Good morning everyone, welcome to my channel. Rao and Ketu study part 19. I got
that number right now. Okay so personal notes before we get into this, the shift.
Earth is shifting, are you feeling it? Things are shifting. We are shifting the
entire energy of Earth from northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere from
masculine to feminine, going from India and Tibet going to Latin America. I've
covered this in Akashic shift of Earth video if you want to watch it. So how
does this affect what we do on Earth? I want to talk to you about one aspect of
it which is called ancestors, your ancestors, my ancestors. When we say
ancestors we are talking about this body that we occupy. We are born in our
parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great great great grandparents and you can
keep going up the line. If you trace your ancestry back to 10, 20 generation up
the line, your greatest grandfather's grandmothers, right? Doesn't matter where
on earth you are, wherever you are, think of the life they led. Okay they didn't
have anything like even electricity, forget about YouTube. We had tough lives,
they had to bear the weather, the rain, the front of the physical weather changes,
they didn't have air conditioning, they didn't have electricity, they didn't have
water supply in their houses, they didn't have any of this stuff. So think of the
amount of difficulties they lived through and think of the life lesson they
learned as souls, our ancestors, right? We are the great great great grandchildren,
let's say 20 generations down the line. We are raising it up. Why am I speaking
to you about this? Because think about this, just think about this for a minute.
All their bodies, the earth material which our bodies are made up of, are dust.
Now they are part of the soil and we grow plants and fruits and everything on the
same soil. So we're literally drinking from the energy of our ancestors, even
physically. Our plants and fruits and everything are growing on the same soil,
especially if we take ancient countries like India. How many generations have come
here and gone? Tens of thousands, God knows how many. And it's part of the soil,
it's part of the farming, it's part their energy, their bodies, their whatever
they're left behind as their physical bodies which is dust now, part of the
earth, right? Is what we are drinking and eating and sustaining from, even that
small little point of view if you can take it in your daily life. How much power
you will have of your ancestors? How much appreciation, gratitude you will have
for the tough things that they went through. And this ties in very well with
the next Rahu Ketu Nakshatra that we are doing in Magha, Magha Nakshatra, the
10th Nakshatra starting from Aries. Let's review what Magha Nakshatra is first.
Ancestral energy, it falls in Leo, between 0 degrees and 13.2 degrees of
Leo, the beginning of Leo. Ancestral energy very traditional holding on to
the past family culture. There are many people who love to hold on to their
tradition, right? They must be having Magha Nakshatra in them. They are very
traditional kind of people, inheritance, they might even want to do archaeology.
They have good luck, unexpected good luck. This comes from the ancestors, the power
of your own ancestors putting their power behind you. Like go ahead, do stuff.
I want my power for you. I mean I will help you achieve stuff easily. That's
ancestral support. They want power, they want leadership and fame. They are very
outspoken, brave, they want success. They are natural leaders into politics, law and
history. What is politics, law and history? Everything has to do with ancestry.
The past, what's behind my back is ancestry. That's politics, that's law, that's history.
They are family oriented people, very protective, they have good planners, they
are quiet type nature, they don't like to make small talk. Now if you take the
unconventional guy Rahu and stick it in Magha, what happens? Rahu does very well
in this because Rahu is also ambitious. Magha is ambitious, so is Rahu very
ambitious. So you have a sense of over amplified ambition. What you want to
achieve in this world, wherever depending upon all the other planets etc.
It will be over amplified ambition. Rahu in Magha nakshata. Whereas Ketu as we
shall see further in this video will transit between Shatabhisha and
Dhanishtha. So you might say Ketu energy wants to pull in towards this Rahu. You
need to pull in that wisdom that you have already learned how to make money, how
you in Dhanishtha, how to know what other people are about from Shatabhisha in
Aquarius and now you want to bring it to this lifetime. So let's get into studies.
So number one, the classical characteristics of Rahu and Ketu as
described by the classical Vedic literature. What is Rahu and Ketu?
These are the North and the South nodes of the moon found by the virtual points
which are the intersection points between orbit of the moon around the earth
and orbit of the earth around the Sun. So basically if you take two eclipses,
ellipses, it will form two intersection points. So these two intersection
points are called the North node and the South node. They are virtual nodes
although they behave like planets and we shall see why in a minute. So who is
Rahu? The symbols are there like a horseshoe and the reverse horseshoe.
This is typically how it is portrayed in Western astrology. So I'm using the same
symbol here. Rahu is mythologically depicted as the
seeded head of a demon symbolizing constant and less insatiable hunger and
appetite. Be it sensual or physical yet it is unable to hold on to or grasp it.
Rahu is the one who constantly wants something. Think of it as a live head
only not the body. Okay so it can't hold on to anything or be satisfied even if it
gets that thing since it has no arms or body or stomach. Just a head which is
alive. This gives Rahu the title of Bhoga Karaka or meaning one who is after
sensory materialistic pursuits. So think any earth sign for example they want
sensory materialistic pursuits or think any of the signs literally whatever
they are after Rahu wants that and wants that very badly and goes after it
with everything. This is an energy in us by the way it is not a planet it's a
virtual node but it will behave like a planet which we shall see why. So it is
unable to satisfy that hunger or hold on to anything even though it gets
something. It wants to move on to the next and then to the next and then to
the next. This is why Rahu is also called as the guy who wants foreign things not
of the native land or not of what the person is natively born in. Why? Because
of that insatiable hunger. There's always insatiable hunger to go after one thing
after the another without being able to hold on to it. That's Rahu. Ketu on the
other hand is mythologically depicted as the severe body the remaining half of
the 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
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 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 Suvala 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.
The North node of the moon Rahu. What does it become because of the
characteristics which classically is told in the texts? What does Rahul lead to in
the modern context? Rahul is responsible for originality, individuality,
independence, insight, ingenuity, inspiration and imagination on the
positive side. Because Rahul and Ketu both love to explore foreign stuff things
out of the box things not taught by tradition. Rahul 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 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 Rahul on the downside
becomes leads to confusion, escapism, neurosis, psychosis, deception, addiction,
vagueness, illusion, delusion. This is the downside. Now how this plays out and
why we'll have to see individually in the charts which 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 Rahul Ketu is typically an axis like
Rishon over there. Rahul 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 eighth house. If Rahul is in second house, Ketu will be in the eighth
house. You see what I mean? And so you will bring the eighth house aspect with
these aspects shown here. Second house with that aspect shown over there. Of
course it plays out with something called as dispositors. We shall see that
next. Now if you go to a traditional Vedic Astrology, they will go on and on
endlessly about dispositors. What the hell is a dispositor? It's an invented term
by the Vedic Astrologers. It is no meaning of its own. It shows the
disposition and what's the story on this? Rahul 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 Rahul and Ketu. The solar or the dispositor means since Rahul 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 Rahul sits in the house of Mercury somewhere else. So it will borrow the
attributes of Mercury sitting in the third house and bring it to that
particular house. Wherever Rahul is sitting in.
Nakshatra, since Rahul 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 Rahul 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. So they take on the attributes of whichever house they are
sitting in. If Rahul 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, Rahul 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. 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 Rahul 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 that's the typical
chart, Indian chart and house numbers are depicted as 1, 2, 3, 4, up till 12.
Dharma, Takama, Moksha is there. I have stuck Rahul Ketu as possible axis on the
1, 7 that is iris and Libra that is the top and the bottom. So either it can go
to house number one or seven. Rahul 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 Rahul 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 Rahul
Ketu. The 4th pen 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 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 Rahul Ketu axis. Again Rahul Ketu might be reversed. Rahul
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 Rahul and Ketu. Now what about the rest
of the houses? Now rest of the houses are called 3 kona or kona in Sanskrit.
These are the things that come and go in your life. Let it be 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 detachments we have
towards different areas of our life. That's all it is. They are less
significant in terms of Rahul and Ketu when compared to 1, 7, 4 and 10 axis of
Rahul and Ketu. Please remember this. When you're evaluating, you just have more
propensity towards one part of life and less towards others. Rahul is attachment,
Ketu is detachment. Rahul is expansion, Ketu is reduction. This time
opposite to each other on this. Now let's take the cases for Rahul.
So there you go. As usual we begin from pada 4 of Magha which is that one over
there. Moksha pada of Magha because we are taking the Rahul, Ketu, axis, rivers.
Hentikla wise. Rahul, Ketu in the sky move Hentikla wise. So there you are. Leo going
to cancer. Rahul in natal is in Leo. Dispositor is Sun. But it goes into
moon. Sun traveling to moon in Navamsa. First thing they will be looking at very
very egotistically, very wanting to achieve fame and power. But later on in
life in this pada, Moksha pada, they will be wanting emotional contentment. The heart,
the homeland, the mother, cancer. Now the Ketu on the other side in this particular
pada goes from Aquarius to Capricorn. Now both are ruled by Saturn. As you can see
Aquarius ruled by Saturn and this ruled by Saturn. And it is Shatapisha. So they
bring the knowledge of how to handle masses. Aquarius is about handling the
masses. If you want to handle large groups of people, a country, state, nation, you
need to know how the people think. Human psychology, one-on-one. Otherwise you
can't leave. You don't know what people are about. You don't know what human
beings are about. You don't know what people of your land want. Right. So
Capricorn. In the beginning they are all about masses. Later on they will want to
translate it to work. You're taking a step back from the 11,000 to the 10,000.
That means you're wanting to do work, daily work. They want to engage themselves in
this and feel the emotional satisfaction in it. This is what Ketu needs to bring
towards that Rahu. In the fourth pada. Let's see the next one. So in the third
pada, what are we having here? Let me point that out to you. We have the Kama
pada, Leo going into Gemini from Natal to Navamsa. Rahu is there and
Ketu on the other side is still in Aquarius in Shatavisha and in Dhammapada
Aquarius is going into Sagittarius. So this is fire going into water and this is
air going into fire. Kind of a little different, kind of a little challenging
but we have got to take the clue of Sagittarius wanting to go into Gemini,
teacher-student relationship. So the teacher needs to bring the energy into
the student kind of intellectual. Again a step down. Leo needs to calm down a
little bit on the ego front. Even though they might be natural leaders in
Magha, they need to take the step back and bring their intellectual power. They
may have the wisdom. Ketu is the Revise here in Sagittarius.
It's possible as Jupiter. But that wisdom needs to come where? It needs to find the
head. The body needs to find the head which is Gemini. It needs to ground it
in the intellect and then they will do well in this as leaders. As wise leaders.
That's the wisdom Sagittarius right there. Let's see the second Pada.
In the second Pada which is over there, Rahu is sitting between Leo and
Taurus from Natal to Navamsa and Ketu on the other side is sitting in the
Moksha Pada between Aquarius and Scorpio. Now Ketu does very well in Scorpio.
Again we are talking about the Taurus Scorpio axis. The materialism versus going
internal emotional depth. Wanting to seek material satisfaction in the
external versus wanting to seek emotional satisfaction inside. This is the
Taurus Scorpio axis. So here we are talking about Sun dispositor in the
Rahu. So first you want to check where Sun is in the natal chart. Sun always wants
popularity wherever it is. Sun always feels egoistic number five wherever it
sits in. And Aquarius always wants to do it for the sake of muscles. It's a house
about house lemon. Now Scorpio and Taurus become fixed signs. Like I said
before in the other ones also. When Rahu and Ketu fall in fixed signs they
always tend to struggle and here it tends to struggle a lot because Leo is
fixed, Taurus is fixed. He is very frustrated. Also Aquarius is fixed and
Scorpio is fixed. Again both Ketu and Rahu are frustrated there.
Rahu and Ketu are movable energies. They are very dynamic. They want to constantly
explore new territory. So here it can become for these people a little tight
in the skin. They might become end up becoming dogmatic. Very fixed in
nature. Very one track mind. No, no, I want this, I want this, I want this, I want this.
Like OCD. So it's a little crazy this particular axis but with a
little grounding and with a little help from other planets and other nakshatas
they might just make good leaders. So in the first Pada of Maga which is shown
over there Leo going into Aries. It takes the energy from Ketu in Kama Pada
going from Aquarius to Libra. So we are talking in the Navamsa of the transit
from Leo to Aries, fire to fire and Aquarius to Libra, air to air. So this
does well because they are not really flipping or having a complete change of
the element in the personality. When there is a change of element it's kind
of a little tough because they don't make a smooth transition. They flip on the
other side. It happens all the time. Don't make a big deal out of this. It's just
that I'm pointing these things out to you. So Aquarius is going into Libra.
Aquarius is all about masses and Libra is all about a limited bunch of people.
It's just the other. Libra is about self and other Aries Libra axis. So these
people have a lot of fire and have a lot of air. So they're full of ideas and
Rahu and Ketu does very well when it comes to ideas because they are
liberalistic thinking. Ketu is very liberalist. Rahu is an explorer, amplifier.
So in this kind of axis these people might become very forward thinkers. In
terms of leadership, think Rahu in Maha which I spoke of earlier. Rahu in
Maha is one to lead. This is the kind of leadership of ideas. Forward
thinking, progressive thinking, critical thinking, all these things these people
become masters of. And being in Dhanishta Nakshatra, Ketu, Dhanishta brings in this
energy of knowing what is wealth, what is fame, what is all these things. You can
look up the Dhanishta themes from the past life. So they know how to make money
also in this. So these people might become leaders of corporate circles.
All of that kind of thing. Okay the bell rang. I got to go. Next one we shall take
care of Ashala and by the way the first and second Padav Maga is in Gandanta. So
it's a transition point. So Rahu and Ketu are transitioning out of their karma.
Think of that. Next we shall do Ashala. Take care.