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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

Rahu

in Ayur Bhava-8

prestige sought via occult knowledge, confidential information, hidden wealth, healing mysteries

elevation via secret liaisons

ambition to rejuvenate, rebirth, reconstitute, renovate, discover and reveal

Rahu in 8th-from-Chandra

Elevation via

• Sudden Transformation,

• Secret Resources,

• Revolutionary Change

Rahu in Bhava-8 sudden revolution = privileges gained via secret knowledge and sudden, forced changes.

Often a dramatic rise from the station of birth via extraordinary or exotic rebirth, dangerous environments, sudden upheavals, and the conditions of death.

• Unusual circumstances regarding the partner's family and marital assets.

• Rahu-8 seeks to "get ahead" via confidential information, holding secrets, engagement with sudden eruptions of force, disasters, unexpected and overwhelming changes

• attracted to positions such as 'executive secretary' wherein one knows, and can use for self-elevation, secret information about the business, about the boss

• intelligence officers, police detective, disaster specialist

Quest for higher entitlements via:

• rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, "born again"

• secret liaisons, hidden money,

• occult mysteries,

• emergencies, sudden unexpected changes,

• explosions, eruptions, disasters

• surgery, forced transformations

• knowledge of the conditions of death

Rahu wants what He materially cannot have or morally should not have.

In bhava-8, it is Rahu's Desire to be a recognized master of emergencies, an energetic pursuer of trauma intervention, a skillful manager of affairs conducted with Great Secrecy.

Whatever distinction He obtains in the hungry question for recognition, He 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 intensively transformative instincts, responsive movement in a state of terror, and rebirth during catastrophic change. Every day begins with renewed lust for this ephemeral prize.

As much as Rahu hungers for recognition by those who deal in conditions of emergency, terror, disaster, and threat to life, Rahu is frustrated in the veiled, under-cover conditions of randhrasthana. Rahu-8 can only be acknowledge "secretly".

Rahu-8 often brings substantial inheritance, which Rahu-8 wants to use as a catapult into higher privilege even while one tries to hide the money.

Entitlement sought : Rahu-8 wants to appear as a legitimate, credible holder of status-rank in the class of beings =

• holders of confidential information, secret-keepers, masked by camouflage, transformers, magicians and tantriki, those who deal with sudden eruptions of force, one who has psychological control, who can read patterns of invisible or subtle influence,

• who drills, digs, or dives, or plunges into the unknown, excavators and exhumers, surgeons, one who understands and can act upon the cycles of self-destruction and rebirth,

• discovers hidden resources, finds hidden treasure, receives inheritance, who turns the wheel of birth and death.

If Mangala or L-8 = strong, Rahu may take whatever risks are necessary to achieve membership in this class of beings.

strong association with socially risky, desire-driven extramarital relationships

Rahu's quick-ascending tunnel-up passageway =

Bhava-8 provides the snake-hole aperture through which the ambitious Naga King slithers, slides, and springs upward.

Rahu in bhava-8 = Ketu in bhava-2

chidakaraka Ketu =

• Ambivalence toward the family lineage history; toward face, hair, teeth, mouth and eyes ; eating and food; toward language, speech and song; toward meter and verse; toward received values; scattered focus on containment of wealth.

• apathetic, disengaged with treasuries of wealth and knowledge, yet there are no barriers preventing acquisition of herds, hoards, and collections of stored value. Wealth outcome depends on Ketu's lord.

chalakaraka Rahu =

• Ambition to obtain "by whatever means necessary" the privileges accorded to holders of mysterious or confidential empowerments

• fascination with the wealth of the partner

• passion for clandestine liaison; craving to be acknowledged as an important figure in times of crisis and transformation; a healer and a knower of intimate secrets.

• One's connection to the power-source of destruction-and-rebirth cycles = amplified and one seeks the power to engage with the forces of sudden, unexpected change.

Rahu in Bhava 8

= 8th-from any lagna

= 8th-from Chandra

Mysteries and secret liaison.

Occult entitlements.

Rahu's self-elevating platform = the environment of the "apertures" = tunnelized membrane openings between the worlds = conduits of the spirits = chakra, channels, rivers, nadi

Cycles of extremely sudden change.

• Self-elevation through risky (Rahu) hidden liaisons, masked dealings, camouflaged treasuries.

• Fascinated with mysterious secrets.

• Gets involved with occult knowledge

Rahu + Chandra = sudden upheaval regarding the mother

• UK-Prince William Windsor

Rahu + Surya = sudden upheaval regarding the father

• UK-Prince William Windsor

Rahu-8 = a very dicey but high-potential position which can result in

• sudden unexpected transformation of identity

• reptilian trickery regarding the spousal family of origin and spouse's assets

• acquisition of hidden wealth and secret knowledge

Full scope of effects depends upon which graha occupy bhava 12, 2, and 4.

Unlike inactive, witnessing Ketu in 8 which is overall a spiritually beneficial placement, Rahu in 8 can represent a losing gamble with the dangers of sudden often violent and unexpected changes, specifically changes which initiate the conditions of death.

Rahu-8 = ambition to discover the hidden energetic forces which animate the unknown.

• Albert Einstein

• Benjamin Franklin

Craving for the "born again" experience:

Rahu tries to trick and deceive the conditions of death, using threats to life for His own instrumental purposes.

Devious Rahu-8 may be intrigued by tantrik promises of fleshly immortality and perhaps become fascinated by the privileges of empowerment through the dark forces.

In His arrogance, Rahu may underestimate the true intensity of the dark force and the corresponding frailty of human defense against annihilation is not recognized until Rahu-8 has entered the inextricable vortex tunnel.

In compounded difficulties such as harsh drishti of Kuja to 8 and other hasteners, possibility of unintentional suicide and other outcomes resulting from the pichchalakaraka's slippery movement to "trick" the conditions of death.

• Kurt Cobain

Fascination (Rahu) with the Wealth of the partner (2nd from 7th)

• USA Pres-01 George Washington married a well-capitalized widow who had inherited Virginia tobacco plantations from her first husband. Martha was a highly capable businesswoman and negotiator who funded his military role in the American revolutionary war while steadily increasing their wealth via multiple plantations run by hundreds of slaves.

Fascination with the Knowledge of the partner (2nd from 7th)

• physicist poet Albert Einstein - considered to have obtained much benefit from the ideas of his first wife, herself a gifted physicist

Rahu in bhava-8 = fascinated by the lure of privileged secrets.

• physicist poet Albert Einstein - devastating secret bombs capable of large-scale annihilation

Suggests the fascination (Rahu) of extramarital (8) intrigue - but the outcome depends on Rahu's lord.

Two examples of a Rahu-timed extramarital fascination which harmonized into a second marriage due to the stability of Rahu's lord:

• dramatist Brad Pitt Rahu's lord Budha in Dhanushya-2 second marriage + Surya + Ketu + Chandra + Mangala

Excellent placement for

• professions of masking, hiding, camouflage and disguise

• high-risk work in volatile environments

• double-agents and spies

A great desire to be recognized as a discoverer or transformative healer, although one has not yet earned the insight. Via Rahu's characteristic over-promotion, Rahu-8 often gets into misguided tantric or confidential practices that are "over their head".

• Great Leap Forward via Discovery: Occult and Confidential knowledge, Hidden Assets, Emergencies

• Discovery - recovery

• Elevation through revelation

Rahu Risk-taking as a response to conflict

Rahu-8 = 6th-from = bhava-3, might feel compelled toward illicit behaviors by a conflict with commercial business, the siblings , or the family of the 2nd spouse

"Desire to Possess Mysterious Secrets"

Passion to challenge conventional boundaries that define Hidden or Confidential Knowledge and Sudden, Forced Changes

• Hunger to Possess forensic knowledge and tantric mysteries

• One can "leapfrog" to higher occult-knowledge status in realms of secret monies, emergencies, catastrophic change, surgery, and magic, often by "marrying up".

The partner-helpmate's contribution to assets (2nd from 7th) = masked in secrecy

• Albert Einstein

Uses surreptitious or unconventional methods to obtain credibility in situations of catastrophic change, radical healing, emergencies, interventions and invasive "break-ins"

radical asset "discoveries" = uncovering the existence of hidden natural resources

Benjamin Franklin = electricity

• Albert Einstein = nuclear fusion

Rahu Mahadasha- Rahu bhukti = Rahu pratyantardasha

During periods of Rahu , a surreptitious intruder or poseur enters the realm of sudden emergence and mysteries and confidential interactions.

• The goal of the interloper is to break limits and challenge assumptions about the normal stepwise path of the normal stepwise path of acquisition of hidden knowledge and wealth.

• 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 secret knowledge one is allowed to explore.

The Chosen

One wishes to feel specially "chosen" for a privileged role: permission to join elite secret societies and confidential knowledge reserves.

For example,

• Albert Einstein's membership in the secret group of WWII scientists who had access to both Nazi advanced weapons technology and also the USA Manhattan Project.

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundariesand behavioral consistency

• in the spouse's family (in-laws);

• in the inheritance and shared marital assets;

• in mysterious affairs such as covert military invasions, uncovering ancient history, surgeries, birth and death,

• tantrik yoga practices

• in catastrophic emergence.

Les agents provocateurs represented by Rahu-8

The agent desires to obtain privileged experiences by "leapfrog" without having followed the conventional proving steps toward social approval of "mystery" (8 = exploration of the hidden, magical, occult).

Thus Rahu in 8 disturbs the credentialing process and existing orderly limits regarding:

• management of the joint assets of marriage,

• handling sudden emergencies

• discovery of hidden resources

• secret money and confidential information

• cycle of destruction and rebirth

• relationship with in-laws

• surgery disaster catastrophic change and sudden transformations

Depending on the strength of Rahu and Rahu's planetary lord, Rahu-8 may suffer an passion for secrets.

• Albert Einstein had a secret, abandoned first child (Mangala L-6 for death of child, uchcha with Rahu in 8).

  • He discovered numerous secrets of the universe and worked on secret weapons of mass destruction which resulted in the conditions of death for Nagasaki-Hiroshima in WWII. Einstein had scientific collaborators, but he would never reveal or acknowledge their contributions to his work.

  Rahu is beneficial in bhava-8, but only for magical or tantric healings, such as surgery, and emergency intervention. Rahu in bhava-8 may bring inherited wealth, and surprisingly broad access to privileged information. Much hidden interaction with foreigners, exotic and secret world-power lineages (if in a regal sign) and a great attraction to situations involving catastrophic, forced, and sudden changes.

  Hunger for the hidden, secret,mysterious, confidential, deadly, dangerous, or taboo.

  Keynote of interventionist healers in the Acute transitional stages of life and death. Makes an excellent psychiatrist and medical or crime writer. Engaged with the rebuilding of identity after catastrophic change. Intrigued by the extraordinary disruption of life force during emergencies.

  Hunger for immersion in sudden movements of the cycle of birth and death, such as acute psycho-medical trauma, emergency first-responder, medical "triage", wills and estates, large-scale taxation, managing weapons of mass destruction, awareness of forces of great evil in the world.

  • the birth family of the spouse will have exotic or underclass attributes.

  Death by poison/drugs, snake-venom, or mysterious surprise attack.

Bodily vitality and social personality difficulties

A compulsive keeper of secrets. Fascinated with the secrecy surrounding taboo actions and desirous of tantrik knowledge. Wants to explore and Adventure in forbidden areas, both physical and psychological. Likes to stir the cauldron. Easily gets into secret terrain that is "over one's head".

May "secretize" information which was previously open.

• Causes and conditions of death are related to the L-8 and to Rahu, including illicit desire and pursuit of risk

• death in a foreign place, or surrounded by strangers .

• Funeral full of Oily smokefrom incense at the burning ghat.

• Surprisingly auspicious!

• Tantrik benefits accrue. In extreme cases, following the myth of Rahu, the head may be severed.

• Presence of naga spirits.

Other People's Money (8)

Can be tempted to file false insurance claims, invest money they don't have, and claim expertise they do not possess... because they see these temporary little white lies as small expediencies which can assist the overall trajectory, and small misallocations will be forgotten once Rahu arrives in the glorious elite.

6th-from-Rahu-in-8

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

The Trouble-makers:

6/12 agency bhava-1

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

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

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-8 .

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-8 '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-8 '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-8 . 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.

12th-from-Ketu

12th-from-Ketu = loss of vitality, dissolution of enthusiasm, drained energies, erosion of conviction, disengagement, and general ennui regarding persons, topics, and relationships which are already weakened due to Ketu's residence in the bhava.

• Effects of 12th-from-Ketu are relatively subtle yet often deeply frustrating; there is not enough energy or enthusiasm available to summon, not enough fuel in the tank, to get going toward solution of 12th-from-Ketu problems.

• Neutral acceptance of inevitable loss is typically the only available strategy.

Amelioration

The native typically does not desire to eradicate their power to control secret knowledge. It is a precious and intriguing capability. The physical body may be exploited (6) for Rahu's purposes; the resulting imbalance can be corrected via Seva for those suffering mysterious or undiagnosable disease (6). Rahu-8 is a healer's placement, and when properly used Rahu-8 can become the agent of miraculous transformations.

similar effects during any Rahu bhukti, adapted to the angle between Mahadasha-pati vis-a-vis Rahu