, in Virgo, Rahu is falling here in this particular axis, in the Moksha axis which goes from Virgo to Pisces in the Vamsha.
So we are going from Uttara Phalguni, Rahu in Uttara Phalguni to Ketu in the Artha pada of Uttara Bhadrapada.
Uttara Bhadrapada, Nakshatra's theme is of searching for emotional meaning.
Right?
So this wants to search for emotional meaning.
Now it's in Artha pada going from Pisces to Virgo.
It's going from Jupiter to Mercury.
And here it's coming from Mercury to Jupiter.
This is again the reversal.
What is this Virgo Pisces axis?
Virgo is the 6000, Pisces is the 12th house.
One is working towards a goal.
One is getting renunciated from the goal.
Going into material world and going away from the material world.
6000, 12th house.
Thinking in terms of Kal Purushalagna always.
So 6000 is the house of daily work.
You are getting into the world.
And 12th house is getting away from the world.
Spirituality, renunciation, losses.
6000 wants to gain something.
12th house sits and loses everything.
So, when Rahu Ketu falls in this,
this kind of axis will lead to a switch in personality later in life.
First half of life there will be more like Virgo and Pisces.
Next half there will be more like Pisces and Virgo.
So when Rahu switches from Virgo to Pisces,
the disperser changes.
Mercury to Jupiter.
So later on in life they might want to do all wise things.
First beginning they are just learning ugly stuff.
But then they go into wisdom.
Receiving from working on the earth plane towards wisdom later in life.
That's the best way I can put it.
And Ketu on the other hand becomes, in Navamsa goes into Virgo.
So what later in life they will want to need to bring this wisdom is intellectual knowledge also.
Remember intellectual wisdom both are needed.
It's not one thing to the exclusion of other.
Ever. It's never never never like that.
All things are needed in this plane.
Only application of it prefers.
Now let's get into the third path.
Now in the third path we have still
in Uttara Phalbani, Uttara Bhadrapada axis.
Rahu in Uttara Phalbani, Ketu in Uttara Bhadrapada.
But we have slightly shifted the axis.
I'll point out the mouse so you can see.
Now it has moved up.
So now we are talking about Virgo to Aquarius, Rahu and Pisces to Leo.
So basically it's Leo Aquarius.
Leo Aquarius is me doing for myself and Aquarius is me doing for the sake of others.
That's the opposition.
Both can become leaders but one can become very narcissistic, self-centered.
Leo can become a good leader also of course.
Aquarius on the other hand wants to do everything for the masses.
Selfless doing for the masses.
That's why Saturn is exalted in Aquarius.
And Sun is in Leo.
Sun is all about look at me.
Who am I?
Aquarius also forget about you.
Let's go and do something for the people.
That's the axis we are talking about.
So we need to see Saturn where it is placed in the Navamsa.
Because it goes into Aquarius.
How well it's doing?
And Rahu wants to bring that kind of material work.
Rahu will do well with Saturn because Rahu wants to achieve stuff in the material world.
And Saturn encourages that.
Saturn encourages work.
It's an systematic, disciplined work though.
And on the other side, Pi C is Ketu.
It goes detached and into Leo.
If Sun-Ketu combination is a very weird one,
a very powerful one, it can be depending upon how Sun is placed in Navamsa.
But it's about bringing ancestral energy.
When Ketu combines with Sun, it's ancestors, our forefathers, our lineage in the physical world.
Because both of these are Manushagana, Nakshatras.
They want to do things physically in the world.
It's not about running away from some forest and meditating now.
This is doing stuff in the physical Uttara Phalguni and Uttara Bhadrapada are Manushaganas.
Let's get into 2nd Pada.
Now we come to the 2nd Pada.
Rahu in the 2nd or 3rd Pada.
No, this is the last Pada.
No, 2nd Pada, sorry, yes.
Rahu in the 2nd Pada of Uttara Phalguni meets Pura Bhadrapada.
The last Pisces portion of Pura Bhadrapada, afterwards it goes into Aquarius.
So this can be a little tricky, right?
Because Pura Bhadrapada is about resolving and transformation through grief,
learning through past mistakes of life,
bringing in stuff from the external past life, external manifestations which were very very difficult in nature.
Resolving life through difficulty, that's Pura Bhadrapada.
In Pisces it takes the signature of a water sign, emotional resolution.
So from Pisces going into Cancer, let me point this out,
Pisces going into Cancer in Moksha, it goes to Capricorn and Virgo.
So this is the Capricorn Cancer axis between two Manusya Ganas.
What is this person trying to achieve?
What does this Rahu want to achieve?
It's in Capricorn, so it will do well with Satan in Navamsa.
It will want to have fame, popularity and gains.
It want to work hard systematically.
Over amplification of that means it will want to do it in unconventional shrewd ways to achieve their ambition.
Remember we talked about Uttara Falguni being contract deals.
You can see the shadow side of Rahu here,
shady contracts, shady deals can happen.
And then here it goes into Cancer.
So they are in Pura Bhadrapada.
Wow! So this will want to bring this Ketu sitting in Cancer in the Moksha Padha of Pura Bhadrapada.
They will want to bring in that which is learnt as emotional lessons,
lessons and difficulties from the past life into this life.
That's the best way I can put it.
Because Ketu is about past lives.
Whatever you have already done, learnt and dusted.
Finish.
Now it wants to come towards Capricorn.
So you need to use the emotional lessons learnt from this Cancer guy and bring it up, push it up to achieve your material success.
Why?
So that you don't repeat the same mistakes over and over again, whatever you have done in the past life.
Simple.
Now let's go to the last one, the first Padha.
Now it is interesting in the first Padha because now we have gone from Leo Aquarius.
We have gone into Leo and Aquarius in the Jodiac sign.
We are moved away from Pisces Varko axis.
In the next one Shatabisha is also coming in that, Puro Phalbunichatabisha.
So now we have gone into Leo Aquarius.
We are talking about the self, wanting popularity and fame for self versus wanting popularity or fame by the way of doing for others.
This is the dominant feature of Leo and Aquarius.
They will bring in all their creativity, 5th house Leo and 11th house of gains, masses, popularity into this play.
Now let's see the axis.
The axis is over here, I marked that, I am pointing it out.
So it goes from Leo to Sagittarius and it goes from Pisces to Cancer.
So we are playing out Aquarius to Gemini.
So it is Gemini Sagittarius, it is the Gurushisha, it is the teacher and the student dynamic.
What does this Rahu want to do unconventionally?
With Profalbunichatabisha, it is about contracts, deals, negotiation, commitment.
And Sagittarius, going from Leo to Sagittarius, it is extremely passionate and fiery about doing this.
Sagittarius is Dharma, the highest of Dharma house is 9000.
So it wants to achieve that.
This will want to do good in the world.
But Rahu, if you come and stick him up here, he is the guy who is only having a head without a body.
So he will want to do everything unconventionally there.
He might become over obsessive about the idealistic part.
This person can become very idealistic later in life because it is Leo going into Sagittarius.
On the other side, what they need to ground it and bring it proper is going from Aquarius to Gemini.
So they need to use intellectual knowledge, not just say Dharma this, Dharma that.
Use your head a little bit.
Everything is not about Dharma here.
Use your head and try to bring it in a proper way, in a way that is practical,
in a way that you want to convey the right kind of philosophical knowledge, Sagittarius.
Higher learning, wisdom.
But you need your mind to do that.
Train your mind first.
Go to get a good education.
Go to get a college degree.
Study some things.
Study this kind of stuff and then bring it out something.
Then you will produce something valuable in this world.
Not some nonsensical drama queens that are floating around.
Not like that.
Let's be a little practical here.
We need to do some good things while we are here.
We have all limited time on this planet.
Be careful.
Be safe.
Tomorrow or whenever we will do Pudva Falguni.
Very interesting one.