House 1

USA Pres 33, Harry Truman

Il Duce Benito Mussolini

Fidel Castro dictador de Cuba

USA Pres  41, George H. W. Bush "Sr." 

JFK, Jr. publisher

Jack Welch GE, billionaire businessman

"Desire for Extraordinary Personal Identity"

• Passionate Desire to challenge conventional boundaries of personal identity, rank, social positioning

• Hunger to Possess unique identity through special entitlements. 

• Magnetically Attracted to displays of physical glamour, political power, and social notoriety

This person really wants to be special! May have been deprived of the mother's attention in childhood. Lifelong craving for validation and recognition of the exotic, unusually powerful, or extraordinary qualities in one's body image and one's social personality. 

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of individual boundary marking and body-identity development. 

Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries in the structure of the personality. One pursues each arising desire with intensity and passion. Utterly self-focused. Little sense of the impact of one's actions upon others. There is plenty of "pathy" but very little "empathy".

Due to the intensity of Rahu's craving to possess a person, an experience, or an empowerment, Rahu blunts the humane "sharing"  sensibilities. The native with Rahu in lagna, particularly if Rahu is joined with a malefic, will struggle to comprehend the feelings of others. Rahu destabilizes compassion and replaces humane empathy with reactive reptilian desire.

All graha gain dignity in lagna, and Rahu is no exception. The native with Rahu in lagna is an extraordinary person who stands out from the crowd. The native is socially identified with foreign interests, the revolutionary underclass, mysterious or taboo behaviors, or a threat to order implied in catastrophic social changes. 

Total result depends entirely on Rahu's lord and any grahas which may  co-occupy the lagna. Rahu in lagna does not give Shukra's fair and balanced beauty. Rather, Rahu confers a dark and smoky yet charismatic aura. The native is psychically hungry for empowerments of every variety. One may be loved, or feared; admired or despised; to Rahu it does not matter the means - so long as the end is validation of personal power.

One seeks recognition and achievement, and is obsessively hungry for material-physical-sensual experience. A karaka for promiscuity. Ketu will occupy domain-7 therefore the spouse is unsuitable and the native is profoundly detached or indifferent toward the marital alliance. Divorce is not implied, as apathy toward marriage is too strong to encourage any solution to the problem. The native pursues each desire as it arises. One is concerned only to attract validation for the personality, get attention, and empower the physical body. Should Shani influence Rahu, expect more self-deprivation and self-restraint according to social mores, but the apathy toward marriage alliance remains profound.

Native has an unusual individual identity. Craving to advance one's social position far beyond the rank into which one was born. A bit of a poseur, who may downplay one's common upbringing, attempting to appear more exotic. 

One is strangely attractive; and prone to take risks in one's life (usually in order to gain attention or power). 

• If Shani is associated with Rahu in lagna, these are calculated risks with scarce resources, reduced by conservative fears; 

• if Kuja is associated with Rahu in lagna, prone to adventure with physical risk; accidents; 

• if Chandra is associated with Rahu in lagna, prone to dramatic relationships with psycho-emotional risk

• if Shukra is associated with Rahu in lagna,

Often the mark of high performance in the area of life controlled by Rahu's lord, due to ambitious risk-taking. (However if Rahu's lord = neechha, Rahu amplifies neechha qualities which can lead those risks to fail.)

In psychic terms: if Rahu + malefics, the birth personality is conflicted. The birth itself is challenged.  Native must struggle to enforce their right to life. Native 'sneaks in' to the conception in a surreptitious act: stealing their drop of amrita!

Das / Behari: says: 

... You make a great strides in life. Gains honor, wealth and favor through religious, educational and scientific achievements. Dominating personality; promising self-expression. 

Gain and happiness through own initiative. Slow to pick up new ideas. Averse to formal education. Conqueror of enemies. You make the glory and influence of other people an instrument of your own success. 

You can effectively utilize your own powers and wealth for yourself and others. Not being satisfied with your own spouse, you may wander. 

Gains competence with the help of friends with effective grace. You are always ready for work. You may have two marriages, and a charming spouse. Quick to hold discussion. Lots of trouble and suffering. Bad qualities may surround you on many sides.

House 2

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Martin Luther King, Jr. [+ Kuja]

Rush Limbaugh (fanatic news commentator) [+ Guru]

Johnny Cash (singer, songwriter)

"Desire to Acquire"

• Desire to penetrate the conventional boundaries protecting Stored Cultural Values and "classic" Knowledge Traditions.  

• Hunger to Possess histories, wealth collections, and classical  languages

• Magnetically attracted to banks, accounts, collections of valuable books, art, music, language materials, all hoards of knowledge and accumulated wealth.

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of mental tasking and group communications.

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries and behavioral consistency in the family of origin; in the hoarding and collecting process; in the historical knowledge, language, opinions, speech and song. 

The native may be a vigorously disruptive speaker/singer expressing the 'voice of the dispossessed' (King, Limbaugh, Cash)

Rahu casts an exotic, exciting, sensually hungry,boundary-disrupting drishti upon:

• domain-6 (medicine/servants/mother's relatives), 

• domain-8 (secrets/emergencies/inheritance) 

• domain-10 (leadership/reputation/public icon)

Rahu's influence upon any dusthamsha is helpful in breaking up tough karmic resistance. Rahu encourages risk, to the point of recklessness, yet Rahu can be a powerful helper in breaking up "stuck" karmic patterns.

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of values acquisition. The native hungers for many types of knowledge, and is unable to maintain a sustained focus on a single type for long enough to build a hoard of wealth or expertise. 

The accumulative processes, including money savings, are erratic and unpredictable along a roller-coaster pattern. Periods of Rahu are fiercely acquisitive, albeit the wealth source may be a taboo-breaker. If Rahu's lord is favorable, Rahu in domain-2 may signify great wealth acquired through personal risk or exotic association. Wealth may take the form of money, or knowledge, or both.

Typically the native will desire to acquire not only money, but also a comprehensive knowledge of history -- especially knowledge of the traditions of one's blood lineage. One hungers to know languages, esp. the most valuable languages e.g. the ancient and sacred tongues.

Rahu wishes to possess knowledge and material collections of art, music, jewels, money, and all beautiful and luxurious things (Shukra's house).  

However Rahu's rampant desires are not satisfied with a single collection. The more Rahu learns, the more Rahu acquires, the more He craves the experience of acquiring further foods, monies, jewels, art, music, books, and other containers of sustaining knowledge. One acquired, the materials lose their fascination, and Rahu's hunger moves to new, related values. 

The general range of collection types will be known according to Rahu's lord and Rahu's co-tenants. 

The native can become quite wealthy according to Rahu's lord and co-tenants. Although the acquisitional behaviors can be erratic according to Rahu's changing desires, Rahu with any of the money lords (L-1, L-2, L-3, L-5, L-9, L-11) is hungry for accumulations.

Although Rahu + Shani in domain-2 is a dysfunctional yoga ( = acquisitive desires in battle with fearful restraint) if Shani = an auspicious house lord, this yoga will provide steadier hoarding patterns with the wisdom of age.

From domain-2, Rahu casts drishti upon domain-6, 8, and 10. Knowledge-values collection includes exotic medicine (6), esoteric histories (8), and symbolic representations (10).

Rahu in domain-2: Family of Origin

Unstable family environment. The family of origin struggles with changing social-historical values. Often, the inherited moral and aesthetic values of the family of origin are challenged by large-scale, environmental upheaval in social values. The ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times" applies to Rahu in dhana bhava. The native will realize that the lineage path of the ancestors cannot be unquestioningly followed. Experimentation with exotic or forbidden values lends a fundamental instability to the native's family life.

Rahu periods may produce dramatic taboo behaviors such as death, and bringing outsiders into the family.

When Rahu occupies death house-2, and Rahu occupies an unfavorable angle from the mahadasha pati, Rahu periods can give powerful maraka effects including sudden deaths within the family.

Rahu in domain-2: Marriages

Karaka for two marriages.

Rahu in 8th-from-7th: 

The first spouse will be prone to sudden emergencies and "suffer from complex ailments which are difficult to diagnose" [Behari's description of Rahu in domain-8]. First spouse has a hunger for secret, privileged information (8) and hidden financial operations [8].  

Ketu occupies domain-8 from lagna =  conventional marital project of acquiring joint assets and establishing a reserve of shared values = distant, disaffected, or detached. 

Due partly to frustration with the secret-hiding behaviors in the first marriage, the native may desire to explore a second marriage. However the second marriage may be even more problematic since Rahu directly governs the social personality of the second spouse.

The second spouse will exhibit a remarkable hunger for acquisition of money and knowledge. This person feels that the common boundaries do not apply to his/her wealth entitlements. Rahu's "usurper" 'role in the house of lineage speech, song, and values suggests that the second spouse is perhaps  

(See myth of Rahu-Ketu, Rahu's illicit sip of Amrita). 

Excessive disregard of the common law will not be socially tolerated. If spouse-2 has experienced censure, this one may have an "outsider" complex based on desire-driven pretense to special privilege. The total nativity must be considered before making a final prediction, but generally when Rahu occupies domain-2, the second spouse has "outlaw" characteristics which flaunt the public values of discretion and taste.

(However spouse-2 may also have money, education, social rank etc. according to L-2 and any graha cohabiting Dhana bhava with Lord Rahu.)

Unusual or extreme expression of cultural values. Values are deeply influenced by foreign cultures and the native eats the foods of foreign lands.

High permission to enjoy amplify the activities of the face and mouth. Attractive hair. High entitlement to eat and drink, speak and sing, as they please! Gives an intriguing, attractive, slightly exotic face.

Even very wealthy nativities will identify socially with the underclass or with a foreign culture. May be fluent in more than one cultural tradition, always hungry to sample more history, tradition, and value systems.

The native is plagued by unstable emotions throughout life, due to the childhood shocks and sudden changes. One expects dramatic interruptions of the family routine and indeed this pattern recurs with each Rahu period, when a fascinating new person or power needs to be integrated into one's family.

From domain-2, Rahu casts drishti upon domains 6, 8, and 10. 

Depending on the occupants of those houses, the general prognosis is for magnification of values conflict or poverty involving foreigners, increased healing ability and access to confidential information (again involving underclass or foreigners) and in regard to domain-10, a career influenced by ability to interact with foreign cultural systems. The native will travel internationally in professional service

Das / Behari: says:

... may cause you to stammer, become separated from your near and dear ones, and cause poverty. You become a purveyor of fish, flesh, skins, nails, and products which require a coarse heart and mind to work with. 

Humility will characterize your behavior. Promotes prosperity; gain through legacy and inheritance; science and learning. Success through property, employment and business. Amicable and profitable business alliances. Poor, sick; trouble through son. Dark-complexioned. A liar, fearless, a treasurer. 

Sees the destruction of the relatives. Influenced by the wicked. 

With all your wealth, you may live in poverty. 

Strife and discord with the relatives prompts you to conceal the truth. Fear of weapons and enemies. Dependent but receives severe punishment due to scoundrels. Selfish; unhappy and unemployed in the birth place. You may become wealthy in foreign lands. 

Much opposition. Hard struggle to gain any success. Speech defect; suffers from nose and throat problems. Gain and happiness through government favor. You may become a thief; proud; very unfortunate. 

Wealth through trade in fish; lives with the lowly people. Averse to friendly advice. Harsh; loss of wealth; poverty and wandering. Talks too much unpleasant, offensive, disagreeable. Gain through leather goods and stolen property. Teeth irregularly set; dexterous. Cattle wealth.

House 3

Rudolf Steiner anthroposophist, esoteric teacher

Elvis Presley

Catherine Zeta-Jones (actor)

"Desire to Deliver a Message"

• Desire to penetrate and upset the conventional integrity of daily Business-as-usual commerce and scripted Communication Patterns (disrupts habitual thoughts!)

• Hunger to Possess the thoughts of others through special psychic-communication entitlements

• Attracted to taboo topics of conversation and invasively interactive mental process

• Will tell you what you *really* want to know!

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries and behavioral consistency in the sibling group; in the communication processes; in the self-made wealth.. 

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of mental tasking and group communications.

Disruptive, exciting, sensually hungry drishti to 

• domain-7 (marriage/partners/agreements), 

• domain-9 (father /guru/ceremonial religion) 

• domain-11 (friends/income/goals)

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Peculiarly intense and penetrating method of communicating with others. May be an excellent writer if L-5 and Budha are strong. Strange ideas. Challenges the conventional cultural styles of information management. Disrupts meetings, the information flow of work-group, team, or business department. A rather peculiar person to have in the office.

Great hunger to talk with foreigners and take short trips to foreign lands. 

Can fabricate false stories for instrumental purposes, but is also a great short-story writer. Whether this mental attraction to extremes in storytelling is beneficial will depend on Rahu's lord.

Too exotic mentally for success in parochial business, but may succeed in international commerce. 

Mental health

Disruption to the conventional flow of daily thoughts. Invades the boundaries of others' thoughts. The inner personal narrative may be surging with hungry desire for sensual experience. 

If Budha is involved with Rahu, the mental flow of daily thoughts and voices from past and present which rings in the heads of all humans, is a wild and exciting inner debate.

(Younger) Siblings

The immediate younger sibling is odd or has strong foreign interests. Communication flow with the siblings is intense, peculiar, disrespectful of boundaries, challenging to personal integrity. If Rahu = yuti malefics, the sibling's mental health may be an issue. Karaka for twin birth.

Das / Behari: says:

... causes trouble to siblings, but otherwise helpful in enabling you to acquire material conveniences. You secure physical comforts, wealth, children, and a good spouse; you have many friends and may acquire expensive cars. 

This Rahu does not bode well for the birth of children. You are sharp, inclined to spiritualism or higher educational disciplines. Good fortune and success through affectionate dealings, neighbors, journeys, writing or publishing. 

Denotes bravery, courage, industry, fortune, wealth, state honor, health; with many friends; travel, annihilator of the enemy. Agricultural wealth. Matchless in prowess. Strong, treats all as brethren. Fortunate. You are most lucky &d extend friendship to all. 

Least actively benevolent; toughest in most difficult work. Sleepless nights for the enemy; renowned; lives in luxury; trouble for brothers; wretched; affluent; valiant. Artless; state authority; charitable; proud; firm minded; long living. 

Rahu, in the third house, will make his brothers prosperous.

House 4

Guru Ammachi

King Birendra (Nepal)

USA Pres 35 JFK, Sr.

USA Senator Edward "Teddy" Kennedy

Deepak Chopra (physician - educator)

Karl Marx (political philosopher)

Bepin Behari (economist, Jyotishi) + Chandra

Henry Ford

Emile Zola (French novelist of civil violence)

"Desire for Transformation of the Homeland"

• Desire to challenge conventional boundaries of social security and cultural indoctrination

• Desire to Possess cultural roots through special entitlements 

• Attracted to schools, vehicles, lands and titled properties 

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral accountability and behavioral consistency in the parents; in the childhood home; in property ownership, and in education.

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of defining property and imposing cultural indoctrination.

Associated with Land Reform movements and with patriotic cultural revolutions, "the loyal opposition". The native uses one's education toward taboo-challenging purposes.

Outsiders who are present in the childhood home create a peculiar and unstable or highly diverse upbringing, in which the natural repetition o familiar habits and customs is disrupted (e.g., foreign education) and child is not entirely secure.  

The parents might abandon their own cultural roots e.g. the parents might change their religious affiliation so that the childhood home has a different culture than other homes in the extended family network, or perhaps the parents adopt a new ethnicity, nationality, or set of customs.

One may be perceived by others as a foreigner or somehow not quite properly or regularly culturally aligned. There may be a presence of foreign tradesmen, tutors, or dignitaries or other exotic cultural influences in the childhood home. 

The native may receive indoctrination amongst the underclass or in an exotic, ritually proscribed land. Unusual process of basic socialization and cultural education. May reject conventional education, preferring to carve a taboo-challenging path toward one's own cultural identity..

Excellent for a multi-cultural educator. Good for owning property in foreign lands. Can accumulate a massive amount of property if Rahu's lord is powerful (see Ammachi, King Birendra) but one does not directly own it. Drives a foreign car :)

Attracted to extremes in the world of real estate and education. Sudden changes of property ownership; damage to properties by natural catastrophe during Rahu periods. 

Family lineage is complex and perhaps exaggerated. Irregularities in the transmission of the mother's culture. The person may create an exciting story of one's roots in a foreign land. 

Das / Behari: says:

House 5

USA Pres 40, Ronald Reagan

USA Pres 32 Franklin D. Roosevelt

UK-PM Tony Blair

Steve Jobs (computer philanthropist)

Angelina Jolie (film actress, children's advocate)

Elizabeth Taylor (film actress)

"Desire for Exotic Creativity"

• 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

• Attracted to speculation, amusements and games

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries and behavioral consistency in the children; in the literary and creative genius; in the politics, theatre, contests, games, and amusements. 

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

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

Underclass, foreign, or taboo attributes of the children. Heart trouble for the native.

• 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 the native 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 celebrity and political power. Excited by expressions of individual genius and by "winning".

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.

Das / Behari: says:

Your creativity has a strange or foreign aura; not bad, but deep and unusual. Your writing, for example, is so deep that others get somewhat absorbed in it. You have a very easy time understanding the lower levels of society, the seedy, the underworld, the poor, the distressed -- this is an area where you move easily. 

You are deeply interested in liberation from material entanglement. Expert in understanding the inner meaning of things, in other words, has insight. 

During the periods ruled by Rahu, you will experience gains and success. Your spouse will sometimes exhibit a short temper and have stomach problems. Watch out for your own difficulties with the heart and lungs. 

You will probably have at least one son. You worry much, and have few friends. Your first child may pose some difficulty.

During Rahu ruled periods, watch for indigestion and excess bile. Also, this Rahu brings you into association with the downtrodden of society and it makes you mentally sharp. Your son(s) if any should watch out for snakes and danger while in the country.

House 6

Alice Bailey (theosophist writer)

India-PM Indira Gandhi

Bill Gates, Jr.

Ivana Trump

Alfred Hitchcock (film director)

"Desire to Engage in Argument"

• Desire to challenge conventional methods of social conflict management = takes risks in areas of medicine, poverty, exploitation, servitude, divorce, and crime

• Hunger to Possess drugs and medicines, servants and animals, imbalanced and adversarial relationships. Attracted to underclass and outcast persons.

Disruptive, exciting, sensually hungry drishti to

• domain-9 (religion / guru)

• domain-11 ( marketplace / gains) 

• domain-1 ( appearance / social identity)

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries and behavioral consistency in the workplace and amongst employees; in the practice of medicine and ministries of service; in the mother's relatives. 

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of performing one's service  and managing conflict.

Generally when a papa-graha (malefic) occupies a dusthamsha,  the results are surprisingly good. The native's strongest desires are focused in the area of "loss of agreement",  i.e. fighting, but one does not run from the challenge. Rather, a deep and sustained engagement, driven by the desire to obtain power in the workplace, often produces expertise and profit.

Rahu in domain-6 gives a "mixed bag" of benefits and liabilities amongst employees and in one's material workplace. 

Numerous agents of social conflict such as police, military, underclass, outcast, foreigners, manipulators, thieves, thugs, liars, physicians, drug dealers, prostitutes, poseurs, and usurers will populate the stage in this theatre of life. 

If Rahu's lord is auspicious, one may enjoy a profit from dealing with these otherwise undesirable effects. For example, the native may work in criminal justice, loan finance, or import-export of exotic and desirable items. There will be some criminal undertone to the dealing but the native may be clever enough to manipulate through it.

No matter how successfully this situation is managed, the native must learn to manipulate the manipulators. 

There will be considerable illness from toxicity, often psycho-mental in origin, and danger from wrong drugs. 

In case of severe illness, the native may find remarkable cures from alternative treatments, or in a foreign land.

Das / Behari: says:

... produces great sustaining power ... Every physical impediment is mysteriously removed, success in temporal endeavors is assured, and diplomatic skill is developed to a considerable extent. 

You may not have much idealism in life and may even keep undesirable company. You will feel the allure of unethical, disrespectful or forbidden activities. 

Your strength, wisdom, valor and conscience are stable. This Rahu denotes destruction of the adversary. Gain of wealth, knowledge, vigor. No gain through uncles. Wealth through foreign leader type; trouble in back, for animals. Longevity, prosperous, of noble birth, Debauch. You may be a hero, handsome, intelligent, respected, well-known. 

If well-aspected, all the evils fade away. A strong Rahu indicates vehicular wealth. Progeny to uncle denied; or daughters only. 

... promotes health and strength, trusted employees, favors service, fortune through paternal relatives; some income or employment. Benefit through prosperous uncles and aunts. 

Danger from service in army or navy. Strong and brave. Radical, affluent, with conveyance. Jewelry, wealth and fortune. Robust health. This Rahu indicates an unstable mind of the father and maternal uncle. You may be infirm, imbecile, absence of enemies, friendly, full of riches. Black mole in the back. 

Death due to blow of stick, stone, animal, falling from tree or by drowning. You are patient, tolerant, prosperous.

House 7

H.H. Dalai Lama

Mother Teresa

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Sigmund Freud

Jennifer Aniston (actor)

Christopher Reeve (actor, philanthropist)

"Desire for Exotic Alliances"

• Desire to challenge conventional boundaries of Marriage and Business contracts

• Hunger to Possess agreements with foreigners

• Attracted to situations of negotiation, attempted re-balance, annihilation and/or impending death 

• Often an unusual first marriage, first spouse has taboo-breaking qualities

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries and behavioral consistency in the spouse; in the business partners and peer advisers; in the process of making and keeping promises. 

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of maintaining agreement in  marriage and business partnership.

May have an exotic or taboo-breaking attitude toward sexual partnership. Menstrual problems for women. Diabetic or other paired-organ imbalance. The spouse is unwilling to enter alliance, or spouse has very peculiar sensual tastes, and sexual harmony in marriage is deranged.

Ketu in lagna = karaka for celibate sainthood. Despite private relationship troubles, the native may appear to be very pure. Rahu/7 may indicate that the primary marriage partner is actually a deity not a human. Deities are permitted to be promiscuous. If the partner is human, predict trouble from unfaithfulness to the marriage contract. Human spouse, if any, may be a force of chaos. Perpetual sexual imbalance in the marriage.

Foreign, exotic, or taboo-breaking attributes of the spouse. Marriage represents entitlement to satisfy a personal desire at the expense of social conformity. 

Spouse and the native may be externally successful in worldly life, but the spouses boundary-breaking excesses or foreign behaviors are a permanent source of instability and challenge in the native's life. Spouse is inappropriate. 

• If Rahu + Shani, spouse is withholding. 

• If Rahu + Kuja, spousal passion is excessive, may be uncontainable.

Rahu in domain-7 is excellent for international business negotiations; spouse's diplomatic capabilities with foreigners is an asset. Spouse from a different cultural background, or was born geographically a long distance away from the birth place of the native. 

Also good for careers in counseling/advising in multi-cultural and socially taboo-content relationships.

Das / Behari: says: "Rahu, being a karmic planet, creates much unhappiness in the Seventh house. Whether alone or in association with any other planet, its impact is sorrowful. 

You fall into relationships with partners who are very often undesirable, quarrelsome, extravagant, and inflexible; you either suffer from genito-urinary troubles or are dishonorable. Very often you have to face separation, divorce, or death of the marriage partner. 

Fond of traveling, of changing your job, and of cultivating new associations - all with the objective of securing something for personal satisfaction. You are skillful and will confer fame and prosperity. Trouble through spouse, body aches, much enmity, loss through trade. 

Two marriages. Your spouse should be careful of infections in generative organs. Separation from the relatives and public slander. Danger of separation from kinsfolk and disgrace. Mentally suffering, deranged, idle, wanderer, short-tempered, vicious, quarrelsome.

Hostile to partner, furious, quarrelsome, sick, restless, malicious, strife, opposition and hindrance in every work. Depriving sensual pleasure. Menstrual problems in woman. As your partner is not willing and co-existing you may be driven to other spouses. 

Conceited, sensual and sick. Trouble and difficulty in travel, rheumatism. Frightened, irreligious, cruel. Fast but without family happiness. You may be a diabetic, strife with relatives, touchy, spiteful, vain, discontented, contact with lewd spouses. 

Luck through sinful acts. Success through speculation, lottery and game of chance or races. Infection through impure mates. Wicked. More friends than enemies. 

Gain through dealing with others. Pleasure and benefit through mates. A wise and wealthy partner; gain after marriage. Short-statured. This Rahu is not a killer; but can cause danger to the people indicated by the house."

House 8

USA Pres 44, Barack Obama

USA Pres 37, Richard Nixon

UK-PM Winston Churchill

Brad Pitt (film actor)

Edgar Cayce (clairvoyant healer)

Albert Einstein  (cosmologist)

Satya Sai Baba (Puttaparthy) + Soma

"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

• Attracted to situations of catastrophic change, radical healing, emergencies, and the conditions of death and rebirth 

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries and behavioral consistency in the spouse's family (in-laws); in the inheritance and shared marital assets; and in mysterious affairs such as covert military invasions, uncovering ancient history, surgeries, birth and death, and catastrophic emergence.

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of managing the joint assets of marriage, and gives a passion for handling sudden emergencies.

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

• Richard Nixon was famously impeached during his presidency for authorizing the break-in to the Watergate Hotel where secret documents of the opposition Democratic Party were stored. The year-long impeachment hearing occurred during Budha-Ketu period, Ketu "death from secrets" in Kanya/2.

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

• Edgar Cayce has Rahu +Shani + Budha + Shukra in Rahu-Shani's swakshetra Kumhba. Cayce revealed a breathtaking parorama of occult history and medicine which is only now beginning to be understood.

• Winston Churchill was privy to some terrifying war secrets (Rahu-Mesha-8)  including the specter of the annihilation of the free (Mesha) world by the self-power-crazed tyrants Hitler and Stalin (Mesha, megalomania). With Rahu's lord Mangala in lagna, he was forced to plead for help (Kanya) from secret alliances (8). He had a passion for hidden danger naturally with L-8 and Rahu's lord Kuja in lagna and traveled the world to write argumentative accounts (Kanya) of war.

Rahu is beneficial in domain-8, but only for magical or tantric healings, such as surgery, and emergency intervention. Rahu in domain-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 transformation 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.

Das / Behari: says:

... you are always trying to attain your goal, but unfortunately your goal is not often clear to you. Under such conditions you always worry about unimportant things or strive after something which seems important momentarily but gives no ultimate satisfaction, and to attain your assumed objective you may associate with undesirable characters who bring a bad name. 

You suffer from complex ailments which are difficult to diagnose. Rahu promotes health; promises longevity; grants gifts, legacies and inheritance from the dead. You are extravagant, sick, strife with brothers, life away from birthplace, unhappy family life. 

Denied happiness through spouse, children, honor, education; suffers from diseases of rectum, diabetes; hindrances or enemies. Complains of gastralgia or hystericus etc. 

Denied patrimony. Respected and recognized by the rulers and pundits. Fortune smiles once; but losses mock you again and again. 

Forsaken by the noble for no reason. Gain of sufficient wealth from the government. And sometimes it is lost. Well-built, short-tempered. Free from danger; suffers from diseases of the generative organs, hydrocele, gain through defeated enemy. 

Trouble, ill-spoken, slow coach and ailing. Vicious. Much trouble and suffering. Praised by the state. Condemned by some. Many ups and downs. Stomach problem through hard labor. Honor and fame from the government, noble by deed and thought, healthy, some income or employment. Happy in old age. Infections.  

House 9

Paramahansa Yogananda

Rabindranath Tagore

Adolph Hitler

USA Pres 26, Theodore Roosevelt

USA Pres 34, Dwight D. Eisenhower

Lisa Marie Presley (singer, songwriter)

Eric Clapton (singer, songwriter)

Curt Cobain (singer, songwriter)

USA Pres 30, Calvin Coolidge

Jacques Cousteau (oceanographic explorer)

Marie Curie (scientific discoverer of radium)

Jodie Foster (film actor, director, producer)

Nikita Kruschev  (Soviet politician)

Charles Manson ('father' of the Manson Family murder cult)

"Desire for Exotic Wisdom"

• Desire to challenge conventional boundaries that protect Religious Ritual and Moral Teachings

• Hunger to Possess priestly knowledge and temple admission

• Magnetically attracted to universities, houses of worship, religious centers 

• the native mixes high-and-low teachings

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries and behavioral consistency in the father; in the religious teachers; and in belief system.    (cf. Rabindranath Tagore, opposed to caste-based morality.)

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of ritual performance and wisdom teaching.

High desire for intense experience in religious ritual and belief systems. Often has a foreign or outsider guru. 

Not beneficial for the Father, who is associated with profligacy, underclass behaviors, or risky foreign undertakings. Father may be involved in espionage or manipulation of foreign governments; or a cult priest; or other surreptitious taboo-breaking roles. The guru may be a renegade anti-traditionalist.

Native tends toward extremes in ceremonial religion, with powerful desire to re-interpret or re-appropriate religious systems. Wants to make changes in the existing temples of knowledge and their priesthood. 

If Rahu is ill-disposed, may desecrate temples of knowledge.

Das / Behari: says: "The nodes of the Moon have supreme importance in spiritual evolution. Rahu, the material polarity of the shadowy Nodes, takes you to sacred places, associate you with spiritual aspirants, and make you a partner in spiritual celebrations and observances. 

Preparing you in this way to receive the influence of the divine, Rahu equips you for this. You are a scholar; accredited for virtues; impressive in speech in an assembly; cultured and humane; veneration, belief and devotion in gods and sacred places. 

Grateful; upbringing your own family. You are revered for your merit; learned; generous. You give away useful things in charity; never leaving a job in the middle, perseverance; virtuous; keeping the family tradition; spotless reputation. Helps and supports relatives; contented with the partner. Attendants. Affluent landlord and agriculturist.  [cf. Rabindranath Tagore]

You show faith in religions other than your own. Loss of wealth. Want of truth, conduct, luck and wisdom. Much traveling, pauper, unfriendly to relatives, some physical ailment. Low, mean, shabby and afraid of enemies. Wicked. Hostile. A town leader. Vicious. Serving others and sex with low-class persons. 

You have many attendants, prosperous, fortunate, little faith in false religion, poor health, eloquent speaker, agreeable and cordial with the partner, affectionate, childless, proud of your community, liar, speaks ill of false religion and unmindful of your duty. This Rahu denotes mental sharpness and gain through educational, legal and religious affairs; gain through voyages and foreign affairs; highly intuitive."

House 10 - Leadership

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Baba Ram Dass

Prince Charles

Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

UK-PM Margaret Thatcher

USA Pres 30, Calvin Coolidge

USA Pres. 39, Jimmy Carter

Tom Cruise (film actor)

Julia Roberts (actor)

Hugh Hefner (playboy)

"Desire for Transformative Social Leadership"

• Desire to challenge conventional boundaries protecting Leadership Respect and Prestige

• Hunger to possess respected positions, high reputation, important duties, government appointments

• Attracted to executive offices, tops of pyramids, positions of power and command

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral accountability and behavioral consistency in the father's family; in the government and its representatives; and in the rule of law.   

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of leading organizations, maintaining public decorum,  and managing hierarchies.

Underclass, taboo-breaking, or exotic element in the public personality. 

"Outsider" breakthrough into iconic, symbolic public roles. Popular with the working classes, those who like to "bet on a dark horse", or "root for the little guy". Perceived as an agent of change in the highest echelons of privilege and prestige.

To conventional observers, this person seems like an inappropriate or vulgar choice for an exalted public leadership role. However if Rahu's lord is auspicious the public becomes fascinated with the native and one retains high dignity for a good long time.

Associated with sudden changes in leadership. 

Wants status objects and admiration of the masses. 

The native may profit from power vacuums and social instability. 

An iconic agent of social change. Desires a high position in hierarchy, but has an exotic and taboo-challenging style of getting there. 

Das / Behari: says: "Your mission in life is for furthering some special cause in the world. Depending on your status in society and the planetary combinations, this special mission may be predicted; but the real impulse of this shadowy planet will be to make you dedicated to a cause which you will want to carry forward even at the risk of life, status, or health. Undaunted by any difficulty, undeterred by any impediment, you will persist with a sense of dedication, whether you are waging a war of complete annihilation, reconstructing a social order, or composing verses of celestial beauty and harmony. Rahu achieves its objective despite whatever hardships it has to undergo. Its impulse produces persons of great merit, devotion, and religious susceptibilities. With inauspicious associations and influences Rahu can, however, make you disturbed and instill evil ideas in your head. Rahu in the 10th gives rise to Raja Yoga during your own periods. Danger to mother in the 32nd year, to father, in 7th; to patrimony, in 8th. Fortune in 36th year; public honor and respect in 42nd year. Name, fame, status through hard work and skill. Connected with spouses who are disrespected due to their service, loss of land, wealth, health; fear; malice, love for some type of disrespected poetry; or residence in a backward village, etc. Your Rahu denotes that you may be so fortunate as to visit the sacred holy places in this lifetime. Clever thief, characterless, quarrelsome, sensual, dishonest, chattering, miserable, inert, indifferent, unfortunate, living abroad, unsteady, vicious. Few sons, helpful and fearless. Danger from conveyance. Danger and trouble for parents and brother. A manager, advisor or chief of a group. Brave, wise and wealthy. (Note: Rahu is in charge of a number of not so good qualities. The 10th is an important house. These things may only appear in thoughts; not necessarily manifesting depending on the overall strength of you and thus the chart. Sensual, extravagant, affluent, winner, fickle, fond of poetry and drama, competition or confrontation, migratory, successful in business. Rahu makes you a bit of an intoxicator, wrong doing, sleeplessness, living or working with foreigners, sex with choice partners, finds comfort and pleasure in the company of irreligious people, discontented with own relatives or father, love and sex with divorced or separated persons, or persons from disturbed love affairs. Gets support from strong persons, clever but tense. These things may be connected to career as the 10th rules career."

House 11

Donald Trump + L-2 Surya

USA Pres. 43 George W. Bush

Swami Vivekananda

Bob Dylan (singer, songwriter)

Stephen King (fiction writer)

"Desire for Networks of Exotic Association"

• Desire to challenge conventional boundaries of Gainful Association and profitable Friendship

• Hunger to Possess networks of affiliation and connection

• attracted to large gatherings such as country fayre and Kumbha mela, political fundraisers and rallies, giant electronic networks

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral accountability and behavioral consistency in the elder sibling; in the marketplace and its rules; and in process of setting and achieving goals.   

Rahu disrupts the customary methods of large-group networking and voluntary, profitable associations.

"Outsider" in the conventional marketplace. Rahu is the co-ruler of Kumbha the natural lord of domain-11. Normally, Rahu in domain-11 is a karaka for wealth. Associated with pyramid schemes and unusual fundraising methods.

The native feels a great hunger for extending the reach of one's circle of profitable association, which causes the native to form networks of friendship amongst highly desire-driven persons. The native is most interested in the company of those whose hunger for profit is very strong. 

A chameleon of society, who enjoys manipulating the needs and desires of others for personal profit. 

Rahu in domain-11 is a karaka for marketplace success, and a high (though fluctuating) income.  Rahu's lord must be auspicious to provide long-term sustained profits.

Das / Behari: says: "Rahu is powerful to provide material prosperity when it is in the 11th house. However, you may lack modesty. You can control your desires and activities when you want to. You are very wise, though you don't speak much, preferring definite results before spending speaking energy. Therefore, you are a master at strategy, where forethought and tongue-holding is required. Therefore you are a good commander, and possibly a writer. You live away from your birth land, and mix well with foreigners and drifters. The way you earn money is hard to predict because you might be dealing in ways that others are not aware of, except those with whom you deal. If other favorable conditions are present, this is very good for becoming an eminent philosopher, expounding your thoughts effectively. Rahu in the 11th gives rise to Raja Yoga during Rahu's periods. Rahu in the 11th means gains through foreigners. Though you respect the really learned, you yourself are often found in a level of code or conduct just below the standard that you respect. Therefore, while you may associate with priests, you yourself may instead prefer to have intense business dealings, for example. This Rahu is not good for gaining status, but does indicate success in various ways. Try to protect your hearing as it indicates trouble there. This Rahu protects against harm in general. Rahu in the 11th gives you faithful friends who are astrologers and the like. You can succeed in both business or service. The separation from an elder brother may become a burden. Marriage at 27, life "begins" at 28, and sudden gain of wealth in the 42nd year."

House 12

Shri Aurobindo

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - "TM"

PM-India, Rajiv Gandhi

Maya Angelou (poet, cultural observer)

Thomas Merton (mystical writer)

Marilyn Monroe (actor)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Martha Stewart

Ted Turner, media mogul 

"Desire for Exotic Fantasy"

• Desire to penetrate the conventional boundaries which protect astral beings, Sanctuary, Loss of Identity, and Moksha

• Hunger to clairvoyantly possess dreams, images, and astral information

• Magnetically attracted to foreign lands, private enclosures, meditation centers, monasteries, hospitals, and ashrams

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries and 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 world fantasy 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". 

Sexually, Rahu may introduce "strange bedfellows". Native enjoys 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 domain-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 transformative 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 domain-12, Rahu casts taboo-challenging drishti upon domain-4 (home and country), domain-6 (servitude and animals), and domain-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 sattvic or tamasic. It can go either way.

Das / Behari: says: "Rahu in this Twelfth house of redemption makes the physical life difficult and upsets all established order. 

The 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. 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."