Good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to my channel. We are currently engaged in
Rahu and Ketu study and we are in part 18 of this. Rahu in Purva Falguni and Ketu
traveling from I think Purva Bhadrapada going to Shatabisha we will cover that in the study.
Before that a personal note in the neuro linguistic system of understanding
psychology there is a famous line called the map is not the territory what does it mean
it's a very classical line used a lot the map is not the territory meaning if you have a map
of a place and you're going and trying to find directions to a place these days there is Google
maps so you don't need any of it but older days when there's to have maps to go to a place it's
an indication but the territory the actual earth the actual place where you go to may be quite
different from what is indicated on a map see this has very deep implications you want to
sit and think about these things meaning what meaning who you are coming to astrology now who
you are and what your chart defines may not be the same thing as what you will play out in your
life the Vedic Astrology map is just a map it is not your territory it is not who you are it is
not this physicality it's not this physical body it's not your current life it's not your parents
spouse children circumstances grace country wherever you are living it's not bad so it is
important to remember when you are studying your own astrological chart to bear this in mind
because what a human gets as in karma as in fruits of the past life and how they implemented in
this life may be two totally different stories people talk about karma a lot especially here
in India but they are not doing much about it there is no active participation they are just
looking at the map looking at the birth chart and saying oh this is who I am oh this is what I
have got oh this is what I have to pursue no it isn't it's still choice it is still up to you the
chart does nothing Elon Musk never looked at his chart Bill Gates never looked at his chart and
doing well in life you see what I'm saying so don't get very hypnotized or don't get very brain
washed by thinking that some astrologer told me so I'll get all the goodies in life not if you
don't move your butt and go and do some stuff you see you gotta go and do some work people are
doing some work in this world mothers are doing the work they are cooking for their children
farmers are planting crops and I can go on and on but yeah let's get to the studies you understand
the thing and this particular premise what I just told you plays very well into this particular
nakshatra poor of albany poor of albany means Falguni means the fruits of the past life poor
of albany means what I did in my past life the good deeds of my past life now I'm sitting and
enjoying right and poor of albany people you might think oh I'm getting all the good stuff of life
right not so not so the case what are the poor of albany themes let's just review that it's creating
new love they are all after having love relationships good rewards from past karma good fortune they're
lucky bliss and parting a lot very highly sexually inclined poor of albany is highly
sexual in nature they want to relax they want rejuvenation they have good looks they have beauty
they have vanity lots of vanity show off you know let carpet treatment Hollywood Bollywood you name
it lazy nature addictions too many sexual partners relationship issues fault finding nitpicking strong
connection to children great parents do you see this for Falguni many of the actor and actresses
famous ones right they have a very strong poor of Arbany nakshatra presents in them and you can
see the themes playing out in their life lots of sexual partners lots of affairs having fame
over indulgence having big villas having lots of ranches throwing money around they're lazy in
nature they are having addictions you can see all this and if a rahu you stick in a place in here
I mean good luck you know these persons are going to go explore with their eccentricity these are
the eccentric millionaires and billionaires they're having good fortune but what are they doing with
it nothing this is the difference people might be wealthy doesn't matter if it's a millionaire
billionaire they might be having but their lives are really upside down because of this
nakshatra energy playing and if you stick in rahu in here the unconventional may every guy I want
to do it a different style if everybody's doing it like this I want to do it like this this is
Rahu and he's taking and put him in this kind of an energy of poor of all meaning guess what happens
let us see now in padha by padha so number one the classical characteristics of rahu and K2 as
described by the classical Vedic literature okay what is rahu and K2 these are 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 yeah 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
right this is typically how it is portrayed in western astrology so I'm 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 essential 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 science 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 or 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 and 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 right 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 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
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 or light on life by Roberts was a 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 Rahu one doesn't 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 in sight 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 becomes leads to confusion escapism neurosis psychosis
deception addiction vagueness illusion in delusion this is the downside now how this plays out and
why we let us see individually in the charts which will see that okay Ketu Ketu the guy with only
the body no head there is gives us the feeling of universality impression ability idealism intuition
compassion spirituality self sacrifice subtleness on the positive side on the downside 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 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 172 839
410 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 it 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 Astrologist 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 okay 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 okay 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'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 the attributes of whichever house they are
sitting if it sits in Rahu sits in cancer it will 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 it will 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 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're not interested
in changing yourself this entire channel is useless for you but if the other 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 chart Indian chart and house numbers are depicted
as 1 2 3 4 up till 12 dharma artha kama moksha is there and I have stuck Rahu Ketu as possible
axis on the 1 7 there is a reason 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 10 now one
four seven and ten in Vedic Astrology are given very vital importance because they are the foundational
aspects they define who you are they 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 seven houses 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 one on the
other hand fourth house being the house of the mother 10th being father fourth being home 10th
being carrier 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 what is the one who goes out there in
the world and being used in the career that 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 10th 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 right these are the things
that come and go in your life the second house third house fifth house sixth eighth ninth 11th
that well 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 four 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 in Ketu and compared to one seven four and ten
axis of Rahu in 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 right now let's
take the cases one by one okay so let's start with the fourth Pada in Puro Falguni there you see
that's Rahu over there and that's Ketu over there in Puro Bhadrapada now both Puro Falguni and Puro
Bhadrapada are Manushyaganas the characteristic of Manushyagana nakshatras is they want to do
everything earthly okay they're not so much spiritual minded they want to accomplish things on
the earth plate they want fame they want prosperity they want money they want property they want all
these kinds of things right Manushyaganas so that itself will drive the first layer okay so in Puro
Falguni the fourth Pada we are starting from is Leo going into Scorpio in Namamsa as you can see
here point my mouse to you and then it goes to Artha the Ketu sits on the other side in Artha
Pada going from Aquarius to Taurus okay so this is a Taurus Scorpio axis and Leo Aquarius axis okay
remember I told you in the previous ones you got to revisit all these Rahu Ketu to understand
really what's going on don't just see your Rahu and Ketu please it won't make any sense to you
we have students we are studying astrology
okay once you take the energy of Rahu and Ketu which always want to move they always are hungry
for new stuff new things to do the morning breakfast I won't have for lunch and the morning the
lunch I won't have for dinner this is the human mind this is Rahu Ketu at its best always wanting
change of stuff okay so if you take that kind of a dynamic energy of Rahu and Ketu which is always
looking for new things and you stick it in fixed signs Leo and Scorpio are fixed Aquarius and Taurus
are fixed signs it feels constricted it feels like I need to get out of here what is this place
this is too constricting for my tastes I need freedom Rahu and Ketu need freedom to act to display
to express to explore their explorers nature this is the instinct of humans which is exploratory in
nature okay now here you're going to see the dispositor changes from sun to Mars for Rahu
well sun and Mars both are theory planets so Rahu loves them this one will become more intense in
life later on so in the beginning they will be more after fame but later on they'll become
emotionally intense when you take Rahu and stick it in a place like Scorpio it becomes
emotionally very intense they may not be able to handle themselves okay these are the ones who
may have lots of affairs funny kind of affairs out of the box affairs and then Ketu on the other
hand goes from Aquarius to Taurus so they are detached from materialistic gains Taurus is
all about materialistic gains but in this case they are kind of detached from it so they might
actually have a lot of material wealth in this Pada they might be very rich born rich kids right
spoiled brats that you see around born to millionaires and billionaires what might be it Aquarius and
Taurus so in the beginning they might be about more about other people Aquarius depending upon
where Saturn is placed and then later they might be like I've got all this material I've inherited
all this wealth papa's wealth and now I don't know what to do with it so I'll go and have lots of
affairs think of that let's see now the second third Pada now we come to the second third
the third Pada of Purva Phalbani as you can see over here right this is the third Pada and it starts
from the first Pada of Purva Bhadrapada we are squarely in Aquarius remember we are talking about
Leo Aquarius axis here in the zodiac the Sun and Saturn the father and son okay dynamic
so in this axis we've got to look at dispositive Sun and Saturn but what happens curiously in this
axis is very different energies of Rahu and Ketu and this axis can get very intense remember Purva
Bhadrapada's what are the themes of Purva Bhadrapada it is more about learning through challenges of
life learning through difficulties of life some people have a lot of difficulty in their life
and they learn from that and grow from that and come out the other side of the difficulty much
stronger much capable much able you have seen all this in many many people's lives right in social
media you see so many people who are handicapped or who have great difficulties of life and they
transcend it they move through it this is the beauty of human spirit Purva Bhadrapada is about
is a very intense energy of overcoming through difficulties of life commitment to purpose
transcendence of purpose is Purva Bhadrapada it's in Aquarius so it goes from Aquarius to Aries in
Navamsa and in natal on the Rahu on the other side goes from Leo to Libra now going from fire to air
sign and going from fire air to fire sign you see the the difference between natal and avamsa
this axis what we are talking this is fire sign sun sun to Venus i'm talking about this
positors and then going from Saturn to Mars very very fiery energy in this padha
this will have a this person really needs to have a grounded control of things because this
person can get very easily ungrounded if you place Rahu and Ketu and stick it in here it can become
extremely intense unable to handle that kind of intense changes there has to be some grounding
it's good if they have some earth element dominant in their chart or if the support of their friends
and family to help them understand otherwise they will land up in a psychiatrist chair this is too
intense to handle alone okay this axis because it's all fire and air only there's not much of
grounding left in these axes okay so now let's see the first padha right we're talking about the
first padha no yeah we're talking about second yes we'll let's go to the first one so now that we
finished pooro bhadrapada we come to shatbhisha shatbhishak themes of shatbhishak ketu and shatbhishak
very very powerful healing ability shatbhisha is power of healing power of hundred physicians
shatbhisha means the hundred physicians but shatbhisha is very abstract the lord is varuna so
they have a lot of intense emotional energies and they are very abstract in nature and they have
access to etheric dimensions spiritually speaking so what happens when this axis comes into picture
between leo and aquarius in pooro falconian shatbhisha shatbhisha is conceptual and they are
aquarius going into Pisces in alamsha this brings in great wisdom later in life from the past life
these people might be old souls these people might be ones who have lived many lives as souls in
human bodies and then now they have come to bring that wisdom forward and ground it in vergo this
can be a little grounding because vergo is an earth sign it wants to achieve stuff in physical life
and it has to bring the wisdom of Jupiter here this is sort of better grounding this particular
axis of raho and ketu and raho does very well in vergo because it's an earth sign and how
wants to achieve material success it can do practical good things in the world yeah now let's take the
first padha in the first padha this is as aquarius as it gets on the ketu axis and as leo as it gets
in the raho axis leo and natal go into leo in namamsha that's where raho is and ketu is sitting
aquarius in natal and aquarius in namamsha this particular axis let me point it out to you see
leo going into leo and aquarius going into aquarius that means the dispositor first of all is the
same between namamsha and natal we're talking about the opposition of sun and satan so what
happens here you got to see where the sun is placed in both the birth and namamsha and this
person will all can become too egotistical especially if it's in the one seven axis this raho
and ketu if the raho is in first house and in leo this person may be extremely narcissistic
extremely egotistical extremely self-centered okay because there is too much of leo energy
leo is all about i me myself sun too much of sun energy there if there are good dispositors of
good planets like jupiter venus moan place nicely then it can do well as a leader also that's also
there and in aquarius it brings in the wisdom of how do i know the secret of the masses ketu in
aquarius in the vargodtama natal going into namamsha becomes one who knows how to program the masses
one who knows how to influence the masses great influencers he already has a wisdom from past
life ketu is past life so he brings in the past life wisdom and now he can influence the crowd
these people can even become dictators you see like kim jong un the one who can influence the
entire country that's a dictator right masses influencing the masses secret to influencing
the masses so you should be careful of this particular one especially if it comes in the
one seven axis this rahu and ketu it can become obsessive compulsive do it in unconventional
race so this particular axis is pretty hectic you already care of this if you're you know
friends family anybody your children anybody has this you got to handle them with care not great
to unconventional unorthodox and saying i want this at all costs rahu wants to have fame and power
at all costs in this axis okay so that's about pulav algonine next we will talk about magha
nakshatra we are still in leo maga is squarely in leo and we'll approach the gandhanta point
afterwards going towards ashlesha so let's see that next meanwhile take care be safe have some fun