1. Rahu in bhava-1 *
2. Rahu in bhava-2
3. Rahu in bhava-3 *
4. Rahu in bhava-4
5. Rahu in bhava-5
6. Rahu in bhava-6 *
7. Rahu in bhava-7
8. Rahu in bhava-8
9. Rahu in bhava-9
10. Rahu in bhava-10 *
11. Rahu in bhava-11 *
12. Rahu in bhava-12

splendid placement for a theatrical performer, literary artist, or charismatic politician

Elevation via Fascination

Rahu in Bhava-5 creativity = privileges gained via gaining the center of attention.

Often a dramatic rise from the station of birth via extraordinary or exotic politics, romance, theatrics, celebrity and charisma.

• Unusual circumstances regarding children

• idealistic personality; passion for materializing the political ideals

Quest for higher privilege via intelligence, speculation, gambling, politics, and offspring .

• Ambitious desire to be recognized for the exceptional qualities of one's children. May claim entitlement rights to children who are not precisely one's own. Often adopted exceptional children.

Rahu wants what He socially cannot have or morally should not have. In bhava-5, it is Rahu's Desire to receive the privileges accorded to

• political, literary, and theatrical genius

• creator of delightful children

• masters of the arts of entertainment and amusement

• a splendid center-stage figure radiating Great Brilliance

Whatever distinction He obtains in the hungry question for recognition, hungry Rahu will never be satisfied.

Immediately upon obtaining the object of desire, Rahu again yearns for more, better, different privileges given to the class of beings who show political empowerment, charismatic centrality, and poetic, romantic brilliance. Every day begins with renewed lust for this ephemeral prize.

Rahu-5 = amplified political-creative impetus toward self-elevation through rule-evading risk.

The full scope of effects depends upon which graha occupy bhava 9, 11, and 1.

Entitlement sought : Rahu-5 wants to appear as a legitimate, credible holder of status-rank in the class of beings =

• The Sun-Kings, theatrical actors and politicians, centers of attention,

• the charismatic and glittering, the royal and divinely inspired,

• generators of marvelous children,

• game-players and gamblers, entertainers, fashion-stylists

• the intelligent, the creative, the confident and bright,

• holders of Good fortune, the golden ones, brilliant, blessed,

• Rex: the rich, the regal, the self-righteous, the rightfully chosen.

If Surya or L-5 = strong, Rahu may take whatever risks are necessary to achieve membership in this class of persons.

A Rahu-5 parent may convert the process of raising children into a self-focused dramatic performance. It is not really about the children.

• Rahu in bhava 5

• Ketu in bhava 11

chalakaraka Rahu in bhava 5

• Ambitious desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a brilliantly intelligent creative risk-taking performance genius. Self-elevation via surreptitious involvement in politics, drama, or the royal court.

• Extraordinary, illegitimate, or exotic children. Children might live with foreigners or the circumstances of their acquisition breaks some type of taboo. Celebrity seeking; fascinating figure; excitement, bright lights, applause - but with a slippery undertow.

chidakaraka Ketu in bhava 11

• Ambivalence (Ketu) toward economic gains and social networking. No restrictions upon gains of income, but also very little attachment to material achievements.

• Although Rahu makes one famous, Ketu-11 has few friendship links; no taste for company. May be swindled by false friends in the marketplace, but not motivated to seek redress.

5 = 11th from 7th

• in His 11th-from gainful, economic, networking, association-seeking behaviors, Rahu co-lord of Kumbha-natural-11 produces the hunger to form profitable marketplace association with a specific class of persons.

Rahu craves to enter into association with those whose gains, profits and goal-achievement are typically obtained from activities of the 7th portion.

Rahu aims to gain a fraudulent or as-yet-unearned qualification into this class of persons.

This class of entitlement obtains material increase (11) from the basis of bhava-7 contractual agreement.

Rahu desires those Fruits and profits arising:

• from Marriage

• from contracts and agreements

• from alliances and partnerships

• from balancing and weighing

• from bargains and deals

• from negotiation and haggling

• from match-making and pairing

• from equity and equalization

• from yokes and harnesses

• from matching pairs, sets, groups

• from equability and pleasantness

• from paired organs in the body (testes, ovaries, eyes, ears, hands, lungs)

• from diplomacy and graciousness

• from appreciation of contributions of Others

• from consulting and advising

• from attorneys, barristers, solicitors

• from legal settlements

• from harmony

• from fairness

• from brokering and middle-man

Rahu-Amplified losses from unfavorable divorce

"losses from divorce" = 12th-from-6th = bhava-5.

Example:

• In 2011, musician Phil Collins was reported to have paid out $US_42_million in divorce settlements to his first three ex-wives and children. Collins = Shukra + Guru + Rahu + Mangala in bhava-5(romance, children) + Chandra in a rashi of Shukra in 1 (social identity) .

• This combination amplified by Rahu may generate an increasingly dramatic (5) roller-coaster effect of marriage (Shukra), children (Guru), and divorce-followed-by-remarriage (Mangala, L-2 regeneration of spouse). Total possible 5 marriages.

Rahu's Passageway

Amplification of the importance of charisma, politics, individual creativity, and children (5), often at the expense of the practical awareness of the larger social community (11).

"Knows" that one is destined for greatness as a member of the elevated class that has been specially chosen to promote one's children, one's creative performance, one's romantic literature, political power, or gambling genius.

Rahu in Bhava 5 =

• genius

• splendid glittering charm

urgent ambition to obtain political intelligence

• Pres France 1944-1946; 1959-1969 Gen. Charles de Gaulle

hungers to be recognized as a brilliant speculator or gamesman

• Apple Computer Steve Jobs

theatrical performer

• United Nations goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie

or literati,

• "Lord of the Rings" J.R.R. Tolkien

• "Harry Potter" writer J.K. Rowling + Guru

wishes to be perceived as "naturally" possessed of a charismatic glamour which admits to membership in the genius class

• camouflaged participant in celebrity-activism

• pretends to royal privilege - UK-Queen Elizabeth II

• desire to join the company of those blessed with divinely good luck

Always hungry for , but never satisfied with

• achievement, privilege, recognition in political, theatrical, romantic, poetic, creative, or speculative endeavor, including the birth of children.

Rahu in 8th from 10th

• Knows how to exploit the legal loopholes using secrets of orderly hierarchies and governments.

Extremely strong political-theatrical instincts toward self-elevation through risk. However, the full scope of effects depends upon which graha occupy bhava 9, 11, and 1.

Rahu in bhava-5 = craves the privilege of creative self-expression via performance arts, politics, or children.

May involve a taboo-breaking fertility quest or foreign adoption.

Reckless Rahu-5 may signal a risqué pregnancy; or romance. The first child may be socially illicit in some way, as 5 = 8th from 10th, but this is rarely harmful.

Generally, if Rahu enjoys the mutual drishti or yuti Guru, ambitions to self-promote via children are fulfilled and many lives are benefitted.

Otherwise, expedient Rahu-5 can deprive one of self-produced children even while generating dozens or even millions of students

• HH Dalai Lama = Rahu-Dhanushya preacher-teacher.

• Sainte de Notre-Dame de Lourdes Bernadette Soubirous had religious visions as a child, then became a celibate nun for the remainder of her short life. Her blessing is prayed for by children throughout the Catholic world

• "Apple" entrepreneur Steve Jobs denied paternity of his first daughter born of romance (years later he accepted the child). mutual drishti with Guru-Mithuna-11.

• Emperor 1804-1815 Napoleon Bonaparte being childless in his first marriage, in order to get a male heir, divorced his wife Josephine, and married a royal whom he did not love. She produced the short-lived heir. Eventually he expressed affectionate respect for the mother of his child. No drishti from Guru.

• Angelina Jolie adopted several children from a variety of ethnic ancestries. Rahu-Vrischika = transformation of identity. Superb mutual drishti with Guru-Meena-9 while Rahu's lord Kuja occupies dharmasthana with the Meena Moon.

Idealistic, political and romantic . Political election, romance, or children provides a platform for personal ascendance. Rahu craves elevation to a higher social station via politics, theatre, children, or creative performance.

• A great desire to express personal genius, although one has not yet earned the wisdom to understand the source of that creativity.

• Rahu-5 may be driven by a passionate desire to be the radiant center of political attention, like a sparkling brilliant confident King.

• Emperor 1804-1815 Napoleon Bonaparte

• Apple Computer Steve Jobs

• USA-Sen 1962-2009 Teddy Kennedy

Desire to be seen at center stage in both politics and theatre: celebrity-activists

• Angelina Jolie,

• Rue McClanahan

• balladeer, political activist Barbra Streisand

• Mrs. Betty Ford was a dancer and fashion model, then an addictions-recovery activist

Rahu uses the creative intelligence or the children as a platform from which to launch the Great Leap, but does not remain consistent with the political or creative agenda that one was elected or nominated to carry out.

• Passion to become someone better, higher, different than given at time of creative assignment.

Via Rahu's characteristic over-promotion, Rahu-5 often gets into misguided child-raising or illicit politicking that is "over their head".

• Rahu in bhava-5 = individual ascendance launched from a platform of children, creative intelligence, politics, and performance arts

By means of divine intelligence, showmanship, and speculative gaming, one wishes to obtain the privileges of royalty.

Rahu favors the use of deception and His style usually involves sneaking into forbidden places under culturally false pretenses.

Great Leap Forward via Personal Genius: Politics, Theatre, Romantic Amusements, and Games

Rahu's Great Leap Forward in bhava-5 creates a sudden advance to a higher level of social privilege via a shape-shifting change in

• political-power style,

• children, creativity

• literary authorship, performance arts,

• political and theatrical charisma

• fashion, celebrity relationships, romance, courtly love

• gambling and gamesmanship, speculation

• and expressions of personal genius.

During the mahadasha of Rahu and bhukti periods of Rahu, one may "re-invent" the political self to facilitate a move to center-stage which more effectively matches the customs of a royal or celebrity echelon.

Examples:

Rahu/Rahu swabhukti of Emperor 1804-1815 Napoleon Bonaparte = onset of the 1789 French Revolution.

• Napoleon shifted political loyalties every few months, fighting three-way battles, taking glamorous center-stage positions on the battlefield them disappearing for holiday retreat, then suddenly promoted to a higher title despite critical absence from duty [5 = 8th-from-10th, dereliction of duty] all the while wearing dashing uniforms ornamented with medallions and ribbons.

In Shukra/Rahu period, the actress and child welfare advocate Angelina Jolie adopted a child (Rahu/5 = adopted children) and changed her legal name to her stage name = "Angelina Jolie" ("pretty") .

• The name-change decision was not only political by removing the power of her famous actor father to control her identity but also a "great leap forward" theatrically by creating lovely, exotic-sounding dramatic name.

"Desire for Exotic Creativity"

• "Leapfrog" over the conventional path to privilege via political intelligence, theatrical genius, games and gambling, extraordinary confidence, or via one's children.

• Desire to challenge conventional boundaries of creative intelligence, raising children, politics, speculation, and genius in performing arts

• Hunger to Possess fame, celebrity, and hear the applause for one's individual intelligence

• Although improperly qualified, one seeks privileged experience in courtly pastimes, poetry and literature, speculation, amusements and games

• "leapfrogs" to celebrity status in theatre, politics, financial speculation, games, often by "marrying up" (Guy Ritchie)

bravado

• "Lord of the Rings" writer JRR Tolkien . His first books were initially refused by literary editors (5) adjudged as being too exotic fo for modern readers due to their "eye-splitting" Celtic names.

• Nevertheless Tolkien won them over via his own genius (5). First he demonstrated (5 "show") that the unfamiliar names were not Celtic anyway, but rather more Germanic in linguistic form.

• They were still quite reluctant but he overwhelmed them with confident self-authority (5) -- and a magnificent new literary genre of other-worlds "fantasy fiction" was born.

• Rahu the Rakshasa feeds upon chaotic and manipulative circumstances within the realms of children, politics, creativity, literature, performance arts, theatre, speculation, and games.

• RahRahu the Intruder disregardsthe approved steps for generating children, upsets the schedule of theatrical performance art, and makes one privy to disturbing and possibly dangerous threats to national security.

• Disrupts the predictability or poses legitimacy questions in regard to: the spouse's earnings (5 = 11th-from-7)>

Rahu Mahadasha- Rahu bhukti = Rahu pratyantardasha

During periods of Rahu, a surreptitious intruder or poseur enters the realm of shelter and foundations and caretaking interactions.

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

One's passion for connecting to this enticing exotic agent is disruptive but exciting and each iteration breaks some limit upon how many and which types of roots one is allowed to grow.

Restless Dissatisfaction with Children, Intelligence, Politics, Celebrity

• Rahu in 5 provides a source of chronic dissatisfaction with the limitations and constraints of one's children, with political behaviors, with conventional intelligence, performance arts and celebrity lifestyle.

• Dissatisfied with conventional children, Rahu-5 may prefer to adopt a child from a better or more diverse bloodline. Dissatisfied with conventional practice of intelligence, one adventures into new forms of insight. Rahu in 5 can indicate genius marked by remarkably high entitlement and intelligent gambling on creative risks.

• Children tend to come through adoption and previous marriage or are born out of wedlock or have some high-risk features..

• One seeks sudden promotion to privileged ranks via agency of calling attention to one's children (or grandchildren), performance arts, political association, fashion, celebrity recognition, speculative risk, and fame.

Politics

Rahu the Rogue provides an extreme desire to obtain political celebrity and to receive applause for brilliant performance.

Les agents provocateurs represented by Rahu-5 = not necessarily an immoral influence. The agent desires to obtain privileged experiences by "leapfrog" without having followed the conventional proving steps toward social approval of "creativity" (5, intelligence, genius, children).

Thus Rahu in 5 disturbs the existing orderly limits regarding:

• "showing off" = bravado = one may usurp "center-stage" attention in a surreptitious fashion by pretending to have more political credibility than one really has. (Examples of quick-rise to politically central positions on the basis of spotty, unrelated or unproven background

• Lee Iacocca

• exotic or unusual conditions of political career

• romance = frequent and passionate

Children

bahu-putra yoga

Rahu in putra bhava = "bahuputra yoga"

results = If Rahu occupies 5 and Rahu does NOT occupy either Makara navamsha or Kumbha navamsha then a possibility opens of having a rather large number of Children. There should however be other factors which support good expansion of the child-count, such as a well place Jupiter.

• example: Angelina Jolie = Rahu-5 and L-5 Mangala + Guru + Lagnesha-Chandra in dharma bhava

• Brigitte Bardot 's only child (Shani-5) was taken from her and raised by her ex-husband's family. However Shani is strong in Makara; mother-son reunited later (Shani) in life.

children = one may enjoy parenting children from diverse origins, including

• step-children from the spouse's previous marriages

• offspring of multiple marriages Steve Jobs

• multi-racial = Quincy Jones

• foreign adoption from mixed ethnicities Angelina Jolie

conditions of the birth or adoption of the first child are likely to cross cultural barriers in some fashion, for example a single-parent adoption (Jolie) or a child born out of wedlock (Jobs, Guy Ritchie )

The birth of children becomes politicized Napoleonor one becomes a voice in the politics of children's welfare Angelina Jolie.

• One tends to disregard conventional limitations regarding production, acquisition, and raising of children

• Rahu-5 may appropriate the children of another

Children esp the eldest are unusual, perhaps adopted

• Angelina Jolie, Guy Ritchie

or born under unusual circumstances

• Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Napoleon Bonaparte

The Rahu child is desirable, ambitious, and attractive, but may be a channeler of alternative personalities per Rahu-1. (depends on Rahu's lord)

Rahu's pride generates a great desire to exercise the creative intelligence.

One seeks to achieve self-elevation through acquisition of children. May feel entitled (5) to the social validation granted to those who raise society's children, yet often the offspring do not arrive on the conventional schedule.

Rahu-5 feels a passion for children despite not quite having earned the entitlement in past lives. Confidence in one's reproductive powers is low but recognition (Rahu) entitlement (5) = high.

Children are exotic or 'marked' (remarkable) in some fashion; often a foreign adoption, or one accepts the children of another.

Children are indeed a means to an end, the end being self-glorification (Rahu) rather than a natural continuation of a divine spark of intelligence (normal reproduction). Too much desire and not enough faith somewhat perverts the natural fertility process. Thus, devious means of producing or acquiring children must be resorted to.

If Guru casts drishti upon 1, 5 or 9 or Guru casts drishti upon Chandra; if Chandra occupies 1, 5 or 9;, none of the above devious machinations (Rahu) will overly complicate the biological process. At least one child arrives biologically when Guru's fertile eye glances at cool, moist Soma or the fortunate basal trine.

• However even that child much beloved may arrive as a social taboo-breaker or via trickery or in fraudulent circumstances.

• Remember that bhava-5 shows the social-material conditions of the children esp the social response to their unique expression of divine intelligence; however Rahu-5 's own emotionally responsive relationship to the child-1 starts at 5th-from-Chandra; child-2 = 7th-from-Chandra, etc.

As a general rule of Rahu in 5, while Rahu-5 may overly promote one's child in order to bring glorious justification to oneself (e.g., a 'stage mother') nevertheless offspring arrive into one's life in an abundant, natural way and there is little need for misgiving.

• If Rahu + Guru and/or lord of 5 in 8, an early abortion or a medically terminated pregnancy often due to genetic irregularity (Rahu) of the infant's physical form.

With Rahu in 5, success in obtainment of children depends on the house-lord but inevitably Rahu the co-lord of Shani's rashi Kumbha will cause some ego-conflict and sorrow in matters of social justification (Surya vs Shani) in the process of reproduction and child-raising.

Rahu in 5 in a barren rashi (Kanya, Mithuna, Makara, Kumbha) generally signifies lack of children. However if Budha or Shani are well positioned, e.g. in a trine and supported by child-positive companion graha, children may be obtained albeit by complex and possibly expensive means.

In other rashi, the circumstances of the children will reflect the character of the lord of putra bhava. Not a reactionary but a risk-taker in creative endeavors. A gambler who loves games of chance.

For a good life, avoid low-class gambling scenarios such as casinos. May give exceptionally interesting, volatile, and/or spectacularly profitable results in stock-market speculation, esp. if Surya is also in this bhava.

Agents of approval, admiration, applause = risk-takers and cultural-boundary challengers.

Passion and desire are the primary means of gaining ego-validation, attention and approval.

Smoky, oily things

Native may be involved in the "politics of pollution" both

• socially in terms of managing ostracized darker (Rahu)out-groups

• and materially, in terms of regulating toxic pollution of the natural environment

The Chosen

raising children and expressing individual creativity.

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu upsets customary moral boundaries and induces risky behavior:

• in the children;

• in the literary and creative genius;

• in the politics, theatre, contests, games,

• displays of intelligence

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of raising children and expressing individual creativity.

Can be an indication of celebrity, if Rahu's dispositor is favorable.

Underclass, exotic, or taboo attributes of the children. Stomach trouble for Rahu-5 .

• Rahu in a rashi of Shani may deny children entirely.

• Rahu in rashi of Budha, children arrive under peculiar circumstances (illegitimacy, commercial adoption, children of distant relatives thrice removed).

• Rahu in other rashis may give large numbers of children, or a child of remarkable, outstanding talent.

Only the bhava lord can determine whether Rahu-5 can raise these unusual children, or whether the kids will be raised by others (servants, ex-spouses, etc.)

Expansive but unstable desire for children, which may be thwarted due to psychic fluctuations and inconsistency of purpose. Fascination with celebrityand political power. Excited applause received from the audience in response to Rahu-5 's expressions of individual genius.

Otherwise, peculiar circumstances surrounding the conception and development of children. Depending on the rashi, the child may become famous or distinguished in its own culture.

Always something unusual in the circumstances of conceiving the first child. Frequently an indicator of foreign adoption. Can signify adopting or raising one's grandchildren because one's own children have an irregular lifestyle.

Career + public status difficulties

"Damned if you do; damned if you don't."

When Rahu = 5, naturally Ketu = 11.

bhava-10 = public dignity + profession = enters a bad-angle position = a feeling of entrapment in career

• the notoriously difficult 6th-from-Rahu = an attempt at quick self-elevation during which one becomes the victim of fraud or tricky deceit by adversarial others at the top of the social hierarchy

• the notoriously difficult 12th-from-Ketu = an attempt to withdraw from involvements during which one is prevented from "clean cut" separation because 12th-from-Ketu frustratingly 'dissolves the detachment' and re-invigorates the professional duties.

• This sort of executive leadership role is adversarial and unsatisfying to the point of impoverishment or physical illness, yet psychically (Ketu) it is quite hard to get out of the social responsibilities involved.

6th-from-Rahu-in-5 :

6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu = The Trouble-makers:

6/12 agency = bhava-10 =

• The Father's family history

• The father's wealth

• The Father's knowledge

• The father's cultural values

• Seniority,

• Respect for Age

• Respect for Law

• Rank and Responsibilities:

• Social Obligation,

• The Boss

• Top Positions,

• Leadership,

• Career,

• Ability to Govern,

• Creating an Orderly Environment

• Executive Directors

• Rules,

• Policies

• Top Decision-Makers

• Hierarchical Social Structures

• "The Deeds One is Required to Perform"

• Executive Leadership,

• Vocation,

• Institutional Governance,

• Dignity,

• Social Reputation

• Promotion

6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu

Fame and acclaim, rank and recognition: Rahu wants it - but can Rahu get it?

The bhava which = 6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu = karma bhava = most conflicted, adversarial, toxic, frustrating, every-way-but-loose environment of the nativity

• Periods of the lord of bhava-10 are therefore often especially difficult for matters of maintaining or securing a top executive or governing position and sustaining public respect, particularly if combined with a Rahu-Ketu transit to the axis of bhava 4-10.

By knowing the axis of radix Rahu-Ketu, it will be possible to predict which department of life will cause consistently the most persistently volatile and recurring yet seemingly uncontrollable trouble for Rahu-5 .

Compared to 6th-from-Shani

6th-from-Shani-related disagreement and conflict improves with age, neutrality, and patience.

• However, 6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu variety of conflict due to overstepping the bounds of one's rightful place (6th-from-Rahu) plus loss of meaningful engagement due to apathy (12th-from-Ketu) reappears in a new guise during each subsequent Rahu bhukti.

6th-from-Rahu

6th-from-Rahu = the disagreements, disappointments, broken contracts, accusation, arguments, and adversarial relationships which originate in Rahu-5 's attempt to self-elevate via quick, unconventional and generally unearned increase in social rank and privilege.

6th-from-Rahu shows the adversarial relationships, illness, and financial imbalance such as debt leading to poverty or servitude, which are triggered by Rahu-5 's instinctive desire (Rahu) to challenge boundaries and leap-frog over customary stepwise earnings.

The negative consequences of 6th-from angles are karmic in origin. Persons whom one may have inadvertently harmed in past lives may suddenly appear as exploiters, enemies, or disease agents during periods of Rahu or lord of 6th-from-Rahu. They enforce servitude, start conflicts, and cause or treat disease during this period.

• Effects of 6th-from-Rahu do not necessarily reflect any present-life crime or dishonor committed by Rahu-5 . The origins of Rahu-Ketu drama are often shrouded in the mists of previous lives.

• Neutral acceptance of the realities of "6th-from" = accusations, disregard for agreements, and ill-will in humanity is often the only available strategy for dealing with this recurring situation.