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Gochara Rahu-Ketu
Transits of
Rahu-Ketu through the rashi (radix) chart
Rahu-Ketu gochara
Trimshamsha
lagna
Rahu-Ketu gochara to radix
natal points [Nodal Returns]
most effects are
also similar for Rahu-Ketu transit through navamsha
Transits
[gochara] of Rahu-Ketu
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Go-chara literally = "cow-path";
planets wander like cows over their familiar paths.
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Rahu-Ketu give troubles ranging from minor healing crisis to
life-threatening catastrophe. The nature of their mischief depends
entirely on which planets share their house, rule them, and aspect them.
Rahu-Ketu gochara Trimshamsha
lagna
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When Rahu-Ketu transit over the
Trimshamsha (D-30) lagna
approximately every nine years, they always cause some type of trouble.
The nature of the trouble depends predominantly on the ruling
bhukti-pat.
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In the worst case, if Rahu-Ketu transit the D-30 lagna during
the bhukti of rashi L-6 or rashi L-8, we might see a major bodily catastrophe
like this man's terrible burns.
(Importantly, L-6/L-8 do not cause death - only suffering. Rahu under
their rule might cause catastrophe, but life would continue. Generally
only L-2/L-7 cause death.)
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It's rarely the worst case. Nevertheless, every nine
years, when Rahu-Ketu cross the D-30 lagna, some misfortune will occur
consistent with character of the current bhukti lord.
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In predicting the effects of Rahu-Ketu moving across the D-30
lagna, remember that the bhukti-pat may shift during Rahu-Ketu's 18-month
sojourn. Misfortunate effects may be quite trivial if the bhukti-pat is
auspicious, and potentially severe if that lord has poor character.
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Shani transits to difficult
points may exacerbate misfortunate effects of Rahu-Ketu over the D-30 lagna even
when Shani is not the bhukti-pat. However, gochara Shani cannot by Himself
ensure misfortune.
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The every-18-year crossing of Rahu over the D-30 lagna is more
malefic than the alternating Ketu transit. However, should Ketu magnify
truly evil planets in rashi, Ketu's own transits will become highly malefic too.
(Usually in ways typical of disturbing Ketu, such as mental illness or sensory
failure.)
Rahu-Ketu gochara to radix points
[Nodal Returns]
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When Rahu-Ketu have strength in the radix chart, their
every-18-years "return" transits are more intense.
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Rahu-Ketu gain strength from being conjunct with benefics
or malefics, occupying angular houses, and being in their timelord periods.
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For relationships, Rahu-Ketu transits across both the
navamsha lagna and radix chart's 1/7 axis
can be intensely transformative along the typical range from healing crisis to
major catastrophe.
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Gochara Rahu-Ketu
(transits) comprising a 120-year lifespan
These transit effects
are strongly controlled by the ruling bhukti lord!
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AGE
RANGE
Nodal return lasts 18 months. Check chart for your precise
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RAHU-KETU Cycle
Rahu/Ketu full cycle is 18 years.
Half-cycle, return to
opposition point, is 9 years. |
GENERAL
EFFECTS
To experience maximum Nodal return impact,
nodal cycles must definitely be coordinated with dasha/bhukti cycles. (I.e.,
Rahu return during a Rahu bhukti is intense.) |
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Age 0
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Rahu/Ketu at birth position
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wow, here are those core people in my reincarnating team, my
parents & caretakers, with whom I have intense relationships from past
lives!
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Age 9-10
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first Nodal opposition,
when Rahu transits
(gochara) over natal Ketu, and Ketu transits over natal
Rahu
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Age 9/10 is first experience being a Big Kid. In USA this is
usually 4th/5th grade, a big step up in responsibility & control. Also a
classic era of parental divorce, or birth of a younger sibling to make one
a child-parent.
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Age 18-19
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first Nodal Return, when Rahu transits conjunct
its natal place, and Ketu transits conjunct its natal
place
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Similar to effect of Birth, but moderated by the current
bhukti. Age 18-19 is notorious as entrance to adulthood - ready or
not!
Intense challenge to the personality, positive &
enthusiastic risk-taking era for anyone with a planet conjunct the nodes.
Military draft, national vote, going to college,
first baby, moving out ... depending on the affected axis.
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Age 27-28
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second Nodal opposition, when Rahu transits
(gochara) over natal Ketu, & Ketu transits over natal
Rahu
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Similar to effect of age 9-10 -- but moderated by the
current bhukti.
Age 27-28 is not only confirmed adulthood; it also, often
coordinates with the dreaded Saturn Return, if Saturn occupies an early
degree in the sign.
Often age 27-28 is first marriage, graduate school, or
first big responsibilities at work. It's the Big Kid control energy
again.
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Age 36-37
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second Nodal Return, when Rahu transits conjunct
its natal place, and Ketu transits conjunct its natal
place
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Similar to effect of Birth, & 18-19, but moderated by
the current bhukti. Very intense risk-taking era for anyone with a planet conjunct the nodes.
(For example, Princess Di, JFK, killed at Nodal Return with her Mars conjunct
Rahu.) Wants to have it all, be
it all, do it all.
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Age 45-46
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third Nodal opposition, when Rahu transits
(gochara) over natal Ketu, and Ketu transits over natal
Rahu
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Similar to effect of age 9-10, 27-28 -- but moderated by the
current bhukti. The authentic "mid-life crisis" which if coordinated
with Saturn opposition (if Saturn is high degree in sign) can
evoke return to middle school behaviors. If nodal axis contains
other planets, whatever was a problem age 9-10, 27-28 will be a big problem
again. "Second childhood" can induce fierce cravings
for creativity & freedom whilst the individual insists on
retaining adult levels of seniority and control. Crazy time for nodal people.
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Age 54-55
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third Nodal Return, when Rahu transits conjunct
its natal place, and Ketu transits conjunct its natal
place
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Similar to effect of Birth, & 18-19, 36-37 - but
moderated by the current bhukti. Can coordinate with second SATURN RETURN (if Saturn is late
degree in sign) and can be YEEHAH very demanding as sensual/sexual
desires collide with body's need for mature peace. To thine own self be
true!
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Age 63-64
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fourth Nodal opposition, when Rahu transits
(gochara) over natal Ketu, and Ketu transits over natal
Rahu
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Similar to effect of age 9-10, 27-28, 45-46 -- but moderated
by the current bhukti. The individual is
stressed-out in their attempt to retain authority while indulging
in childlike creativity. Often coordinates with early retirement
in USA corporations, government service. "Big Kid"
syndrome.
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Age 72-73
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fourth Nodal Return, when Rahu transits conjunct
its natal place, and Ketu transits conjunct its natal
place
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Similar to effect of Birth, & 18-19, 36-37,54-55 - but
moderated by the current bhukti. Stimulates desire for experience and achievement, not unlike
previous nodal returns age 18, 36, and 54. Boost of vitality
combined with profound reflections. Age is very helpful in
handling the psychic Nodes, so this 4th return may be the best so
far.
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Age 81-83
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Fifth Nodal opposition, when Rahu transits
(gochara) over natal Ketu, and Ketu transits over natal
Rahu
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Similar again to age 9, 27, 45, & 63 -- but
moderated by the current bhukti. Persons who choose to sustain their incarnation to the age of
81 will find a type of "mid-life crisis" this year. The
purity of deep natural insights comes to battle with the force of
entrenched personal habit. One has the realization in depth, that
one is one's own worst enemy. Exhilarating poetry and occasional
depression may follow these insights.
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Age 90-92
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Fifth Nodal Return, when Rahu transits conjunct
its natal place, and Ketu transits conjunct its natal
place
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Similar to effect of Birth, & 18-19, 36-37, 54-55, 72-73
- but moderated by the current bhukti. Although the vicissitudes of modern life barely affect the
90-year-old, a 5th Nodal Return is likely to be an Electrifying
experience. One may not wish to go public with the knowledge, but
this is the age of true Enlightenment. Certain artists & philosophers do their
best work at age 90-92.
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Age 108-110
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Sixth
Nodal opposition, when Rahu transits (gochara) over natal
Ketu, and Ketu transits over natal Rahu
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Similar again to age 9, 27, 45, 63 & 81 -- but
moderated by the current bhukti. Completed acquisition of esoteric
knowledge structure.
Increasingly possible in dwapara
yuga to earn the privilege to complete the conscious awareness
at this level, which requires living consciously right up to the sixth
Rahu-Ketu return.
In Buddhist tradition the number 108 is extremely auspicious.
The result of multiplying key cosmic geometrics 9x12, the amount of
108 is considered perfect in that is contains the entire cosmos.
Tremendous insights here.
(See The
Secret Doctrine for more on these original numbers.)
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Age 118-120
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Sixth Nodal Return, when Rahu transits conjunct
its natal place, and Ketu transits conjunct its natal
place
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Traditionally, the sixth nodal return marks the maximum
length of a
natural incarnation, when all past-life information has entered the
consciousness according to the limits of the genetic structure.
Thus
120 years is the length of a natural lifetime in Hebrew Bible, Vedas, Babylonian
scripture, etc.
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Q: Hi
Barbara,
Thank you for creating such a wonderful site with great
information of great Rsi's. While I was reading your page on Rahu, you say that
Rahu represents desires that were suppressed, often violently, in previous
lives.
If we are spiritual practitioners of some kind, is it not
required that we suppress our desires so as to advance spiritually? When I read
your page on Rahu I felt that I will be doing myself a disservice by suppressing
my desires since they will again resurface in my future lives.
I hope you can enlighten me on this matter. Thank you.
A: Namaste,
Great question!
I'd say, different teachers have different methods. So, ask your
teacher.
I am not a big fan of brute suppression as IMO suppression tends
to intensify the desire, which makes more work in the long run. I am however a
fan of compassionate self-management.
My own method is to try to first gain awareness of the presence
of the desires, then make a plan to satisfy the desires.
Just Do It?
The most natural response to feeling a desire is to "just
do it". One instinctively, reactively indulges the desire and lets the
chips fall where they may. This is the default method and its chaotic results
are well known. Naturally, Rahu the karaka of desire has a very bad reputation
as the instigator of this type of disastrous mess.
Use one thorn to remove another thorn
Another method of satisfying a desire = to replace it with
another desire. E.g., the desire for chocolate can be replaced with the desire
for wine (lateral replacement), or the desire for an addictive drug can be
replaced with the desire for freedom from the drug (upgrade replacement). It's
usually a good sign when the desire for freedom-from starts to outweigh the
desire for freedom-to.
A campaign of desires
Usually, the conscious person just has to think about what one
really wants. That's what I mean about planning for desires - really reflect on
known desires and see what feels truly important. Where is the "priority
desire" that shapes the campaign of life, behind which all other desires
must follow? If the priority desire = the desire for enlightenment/unburdenment,
the other desires of course get de-prioritized. But they don't go away!.
A calculus of desire-management
For example, a student's instinctive desire to sleep late and
miss class can be replaced/over-ruled by the conscious desire to get out of bed
and earn an A. But the person still resents having to get out of bed, and they
will probably sleep in twice as long as soon as the priority desire (for the A)
is satisfied. (In Jyotisha, Rahu in domain-12 shows a desire to stay in bed.)
Let's say that this student declares: I'll drag my carcass out of bed every
morning to get to this darned class, but as soon as this class is finished, I'm
going to sleep for a week!
IMO that would be a smart way of handling the desire - don't
suppress it, but rather 'schedule' it for a time when it won't be so harmful to
indulge. This is a trivial example but it shows one potential iteration of an
elaborate calculus of desire-management that Rahu's eruptive passions may
require.
Storm-surge of desires
Even with the most savvy desire-management habits, sometimes
desires just spring out of the subconscious (usually during Rahu periods). These
'storm surge' events require a strong and principled mental response.
Rahu tends to make the cart run away with the horse. It's good
to have a plan when old desires erupt again from the suppressed caverns of the
subconscious. If you want to re-suppress them, because perhaps your teacher
recommends that, by all means follow your teacher's instructions. But even
if the plan is simply "immediate re-suppression without further ado,"
know the Rahu-response plan and be ready to enforce it.
Jyotisha's early-warning system
Rahu periods of the Vimshottari Dasha are good predictors of
what type of desires will arise and when. Forewarned is forearmed!
Sincerely, Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha
www.barbarapijan.com
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