Good morning wonderful people welcome to my channel.
Rahu and Ketu study part 20.
But first a personal note.
Once again I want to speak to you a little bit about senses.
Among the five senses which we have, what is the largest sense that you possess?
Think about it for a minute.
Tastes, smell, touch, sight, hearing, its touch.
Its all over your body right from your feet right to the top of your head.
Touch is the most widely present sense in your body.
And I want to speak to you about embrace.
We embrace, we hug each other yes.
As lovers, as mother and child, as friends, as family, whenever we meet someone, greet
someone, we give a hug.
And so the touch becomes more important in an embrace.
We are touching each other right.
Being with clothes on, clothes off is a different thing between lovers and so on, between mother
and her baby for example.
That's more intimate.
I am talking about all kinds here.
The embrace, the embrace consists of touch.
And most dominantly you are touching the person.
It's the most intimate form of contact.
It's the most easily transmittable form of affection, of love, of understanding, of
reassurance that we can give from one human to another.
Yes?
And why am I speaking about this?
Because this next nakshatra where Rahu is falling is called aslesha nakshatra.
Symbolizing the snakes, symbolizing the Nagas, symbolizing the ground sensitive nakshatras
which I have spoken of in earlier videos, the first awakeners in this shift.
It is so dominant.
If you have a dominant aslesha, number of points, planets present in aslesha, you will
be the one of the first awakeners.
Welcome to the shift.
And this is much misinterpreted by most popular Vedic astrologers.
Why?
Aslesha is called as a cheat, one who will lie, one who will cheat to get to their way,
etc.
Not so.
These people are not understanding what Nagas are.
Not what they are not getting what snakes are.
They are just not getting it.
They are pretty stupid.
One crack mind of looking at things.
That's why I keep telling you, knowledge depends upon who is touching it.
What kind of mind is touching that knowledge?
Is your mind pure?
Is your mind full of garbage and mindful of Rahu?
Because then you will try to twist it, interpret it according to your own little narrow thinking
perspectives which is very common in India by the way.
Very very common misinterpretations around.
It's ironical that such great pure knowledge will come into the hands of idiots who doesn't
know how to interpret it.
So Nagas, back to Nagas.
Why is this more important?
Well, snakes know how to embrace, snakes know how to love one another in an embrace.
Have you seen two snakes coiled up in a mating ritual?
Have you seen the Discovery Channel?
You see it's like two spines, snakes entire body is a spine and it is constantly in touch
with the ground.
It knows the ground energy and when it makes love to another snake, it is wrapped up in
the ground.
So, Ashleisha people are very powerfully sensitive.
Powerfully vibrationally touch their entire body is very sensitive.
This is why they react very quickly.
Let's just see quickly what the Ashleisha themes are like.
Protection and defense hurt easily, very sensitive inside, highly intuitive, clingy
and the need to feel connected to the other.
Analyzing, intellectually analytical, intellect and emotion, quick reaction, snakes are very
quick to react.
Earth sensitivity, I spoke of the first awakeners, ground sensitivity and nakshatra because
snake is always in touch with the ground.
It knows where the energy has moved.
Snakes and Ashleisha people are aware of the shift happening on earth more powerfully than
many others are.
Shedding old skin and moving through life, they are introverted, they are quiet, they
are irritable, they are vulnerable but embrace is the main quality.
If you lovers want to love each other, learn to embrace, learn to touch every part of your
lover's body.
Not just the face, people are so obsessed with one track mind.
I looked at her, I looked at him, he is good looking, he has got muscles and few bits and
pieces of the body.
No, learn from snakes.
It's every single ounce of the skin that matters.
Have you hugged every part?
Have you touched every part?
When you talk about lover and all this nonsense, nothing.
Learn from Ashleisha.
But now we take put Rahu into Ashleisha.
The unconventional one, the one who wants to explore, one of the qualities of Rahu is
to explore, freely explore.
Explore without constraints of the mind.
Explore wildly.
Wild is the nature of Rahu.
And so it becomes all about this wild exploration of the sense of touch, of the sense of embrace,
among other things.
Rahu here also can make this person have all these issues which are just told of Ashleisha
more amplified.
It depends upon the whether dispositor moon is sitting.
Because now we are talking about cancer, zodiac sign.
So dispositor being moon.
So let's get to the studies and see what this leads to.
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 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 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 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 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
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.
Once 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.
It's really 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 so it 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.
Okay think of it as something foreign to the culture to the way you are taught things.
Think 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 leads to confusion, escapism, neurosis, psychosis, deception, addiction,
vagueness, illusion, delusion this is the downside.
The how this plays out and why we'll have to see individually in the charts which 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, 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.
So 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 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 this
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 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.
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 and Rahu 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 Rahu is sitting in.
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
like Mercury, Mars, Venus, Sun, Moon, Sun.
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's the way you have to analyze this.
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 Indian chart and house numbers are depicted as 1, 2, 3, 4, up till
12.
Dharmartha, Kamamoksha 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 is 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, that 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 career 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 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 external world.
Heart is your home, your home center where you feel comfortable, home is where the heart
is that kind of 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 Thri Kona or Kona in Sanskrit right?
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 detachment 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 always.
Now let's take the cases one by one.
Now we get into Rahu in the first path of Pashlesa, the rule by Nagas, the serpent energy,
the Kundalini energy basically.
And we are talking basically about Cancer and going into Capricorn.
So Cancer Capricorn axis.
Right away you should be able to tell dispositors.
Cancer Moon, Capricorn Saturn.
So the different types of energies faced between Saturn and Moon.
Rahu is in the Moon Nakshatra, remember Rahu's enemies with the Moon also.
So if it gets into the Moon kind of energy it can become a little divergent kind of
approach.
Okay.
So that's what you got to be careful of.
Rahu has a power but it needs to be brought back to the center.
And where can it get this energy from?
From Ketu which is now going between Dhanishta and Sravana Nakshatra.
Saturn, one who's grounded.
So now let's see the axis.
We are talking in the fourth pada.
Rahu is in the fourth pada who is there as I'm showing.
And then between Ashlesha and Dhanishta, between Cancer and Capricorn.
So how does this play out?
Like Cancer going into Pisces, meaning Moon going into Jupiter as the dispositor for Rahu.
And on the other side Ketu going from Capricorn to Virgo.
Saturn going into Mercury.
It's a very different kind of energy which goes from Pisces to Virgo means Pisces to
Virgo.
Yeah.
It's that push and pull between emotion and materialism.
So these people in the beginning part of their life they might be all about emotion and getting
wisdom.
Searching for knowledge.
Searching for the deeper meaning in knowledge.
And they need that at the later stages of life they will go into becoming earthly and
grounded Virgo.
Whereas Ketu is not does not do very well in Virgo.
See that's the thing.
Ketu is not wanting grounding.
Ketu is wanting moksha.
It's wanting liberation.
Okay.
So in Virgo it does not do well.
Same thing with Rahu in Pisces, Jupiter.
Jupiter provides the higher wisdom but this Rahu because of the little rascal that he is
he wants to do everything in an unconventional manner.
You can't try to take wisdom and put unconventionality into it.
Wisdom is wisdom.
It's universal.
This is where it becomes a little odd.
Now let's see the next Pada.
Also in the previous slide I forgot to mention watch the Dhanishta nakshatra also.
Dhanishta has the belt, has the talent, has the talent for music, dance, drama that it
can bring an assista, aslesha over here.
Now we come to the third Pada.
In third Pada it goes into the Dharma, Kama, Access meaning the rulers become Aquarius and
Leo in Namamshah meaning it will become Saturn and Sun, the father and son dynamic.
The wanting fame for self versus wanting fame by doing things for others, Saturn, Aquarius,
11th house.
So what is it doing in this house?
First of all let's see the themes of aslesha once again.
Aslesha is about embrace.
It's about learning the knowledge of things of earth.
It has the knowledge of poisons.
It has the knowledge of snakes, venom, poisonous.
So aslesha people if there are dominant good planets they can become good, have good knowledge
of poisons.
They can become homeopathy doctors.
They can become unconventional healers not mainstream because they have knowledge of
herbs, poisons, knowledge of the earth.
And being ruled by Nagas it has knowledge of the poisons.
How poisons can be made in procure like homeopathy majorities, homeopathy medicines are poisons.
Do you know that?
Anyway back to and on the other side it's Dhanishtha which is all about talent wealth
etc.
And then it's going into sun in Leo, Ketu, Ketu and sun combination.
So what it will want to bring is knowledge of talents from the past life in order to
fulfill what it wants to bring to the masses now.
Cancer going into Aquarius.
Think about that.
This is to Pada 3 or Pada 2.
Now in Pada 2, Artha Pada of Aslesha we change the nakshatra in Capricorn.
We go to Shravananakshatra.
Shravananakshatra has all about Jupiter but it goes here in this case from Capricorn to
Cancer and Cancer to Capricorn.
So you are talking like once again about the reversal of personality after 36 years of age
these people can change a lot if Rahu Ketu is in this axis, in this angle.
Because the angles are mentioned.
Take care of to note all these padas.
Padas is everything in Vedic Astrology.
Everything.
The angle at which it is placed is so small.
It is less 3 degrees 20 minutes per pada.
It is very narrow segment we are talking about.
So Capricorn to Cancer.
Ketu goes more like towards the moon after 36 years of age whereas Rahu goes more towards
Capricorn and being practical.
So Rahu does very well later on in life because Capricorn is very grounded.
It wants to do material stuff Rahu.
It is a Bhava Karaka.
So this becomes a good axis, a better axis compared to others.
Now let's see the first pada.
See the first pada is all about Gemini Sagittarius.
Gemini Sagittarius is once again the Guru Shesha.
Once again the teacher, the student dynamic in the Navamsa.
Natal remains the same that's why I don't cover too much of Natal.
It is Cancer versus Capricorn.
Moon versus Saturn.
But now we are talking about Jupiter versus Mercury.
So what does it do here?
What does Sagittarius want to do in Asilesha?
It wants to become the Guru.
It wants to learn knowledge.
These are the ones I was talking about becoming the healers.
Cancer going into Sagittarius is a powerful healer.
You might want to study about herbs, Abhology, Omnipati, Ayurveda, all of these kinds of
things.
It's very good because Asilesha knows the knowledge and from the past life it brings
in the Gemini energy.
The intellectually learned knowledge from past life in order to bring it as knowledge
to this life around.
That's what it means.
Next we shall be doing Ushanakshatra.
Another is the second dominant nakshatra of Cancer.
And then we will be going from half of Srona over there into Uttara Asadha.
Meanwhile, take care, be safe and sing and dance.
It's a changing world.
It's a changing planet.