Rahu Mahadasha- Rahu bhukti = Rahu pratyantardasha

During periods of chalakaraka Rahu, a surreptitious intruder or poseur enters the private imaginations and bedroom or cloistered, sanctuary relationships - e.g., relationships which are based in a foreign land.

• The goal of the interloper is to break conventional limits and challenge assumptions.

• Rahu agents can get the native into a lot of trouble, including imprisonment with Rahu-12

• Martha Stewart delivered an instruction (Budha) to conduct a stock-market trade when she was staying in a distant land (Mexico) and the fraudulent (Rahu) argument (Kanya) that she gave to investigators caused her to go to prison (12)

Mix and merge, public and private

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary entitlement boundariesand behavioral consistency in the Ashram, hospital, or sanctuary; in the meditation and private prayer;and in foreign lands.

• Rahu disrupts the customary dividing walls surrounding private enclosures And Rahu interferes with the process of separating dream worldfantasy from the material world reality..

• One's private world of dreams and fantasies is forever churning and trying to merge with the imaginations of others, or invade the boundaries of others' private enclosures.

• If Rahu's lord is auspicious, wonderful dreams will fuel a rich fantasy life. If Rahu's lord is inauspicious, 'nightmares' disrupt the native 's peace of mind.

• Karma of desire-driven, involuntary loss of identity and imprisonment during Rahu periods ( Martha Stewart).

• Power to stimulate the imaginative fantasies of others. Power to exhume, unearth, or excavate deeply buried subconscious desires.

• May be engaged in boundary-challenging research in library, laboratory, or field work in foreign lands.

• Can change one's identity by traveling to a foreign land(Thomas Merton, Arnold Schwarzenegger). Likes to lose one personality identity and gain another, perhaps several times during the lifetime. Enjoys the role of "outsider".

The Chosen

Smoky, oily things in 12

Smoky, oily things

• in the meditation hall, the hospital room, the healing spa, and the bedroom.

• travel to distant lands that suffer from thick, oily air pollution

• Karaka for burning ghat, cremation vs. land burial (4)

Dissolution of the identity caused by hazy, clandestine dealings with social outsiders, in a foreign land.

Effects will depend on Rahu's lord.

Will challenge taboos of behavior in the private world. Adventurous and exploratory - whether the results are good or evil, depends on Rahu's lord. Intensely ritualistic and may indulge in black magic or predatory superstitious practices if the placement is very negative.

During Rahu periods, there is a Great Leap Forward via pilgrimage, wandering, and clandestine operations in distant lands.

High permission to breach cultural boundaries and roam in foreign lands.

Effective channel for foreign spirits who wish to invade the native 's subconscious, so special protections are required for psychic work.

The material manifestation of the houses ruled by Rahu's lord are not harmed.

Rahu-12 = strange bedfellows

Sexually, Rahu may introduce "strange bedfellows".

The chalakaraka enjoys a desire for exotic association in the bedroom and taboo bed pleasures. the native may possess a vivid and passionate fantasy life. Rahu reduces the boundary between the dream world and the real world.

• Desires to retreat from the fixed conventional identity of one's upbringing.

• Depending on other graha in bhava-12 and Rahu's lord, can lead to a lifetime of world travel, meditation and prayer, espionage, "under the table" transactions, or drug addiction.

Traditionally, any malefic in 12 should give trouble with the left eye. Rahu may give an eye-disease condition which has the potential for disruptive healing through exotic medical treatment.

Adventure involving foreign operators and underclass dealings.

• If Rahu's lord is auspicious, favors extraordinary break-throughs in hospital work or private residential treatment centers. Healing spas in foreign lands.

Does not respect ethnic and religious customary limits. From bhava-12, Rahu casts taboo-challenging drishti upon bhava-4 (home and country), bhava-6 (servitude and animals), and bhava-8 (sudden, forced changes; secret information).

• For example, Martha Stewart went to prison in Rahu Mahadasha, bhukti of Shukra = L-8.

Rahu must be carefully examined to see whether the total effect is sattvicor Tamasic. It can go either way.

Passions of the feet

In the material world of desirable forms and objects, Rahu-12 may feel a deep passion for shoes, footwear, and sensual or psychological matters of the feet.

Could be a productive position for a healer with special gifts in foot reflexology or a medical specialist engaged in work with the complex psycho-physical energy fields of the feet.

• Rahu + strong Shukra in 12 may own a spectacular collection of shoes.

Das / Bepin Behari: says:

"Rahu in this Twelfth house of redemption makes the physical life difficult and upsets all established order.

• he expected course of life is not followed and you are forced to adopt a way of life in which there is much suffering, physical debility and psychological helplessness.

• Your movement is restricted; mental anguish often becomes acute. But the ordeals of life caused by Rahu provide you with the celestial nectar. After a big psychological purging, you receive a spiritual bath and are anointed into the secret mysteries of life.

  • From the material standpoint, Rahu in the Twelfth house is considered inauspicious, suggesting that the purging operation manifests through immoral acts and unfortunate events. In the ordeal of the spiritual path, such difficulties are necessary.

• Rahu functions as a karmic agent, producing trials so that the latent spirituality which is the true influence of the Twelfth house may emerge. You are miserable; sharp pain in ribs. However hard you may work, you do not get any success or gain, rather suffers losses. Friend of the wicked and enemy of the good.

• At last you succeed in your desires and ambitions.

  • You are very humble; suffer from acute bilious pain in the chest and heart.

  • With best effort you cannot modify your early life; the latter is most fruitful.

  • A friend of the knave and enemy of the noble.

  • You are quarrelsome, idle, a debtor, cunning, immodest, rich, benevolent, ailment of the eyes, wound in feet, a slur on the family, wastes away your time and energy; can meet your demand if you stays in one place.

• Much traveling, separation from spouse and family, ugly and shabby. Dropsy [oedema]. Robbed by lowly tribals.

• Separation of maternal uncle; repents after losing temper. You are inert, weak, hostile to relatives, cheat, ill-spent money.

• You are very handsome, prosperous but ophthalmia or iritis. Few sons; vicious; pain, trouble, punishment are indicated .

• This Rahu denotes gain through social affairs; good for spiritualism; birth unnatural."

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  In Karkata acc. Behari, Rahu-12 = "Rahu will make you highly emotional, receptive to premonitions from the other world, and prone to fits of depression."

Rahu in 12th-from-Chandra

• India-P.M. Indira Gandhi

• India-PM Jawaharlal Nehru

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• UK Queen Elizabeth II

• USA Pres-41George H. W. Bush "Sr."

• USA Pres-30, Calvin Coolidge "silent Cal"

• UK-PM Margaret Thatcher

• Rush Limbaugh

• Henry Kissinger(US Sec. State)

• Jodie Foster (actor, film director)

• Meryl Streep actrice

• Celine Dion(chanteuse)

• Elvis Presley

• Camilla Parker-Bowles
• Tiger Woods (golf champion)

• Sigmund Freud(psychoanalysis)

Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of self-elevating or possessive desires in private, distanced relationships.

Subconsciously energized risk-taking behaviors fueled and indulged by the divinatory imagination.

• Challenge to cultural norms via

• emotionally unstable private, enclosed relationships. The partners in those non-public relationships are the agents of desire-driven personal ambition.

• Disruptive experiences in foreign lands and through private relationships with lovers who hail from foreign lands.

• If Chandra is exceptionally conservative by rashi, drishti, and bhava, the enclosed private relationships may occur only in the imagination.

However one will manifest all those challenges to one's own cultural norms which do necessarily accompany interactions with persons from foreign lands - perhaps in diplomatic or commercial interactions, rather than intimate personal relationships. ( Q Eliz., hatcher).

Watch Rahu periods of the Vimshottari Dasha for eruption of deep, imagination-driven desires into private, compartmentalized, behind-the-curtains relationships.

• The private, sequestered relationshipis often based in a country or region at a far distance from one's own home.

• The relationship is socially and emotionally unstable and it will most likely dissolve