Rahu & Ketu Transits
Hari Om
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Satay asked in a recent post what could one expect from the positions of the grahas called out in the HDF Post:
I am curious to know how these new locations/movements of Guru, Mercury, rahu and ketu affect anyone's daily life.
I thought to post this regarding rahu and ketu would be a good place to begin.
In Jyotish there is a something called the gochara system; One measures the effects of transiting planets from the moon ( chandra), sun (Ravi or Surya) and ascendant (lagna) natal or janma position.
Gochara गोचर - being within the range of , attainable ; the distance of the planets from natal locations.
Many consider the measures from Chandra as most popular.The Moon signifies the mind and affects all we do So one looks to see the janma rasi or the position of the moon at birth.
Does that suggest then that everyone will have the SAME experiences? No. Well why not? Each person will have a different dasa period running , a different degree º of the moon's position in the janma rasi, hence the varga charts will be different… People will also have a different astakavaraga value for each bhava (house). Hense subha (beneficial) and papa (malefic) experiences will be had by all natives on this good earth with the transit of the grahas.
Yet the sages of this science have created general rules and we use their knowledge as guidance. As I have mentioned many times, I am a shisya of this science and hold no authorship over this knowledge, yet I take full responsibility for any errors in understanding or presenting the information here on HDF. I stand on the shoulders of others much wiser and more knowledgeable then me.
Lets start with Kāraka¹
Since we are talking of rahu and ketu we must first define what they ,as signficators or kAraka¹ represent:
Rahu - paternal grand father, maternal grandmother; research, harsh speech & arguments, false speech, skin diseases, gambling, hurting, snakes and snake bites, bad habits, sinking with ships or drowning, travel to foreign land, disease and amputation, eating of 'dirty food' aka drug use, accidents ( instantaneous grief as I call it)
Ketu - maternal grand father, paternal grandmother( opposite of rahu); moksha, poisonous speech (like rahu), spots on the body, chain smoker, smoky complexion, occult interests, philosophy, detachment and to an excessive degree mental disturbances ( lunacy), life or travels to a foreign land ( like rahu).
Transits
A simple view of this… a graha¹ occupying , aspecting or transiting a bhava (house) or sign ( rasi) influences the matters signified by that house and the grahas that reside in that house. That is why we have to paint with a broad brush. There is no hard and fast rule that one can apply for all people, as we (I) do not know each permutation of ones chart that is viewing this post.
Example
Lets say Mercury is transiting the 1st house of the janma rasi, Gemini. The 'rule' says quarrels, poor advice, and perhaps imprisonment could occur. Yet Gemini is the home for Mercury and will be strong in intellectually-oriented Gemini. So what can occur? Intellectual debates, some jalpa, arguments and the like. But what of the imprisonment? The person could be on a debate team, or a part of a university team that goes from place-to-place and is required to do the travel; He/she complies or is ~imprisoned~ to the commitment of the debate rules.
I think you get the point. This is also why reading a horoscope from the daily news paper will most likely give you less then expected results. Hence it is wise to use broad-brush stokes when talking of transits to a general audience as no one specific birth chart is in question.
Transits of Rahu and Ketu.
In general the transit (gochara) of the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th bhava's from the moon sign is considered favorable. Some authors do not include the 10th house. I can discuss this at another time, as the 10th house is the 'throne' of the sun. More on this latter.
Now if that was it, this would be the end of the post! Yet there is another rule called vedha (do not confuse this with veda or knowledge), or that which can spoil the favorable transit. Just when it was easy you say, things get complicated .
Lets say rahu is transiting the 3rd house from Chandra's natal position (birth chart position); this should be a favorable transit. Yet if there is a graha in the 12th house from Chandra's birth chart position then vedha occurs and favorability is cancelled.Simple eh?
Well, the vedha rule applies for each transit position… But for now let me offer the vedha positions that cancel favorability for the 3rd, 6th , 10th and 11th positions from the jani rasi ( Moon's natal position).
Favorable transit in:__________ vedha occurs when a graha is in the following:
3rd________________________ 12th
6th_________________________ 9th
10th_______________________ 10th
11th________________________ 5th
A side note for the Jyotishi's reading this… this vedha rule is different for each graha; and as you would expect there is the possible cancellation of vedha, this is called vipreet vedha, and gives favorable results back to the transit.
What is extremely interesting to me as a side note, Rahu and ketu's vedha positions are the SAME as śani's (Saturn). Why so? Both Rahu and śani both co-own Aquarius and have similar qualities is my assessment. More study is needed by me to find the root cause.
One last piece of info …What is an unfavorable position from Rahu's and ketu's natal ( birth) positions?
When Rahu transits the 9th from its natal position and Ketu the 2nd position ( bhava) these are also unfavorable. The favorable positions have been listed above e.g. 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th.
Let me stop here… as I always say, no one likes long posts. I will extend the conversation and offer what the ācārya's suggest the influences will be for the transits.
pranams
1. Words used
- kāraka (kAraka) कारक - the action making , doing , acting , who or what does or produces or creates; instrumental in bringing about the action . A kAraka is a significator or entity ( in this post a graha or ~ planet) that signifies various matters on this good earth;
- graha ग्रह - we know as a planet yet a better definition is that which seized ; seizing , laying hold of , holding; The grahas have the influence to seize or hold the native to actions or karma.
- śiṣya शिष्य - student some prefer the word chela
Last edited by yajvan; 19 January 2012 at 09:00 PM.
Reason: spelling correction
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