Rahu Leaps Up * Ketu Falls Away

Both Rahu periods and Ketu periods provide dramatic effects which transport the
native out of one's cultural and familial norms and expectations

What Rahu Giveth, Ketu Taketh Away

Rahu periods generally indicate a Great Leap Forward in the endeavors of risk-
rewarding Rahu's bhava, rashi, and matters controlled by Rahu's ruler .

Ketu periods generally indicate surrender, abandonment, and detachment in the

endeavors of Ketu's bhava, rashi, and matters controlled by Ketu's Lord.

During Rahu's Mahadasha and during each of His bhukti periods, rules will be broken
or circumvented and cultural taboo ignored .

Rahu crashes through barriers and invades regulated zones.

Rahu is by nature illicit, illegal, pernicious, disregarding of law and convention,

counter to the established practices, non-conformist, favoring the company of
outcastes and foreigners, delighting in the exotic, a purveyor of forbidden things,
unconcerned with cultural definitions of pollution, uncaring of marriage
regulations, a permitter and facilitator of unmitigated desire.

Rahu covers His tracks with a haze of oily smoke. the native rarely enjoys much
consciousness during a Rahu period when the brilliant light of Divine intelligence
emitted by Professor Surya cannot penetrate the smoky polluted aura of rakshasya
Rahu the great Naga King.

Rahu = an interloper and a pretender to the throne, a fraud and a poseur.

Pretending to represent love, or true values, or authorized power, He substitutes
raw desire which has lain unfulfilled for many lifetimes. Rahu's planetary lord
will reveal Rahu's objectives and His style of obtaining possession of those
things.

Beware that Rahu's promises while magnetically attractive will ultimately turn out
to be false because His power is not legitimate.

However risk-rewarding Rahu's classic Faustian delusion will look good during the
duration of Rahu period whether that is the Rahu Mahadasha lasting 18 years or
merely a pratya-antara-dasha lasting a few weeks or months.

The object of Rahu's desire has been wanted by the native for millennia.

The desire has been suppressed in the subconscious in order to keep the native
safe.

Rahu leaps into action like a great coiled snake.

When He is empowered by time-lordship in the Vimshottari Dasha, Rahu breaks out of

subconscious captivity and fills the native with a surge of desire for a person,
place, idea, experience, entitlement, or empowerment.

Rahu has deep, long-unsatisfied desires and during His periods He may be
unstoppable unless constrained by Shani the Regulator.

In any case there is rarely a need to stop Rahu's rampage since the fruits of
parallel lives must emerge.
The best advice for Rahu periods is to relax and enjoy a walk on the wild side. It
is true that Shani will impose the lawful consequences but generally one can have a
bit of fun before that happens : )

Characteristics of Rahu
Rahu the Rogue works surreptitiously, swiftly, by insinuation . He insinuates
Himself into the elite class whose privilege He desires to obtain.

For example,

Rahu in bhava-10 = the chalakaraka hungers for the privileges accorded to those who
have earned the rank of executive decision-makers and social leaders.

Rahu in bhava-11 = the chalakaraka hungers for the privileges accorded to those who
have earned the rank of importance in marketplace ,"high net worth individuals ",
fund-raisers, and"socialites ".

The Rahu-figure appears to be an outside person, but be advised: Rahu is a phantom!

Rahu bhukti of the Vimshottari Dasha, especially the Rahu-Rahu swabhukti, indicate
the most vivid, psychologically intense periods of psychic projection that will
occur during the entire lifetime.

Key points:

Rahu's modus operandi = maximum self-elevation .

Rahu is mesmerizing.

Appearing to fulfill one's deepest desires, Rahu sways to the music like a cobra
enticed upward from the snake-charmers basket. He fascinates.

Rahula cleverly uses the available resources - whoever and whatever is immediately
accessible - as opportunities to propel His quickest trajectory into the privileges
accorded to the elite class who occupy a higher social station.

BPHS predictions for Rahu periods:

Parashara generally predicts that Bhukti periods of Rahu provide comfortable and
pleasing results when Rahu occupies these placements:

bhava = Sahaja, Randhra, Karma, or Labha rashi = Mesha-Arya, Kumbha, Kanya-Parthya,

or Vrishabha.

For Budha-Rahu periods, BPHS says:

if Rahu is in a Kendra, or Trikona, or, if Rahu is in Mesha, Kumbha, Kanya, or

Vrishabha. Effects, like reverence from the king, good reputation, gain of
treasuries , visits to sacred shrines, performance of religious sacrifices and
oblations, recognition, gain of clothes etc., are derived in the Antara Dasha of
Rahu in the Dasha of Budha,[Chapter 58: Effects of the Antara Dashas in the Dasha
of Budhashloka 47-49.]

if Rahu is in Sahaja, Randhra, Karma, or Labha, there will be an opportunity to

have conversation, or a meeting with the king, In this position, if Rahu be
associated with a benefic, there will be a visit to a new king. [Chapter 58:
Effects of the Antara Dashas in the Dasha of Budha = shloka 51]

Rahu effects in practice:

Rahu-Ketu periods in a normal, otherwise-balanced western person will create an era
marked by unusually high "emotional permission to cross taboo boundaries.

KETU is the primary karaka for abandonment and wandering. The special character of
Rahu-Ketu period is that it signifies an intense desire (Rahu) for a partnership
(Rahu-Ketu) that cannot be completed. Ketu signifies wandering away from
relationships, due to psychic inability to connect with the partner. Think about
the story of the beheading of Rahu-Ketu, and it will be easy to understand why Ketu
is headless with no sense of direction!

For example, Rahu the Rakshasa gives permission to break these common social taboo
barriers (common to many societies worldwide):

marry outside one's tribe or ethnic community;

have an extramarital or premarital affair;

eat meat; gamble; dance; be naked;

touch forbidden objects or hear forbidden instructions

perform magic, speak curses, and foretell the future; talk openly with spirits

explore taboo sexual practices.

Rahu permits much more direct engagement with matters of ritual pollution - or even
physical pollution

such as dealing with underclass persons, blood or corpses.

risk-rewarding Rahu's effect gets physical when ingesting taboo/illegal drugs, or

taboo amounts of a sanctioned intoxicant like alcohol. Or when a person from a
culture where meat (or a particular kind of meat) is taboo, starts eating those
taboo or polluted foods.

For an example of the taboo impact of extramarital affairs, see UK-Prince 1948-
Charles of Wales

The onset of Charles' Rahu Mahadasha, where radix Rahu is extremely powerful yuti
lagnesha chandra in super-high-visibility karmasthana, shows the worldwide impact
of his long extramarital affair with UK-Duchess 1947- Camilla of Cornwall . The
affair itself originated much earlier in the prince's life, but the dramatic public
effects of it began for him in 1995 - the year his Rahu Mahadasha started.

Effects are first and foremost determined by the bhava occupied by Rahu.

Depends on your culture, and whichever planets are yutiRahu, or receive drishti
from Rahu.

The two biggest Forbidden Zones in American society are Sex and Death. So, Sex and
Death are where we see the dominant effects of Rahu for westerners:

extramarital affairs,

homosexual, polyandrous/polygamous union, or other taboo-sexual emergence ;

intense erotic attractions * akarshana * of all kinds

exotic/exogenous marriages; including foreigners, class/caste gap and age gap

suicide, infanticide (abortion), ritual murder; and other taboo sorts of death

Events that *combine* sex and death in ritual form

Rahu does produce the occasional Pentecostal snake-dancer and other tantrik-tantric
outcroppings, but middle class folk will find that most of their Rahu adventure is
centered around a core group of secret, forbidden activities:

extramarital affairs and other forbidden sexualities;

illegitimate pregnancies and abortions;

Occasionally, suicide in the family.

Inter-racial and inter-faith marriages are much less taboo in America than they
used to be. But still, one of the most common effects of a Rahu bhukti for the
strong Rahu person (who has Rahu drishti to the marriage house) is to cause
exogenous marriage , a marriage outside their caste, class, religion, or tribe.

Other Rahu marriages are those with a major age gap , where the spouse is old
enough to be one's parent or grandparent (because it resembles parent-child
incest).

Another interesting pattern in marriages made during Rahu bhukti, is that they tend
to end in divorce either within the same Rahu bhukti that caused the marriage (in
other words, within 3 years maximum) -or- at the subsequent Rahu bhukti (which
might be as long as 18 years in the future).It is not so simple as saying that if
the marriage was made under Rahu then divorce will also occur during a subsequent
Rahu period. There are multiple factors required to create a Divorce . Still, it is
a common pattern that warns the Jyotishi to be on alert.

In the Rahu-dominated entertainment industry, interracial marriage bears little

stigma, and as an attention-getter it can be a public relations plus. However,
outside of this subculture wherein"there is no bad publicity", exotic marriages
eventually do become stigmatized, on both sides.

Q: Rite now I am having a mahadasha of rahu and my father is also having mahadasha
of rahu.
I just want to know if it is something to worry,

A: in general, worrying creates poor mental health.

For good mental health, teach yourself about your own placement of Rahu, and teach
yourself about your Father's placement of Rahu.

When you become educated about the characteristics of the two types of Rahu, one
for you and one for your Father, then you can be prepared with appropriate
expectations .

However, do not fall into the bad habit of worrying. Maintain a positive attitude
and develop your problem-solving intelligence.

Sincerely, BPL