THE MYS1ERY OF

RAHU IN A HOROSCOPE

BY

SIDV RAJ SHARMA

GUIDE AND EDITOR

K.N. RAO.

Dedicated to
My late father Shri Sita Ram Sharma
Who learnt his astrology in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Delhi
when the late K.S.Krishnamurthy who conducted some classes in the
late fifties and where I learnt my astrology in the late eighties in the
better organized astrology courses run by K.N.Rao and his team.

Dedicated also to

Rahu
Who is in the lagna of both the author and his guide
In 1995 when the book was completed.

Acknowledgements and Thanks to:

A friend who asked us to give the manuscript of the book to

Mr. Narendra Sagar who in turn took keen personal interest in fast
production of the book to be part of the teaching material of Mr.
K.N. Rao's fifth visit to USA in November 1995.
To Mr. and Mrs. K. Subhas and his children and their
neighbours in the Saraswati Kunj Complex who looked after me during the night long sessions I had to spend at the house of my
guide, K.N. Rao when this book was being finalised.
To that unknown generous donor of Calcutta who gifted to K.N.
Rao a laser printer on which this manuscript could be got ready fast
enough to solve a technical problem the floppy of a difficult
programme had created for us.
To my elder Sister, Rekha who helped me understand the finer
etymological nuances of some Sanskrit terms all these months when
I was struggling with some expressions.
To all my colleagues on the teaching faculty of the Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan's Astrology classes and the group of astrology research students.

INTRODUCTION
K.N. RAO
Rahu and Ketu are referred to in the sacred literature as the demons
who consumed nectar and became immortal. In all books of astrology of India they are referred to but have rarely been praised. Yet
not enough literature on Rahu is available. This book is an attempt
to show the effects of Rahu in a horoscope. The mystery that Rahu
represents is what must be unravelled. Shiv Raj Sharma worked hard
on the manuscript of the book but for some reason or the other it
could not be finalized. Then in the last week of September, 1995 I
sat down to finalize it. Since it was done under my guidance it was
my moral duty to bring to a fruitful completion a work which should
have been published more than one year ago.
Shy, very original and creative in his approach, Shiv Raj had
struck me as an astrologer capable of sharp observations as became
evident when I edited his paper on marital tension in the book I edited, "Advanced Techniques of Astrological Predictions." From 1993
when my spell of intense writing of astrological books started I had
decided that neither nor my colleagues will produce the type of run
of the mill books that other writers were writing. It had to be analytical, condensed, illustrated with technical discussions of horoscopes
and should be written in direct and easy way. Wherever possible
there should be neat tabular arrangement of the subject matter even
if it took more space. The first one I wrote on this line was "Astrology, Destiny and the Wheel of Time which is also being brought
out from the USA where it has been hailed as the best book yet to
come out on Vedic astrology. In writing a technical book on astrology of this type I could not have depended on anyone other than a
very competent person to do technical editing of the book. An astrology book needs both technical and language editing. The English
. we write in India is neither British nor American but our own brand
which we call 'Hinglish'. Yet in presenting it, clarity of technical details should not get blurred anywhere was the problem. I have the
supreme advantage of many of my junior colleagues, who were also
my students some years ago, doing it all better than any publisher
of astrology books could ever have. I gave my books turn by turn
to many of them to see the technical discussion. The person I depended upon most was Shiv Raj Sharma. He took my manuscript and

brought to me a long list of suggestions which would improve my

book technically. I felt very grateful to him. The best way of repaying it was, I decided to make him produce a superbly technical research on Rahu. My instinctive judgement would not go wrong was
what I was sure about. Then Shiv Raj came out with the manuscript
of this book. I decided to edit it thoroughly, rewrite some parts and
arrange his material in a series of tables for standard reference. Thus
I repaid my debt to him. The book he has produced will become an
ill11l1ortal classic is what I could see. Read it and see whether you
have ever read a book or a research on the Vimshottari dasha of
this standard. With this book alone Shiv Raj has reached the top
rung of writers of books of astrology. The rearrangement and the
rewriting has of course been done my me. The material and' research
is his totally. My guidance from time to time has been rather intense
and, I am sure, very well directed. He has shown his class as a researcher No older writer, living or dead, can say that he could have
done the job better . It is not a vain tribute I am paying it. Read it
and discover the truth of my statement.
I have given to Shiv Raj from time to time part of my own
original findings on Rahu which he has tested and incorporated in
the book. That is the art of mutual sharing we believe in, in the researches we produce.
I am very sure that after reading this book, readers will be able
to use Rahu in more original ways for their predictions than they
have done so far. But before I come back to this book, which I will
describe as one of the finest books to have been written in this century on Vedic astrology, let me refer to some other aspects.
I had hardly imagined in 1990 that what was started as a good
and well planned effort to teach astrology in a new and modem way
would have succeeded so well as to attract the best of the intellectual classes of our society. As the number of students grew and as
the higher elite of the society started getting attracted to our classes,
there got created a need to. think of a new crop of teachers who
could meet the demands of the students with first rate academic background. I simultaneously planned three strategies: the first was to
hold all student seminars in which the teachers were not allowed to
partlctpate except as spectators. It was resented by many of old
teachers who were now getting afraid of being outshone by the new
crop of students who would soon become teachers. The second plan

was to produce a collection of research papers, called the Advanced

Techniques of Astrological Predictions to which students contributed
highly technical papers showing the uses of higher techniques of
astrology which had not been explored by any living veteran astrologer in this century. It was amazing to see young and bright students enter and do research in that area. The third plan was to
draft from among the bright students some new teachers who could
be put on the teaching faculty.
It was necessary to catch this batch young and make them
write books on astrology in a more organized way and produce. original researches. Dr. Charak came out with his Varshaphal and Medical Astrology and Elements of Vedic Astrology in two volumes and
Col. A K Gaur with his Professions. Rajiv Jhanjhi and
N
K Sharma's Yogini Dasha is the first ever book on the use of this
dasha, a totally original and fundamental research.

The need for very original and fundamental research in Hindu

astrology has already been there but there were handicaps to overcome. Only three persons in the century could be said to have contributed something original by way of some original research. There
was Meena whose Nadi astrology later led to the development of it
as the Krishnamurthy Paddhati. And finally Sheshadri Iyer had his
notable contribution in his New Directions.
In the meantime they formed in the United States of America,
the American Council of Vedic Astrology to which I was invited first
in I993 as the chief guest, later in June I994 to teach Jaimini astrology and again in Novemeber I994. I then told them that I would
not be available in future for their conferences. I was interested more
in intensive teaching spread over three or four days and not a one
day workshop at the fag end of the conference.

This led to a demand from by the ACVA that I groom young

and bright teachers for teaching Vedic astrology in USA in future.
Keeping that as one of the many aims of creating and consolidating
the academic group of astrologer. I have by now launched five other youngsters into the writing of serious books of astrology, most
of it original research. Not the moralizing tone of the puritanical and
hypocritical pandit, not the mediocrity of the successful mercenary
writer of books.

What then is an astrological research and how does this book

of Shiv Raj Sharma fit into the most modern and revolutionary concept of research in astrology is what we must ask and answer. I must
and have to do it because this new type of research is my idea which
I have been demonstrating since 1985 in my writings, though in private teachings I had done it many years before also.
Let us therefore, look at the astrological scene of India in this
century and the spate of astrological writings, the tremendous popularity of astrology and the dominance of mediocrity and quackery in
astrology as the printing press helps one build up one's own image
hiding all his failures and even serious technical flaws.
As the printing press had made translations available to hundreds of readers during the renaissance in Europe so had the printing press which had come to India in the end of the last century
made many astrological books available in translations in many Indian languages. No part of the country was without the new astrologer who learnt the subject not in the guru-shishya tradition but
through books. It created greater awareness but more and more
quackery and dangerous mediocrity. Till now that lingers, that ugly
tradition. It is the guess of many that out of ten thousand practicing astrologers, only one knows astrology as it should be learnt and
practiced. It is an exaggeration? Not let cite some instances to show
how glib generalizations get mistaken for good astrology.
The new astrologer who is out of guru shishya traditions is a
mere book worm who has learnt his astrology from wrong books and
from authors who never had scientific outlook or the ability or zest
to do research. The easy availability of such translations produced
more quack astrologers but created a large awareness about the scientific method of astrology. What was a gain was the appreciation
that astrology was not black magic but a very well developed science. What was a loss was that anyone could become as astrologer without any training or any licence. That trend continues. Yet it
must be said that early translations of astrological classics were better done though poorly printed on bad paper than the modern ones
which are done by scholars with dubious scholarship of Sanskrit.
Subrarnanya Sastri, Rarnkrishna Bhatt among older astrologers
who wrote in English, were along with Chidambara Ayyar and others fine scholars of Sanskrit had god command over English. They
wrote very well but never believed in illustrating their translations.

Often reading those books one sees good deal of vaguenese in their
own understanding of Sanskrit stanzas.
Here then was a first rate crisis. Those who knew both Sanskrit and English well were not scientific in their exposition of astrological classics. They merely translated them without themselves understanding many portions of those books. There were others like
Suryanarain Rao whose zeal to popularize astrology was laudable but
whose limitations and poor knowledge of both Sanskrit and astrology was very evident in their books.
This trend has continued for seven decades except the three
exceptions. Meena's Nadi astrology, Krishnamoorthy paddhati and
Sheshadri Iyer's New Directions. Then the centre of original and fundamental researches shifted to Delhi when I published my original
replicable and statistical researches and created a team which believes in absolutely modem type of research.
It is not merely a fundamental and original research. It is also
original in the methodology of its presentation. This reaches a very
high stage of development in the present work of Shiv Raj Sharma
on Rahu.

In northern, eastern and some parts of western India came along

with astrology the dangerous trend of overemphasizing the shanti aspect (propitiation) through stones, talismans, and. many weird and esoteric practices. What Parashara has prescribed is only prayer, charities and yagnas. But now the emphasis is on the business of a jeweller and the stones he sells. Astrology is a cottage industry in some
places, a medium scale one somewhere but is neither a vidya nor a
science for the practising majority.
Men like me who learnt astrology through tradition, from my
mother, and later from yogic tradition from Yogi Bhaskaranandaji, were
totally non professional amidst those in the world of astrology who
were editing, writing, talking and charging exorbitant fees. The tricks
of business employed by that group was a shock to me when I came
to know of it. But who can fight it? The big names you hear are
mostly of those who are technically very deficient. I will not quote
from some of the books they have written to show what I mean by
their being technically deficient. I have tried the techniques given in
their books. I have met them, discussed with them, invited them to
come to our classes and present their research. Not one of them

had the courage to come to our research group and get tested their
so called researches. They were afraid that it would expose their mediocrity and technical deficiency. The veneer of respectability they
had would have been tom off. Slowly I discovered that in the world
of astrology there were more frauds than perhaps in any other field
It is a hard statement, a harsh reality, an unpleasant truth which
except me no other astrologer will have the courage to state so
clearly. If in so doing I create more enemies I do not mind it. Someone has to do this, if the reformist fervour is to catch the new entrants in the field of astrology it must start with the warning that
they will meet more frauds here than in any other field. I must make
it clear that it will be no different in the USA where I now can claim
to know good deal about what is happening in the world of astrology there. It will be no different in Europe or other places. If Vedic
astrology is spreading there after being accepted in a scientific spirit
it is because of the great work done by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Prabhupad of the Krishna Consiousness Movement and other Indian
gurus who have spoken of the great astrological tradition of India
but without being able to demonstrate how it was great Then came
the American Council of Vedic Astrology and the great foresight of
Dr.David Frawley, the open though critical appreciation of Vedic astrology of Robert Hand, the giant in western astrology, the modest
scholar like Robert Schmidt whose humility is what the great God
has not given to many others. But I have tremendous capacity to
love and I admire and love the American zest to learn with an open
mind astrology of India which I do not find established Indian astrologers having at all. India will take many decades to get rid of
the dogmatic astrologers and the blossom of a totally refreshingly
modem style.

SPECIAL INTRODUCTION FOR TillS BOOK

A general introduction given here must follow with a very clear statement of the objects of producing this research. To start with I must
state that in the delay in the writing of the book there existed many
reasons. The first was the opposition of the senior group when they
came to know from me that Shiv Raj Sharma was producing a very
novel type of research on Rahu under my direct guidance. In doing
this my choice of Shiv Raj was predecided after I saw his penetrating analysis in arranging the vast material on Rahu scattered in different astrology books when he started collecting them and writing
them down painstakingly in his slow and exquisite writing in tabular
form as I wanted him to do it. I must therefore, first speak of the
special features of this style of presenting an astrological research.
The Tabular Arrangement

This is the first ever book being written where the predictive out.
lines given in different astrological classics are being given in a tabular form. It will take more space but give such extraordinary clarity
as is not seen in any other book of astrology. It is not easy to cull
out material from at least as many as eight books and arrange them
in a systematic manner. Shiv Raj had done in a descriptive manner.
I rearranged it all in a tabular form because I wanted this book to
become a standard reference book on Rahu.
Arranging the rich material Shiv Raj had collected with extraordinary and meticulous attention to principles of the interpretation of
the position of Rahu in different houses, the results of the
mahadasha of Rahu and results of the sub-periods of Rahu in the
mahadasha of other planets was not easy. It took me ten nights of
work to arrange the first seventy pages in tabular form. Shiv Raj
not merely agreed with me that it was very clear and very good, but
went to the modest extreme of suggesting that I and not he should
be called the author of the book. I refused to do it because all the
work had been done by him. I only rearranged it as I thought was
better and the need for the modern scientific minded reader.
May be someone will accuse us of filling the book with too
many tables. But then my answer to that charge is, if this arrangement helps them become more efficient in understanding how dashas
are to be used, particularly according to the Parashara tradition, it
was better to do that.

Illustrations
In my books I have criticized other writers of writing books without
giving enough horoscopes to show how the principles being expounded applied to given horoscopes. We have used through mutual consultations that we must illustrate as many points as possible and still keep the book within some limits. In that sense it
becomes the best ever book written on a Mahadasha by any astrologer. I benefited myself quite a lot while I was reananging all
this material, rewriting it, and choosing horoscopes from own vast
data to illustrate them.

The illustrations given in the book of both types, the good

and positive side of Rahu and the well known negative and destructive side of Rahu. Every planet has to perform all the three activities of creating (the Brahma principle); of preserving (the Vishnu principle) and the destructive principle (the Rudra principle). Unless all
the three sides of a planet in a horoscope is understood the interpretation of a horoscope is bound to be lopsided. This approach
ensure that the negativity of a horoscope is not stressed always.
There is always that silver lining. What is true in human life must
be true in a horoscope as well. Let it be understood through a horoscope. In my own horoscope when I was about to begin the sub
period of Rahu in the major period of Saturn, my friend astrolores
predicted disaster for me. I told them that my Rahu fell under a
great exception and that in Saturn Rahu I would achieve something
great including international fame. Look at my horoscope.
HOROSCOPE

Rahu
Jupiter

Male

BH
Example!

Saturn

Lagna, Ketu,
Mars,Ven Mer,
Sun
Moon

Here note that Rahu is in a Kendra from Saturn which is in

the rashi of Jupiter. Then see that Rahu is aspected by two exalted
planets, Jupiter and Mercury. Finally, Rahu in the 6th from both the
lagna and the Moon is aspected by Jupiter which is known as an
astalakshtr! yoga (the eight fold blessings of Goddess Lakshmi, the
goddess of prosperity and fame. I was then on deputation to the
Delhi Municipal Corporation (1981 to 1985). I produced four surplus
budget successfully for the very first time in the history of the Corporation and also earned international fame as an astrologer, as a
speaker and writer. I also got invitation to go to Germany as a financial expert to speak on Financial Controls in a Civic Body which
I had to decline because my mother, sick then, would die, astrologically. She died in December 1984.
No one can ever master astrology. But our finer techniques
of astrological predictions cannot improve unless we discussed
through presentation our predictions as case studies. I started doing this for the very first time in the world. Others have not followed it up yet though I have been doing it for over fourteen years
and have done so in all the sixteen books I have written so far.
Similarly in another case a prediction was given by persons that
the sub period of Ketu in Jupiter dasha would prove disastrous. I
predicted that it would prove excellent and get him a good job better than the best one he has ever had. See the horoscope.
HOROSCOPE
Saturn

Ketu

BH
Male
Example2

Lagna,
Mer, Ve,
Jupiter
Mars,
Sun

Rahu

Moon

My simple argument was that Ketu was in a trine both from

the lagna and the lord of the Mahadasha, Jupiter. Besides, the as-

pect of Jupiter, the lOth lord on Ketu clearly indicated a better job.
It being in the 9th house, it would involve change of place also.

This person got a big job in a bank. Jupiter represents bank also.
It being the lOth lord it had to be something significant professionally.
THE POSITIVE SIDE OF RAHV

Finally the best feature of the book is to see the two sides of Rahu
both in causing child births and denying also. Like this there are
many other areas in which Shiv Raj had worked. But I cut it out as
the volume was becoming too large, and to dense. It is better to
write a small book with maximum lucidity. I also edited out. the use
of many divisional horoscopes which he had done in a rather complex way. They were brilliant but his techniques are too subtle and
complex for many readers to follow. Sometime later he may do it
and enlarge this book. Our aim has been to make Rahu Venus
periods.
The last chapter, the Rahu Venus and Venus Rahu periods are
absolutely brilliant researches. We discussed them rather elaborately and decided to include three aspects of these periods Here to follow the classics blindly is to run into disaster. There are periods of
Rahu Venus which:
(a) Bring about untold misery.
(b) Then are spells of extreme prosperity.
(c) Between these two extremes, there are fast changing events,
which can be traced through changing sub sub periods.
It was necessary to deal with this aspect. So a full research
on this was justified. I must say .that I have rarely enjoyed so much
joy in editing a book as this one.

We in India have none of the facilities in writing books as they

have in the USA where excellent computers, good reference material
and spell checks of their programmes helps them edit a book early.
Some of the US progranunes we use in India does not help us as
we use British English. The American spell checks have a very limited use for us. Similarly what they call granunatik in their progranune
is based on American usages. Those of us who have spent a lifetime in writing English as Englishmen have taught us, find it difficult

to make a mental switch the keenness of Americans to learn astrology of India properly and also their appreciation of those Indians as
can communicate well with them fium the stage. Yet for an Indian,
however, successful he may be in USA it is a mental switch over
fium one type of intellectual response as we get in India and the
different type as we get in USA. There in USA the spell of concentration is generally of one hour. Then there should either be dilution or a break or a session of jokes. But the facility available in
the USA in their far better organized classes are something which
we in India must envy. And Americans must envy the Indian's concentration to understand the discussion of a horoscope mentally, without it being drawn up either on the board or shown through an over
head projector.
1HEDELAY

This book was due to be published in 1993 but Shiv Raj was too
busy with his office work. Then like a typical Hindu householder
he had his own domestic duties. Our academic group consists of
people for whom astrology is not a source of income or earning but
a pure academic pursuit. Yet he has done it inspite of those difficulties.
Finally it struck me as amusing when this book did come to
logical conclusion that Shiv Raj was writing on Rahu which moves
in a retrograde way. While his other colleagues were writing fast
enough, he has had to wait so long to complete it. Rahu takes eighteen months to change a rashi of the zodiac and Shiv Raj too has
taken eighteen months to complete this magnificent book.

K.N.Rao.
F-291, Saraswati Kunj

Patparganj
Plot No 25
Delhi II 0092
October I2, 1995
Delhi.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE
After the long introduction by my guide K.N.Rao. I have nothing
more to say. He has helped me in all ways. I suggested to him
that he should be the author and I his helper. But he insisted that
since the work was done substantially by me, my name must be there
as the author. The fact that he is mentioned as guide and editor
was enough he said. In fact it is much more than that. How many
pieces of mine he has rewritten keeping awaking for ten nights, four
with me, is what I know. He is a very hard task master. He would
not allow me to fall behind his tight schedule. Apart from learning
the art of writing of a book, planning it from the initial stages, I have
learnt the value of writing at least five hundred words per day. Over
a period of time, a book gets completed in this manner.
Rahu's role in mundane astrology is a very great and v1rgm
area for research in modem times. Since this is a book on natal astrology and not mundane that area has not be entered here at all.
Then there is the role of eclipse in mundane predictions which is
where Rahu's effects are clearly made use of for predictions.
In the Advanced Techniques of Astrological Predictions (edited by K.N.Rao) R.C.Sharma, an engineer in the railways, has dealt
with the professions connected with Rahu, but mainly with engineering professions. Rahu's professions for our age is a fascinating area
in which I have done some researches. If and. when that is complete
I will publish them.
Rahu's role in a politician's life deserves a special research
again. In marriages, Rahu has the well known stamp of it all over if
it influences the marriage houses and their lords. From unorthodoxy
to non conformism in love affairs or disturbance is apparent unless
such a Rahu is controlled by a benefic. That will need a fuller treatment and separately. It being well known this has only been referred
here in the book.
It is going to be a continuing research on Rahu. I have not
used more than one third of the material I have already with me as
the book may become too heavy. It can be done in a separate book
later.
It must be stated here that the role of the nakshatras in which
Rahu is placed has its own importance but we are not going deeply

into It m this book. Towards the end in the chapter on conclusions

we will give some instances to show why nakshatras have a very
useful role to play. In the classical astrology of Hindus the factors
that must be taken into account in the assessment of a horoscope
is manifold which stage by stage will be as follows:
(a) The house in which Rahu is placed fium the lagna.
(b) The nature of the lord of that house.
(c) The nature of the nakshatra in which Rahu is situated.
(d) The navamsha in which Rahu is placed.
(e) The mutual relations between Rahu and other planets in a
horoscope.
This five fold approach is all that we propose dealing with in
this book.
I had written the manuscript using many divisional horoscope
and showing the deeper meaning of the aspects of Rahu. My guide
told me not to do. It would become too tough and too dense was
his advice. The subject must always be introduced in easy states
was his most valuable advice. He insisted that I must first of all
state the classical principles. Then go further and show how they
applied to given horoscopes. Finally he showed me how Rahu could
be used as clincher for a snapshot predictions. In this book I have
followed his advice strictly. A book must be classical in approach
and fundamental and original in research was his advice. I must say
that I have benefitted fium his advice. Then he showed me how many
of tougher pieces should be rearranged and written. I had given in
the early examples many complex principles and a deep composite
approach which he teaches in his class rooms. Yet for the general
reader, who is not well trained in classical astrology and in the scientific methodology of research all that would have become heavy.
The entire book had to be rewritten, his showing me how it could
be done. At many stages when I suggested that he should be called
the author, he reprimanded me saying that it would amount to plagiarizing which is a common habit with guides in all scientific disciplines. That ugly tradition must be put an end to. Yet if my open
acknowledgment of his great guidance was there and my own name
as the author of the book, it would become an example of sterling
intellectual honesty. That is true in the case of K.N.Rao who is the

only astrologer who has written pieces after pieces for many other
astrologer writers without allowing the readers to know that it was
his research. In this case the research is largely mine, the writing
and illustrations together with valuable notes are his. So for all practical purposes he is the joint author, the main author according to
me, of this book. He gets annoyed when I keep saying this.
In the class room when he teaches he always draws up charts
and the principles of astrological interpretation in a tabular form. It
condenses for us the principles in so lucid a way that there is no
confusion left in our minds. One of his favourite methods of interpreting the Vimshottari mahadasha which I have followed in this book
throughout is given here.
A standardized method of interpretation the Vimshottari Mahadasha

The Positive Side

Exalted in rashi or
navamsha or in
moolatrikona,
own or friend's
house. Or in trikona, kendra, 3
or I 1.
Strong
Well placed
in graha in navamsha
bala
and other divisional horoscope

Well placed from the

lagna and the dasha
lord.

Factors to be Examined

.
Condition and Position

The Negative Side

Weak, debilitated
combus~ defeated
in a planetary war.
Placed in 6,8,I2
or 2,7 which can
be dangerous in
some cases.
Weak
ill placed in
I.The strength in terms
of graha bala and ista and in graha navamsha
kasta phala.
bala
and other
2. If graha bala is not
divisonal
available do such an exam
horoscope
ination in relevant divisional horoscopes
3. Do both if graha bala
is available.

of the dasha and antar

dasha lords to be examined from the lagna
and from each other

The mutual position of Ill placed fu:m

the running mahadasha the dasha lord.
lord and the antardasha
lord.

I followed his advice strictly and have arranged the classical

principles in series o.f tables which can act as a ready reckoner. It is
for this reason that this book contains a novel and tabular presentation of classical principles given in analytical way. After I saw the

arrangement of my material in tabular form I discovered that so much

could be said in so brief a way and yet the essential principles are
not lost sight of. This has a further advantage. If transparencies of
all these tables are prepared and used in a class room for teaching,
students will get a very clear and easy grasp of these principles.
In that sense it does become the first ever book in which a
mahadasha has been explained in a totally new, innovative and inimitable way. The wish of my guide is that in future our teaching
methods will have to patterned on the model being presented here.
It is easier said than done. It has taken me months of labour to search
all the material from different books and condense them in the form
in they are being presented. Once such a labour is undertaken, the
result is doubly rewarding. I can myself refer to them for understanding some basic principles which I may miss otherwise. For instance
see the following two horoscopes in which only some planets have
been given to illustrate what I mean.

MAlE
Birth
Horoscope
Example 3

Lagna
Jupiter

Mars

Moon
Rahu
Moon
Rahu

Lagna

MAlE
Birth
Horoscope
Example 4

Mars

In the first case Moon is with Rahu in the house of Mars. In

the mahadasha of Rahu which this person has been running in 1995
cobras appeared twice in his house and had to be killed. The cobras
stood up on their tail dangerously and hissed.
In the second again both the Moon and Rahu in the house of
Mars are aspected by Mars. He was bitten by a cobra but survived
after a prolonged treatment. Rahu represents snake is what the classical text states, Mars represents the sting or the bite and the rashi
of Mars makes such a bite or sting doubly dangerous. It is how a
research should be done. The classical principle will merely state that
in the dasha of Rahu the fear of snakes exist. From our original research we find that Mars too must join it with the Moon. The Moon
represents the liquid, in this case the poison of the cobra and Mars
the bite of a snake.
I must state it emphatically that after an intensive research I
have not found Rahu giving results different from what has been
mentioned in the classics. Yet the interpretation becomes elusive because the toughest element of prediction in Hindu astrology is the
art of synthesis which has been explained in K.N.Rao's "TimingEvents through the Vimshottari Dasha".
To say I am most grateful to K.N.Rao, my guide for everything
is not a full expression of my reaction to the pains he has taken to
get produced this book after guiding, editing, rewriting some pieces.
He even gave me some valuable horoscopes from out of his personal collection of about fifty thousand horoscopes with events
noted. I do not know whether any other astrologer has such a rich
collection in his possession.
To say that I have now been able to complete a book which
should have been written one year ago is to say that if my guide
had not driven me hard I could not have completed it.

Address
B-5/381 Yamuna Vihar,
Delhi-110053.

Shiv Raj Sharma

HOROSCOPES IN THE BOOK

Index to tables with astrological points discussed
No. Birth
Chart
Male/
Female

Subject

Divisional
Horoscope

Notable Points

Satum-Rahu

BH

Ashtalakshmi Yoga favourable period

Jupiter Ketu

BH

Proved good professionally.

Rahu in the sign

of Mars

BH

Cobras enter the house

Rahu in sign of
Mars

BH

Snake bite

IM

Rahu in Aries

BH

Raja-yoga

Rahu in 5th house

BH

Good education. marriage and

children.

Same

BH

No children. Affliction.

Rahu in the 4th

BH

Good career and marriage

Rahu in the 3rd

BH

Youngest among siblings.

10

Rahu in the lith

BH

Eldest child of parents.

II

Rahu in 7th

BHINL Marriage

12

Rahu with 5th lord

BH

13

Rahu linked to the

12th

BHINL Hospitalization

Rahu's assocwhon
with 5th/7th

BHINL Marriage and children.

Rahu in 5th and

lagna

BH/NL Marriage

14

151M

Excellent education.

16

Rahu in 9th

BH/NL Father's elevation.

17

Rahu and Moon

BH/NL Mental tension

18

Rahu and Moon

BH/NL Marital tension.

19

Rahu in the 5th

BHINL Marital tension.

20

Rahu in lOth

BH

More male children

No Birth
Chart
Male/
Female

Subject

Divisi- Notable Points

anal
Horoscope

21

Guru chandala Yoga BH

Mild variety

22

Rahu influences 5th BH

Drugs

23

Rahu in lOth

BH

Career after struggle

24

Rahu-Satum

BH

Miseries

25

Rahu-Mercury

BH

Good education

26

Rajiv
Gandhi

Rahu-Mercury

BH

Assassination.

and authorship

'

- 27

Rahu in 4th

BH

Became a Priest.

28

Rahu/Venus

BH

Need for balanced view.

29

Rahu-Sun

BH

Business losses

- 30

Rahu-Moon

BH

Prosperity to husband.

31

Rahu -Mars

BH

Gain of land.

Sun-Rahu

BH

Death of father

33

Moon-Rahu

BH

Professional Rise

34

Mars-Rahu

BH

Professional Rise

35

Jupiter-Rahu

BH

Foreign Travel

36

Saturu-Rahu

BH

Quirks of Destiny

37

Mercury-Rahu

BH

Child loss and gain

38

Ketu-Rahu

BH

Engagement called off

39

Venus-Rahu

BH

Good studies

40

C. Raja

Rahu with 5th lord

BH

Female children and Guru

chandal yoga

Jupiter gripped by
RKA

BH

Female children and guru

chandal yoga

_EJ.

go pal
achari
41

- --

J.L Nehru

42

Afflicted Jupiter

BHINL Male issues, guru chandal

yoga
I

No. Birth
Chart
Male/
Female

Subject

Division a!
Horoscope

Notable Points

43

same

BH/D-7

Disinclination to have
children

44

Jupiter gripped by
RKA

BH/D-7

Same

BH//D-7

Abortions to wife and

death of daughter

BH/D-7

Late marriage and only

one daughter.

45

IM

46

Afflicted Jupiter

47

Jup worst affliction BH

48

49
50

Only daughters

Preversion of mind and

mishaps to children.

Jup RKA but

benefic

BH

Guru chandal yoga toned

down

Same

BH

Same

Same

BH

Same

51 IF

Jup. RKA

BH

Only child

52

Jup RKA

BH

53 {y1

Rahu's transit

BH/D-7

Birth of child

54

Same

BH

Birth of a son

55

Same

BH

Birth of a son

56

Same

BH

Same

Same

BH

Same

same

BH

same

BH

Same

57 IM
58

I Guru

chandal a Bad for

him and children.

Indira
Gandhi

59

Same

60

Rahu and curses

61

same

BH

same

62

Rahu-Sat

BH

Death

63

JFK

RKA's transit

BH

Death

IBH

No child

No. Birth
Chart
Male/
Female

Subject

Divisianal
Horoscope

Notable Points

64

same

BH

Same

same

BH

Death

BH

Same

65

Mahatma
Gandhi

66 Sajay
Gandhi
same

-I-

67 M

Venus-Rahu

BH

Big post

68 F

Rahu-Venus

BH/0-3

Death of brother

69 F

Rahu-Venus

BH/NL

Marriage

70 M

Rahu-Venus

BH/NL

Death

71

Venus-Rahu

BH/NL/D-1 Mixed fortunes

72

Venus-Rahu

Same

Death of mother

73 M

Rahu- Ven-Jup-Sat

BH/NL

Death

74 M

Rahu Dasha

BH

Foreign residence and

business

75

Using Nakshatras

Bh

Excellent Education

76 M

Using Nakshatras
of Rahu etc.

BH

Foreign culture

77 M

Same

BH

Distinction in studies

78

Rahu Dash a

BH

Spiritual
Blossoming

79

Same

BH

Same

80

Same

BH

Same

81

Same

BH

Same

Same

BH

Same

-82

Abbreviations Used in the Book (see bibliography also at the

end for the books refered to)
FOR HOROSCOPES
BH

For birth horoscope

D-9

for Navamsha

NL

Navamsha Lagna

D-3

for Drekkana or Dreshkona

D-7

for Saptamsha

D-12

for Dwadashamsha

FORDASHA
M.D

For Mahadasha (Major Period)

M.D.L

for Mahadasha Lord

A.D.

for Antardasha (Sub period)

A.D.L.

for Antardasha Lord

P.D.

for Pratyantaradasha (Sub-Sub-Period)

OTHER
RKA

for Rahu Ketu Axis

Tr

for Transit of planets

female

male

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

General Introduction about tbe new trends in research by K.N. Rao.

Special Introduction written for the book by
K.N. Rao.

2A

Author's Preface

Table of 77 Birth Horoscopes and 23 Divisional Horoscopes (to show researches on Rahu
with specific reference to its good and bad
results.)

Abbreviations used.

PAGE

PART ONE
CHAPTER
1.

Legends and Lores about Rahu

Prayer to Rahu

What One Must Know about Rahu

What Astrological Classics Say about Rahu

..... from Mansagari mainly with a comparative
study of the results of Rahu from the Lagna and
the Moon

Results of Rahu in Different House and the

Results of tbe Mahadasha of Rahu in different
Classics
..... ..from Jatakabharam, Sarvartha Chintamani,
Phaladeepika, Uttar Kalamrita.

13

Laghu Parashari and Brihad Parashara Hora

Shastra
Separate and special combinations given in
Bhavarth Ratnakar

20

PAGE

7
8

10

ll

Consolidated Table and a Bird's Eye View of All

the Results
Snapsot Predictions on the basis of Rahu's
Position
...... Rahu at a glance dynamically
Mahadasha of Rahu-a Detailed Treatment
according to
..... Mansagari,
Sarvartha
Chintamani,
Phaldeepika, Uttar Kalamrita. A birtd's eye view
of Rahu 's different conditions like exaltation,
moolatrikona friend's house, netural's.
A standaridized Approach according to
Parashara - I
...... .to the interpretation of the Mahadasha of
Rahu and the Antardsha of other planets.
A Standardized Approach according to
Parashara - II .
....... .to the results of Rahu's antardasha in the
Mahadashas of other planets

24
27

3g

52

57

PAGE

PART TWO

12

Some Researches

77

13

Guru Chandala Yoga and its Variations

85

14

Transit of Rahu and the Birth of Children

91

15

Rahu Associated with Curses for Child Birth

99

16

Rahu and Fatality:

(a) Results of its dasha and transit.
(b) Rahu Venus and Venus Rahu Periods: the
promises and the dangers.
(c) Use of Divisional Horoscopes
(d) The Effects of the Nakshatras in which
Rahu is

106

17

Conclusions

121

The Placement, Occupations, Conjunction of Rahu

and Aspect on it.
Rahu's Role in Psychological Evolution.

18.

Rahu Periods And Spiritual Blossoming

126

19.

Rahu in Sarpa Dreshlwna

132

PART ONE

CHAPTER ONE

THE LEGENDS AND LORES ABOUT

RAHU
A brief account of what is given about Rahu and Ketu in the sacred literature of India is being outlined here. It is useful to know it
because the sacred literature of India contains not merely the account
of planets and myths associated with them, but also gives us valuable clues which sharpen our astrological perceptions. The best researches in astrology can be done if we took seriously the stories
about these planets, unravelled the mysteries, looked deeper into the
stories, found richer astrological content than what is apparent and
applied the principles so gleaned to horoscopes before us.
Nectar or amrita was churned out of the ocean (the story of
Sarnudra Manthan). Poison too had come out with the nectar. That
lethal poison could have destroyed the entire life on the earth. Lord
Shiva quaffed it off. He stored it in his neck as a result of which it
became blue which is why one of the names of Lord Shiva is Lord
Neelakantha.
It was decided to distribute the nectar to Gods and strengthen
them against their fight with rakshas (demons). Without anyone noticing it at once, Rahu and Ketu who were demons, joined the gods
and partook of that nectar. When Lord Vishnu carne to know of it,
further serving of nectar was not given to Rahu and Ketu. But they
had enough consumed enough nectar to become immortal like gods.
The Sun and the Moon had noticed this deceitful act of Rahu and
Ketu and complained to Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu pierced the abdomen of Rahu and chopped off the head of Ketu. But they did not
die as they had become immortal.
The Sun and the Moon had reported against Rahu and Ketu
to Lord Vishnu. But they had become immortal now. They prayed to
the Almighty to include them in the galaxy of planets. Their wish
was granted. But they harboured ill will towards the Sun and the
Moon who had reported against them.
Note: From this story the relation between the luminaries, Sun
and Moon and Rahu and Ketu gives us rich materiaf to work on for
our research.

The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

ANOTHER VERSION

The Skanda Purana story of Rahu is a repetitiOn of the same with

one difference. Gods and Demons had decided to churn the ocean
to extract nectar. The emphasis is that demons were as much a part
of the effort to chum the ocean as gods. When nectar was got, Lord
Vishnu decided to give nectar only to gods, not to demons. Rahu
came to know of this decision. He assumed the shape of a god and
entered the group of gods to drink nectar. Lord Vishnu cut off the
head of Rahu.

CHAPfER TWO

PRAYER TO RAHU
Oriental scholars both of India and of the west hardly know that the
stotras or Sanskrit hymns, poems, stanzas or poetical compositions
give valuable clues, mostly predictive astrological clues about the
planets. Here is a very fine, celebrated poem on Rahu with English
transliteration and the meaning given below it
Rahurdnava Mantri Cha Simhikachittanandah
Ardhakayah Sada Krodhi Chandradity Vimardanah (1)
Giver of happiness to Simika ( his mother ), minister of demons,
half-bodied, Rahu is the tormentor of the Sun and the Moon.
Roudro Rudrapriyo Daityah Swarbhanurbhanur Bheetidah
Graharajah Sudhapayi Rakatikshyabhilashuka (2)
Terrible looking, devotee of Lord Shiva, king among planets,
immortal because he has drunk nectar, Rahu who frightens the Sun
feels happy when he is worshipped at night.
Kaaldrishti Kaalroopa Shri Kantha Hridayaasrayah
Vidhuntudah Saimhikayo Ghorarupo Mahabalah (3)
His sight is death-inflicting: his looks are Death-like: he resides
in the heart of Lord Neelakantha: has made the Moon lustreless.
The son of Simhika is a powerful.
Grahapeedakaro Dranshtri Rakta netro Mahodarah
Panchavimsati Namaani Smritava Rahum Sadanarah (4)
He who tonnents planets, has big whiskers, has blood red eyes,
big bellied (hard to satisfy) these are the twenty five names of Rahu.
Yeh Pathet Mahati Peeda Tasya Nashyati Kevalam
Arogyam Putramtulam Shriyam Dhanyam Pashumtatha(5)
He who recite these names, overcomes his troubles by a mere
recitation of these names, gets sons, good health, prosperity, agricultural and cattle wealth.
DadatiRahustasmai Yah Pathet Stotram Uttamam
Satatam Pathet Yastu Jeevat Varsham Shatam Narah(6)
He who recites this stotra constantly gets his wishes fulfilled
and lives up to the age of one hundred years. That is ,the fruit of
reciting this hymn.

CHAPTER THREE

WHAT ONE MUST KNOW ABOUT RAHU

Known as a malefic, the deity represented by Rabu is Adishesha (the
great serpent on which the earth rests, the great gravitational energy) according to Parashara. According to a recent astrological book
known as the La! Kitab, Rabu represents Bhairava, the destructive
subordinate of Lord Shiva.
Certain facts one must know about Rabu for good and successful predictions are:
T. He is the incarnation of Lord Varaba (For the propitiation of
Rabu worship of Varahaavtara is prescribed. Jayadeva's Dashavtara
Stotra is the worship of all avatars for full propitiation of all planets.
2. He represents the South West direction.
3. Always in retrograde motion (sometimes is also direct), Rabu
stays in one rashi for one and half year and has a daily motion of
about three minutes.
4. In the planetary cabinet Rabu is given the portfolio of the
limy.

5. Rabu represents leprosy and skin disease.

6. Rabu represents mleccha or an outcaste.
7. Rabu lives in snake holes.
8. Rabu has a good height and a long body.
9. Rabu represents metals.
10. Rahu's colour is black or blue, but always with smokiness

m tt.
II. Rabu's habit is to utter falsehood and degrade others

12. Among cereals, Rabu represents urad (lintel).

13. Rabu represents suicidal cases or cases of hanging.
14. Among plants, Rabu is the bush.
15. Among precious stones Rabu is gomez.

What one Must Know about Rabu

16. Rabu causes windy complaints in the body.
17. Rahu is material gain.
18. Rahu is Tamas guna.
19. Rahu gives effect of evil spirits. ,

20.

RAHU'S .EXALTATION/DEBILITATION ETC.,

.
(see details in later chapters)

Exaltation

Moolatrikona

Debilitation

Lord of which
nakshatras.

Taurus(Parashara) Gemini(Parashara) Scorpio (Parashara) Ardra (Gemini)

Gemini (Others)

Aquarius (Others) Sagittarius (Others) Swati (Libra)

Owus Kumbha

(Parashara) but
Virgo according
to others.

Satabhisha
(Aquarius)

Friends are: Mercury, Venus. and Saturn.

21. ASPECTS: There has always been a controversy about the
aspects of Rahu. Many writers feel that since it is a shadowy planet
it cannot have any aspect. But many others use the aspects of Rahu
for their predictions. Different writers give aspects of Rahu thus:
a. The 5th, 7th,9th and the 12th according to some.'
b. The 5th and 7th according to others.
c. Others take only the 5th, 7th and the 12th.
22. Propitiation or Shanti of Rahu
(a) To ward off the evils of Rahu worship of Goddess Durg:i.
Someone recommends worship of Lord Shiva or Bhairava.
(b)

Fasting on Saturday.

CHAPTER FOUR

WHAT CLASSICS SAY ABOUT RAHU

BASED ON MANSAGARI FROM THE
LAGNA
(The notes being given in this table are based on our own observations which will be illustrated later.)
FIRST HOUSE

Generally does not give good resnlts but gives

courage to undertake any work. Has blood shot
eyes and gives inclination for violence.
Note: It has been observed that streaks of
unorthodoxy associated with Rahu gives courage
to be a non confonnist.

SECOND"

Good in a financial sense but not good for other

purposes. One may live but in the ''houses of
people of different racial, ethnic or caste
background (The word low caste is a wooden
translation in modern context). Inclinations to
indnlge in thieving and meat eating.
Note: The word low caste used in the translation shonld be given expanded meaning.
It has been observed that Rahu in the second house
gives interrupted, never continuous flow, of money.

..

THIRD"

..... '.:..

FOURTH"
material for
research.

Promotes ~appiness good for valour but siblings

may die, not survive.
N ~te 1: It has been observed that. Rahu in the
thiitd house makes one either the youngest or the
I
. eldest of siblings, or in its own sex.
(See some instances.)
Note 2: If Rahu in the third house is with other
planets this rnle shonld not be applied.
Generally not good here: Some interesting predictive hints are given here:
a) The native may live a house constructed away
from the place of one's native land. These days
it wilf mean in a house away from the place of
one's birth.
b) Such Rahu with' "another malefic may live in a
foreign country.

What Classics Say About Rahu Based on Mansagri from the Lagna

See
illustrations.

c) May have only one daughter.

Note: Rahu in the 4th has been seen to give at
least one daughter.
d) His wife may be slim.(A strange principle
which needs observing.)

FIFTH
See illustrations.

Not good.
a) Rahu and Moon here show death of a son
after birth.
Note: It may not be death but an incurable
disease to a child.
b) He may become owner of other's house.
c) Only one son may live and that too handicapped.

SIXIH

Good. Destroys enemies.

Note: A person with Rahu in the 6th house will
rarely be without enemies who, however, get
vanquished.

SEVENIH

"

Not good. Loss of wealth, extramarital relations, .

if many' planets then his spouse will be harsh
and ill behaved.
N01E 1: The aspect of Jupiter on such Rahu
gives excellent married life.
NOIE 2: Rahu in the 7th is a general well known
factor for unorthodox marriage or unorthodox
relationship or extramarital relationship. Yet it
should not be overemphasiZed as it more often
than not gives business partners with different
racial or national background.

EIGHTH

Good only for financial matters otherwise

unfavourable. 1bieving tendency, defamed and is
generally aggrieved.
Note: It can disturb married life, give esoteric experience, and creates some complication in the region between thighs.

NINTH "

Is bad. Quarrelsome, does lowly acts, unlucky, fear

of enemies.
Note: It has been found to be bad. It promotes
some unorthodoxy, gives foreign travels invariably,
particularly if in Cancer. In chara rashis such
travels start very early in life, in sthira rashis late
and in dwiswabhava rashis spasmodically.

The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

TENTH

Good but makes a person sensual. unlucky. takes

initiative and does some spiritual thinking, fickle
minded and cruel.
Note: If aspected by malefics one can become very
egotistical.
Note: If unaspected it can give deep missionary
tendencies.
Note: People with Rahu in the lOth house have
to be careful about their jobs if the lOth lord is
not in a happy position. One such person with
the 1Oth lord debilitated. and with Rahu in the 1Oth
house aspected by Saturn was caught embezzling
money. He was nearly dismissed from his job but
he escaped by resigning early.
Note: Persons with Rahu in the lOth house generally have more sons is our observations.

ELEVENTH
Material for
research.

Is good.
(a) Is skilled in the use of weapons
Note: In modem times it can apply to surgeons
and doctors.
(b) The native is beautiful and kind-hearted
Note: Beauty should be seen with reference to
other factors. Kindheartedness should be examined
along with the happy condition of the fourth house
and its lord.
(c) Lives in a foreign country.
Note: Lives in a place away from birth place.
(d) May not have a son or happiness from a son
Note: It is the 8th house from the 5th house. It
applies to first child, it has been observed. A son
born after does not suffer.
(e) Can be the eldest or youngest of siblings or
in its own sex

Illustrations
available.

TWELFTH "

Not favourable.
a) Religion, money and wife desert him
Note: It is an extreme statement.
b) There is defect in nails
Note: Here the 12th house and Rahu have been
used for nails which can be a valuable piece of
research for medical astrology.
c) Lives in a foreign country.
Note: Away from the place of one's birth as in
the case of J3.ahu in the 4th house seems very
certain.

What Classics Say About Rahu Based on Mansagri fium the Lagna
From the above it seems that Rahu in 1,2,3,6,8,10 and 11 are
generally favourable. In the other houses, 4,5,7,9 and 12 it is not
favourable.
Rahu in Mesha: Rise and Fall
Lagna
Mars 7-26 4-38 ~up 1-38
Rah 9-29 Sun 18-47 Venus
Mer
17-44
00-59
A Politician I.
~ahu in the. 12th hous(
f2/3June 1930 5-10
a.m. 1ST
Lat 12N 52
Moon
Long: 074 E 53 . 6-33
Example 5

~at (R
17-40

Ketu
9-29

He was in Mars Ketu period in June, 1974 he was arrested and

lodged inside a jail and even tortured. Later when his Rahu dasha
started he became cabinet mimster in the central government of India. Rahu in Aries did give him a rajayoga but for a brief period, as
being with the 12th lord, Mars, he also caused his downfall in 1979
when Rahu Jupiter period started.
Rahu in 5th and Education
Moon
8-24
Rahu

Jupiter
2-34

17-0R

Sat (R)
21-46
Lagna
17-37

Female
Aug20, 1965
6p.m.Delhi
Exarnple6
Ketu
17-08

Mars
6-38

Mer (R)
28-54
Sun 3-53

Yen
7-48

Here Rahu in the 5th house which is Taurus, with exalted

Moon gave her good education, marriage and children in its dasha.

10

The Mystery ofRahu in a Horoscope

Afflicted Rahu in the 5th house.

Moon

Venus

Mer

Sun
Mars
Keto

Sat
1--

Rahu

Male
Rahu in 5th
Example?

Lagna

Jup

Here see afflicted Rahu in the 5th house and Sat's aspect on
the 5th lord. He has no children.
Rahu in a kendra with Jupiter and aspect of benefic.
Sun

Mer

Mars

Ven

Male
Rahu in the 4th
with a benefic
ExampleS

Sat

Rahu
Jup

Moon
Keto

Lagna

Here Rahll in the 4th house aspected by a benefic and Jupiter

gave him a career and also marriage.
Rahu as a Protector
What is call arista or malefic effect of planets are cancelled by
Rahu if certain conditions are fulfilled:
(a) A well aspected Rahu in the 3rd, 6th or the 11th house
wards off evils and becomes a strong protector.
(b) If Rahu is in the 3rd, 6th or 11th house and all planets are
in sheershodaya rashis (rashis which rise from the head, Gemini, Leo,
Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Aquarius.)

What Classics Say About Rabu Based on Mansagri from the Lagna

II

RAHU'S PLACEMENT FROM THE MOON (TREAT THE MOON AS

THE ASCENDANT AND JUDGE).
Manasagari deals with the position of planets from the Moon
and gives very specific results.
From the Ascendant
F rom the Moon
c ontrastmg s tu d y
See details given earlier)
First House

Good in the beginning

of life but at the end
of life, is not so conspicuous in the same way

Not good but gives

courage to take initiative.

Second House

Not good. Deprivations

of money, honour and
happiness.

Not good generally

but good financ;ally
but not earned in
scrupulous ways.
Can be a meat cater.

Third House

No mention

Good for valour but

bad for siblings.

Fourth House

Gives grief to parents

Fifth House

Not good. Obstructions

fear of drowning

Not good.lt can give

agonizing experience
with children one of
whom may die in
tragic way

Sixth House

Good for financial positic n

Good. Destroyer of
enemies

Seventh Hou.se

Gives grief to parents

Not good, loss of

wealth and extra marita! relations. If such
a Rabu is with many
other planets the
spouse is harsh in
behaviour business
partner

Eighth House

Not mentioned.

Ninth House

Good in the beginning

of life but at the end of
life not so conspicuous
in the same way

"

Not good. May live

away from the land
of one's birth.
Note: Generally gives
at least one daughter
Nate : His spouse
may be slim.

Good financially
otherwise bad.

Bad,quarrelsome,
indulges in lowly
acts, is not lucky
and fear of enemies

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Tenth House

Good in the beginning

in life but at the end
of life is not so conspicuous in the same
way.

Good.Has spiritual
inclinations and is
also a wanderer, not
lucky.

Eleventh House

Not good. Loss of honour

wealth and happiness.

Good for one own

self but not for children and siblings

Twelfth House

Good for financial

gains.

Not favourable
Note: This can be a
period of foreign
travels.
Note: There is some
defect in nails.

SPECIAL POSITION FOR RAHU

Rahu in some rashis which happen to be in quadrant or trine

fium the lagna is said to be good.
(a) In Gemini or Virgo (both the houses of Mercury, his friend)
if Rahu happens to be in a trine or quadrant from the lagna, it,proves
very beneficial.
(b) If Aries, Taurus or Cancer happens to be the ascendant
with Rahu in it, it is good.
This special position of Rahu should be understood through
the table given below, for auspicious results.
If Rahu is in
Gemini
Not applicable

If Rahu is in Virgo

ARIES in
Lagna with Rahu
TAURUS m
Not applicable
Lagna with Rahu
Quadrant and Trine GEMINI
Not applicable
CANCER in
Lagna with Rahu
Not applicable
LEO
Quadrant
VIRGO
Trine
Not applicable
Quadrant
Not applicable
Trine
Quadrant

Not applicable

Benefit

Trine

Half benefit

Quadrant
Not applicable

N_g~able

Trine and Quadrant

LIBRA
Not applicable
Not applicable
SCORPIO
SAGITTARIUS
Quadrant
CAPRICORN- -!rine
AQUARIUS-'-- Not applicable
PISCES
Quadrant

Full benefit
Benefit
No benefit
Full benefit
Half benefit
No benefit
Full benefit
Half benefit
Half benefit
Full benefit

CHAPTER FIVE

THE DASHA RESULTS

The Dasha Results of Rahu as given in Mansagari can be summed
up thus:
1. Rahu-Mercury, Rahu-Venus and Rahu-Jupiter are generally
good periods while other sub periods in the major period of Rahu
are not very favourable.

2. The Sub-period of Rahil in the major period of any other

planet is not good.
NOTE: In the joint discussions I have had with my guide,
K.N.Rao,
the following tentative formulations are worth considering:
(a) Rahu Mercury can be periods of mental aberrations.
(b) Rahu-Venus periods are most difficult to predict. Examples
will be given.

(c) Rahu-Moon periods can be periods of melancholia, depression and other agonies.
(d) In the major period of Saturn and sub-period of Rahu is
generally difficult.
Note: Rahu major periods and sub periods need closed examination .. Aspects and association of other planets and their ownership should be scrutinised closely.
JATAKABHARANAM

Jataka Bharanam gives to Rahu enough importance. The results

of Rahu in different houses and different rashis as given in the
Jatakabharanam are as follows.
1st House

Mixed
Results

Evil thinking, diseases but victory in

fights.

2nd House

Bad

It can give

bad speech habits, be bad for

money and cause poverty occasionally.

The Mystery ofRahu in a Horoscope

14
3rd House

Good

overcome. Sacred duties are

Fear is
performed. On the negative side, it proves
bad for siblings can cause penurious
situations. Such a position can make one
a killer of animals.

4th House

Bad

Grief from family.

5th House

Bad

Devoid of happiness and there can be

stomach pain.

6th House

Good

Enemies are destroyed. Gives wealth,

courage and strength. 1t gives the
companies of mlechhas, or men -of other
races, castes and suffers from back pain.

7th House

Bad

Bad for spouse or girl or boy fiiends.

Spouse can be diseased and of bad
temper.

8th House

Bad

But can cause pain in sexual

organs.Destructions and physical handicaps.

9th House

Bad

Promotes irreligious tendencies and

leads to dimunition of happiness.

lOth House

Mixed

Destroys enemies. Less happiness from

father, uneven luck and windy complaints.

11th House

Good

Gives profits, happiness, victory.

12th House

Bad

Diseases of eyes, wounds in feet

1t gives mixed results in Taurus and Pisces.

Notable 1: Rabu is kendra or quadrant from the birth ascendant if aspected by malefics proves bad in the lOth or the 16th year.
Notable 2: Rabu in the 3rd,6th and ll th houses aspected by
benefics is strongly l!rotective.
Notable 3: H all planets are in shirshodaya rashis and aspect
Rabu it becomes a strong protective shield.
Notable 4: H the ascendant is Aries, Taurus or Cancer with
Rabu in it becomes a strong protective shield.
Jatakabharanam does not refer to the results of the dasha of
Rabu in various houses.

Dasha Results

15

RAHU IN SARVARTHA CHINTAMANI

Sarvartha Chintamani is the only book which singles out Rahu

as an excellent planet in certain ways. It gives fame and gives the
crown or high position(Chattrakaraka word used) Six valuable points
given by this book for the interpretation of the results of the subperiods of other planets, particularly of malefics in that of Rahu give
us sound predictive basis.
Table 1 Results Expected
1.

If Rahu is in the lagna the sub-period of a malefic is bad.The

sub-period of a benefic is good.

2.

If Rahu is in the 6th,8th or the 12th house fium the lagna,the

sub-period of a malefic is bad.
NOIE No. mention has been made of the sub-period of a
benefic here. It is only the sub-period of a malefic that is
said to be bad. It has been seen that the sub-period of a
benefic generally is fium good to very auspicious in the
results it gives.

3.

If Rahu is in the 4th, 7th or the lOth the sub-period of a

malefic is bad while that a benefic is good.

4.

If Rahu is in the 5th or the 9th then the sub-period of a

malefic proves bad and that of a benefic good.

5.

If Rahu is in the 3rd or the II th then the sub-period of a

malefic gives good results in the beginning but proves bad
in the end.

6.

If Rahu is in the. 2nd the sub-period of malefic proves bad

but that of the benefic gives good results.
Note: It has not been mentione~ if the sub-period of a
benefic aspected by a malefic and in the 6th,8th or the 12th
position from Rahu proves bad. Our experience is the such
ill-placed benefic is rather tricky and deceptive to interpret.

Some Observations

1. The sub periods of malefics in the major period of Rahu has

not been favoured for good results except when Rahu is in the 3rd
and the 11th. Here also the sub period gets divid~d into two clear
periods: the beginning proves good but the end is deceptively bad.
2. The sub period of a benefic is either neutral or good it ap-

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

pears. In our experience it has not been so. Case studies given later
will raise some important questions.
3. An ill associated or ill aspected benefic may not tum out to
be good is our experience.
Rahu as a Protector

Sarvartha Chintamani gives to Rahu's special protective role in

three ways:
Rahu is kendra from the lagna without arty aspect from a
benefic, it is not protective.
Note: If aspected by a benefic it proves protective.
(b) If Rahu is in the 3rd, 6th or the II th and is aspected by a
benefic, it becomes a strong protector.
(c) If Rahu is in Aries, Taurus or Cancer he becomes strongly
protective.
Note: It should be observed whether these rashis fall in the
6th, 8th or the I2 house from a lagna. It has been seen to be giving
good results even in such cases.

Dasha Results

I7

Table 1
From Phaladeepika
Association of Rahu
If Rahu is with benefics or in the houses of benefics, its results in Rahu mahadasha are generally good and auspicious.
If with malefics or malefics rashis it proves bad in the
mahadasha of Rahu. Note: Astrologers emphasizing the nagativity of
Rahu should remember that the bad results manifest only in the
dachas and are not life long happenings.
Placement (Specially notable points in five houses. See detailed
table later)
The principle given about association will get modified according to the placement of Rahu.
Rahu in the 3rrl house

Gives courage.
Note It has been found to be very good for
extra curricular activities and spon generally

Rahu in the 4th house

Gives long life to the mother. Also rajayoga

in its mahadasha.
Note Generally it has .been found to be
correct if there is benefic association.

Rahu in the 5th house

Produces rajayoga It can give rare insight

into complex subjects of study if other promises exist in the horoscope in its own
mahsdasha.
Note it is the house of diplomacy and thinking. The means adopted to achieve all things
are seen to be dubious generally.
Note The 5th house has been taken. for higher
education not the 4th house.

Rahu in the I Oth house

Is a producer of rajayoga in its own

mahadasha
Note It may lead to an erratic career yet phil-

anthropic work as in the case of Mahatma

Gandhi. It may tum out to very dubious if
aspected by a malefic.
Rahu in the lith house

It is again an excellent house for Rajayoga

Note It has been generally seen that it

yields more money, some occasional honours

but not an excellent rajayoga

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

In Virgo, Scorpio and Pisces

Here three houses have been singled out for

auspicious results by ,the Phaladeepika.
Note It is very interesting to note that the
6th, 8th and the 12th house of the natural
zodiac have been singled out

Sub Period

The sub period of Venus in the major

period of Rahu proves very good.
Note: Our research shows that it is dangerous to make predictions about this period
without a very thorough examination.
Note: Rabu Jupiter and Rahu Mercury periods have been praised as good. Rahu Venus
or Venus Rahu can be both good and bad in
the sense that there can be danger from poison, fire or disease. Other sub periods have
been described as bad.

UTTAR KALAMRITA
Uttara Kalamrita of Kalidas gives a very special treatment to
the dasha of Rahu.
Some of the salient' points mentioned can be
mentioned briefly thus.

I.

A benefic Rahu (with benefic or in benefic houses) gives very

auspicious results, like money, pilgrimages, religious knowledge
and traveL

2.

A malefic Rahu, can cause disease, snake bite (food poisoning

or even strong reaction from allopathic medicine) danger from
enemies, fire and weapons.

If Rahu or Ketu is posited in the 5th or the 9th house and is

associated with the 2nd or the 7th lord, it becomes a maraka
and causes death.

4.

The result gets reversed if Rahu or Ketu are in the 2nd or the
7th houses and are associated with the 5th and or the 9th lord
it gives money and prosperity.

5.

If Rabu or Ketu are in the 2nd or the 7th house while the
lords Of those houses are with the malefic lords of the 3rd,
6th or the II th houses, the latter lords become death inflicting.
Note The theory of dispositors comes into play h.ere.

Dasha Results
6a
6b

19

If Rahu or Ketu are in dual signs;

and
I if they or their dispositors are associated with rajayoga producing planets or aspected by them they bestow money and
prosperity in their dashas.
2. If they are also associated with the 6th, 8th, or 12th lords
such a promise gets weakened. They also do some harm to
brother and mother's side.
Note For the first time a very clear exposition of the dispositors
of Rahu and Ketu are brought into play. We thus has to examine not merely Rahu and Ketu but itlso their dispositors.

7.

Now two conditions are laid down: if Rahu/Ketu are in movable signs and in benefic houses or are conjoined with the lords
of trines, their dasha proves very fruitful.
Note It is never possible for both Rahu and Ketu to be both
in movable signs and benefic houses. If the axis is Aries!Li
bra, Cancer/Capricorn, Libra!Aries or Capricorn/Cancer one of
the houses must be malefic. Yet since one of the houses is a
benefic, it should be examined if the planet in the benefic is
associated with the trinal lord from the lagna. Such Rahu or
Ketu proves excellent in many ways.

8.

If RKA are in malefic houses but aspected by benefics, they

still become killers.

9.

If RKA is in 6th, 8th or 12th houses conjoined with the lords

of those houses or with maraka lords, they cause bodily
injury or ailment.
Note. It is one of the finest principles or timing the
periods of sickness. It has not been seen to fail.

10.

If RKA becomes a killer by position or association, it becomes

fatal.

11.

lfRKA in the 6th, 8th or 12th houses have the association of

kendra or trikona lords, they becomes auspicious mostly but
at the end cause disease or even death

12.

If RKA in 3 or
or trikona lords
If on the other
7th lord all that

II or 1,4,7,10 and has the association of kendra

they promote prosperity.
hand they are associated with the 2nd or the
promise is destroyed, even death.

CHAPTER SIX

RAHU ACCORDING TO MAHARSHI

PARASHARA
LAGHU PARASHARI
For generations astrologers have usea the condensed principles
of Parashara given in the classic known as the Laghu Parashari,
which K.N.Rao has given in an analytical form in his book Astrology,' Destiny and the Wheel of Time. Rahu has been dealt with
pithily and lucidly thus.
Rahu and Ketu being CHAYA graha ( shadowy planets ) they
will:
a) Give the results of the sign in which they are.
stance in Scorpio it will have be like Mars.

For in-

b) The lordship of the houses in which they are will affect.

For instance if Rahu is in Scorpio and Mars is debilitated Rahu will
get affected by the debilitated Mars. If Rahu is associated with other
planets it shares the results of those planets also.
HOUSES
1. They are neutral in 2,12,4,7,10th houses.
2. Benefic in 1,5,9.
3. Malefic in 3,6, 11.
4. If in the 8th, it is very bad.
Expected Results of Rahu's Mahadasha
1. In benefic houses or with benefics Rahu and Ketu act like
benefics.
2.
trikona.

They produce good results if associated with kendra and

3,
If in kendras or trikonas but unaspected, they produces
good results.
4. They get kendradhipatya dosha if their rashi lords are
benefics.

Rahu

According

to

Maharshi

Parashara

21

5. If on the other hand if their rashi lords are of kendras are

malefics, they produces good results.
BRIHAT PARASHARA HORA SHASTRA
In this magnum opus of astrology, the greatest principles of
predictive astrology are given. It is for this reason that there is no
astrologer in the world who understands even one third of this greatest astrological classic. It is the jurisprudence of astrology laying
down those principles around which predictive techniques are shaped.
The Parashara Hora Shastra states that Taurus is the sign of
Rahu's exaltation, Gemini its moolatrikona sign and Aquarius its own
sign.
What will be the results of the mahadasha of Rahu?
a) If exalted, in moolatrikona or with a yogakaraka or being
aspected by a yogakaraka or with a lord of kendra or trikona or in
the lith house, the results are good.
b) If Rahil is in the 8th or the 12th or with maraka planets or
in debilitation it can be bad.
Note: In the dasha of Rahu in the 12th house there can be a
major change or even movement to foreign or far off place.
The Sub Period of Rahu
a) If in Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio or Sagittarius, the Rahu/Rahu
would be good.
b) If such a Rahu is in 3,6, 10 or II and has connection with
benefic planets, its sub period will be good.
c) If such a Rahu is in the 8th, 12th or 2nd or 7th and associated with a malefic, its sub period will be bad.
The Mahadasha of Rahu and the Antar Dasha of Other
Planets
a) If the antardasha lords from the lagna are in kendra, trikona,
exalted, in own sign II th house or exalted Navamsha, the period will
give good results.
b) If the antardasha lord is in the 6th, 8th or the 12th fium
the lagna, is associated with malefics, it will prove bad.

The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

22

c) If the antardasha lord is a kendra or a trikona or the II th

house from Rahu it will prove gainful.
d) If the antardasha lord is in 6,8,12 from Rahu or in 2nd or
7th from Rahu it is not helpful.
FROM BHAVARTHA RATNAKAR

One of the rare classics, the Bhavartha Ratnakar is an extraordinarily inspiring and refreshingly innovative astrological classic which
gives the spiritual side of Rahu in a horoscope. It concentrates on
four lagnas to explain it.
To start with, favourable Rahu is said to be the one placed in
the 4th,5th, I Oth or the II th house.
Similarly, Rahu in Taurus is said to be in its house of exaltation, while Gemini and Cancer have been treated as its moolatrikona
houses.
If the lagna is

Taurus

Gemini

Libra

Rahu in the lOth

Mars and Jupiter
in Capricorn.
Note: The 9th
house becomes
significicant

If Saturn and
Rahu are in the
5th house and
Mercury and
Jupiter in the
lith house
Note: The 5th
house becomes
significant

In Rahu is ill the

lOth and Saturn,
Jupiter, Mercury
and Mars are in
Aquarius

Note: The 5th

house becomes
significant

Sagittarius
If Rahu is
in Leo and Mars
and Sun in
Aquarius

Note: The house

becomes 9th
significant

Results of Rahu in Different Houses

The placement of Rahu in different houses has been given an
entirely new and different meaning in this classic.
First House

If Rahu is associated with the lagna or the 6th lord in

the lagna, there is fear of animals, reptiles.
Note: It leads to accidents, reactions caused by strongmedicines is our experience. It is a valuable point in
medical astrology.

Second"

One will get food according to the circumstances one is

placed in.
Note: Such persons do not get the food of their choice
always.

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Rahu According to Maharshi Parashara

Third"

Gives valour aud courage.

Note: It is a good combination for distinction in sports

Fourth"

Gives Rajayoga in its own sub period.

Note: We have seen it happening in other sub periods in
major periods of Rahu as well. See the famous example
of John F Kennedy later.

Fifth"

Gives au ability to fathom the secret

and know the inner meauing.
Note: Rahu in the 5th house favours
there are other afflictions to the 5th
lord it cau give perverted thinking aud

thoughts of others
diplomacy. aud if
house or the 5th
crookendness.

Sixth"

If Rahu is associated with the langa or the 6th lord in

the 6th house, there is fear of auimal aud reptiles.
Note: It leads to accidents, reactions caused by strong
medicines is our experience. It .is a valuable points in
medical astrology.

Seventh"

Gives skillfulness aud confers fame aud. prosperity.

Eighth"

No mention has been made.

Ninth"

Generally what been said about holy deeds may become

applicable.

Tenth"

Gives Rajayoga in its own sub period.

N ole: We have seen it happen in other favorable sub periods of in the major period of Rahu as well.

Eleventh"

Same as for the lOth house.

Twelfth"

Same as for the lOth house.

Note: It is only here that we have seen Rahu in the 12th
house being spoken of so favorable.
We have the instance of a very successful politiciau of
au Indian state where it happened.

Death of Father in Rahu Dasha

a) One's father may died in the sub p~riod of Ketu, Saturn or
Sun in the major period of Rahu if such facility exists.
b) Death can also take place in the sub period of Rahu -in the
major period of a malefic mahadasha.

CHAPTER SEVEN

CONSOLIDATED TABLE
We can summarize what we have seen in these eight classics
about Rahu in two tables for a ready reference
Abbreviations have been used for the books referred:

2
Books

MS

JB

Good or
mixed
periods
in bhavas

3
Good or
mixed
periods
in rashis

1,2,3,6, Aries,
8,10,11
Taurus
.Gemini,
from
lagna.
Cancer,
From the Virgo
Moon:
1,6,9,
10,12
Note:
'This is
the only
book
which
talk~ of
favourable
points
from the
Moon.

1,3,6
11

Taurus
Pisces

4
Good

Good sub

sub
periods
in Rahu
dasha

periods of
Rahu in
other
dashas

Jup,Mer, None
Ven sub
periods
in Rahu
Mahadasha

6
Arista

..........

Cancella Notable
lion of
Arista

I. Rahu
in 3,6,11
as peeted
by
benefics

2.Rahu in
the lagna
if it is
Aries,
Taurus
or
Cancer.
3.Rahu in
3,6,11
aspect of
both malefics and
benefics
from
sheersho
daya
rashis.

No
No
mention Mention

Same
as in
the
Mansagari
(2 and
3)

'

Rahu
gives
courage

Consolidated Table

25

s::

3,10,11

Aries,
Taurus,
Cancer,
Virgo,
Sagitt.,
Aqu.,
Pisces

Benefi
No
sub das- Menha
ntion
lords for
all
bhavas
except
the lith
house
where
the AD
of
malefic
can also
be good.

Rahuin
kendra
not
as peeted
by
benefics.

Same as Rabu
in MS has been
called
as
chatrakaraka.

PD

3,4,5,
10,11

Virgo,
Scorpio
Pisces

Jup, Ven
Mer in
the
dasha
of Rahu

.....

.......

Rahu
mabad
asha&
Venus
sub
period
or

vic<!-

versa

Note:
See a
special
study
later.

.
UK

3,11,1
4,10

Gemini, Lordship
Libra,
decides
Aquarius
(Three
airy
signs)
Taurus,
Caprico-

Lord
ship
decide

-----

..........

----

-- ..

Rabu is
like
Saturn.

m.

LP

1,5,9
are
benefic
while
2,12,4,
7,10 are
netural.

----

Lordship
decides

Lord
ship
decide

I.
Shadowy
planets.
2.Rabu
acts as
the lords
of rashis
and also
according
to its
conjunction

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

1,4,7,10,
5,9,11

Taurus,
Placement
Gemini
and lord
Cancer
decides
Virgo
Scorpio
Sagg.
Aquarius

Placement,
and
lordship
decides

--

...

....

BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF WHAT THE CLASSICS SAY

Good or Good or
Mixed
Mixed
Rasis
Bhavas

Good
Sub
Periods
in Rahu
MD

Good
Sub
periods
of Rahu

Arista

Taurus
Gemini,
Virgo,
Aquarius
Pisces
are
common common
4,8, still Aries,
less
Cancer
common Sagg less

Jup,
Ven,

No
sub
period
singled

Arista
is not
over
emphasized

1,3,10,
II have
been
common
5,6,9
less

common

Libra
Capri.
least
common

Mer in
one case
Generally
the
lordship
has been
stressed.

out.
In one
case the
dasha
of Venus
has been
stressed
Majority
says to
decide
due to
placement and
lordship
of Rahu's
sign.

Can cellation

Cancellation
is when
benefics
offer
pratection.

Remarks
I. Apply
these principles
after synthesiing
2. When
Rahu is a
a melefic
and when
a benefic
is not easy
to decide
3. It will
be shoWn
later how
Rahu has
new and
great role
shaping
careers in
our age.

CHAPTER EIGHT

SNAPSHOT PREDICTIONS ON THE

BASIS OF RAHU'S POSITION
Many experienced and old astrologers verify the correctness of
a horoscope by a mere glance at a horoscope. One of such methods is to see Rahu in a horoscope and come to a snapshot conclusion. Series of such examples will be given here first.
One can judge whether one is the eldest or the youngest of
the siblings on the basis of Rahu, a research which K.N.Rao has
made use of in many of his papers and also taught to us in the
class room.
Rahu in the 3rd and Siblings
Lagna

Saturn
Ketu

BH

up Yen
Mer

Sun
Mars

Male
Ex.9
Rahu

Moon

See in the horoscope above the posilion of Rahu in the 3rd

house. He is the youngest among eight brothers and sisters

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Rahu in the 11th and Siblings
12
Jupiter

Mars
Sun

Lagna

Rahu

Moon
Mer

BH
Female

Ex. 10

Yen
Ketu
Sat

She is the eldest of the siblings. See Rahu in the II th house.

Now the same is being given in a table.
RAHU AT A GLANCE: DYNAMICALLY

We have seen in the previous chapter the static view of what

Rahu's occupation of a particular house in a horoscope can mean.
We can see that now dynamically. What Rahu does when is revealed in its own dasha. Some examples given here at random will
show how the Rahu dasha behaves.
Rahu in the 7th and marriage
Mere
Sun
Ven
Sat

Moon
Jup

Rahu

BH

Female

Mar
(R)

Ex. 11

Lagna
Ketu

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29

. Sun
Ven
Sat
Ketu

Navamsha
Mer
Rahu

Jup
Moon

Mars

Lagna

It is the horoscope of a woman. As soon as she entered the

Rahu dasha her marriage took place. Rahu like Venus is a natural
marriage maker. Here he is in the 7th house of marriage. In the
Navamsha Rahu is aspected by Venus, who is the dispositor of Rahu
in the birth horoscope.
Rahu and Education

Ven

Sun
Mer

Sat

BH

Lagna
Ketu

Female
Mars
Rahu

Ex 12
Jup
(R)

Moon

In this horoscope Rahu is with the 5th lord of education, Mars

who is exalted in Capricorn. She was a good student because she
got the dasha of Mars till the age of 12. Later in the Rahu period
she became even a better student because of the association of Rahu
with an exalted 5th lord. In the Rahu dasha she stood first class
first in her university examination.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Rahu and Hospitalization

Rahu

Lagna

Jup

BH
Male

Exl3
Mars
Mer

Sun
Ven

Moon

Sat
Ketu

Mer

Sat

Rahu

NAVAMSHA
Ven
Ketu
Moon
Sun Jup
Mars

Lagna

In this horoscope Rahu is in the 12th house which in itself

may not have been very bad but the aspects of Mars and Saturn
on it, one from 6th house of diseases and the other from the 9th
house, though he is the 8th lord also besides being the lagna lord
(representing the body ) could not have made the Rahu dasha comfortable.
In the Navamsha Mars again aspects Rahu. Venus as the 7th
and 12th lord gets connected with Rahu. Venus represents 12th of
hospitals. In Rahu period this person was seriously sick and hospitalized.

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31

Marriage and Children

Rahu

Jup (R

BH
Male

Ex 14

Moon

Mars

Lagna

Moon

Lagna

Mer (R)

Yen
Sat Sun
Ketu

Sun
Ketu

NAVAMSHA
Mars
Rahu

Sat
Mer
Jup

Yen

Here Rahu is in the 6th house aspected by Saturn, the 5th lord,
the child giver. In the Navamsha Rahu is with Mars, the 7th lord,
the marriage maker. He was married in the dasha of Rahu.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope'

RAT-ITT ANn MARRTAGF

Sun
~er (R

Mars
Yen
Jup

Moon
Ketu
BH

Male
Rahu

Ex 15
Sat

Lagna

Lagna

Moon

NAVAMSHA

Mars
Yen
Rahu
Mer

Jup
Yen

Sat

Sun

Here Rahu is in the 5th of birth of children. In the Navamsha

Rahu is with Venus and Mars, lagna and the 7th lord of marriage.
He got married in the dasha of Rahu and had children.

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33

Father's Elevation

Sat
(R)

Moon

Rahu

BH
Male

Ex 16.
Mars

Sun

Mer
Ketu

Lagna
Jup
Yen

...

Yen
Rahu

Moon

NAVAMSHA

Mars
Ketu

Lagna
Jup
Sun

Sat

Rahu is in the 9th house of father aspected by Jupiter, which

is excellent and also another benefic, Mercury which is again good.
Jupiter is also the 5th lord and aspects both the 9th lord, Mars in
the 5th house and Rahu in the 9th house.
In the Nvansha the 9th lord Jupiter is exalted. Rahu is with a
benefic, Venus in the II th house of elevation. The positional relation between Rahu and Jupiter is 1/9 in the birth horoscope or 1/5
from Rahu and in the Navamsha Ill! from Jupiter and 113 from Rahu.
In Rahu Jupiter his father was elevated to a very high position.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

RAHU AND MENTAL TENSION

Mer

Sun

Mars

Ketu
Jup

Ven

BH
Female
Lagna

Ex 17
Sat

Moon
Rahu

Mars

Sun

Ven

Sat

Jup
Rahu
Lagna

NAVAMSHA
Mer

Ketu

Moon

Rahu is with the Moon and is being aspected by both Mars

and Saturn. Moon represents the mind. Two malefics, Saturn and
Mars aspecting both the Moon and Rahu must create unbearable tension in the mind. Saturn is the 7th lord of marriage and the 6th lord
of hostility. From the Moon, the 5th house has the Sun aspected
by Saturn, while the 5th lord from the Moon, Mars is in the 6th
house of his neutral Venus.
She suffered worst of mental tensions as soon the Rahu
mahadasha started. In the Navarnsha Rahu is with Jupiter which is
good but Jupiter as the 6th lord and with the aspect, again of Mars
on Rahu, the tension was quite intense for her throughout the Rahu
period.

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35

MENTAL TANSION
Ketu

Ven.

Lagna

BH
Sun
Mer

Female
Ex. 18

Jup
(R)

(R)
Kah

Moon
Sat
u.
Jup

Moon
Mer
Mar
Rahu

Yen

Ketu

NAVMASHA
Sun
Lagna
Sat

Rahu is with the Moon and is being aspected by both Mars

and Saturn. Moon represents the mind. Two rnalefics, Saturn and
Mars aspecting both the Moon and Rahu must create unbearable tension in the mind. Saturn is the 7th lord of marriage and the 8th
lord. From the Lagna, the 7th house has the Sun aspected by Saturn.
She suffered worst of mental tensions as soon the Rahu
mahadasha started. In the Navamsha Rahu is with Mars which is
good but Jupiter as the 7th lord and its aspect on Rahu, the tension
was quite intense for her throughout the Rahu period. In the birth
horoscope Rahu is with the Moon and is being conjoined by both
Mars and Saturn. Moon represents the mind. Two . malefics, Saturn
and Mars aspecting both the Moon and Rahu must create unbearable tension in the mind. Saturn is the 7th lord of marriage and

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

also these 8th lord. From the Moon, the 3rd house has the Sun
aspected by Saturn, while the 6tb lord from the Moon, Mars is in
the 5tb house of his netural Venus.
TENSION FROM TWO FRONTS

Ketu

Yen

Lagna
Sun
Mer
(R)

BH

FemaleEx 19

Jup
(R)

Kan
Moon
Sat
Mor<

Jup

Moon
Mer
Mar
Rahu

Yen
Ketu

NAVMASHA
Sun
Lagna
Sat

This example resembles example 18 as the tension producting

house, the 5tb is under heaviest affliction with botb Rahu and Moon
being present tbere witb Saturn and Mars. The Sun in tbe 7tb house
of marriage became the cause of terrible tension in tbe sub period of
tbe Sun in the major period of Rahu.
In the Navamsha Rahu is again in the 5tb house, and again
witb Mars.
In the Sun sub period of Rahu major period she separated fium
her husband and left him taking witb herself her children.

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37

See the paper Marital Tension of Shiv Raj Sharma in the Advanced Techniques of Astrological Predictions edited by K.N.Rao for
full a treatment of subject.

CHAPTER NINE

MAHADASHA OF RAHU
DETAILED TREATMENT

Results as given in astrological classics

From Mansagari
Generally the mahadasha of Rahu is bad. It puts a person on
a trial, through an agonizing time. He will suffer loss of money, will
fall into errors of judgement and there will be separation fium his

family.
Table 1 The results of clifferent sub periods in the mahadasha
of Rahu as given in the book are:
Sub Periods of
Planets in the
Rahu

Jupiter

T Death of brother or father, Rahu gives the -company

H move to a foreign country of foreigners.
E or travelling, loss of monev
M Becomes rich, Prospers and Good results are attriA worships pious persons
buted. Since Jupiter
represents pious people
H
we have used that word
D
A
pious instead of Brahmin
s
used in the text.
H
A

Saturn

Mercury
0
F

Ketu

Remarks

Results

Bilious tendencies and blood

defects are to be feared,
there is quarrel with
relations and irreligious
tendencies spring up

Politicians seem to do
rather well during this
period as irreligious
and wrong tendencies
suit them.

There is trouble in the mind

and body, there is sympath;
fium friends and relatives.
But there is good fmancial

Mercury as a planet of
commerce can bring in
gains. But as a planet
of mental reactions can
be clistrubing

gains

Fever, death due to fire,

the hands of enemies.

A weapons or suffering at

..u.....

This sub period is

feared most

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39
Rahu and Venus both
emphasize sex and
enjoyments. Yet it is
always an enigmatic
period.

Venus

Friends becomes cause of

grief: gain of women
shows emphasis on sex:
wealth is accumulated but
there is quarrel with
family.

Sun

Fear from Weapons, disea- Rahu and Sun being

ses, fire.thieves and admin- mutual enemies these
istration. There can be loss results are inferentially
of wealth also,
acceptable.

Moon

Loss of wealth but gain of The Moon represents

women. Mind vacillates,
the mind and Rahu
there are social clashes, sad- phobias.
ness, despair with family.

Mars

There is fear fom enemies,

weapons, fifes and thieves

The incendiary role

of Mars has been
emphasized.

Note: Only the three benefics, Mercury, Jupiterand Venus has been singled
out for good results. It may not be correct in all cases if the sub period
lords are analyzed properly.
Table 2 Again from Mansagari
Results of the sub periods of Rahu in other Mahadashas

MAHADASHA ANTAR DASHA

SUN

RAHU

Doubts assail ~d there is the death of close

relative or friend.

MOON

RAHU

Uneasiness, loss of wealth, fear from enemies, disease and fear of fire accidents, some
death in the family.

MARS

RAHU

Disease, loss of wealth, fear of being injured

in fire or through weapon.

JUPITER

RAHU

Clash with people and relatives and fear of

death.

SATURN

RAHU

Disease, fever, loss of wealth, dysenteny,

diarrhoea

MERCURY

RAHU

Fear from enemies, loss of wealth, destruclion of house by fire.

RAHU

Injury caused by enemies, thieves and arguments with evil minded persons.

KETU

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VENUS

The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

RAIIU

Death of intimate friends either through

hanging or in unnatural ways. Unknown
fears haunt.

Not a single sub period of Rahu in the Major period of any other mahadasha
is good. This may be a typical example of overemphasis on negativity in
the astrological books of India This should not be overmphasized for two
reasons: first all these negative tendencies do not manifest as have been
mentioned here. Basides. in the hands of unscrupulous astrologers it becomes an instrument of exploitation. As it. very few astrologers are sound
enough to cross check such negative results and see the brighter side of it.

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41

Table 3 From Sarvartha Chintamani

The principles of interpretation of the mahadasha of Rahu given in

the Sarvartha Chintamani are unique and very helpful, if applied intelligently.
Rahu is exalted in Taurus and its moolatrikona rashi is Aquarius and
Aries is its friendly sign.
Note: The points mentioned must be remembered to overcome the
negativity attached to Rahu.
2 Exalted Rahu will give comforts, increase of money and in high positions in its mahadasha.
3 Debilitated Rahu will do just the reverse.
to cause punishment through hanging.

4~ Rahu

Can be so disastrous as

in the 6th, 8th or 12th house will give troubles in its dasha.

5 Rahu in ~ries, Taurus and Cancer will give profits, education, recognition from various quarters, happiness and the patronage of women.
Note: One of the secrets of finding from what type of person one
will get help from and when is what must be noted carefully. Here
the hint that help will be got from woman is very significant.

6 Rahu in Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces give marriage, children, vehicles

during a large part of the dasha but towards the end all these are
lost.
Note: These are dual signs, two of them are of Jupiter.
7 Rahu in malefic rashis will give generally bad results, all types of
fears and, ailments.

8 Benefic aspect on Rahu will give success and gain.

Note: If these principle are kept in the mind good deal of what appears to be the negative results of the Rahu dasha get toned down.
This is the most significant principle of interpretation which must be
kept in the mind always.
9 The reverse can happen in the dasha of Rahu badly aspected by
malefics.

IJ Remarlulble

Rahu Mahadasha

Ketu Mahadasha

points

Special Principles
Interpretation

Grief in the beginning.

Comforts in the beginnHappiness in the middle. in g. Grief in the middle.
Grief in the end.
Grief in the end.

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42

Table 4 Sarvartha Chintamani Again

In every horoscope Rahu is posited in a P<IT!icular house which too

have their effects.

House
I

All bad results,fear, accident,

death in family and stupid and
impulsive behaviour.

Modify results after applying the principles given in

the preceding table.

2.

Liar, Loss of money, wealth, eats

bad food and is angry.

All bad results associated

with the 2nd house have
been emphasized.

3.

Happiness from son, gain of money

and brother, foreign travels and
recognition from high persons.

All good results indicated.

Happiness from Son may
be because the 3rd house is
the lith from the 5th house.

4.

Death of mother, self destruction,

fear of fire accidents, illness to
wife(spouse) and son.

How does wife come in

here needs to be researched into.

5.

Mental aberrations, miseries, death

of son.

One
of the
valuable
points in astrology and psychology.

6.

Fear from thief, fire, monetary

losses, skin diseases, death
urinary trouble.

Rahu in the 6th has

not been praised here. Our
own observation is that
Rahu in this house destroys
many evils. Evils must exist
to be destroyed.

7.

Death of wife, foreign journeys,

fear from snakes. Death can take
place. Loss of money.
Bad for the son.

In
a
Rahu's
happen .

8.

Loss of money, death of son, fear

of thieves, fire etc., Goes to
hell. Fear of administrative action.

All negativ~ features

seem to have been mentioned mechanically.

9.

Death of parents,
foreign
travels, death of Guru,
relative, 'son but bath in the sea,

Typical Hindu view of

performing many death
ceremonies which includes a
sea bath.

Remarks

Results

badly
dash a

aspected
it
can

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43

10.

If Rahu is in a benefic rashi. all

good and religious deeds are done.
If in a malefic rashi all negative
results.

A Rahu aspected by malefics

has been seen to produce a
megalomaniac and evil doer.

II.

All types of gains.

Unlike other books, here

Rahu in the 3rd and the
II th alone have been praised.

12.

Destruction of family, of wife,

of son, of property and foreign
journey.

It has not found to be so

bad specially if Rahu is well
associated.

RAHU IS GOOD IN THE 3RD, AND 11TH FULLY AND IN THE

lOTH CONDITIONALLY.

TABLE V From Phaladeepika (I)

1
Here there is an elaboration of the brief table given earlier.

The results of Rahu in different houses fium the Lagna as given in

Phaladeepika can be' seen now to compare it with Sarvartha
Chintamani.
House

Results

Remarks

I.

Courageous, disease in the upper part

of the body and bad for longevity of
life.

Some expressions which

appear too negative and
wooden have to be made
flexible. These should not be
taken literally.

2.

Duplicity in nature, does secrets

talks, is deceitful in speech and
can develop disease of the mouth

The second being the house

of the eye(the right one)
possibility of weak eye sight
cannot be ruled out.

3.

Mind is firm, is honorable, opposes

brothers. Good for long life and
wealth

Can oppose brothers if

other similar combinations
exist.

4.

Foolish, worrying type, will have

friends, life is shorter , rarely comfortable. Causes and suffers agony.

These extremely negative

points have been generally
found to be wrong

5.
See

Hard hearted, devoid of son, there

is disease on the lateral side
at the bottom of the stomach and
can have nasal tone while speaking.

No one has praised Rahu in

the 5th for straight forward
behaviour may be because
it affects the mind. Yet
where other good combinalions exist the evils get
mitigated.

exampie

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6.

The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Rich.has a long life. is troubled by
enemies. and there can be disease in
the anus.

Rahu in the 6th create

enemies and destroys,
enemies have to trouble. But
benefic aspects on such
Rahu leads to forgiving
nature.

7.

Foolish in many matters as a result of

which he loses money. Sex relations
are such as to cause such losses and
even loss of virility. Becomes inhibition less

Just the opposite of these

results have been seen in
horoscopes in which Jupiter
or Venus aspects Rahu in
in the 6th house.

8.

Windy diseases, short life, distressed

or crippled and does impure acts.

Again an extreme view.

Results should be modified
after seeing other factors.

9.

Head of a village and does inauspicious Become leaders in a democracts.

acy and take to some unorthodox and non conformist
habits.

10.

Famous, few sons, is fearless and less

virtuous in behaviour.

Other factors should be

examined. Actually we have
seen more sons than daughters in such cases.

11.

Rich, long life has few sons and disease in the ear.

We have seen utter poverty

also in the case of horoscope
with Rahu in the lith'
house.

12

.Heavy expenditure, secret sins, watery

diseases.

Secret sins is too general

a term for Kaliyuga.

If the earlier table is compared .with the present one, the need to modify
results becomes apparent. From a comparative study of both the preceding tables good and mixed results seem to manifest in the 3rd, 4th and 5th,
lOth and the lith houses.

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Mahadasha of Rahu
RAHU IN THE lOTH AND MALE CHILDREN
Rahu
Moon

BH
Prince Charles

Lagna

Saturn

Ex.20

Jupiter

Sun
Mars

Mer
Ketu

Venus

Among many examples of people with Rahu in the lOth house

having more sons than daughters the best we have with us that of
Prince Charles who has only two sons and no daughter.
EXCEPTioN
Hypothesis: The guru chandala yoga gets toned down considerably if benefics join the Jupiter Rahu or Ketu combination. See an
instance.
BENEFICS SAVE

Ketu
Saturn

Venus
Jupiter
Mer
Rahu
Moon

BH
Male

1936
Ex. 21

Sun

Lagna

Mars

Happy marriage and happy with two sons is the story of his life.
Benefics in the 5th seem to have changed the entire effect of the
guru chandala yoga

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

TABLE: 6 (Phaladeepika II)
Modification of Results

Read this part carefully and then synthesize the results of Rahu
to avoid falling into the traps. of negativity into which most of the
astrologers fall in their interpretation of the Rahu mahadasha.
Apply part 1 and part IT repeatedly.
Most of the writers of articles in astrological journals and even
writers of the books hardly synthesize results properly. lll trained astrologers do more damage by looking at one factor only and jump
to conclusions. Various factors, and various techniques are to be examined.
The results given in the earlier part of Phaladeepika now must
be modified as is being explained here.
Concentrate on the following Three Principles.
I. Predict good results in the dasha of Rahu if Rahu is in a
benefic association.
2.
If the opposite is the case, bad rashi and bad association, Rahu period is quite troublesome.
3.
Now make the third modification which is conditional: if
Rahu is in Virgo, Scorpio or Pisces, its negative results may turn
out to be the harbinger of better things to come.
Study the Dasha and Antar Dashas in Rahu
See the avasthas of the Mahadasha lord and the antardasha
lord. It should be extended to Rahu also invariably.
1.

2.
Examine the position of both the MD and AD lords from
the lagna.
3.

Examine it again from the Moon.

4.

Now synthesize 2 and 3.

5.
Finally examine how the MD and AD are placed from
each other, 6/8/12 or 1,5,9.

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47

Table 7 Phaladeepika III

Keeping the principles given in table 6 interpret and modify the

results of the sub periods of Rahu given below.
MD

AD

Results

Remarks

Rahu

Rahu

Disease caused by poison

and water; harsh speech
habits; has vision of
snakes, has extra marital
relations and is troubled by
wicked persons.

Vision of snakes generally

can mean frightening
dreams or experiences
leading to phobbias.

Rahu

Jupiiter

Comforts, worship of Gods

and pious men, freedom
from disease and sexual
union with persons with
beautiful eyes.

Along with good results a

very specific indication
of the type of union one
will have sexually has
been hinted at. It is a
matter of research.

Rahu

Saturn

Quarrels with wife,

sons,brothers,suffers
in job,injuries are
received and servants
give trouble. Health
too suffers.

Can be a troublesome
period but there can be
great exceptions if good
aspects are there.

Rahu

Mercury Financially gainful,

there is general
happiness,efficiency
increases.

Mercury as the planet of

business
and also a
friend of Rahu may be
promoting all this.

Rahu

Ketu

Very troublesome
period in many ways.

If Ketu is receiving the

aspect of a benefic the resuits will be the reverse of
what has been predicted
here.

Rahu

Venus

Lucky from the female

side and comforts but
there can be opposition
from one's own kith and
kin and even difference
with one's Guru. Can
also cause phlegmatic
diseases and windy
troubles ..

It is a period about
which no hurried
judgement should be made.
A separate chapter on
this is included in the
book.

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Rahu

Suu

Enemies trouble,miseries
increase and there is
suffering from wife and
there can be health
upsets also.

It has been seen to be a

troublesome period
generally.

Rahu

Moon

Quarrel with people,

fear of water, mind is
anguished, wife and
children suffer.

Moon represents the mind

and Rahu aberrations of
the mind. Moon also
represents water.

Rahu

Mars

Fear of fire, injury

through, weapon, destruction of many things,
eye disease, heart
trouble and loss of
place.

Rahu period about to end

and the Jupiter period
about to begin is the
dasha chidra
always a period of a
major change which may
be even for the better.

Except the sub periods of Jupiter, Mercury and Venus no other sub period
has been said to be favourable.

Table 8
(Phaladeepika IV)
The effects of the sub perioq of Rahu in the mahadasha of other
Mahadashas should be seen finally.
M.D

AD

RESULTS

REMARKS

SUN

RAHU

Enemies increase, there

Increase in materialistic
demands is a peculiar
point here.

is loss of money, eye

diseases may give trouble
and materialistic wants
increase.

MOON RAHU

Troubles mentally and

physically.

MARS

RAHU

Fear of fire accidents,

weapons, increase of
enemies.

Can be a period of bold

actions inviting all
these fears.

JUP

RAHU

Trouble from thieves,

administration,relations
and loss of money etc.

It is a period of dasha
chidra and before Saturn!
Saturn begins the big
changes that are to manifest happen.

Phobias are associated

with Moon and Rahu.

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Mahadasha of Rahu
SAT

RAHU

Invites dangers by falling

into series of errors of
judgement.

A period to be watched.
There are great
exceptions when Rahu is
involved in astalakshmi
yoga.

MER

RAHU

Headache, pain in ilie

eye, stomach, loss of money
fear of fire, thieves and
even loss of honour.

'Financially it can be
penod of strange
swings and errors of
judgement in investment
should be watched.

KETU

RAHU

Tendency towards sinning

increases and troubles
get invited.

No one has praised this

sub period.

Gain of money, birth of

son, good respect,
conquest over enemies
but fear of poison,
thieves and action from
administration. And
some troubles also.

Increase in prosperity
arouses the jealousy of
oiliers.

VENUS RAHU

It is only in ilie case of Venus Rahu iliat from good to bad results have
been indicated. All oilier sub periods of Rabu have been te1med as bad.

Table 9
PRINCIPLES OF UTIARA KALAMRITA
Before we go into the understanding of the finest astrological
principles of interpretations given in the Brihad Parashara Hora
Shastra, let us recapitulate the essential principles of Uttar Kalamrita
to arrive at a balanced interpretation of the dasha of Rahu.
Rahu's Aspect: Here ilie 5th, 7ili and the 9ili aspects are taken.
It should be tried wiili an open mind.
There have been many controversie~ about the aspects of Rahu.
It should be tried and results established statistically. We are keeping our mind open on the subject.
It must also be stated here iliat while we are g1vmg below the
places where Rahu gets exalted, debilitated, is in moolatrikona house
or own house etc. we are aware of many controversies. In the different versions of the Brihada Parashara Hora Shastra on which we depend most we have different houses assigned to Rahu's houses of
exaltation etc. Through a process of elimination it appears iliat only

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50

Leo, Libra and Capricorn do not come into this controversy about
own or exaltation houses etc. Otherwise Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces do find a
favourable mention in some version or the other. It is better to take
a majority view and then through one's own experience begin to use
Rahu effectively for correct predictions.
A BJRD'EYE VIEW OF EXALTATIONS ETC. OF RAHU
Uttarkalamrita

What Other Books Say

BPHS
SC

Exaltation

.Taurus

Taurus

Taurus

Own Sign

Aquarius

Aquarius

Not mentioned

Moolatrikona

Gemini

Gemini

Aquarius

Enemies

Cancer and Leo

Friends

Not mentioned

Libra and
Capricorn.

Jupiter, Venus
Saturn( Again
Planets)

Aries.

Aries,Sagittarius
and Pisces

Mercury

Not mentioned

Neutrals

. Sun,Moon and
Mars(in one
version of
BPHS)Planets
not rashis
mentioned
here.

There are conflicting meaning yet they should be noted for use
in predictions. In a version of the Chowkhamba press edition of the
BPHS even Virgo is said to be the own house of Rahu apart from
Aquarius about which different versions do not seem to have any
difference of opinion. Similarly in the Khemraj version of BPHS there
is a difference about the Moolatrikona house of Rahu is Cancer and
not Gemini which the Chaukhamba version favours. But we find that
Rahu in Kanya has given good results and being in dual sign has
also been favoured. In the case of two prime ministers of India, La!
Bahadur Shastri and Charan Singh, Rahu in Kanya did lift thein very
high in their political careers. We have thus seen that while eminent
Sanskrit scholars have given us translations of astrological classics,
they made no attempt to reconcile such contradictions. Yet in actual
prediction we have had no difficulties in using these principles for

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51

day to day guidance to people consulting astrologers.

Yet it becomes necessary to emphasize this because there is
no literature on Rahu and there is no guidance or any major research
done on Rahu for the guidance of practising astrologers, beginners
or academic astrologers like us. To make a scientific study of Rahu
it is absolutely necessary for us to agree upon settled parameters. It
can be done only if we took the majority view and tried them on
horoscopes in a practical way. If then the need arises to modifY this
majority view we would do it as will become clear in the later sections of the book where were are going to give our fundamental and
absolutely original researches, observations and suggestions. Some
common principles which have always to be used in the case of any
planet is that if well associated or aspected it gives good results
whatever may be the view of any writer. It must be stated here that
we have not taken here two well known classics, Jatak Parijat which
is more or less a later day version of all that old writers had already
stated or from Brihat Jataka of Varahamihira where there is scanty
reference to Rahu. But in Brihat Sarnhita of the same writer, Rahu is
referred to but for mundane astrology which is not the subject matter of this book. To go into mundane astrology and show the role
of Rahu, particularly eclipses we have to venture into new fields
which we do no propose to do here in this book.
Note: We will see how the Brihad Parashara Hora Shastra deals
with all these principles of Rahu and its mahadasha comprehensively.

CHAPTER TEN

STANDARDIZED APPROACH OF
PARASHARA- I
TABLE 1 (PARASHARA)
The Standard and Sound Approach of Parashara
First of all remember the four b~sic principles of interpreting
the dasha of Rahu according to Parashara.
How will be the sub periods of other planets in the mahadasha
of Rahu?
The approach is very well standardized thus: first examine the
positional relation between the mahadasha lord (MDL ) and the
antardasha lord ( ADL ).
This part is being illustrated profusely because it is the basis
of the entire research being presented in this book.
RESULTS OF RAHU'S MAHADASHA
First examine whether Rahu is a benefic or a malefic in a horoscope. This can be done thus:
Benefic Rahu
Exaltation, aspect of benefics;
with yogakaraka, in kendra,
trikona, 3rd or lith and in
benefic rashis :fium the lagna.
Results: Gains, happiness,
birth of son and wealth,construction of a new house, recognition in a foreign country,
religious thinking, welfare
at home.

Malefic Rahu
In 8, 12th house with malefic/
marakas, debilitated. All these are to
be seen :fium the ascendant

Results: Will be from bad to

intensely worse. Loss of residence,
mental agony, loss of spouse,
children.

It is the soundest nine point approach to the interpretation of

Mahadashas of all planets. We here are confining ourselves to the
Rahu mahadasha only.

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53

Table One
Approach One: Relation between MDL and ADL
2

From the
lagna

From the
lagna

From the
MDL

From the
MDL

If the ADL

If the ADL
in 6,8, 12 it
is a negative
point

If the ADL

is in kendra
or trikona it
is positive
point.

is in Kendra
or trikona it
is a positive
point.

If the ADL
is in 6,8,
12 it is a
negative
. point.

From the
MDL

If the ADL
is in 2nd
or 7th house
it is a neg ative point,
even fatal

Table Two
Approach Two ( The condition of MDL and ADL )

If exalted, in

If exalted, in
moolatrikona or moolatrikona or
in own house in in own house in
the birth horos- the NAV AMSHA
is a strong
cope it is a
strong positive .positive point.
point.

Practical
Mahadasha

If debilitated,
combust, in the
birth horoscope
it it is a negalive point.

If debilitated
in the NAV AMSHA
it is a negative point

Application of the Nine Point Approach to Rahu

1. RAHURAHU

If Rahu is in Cancer, Virgo,Scorpio or Sagittarius there will

be recognition from the administration during its dasha and material gains. Travels will be in the western direction.
2./f Rahu is in 3,6,10, or ll(upachaya) and has benefic connections or in friendly houses, is exalted or in, moolatrikona in the
birth horoscope or the NAVAMSHA there are gains.
3. If Rahu is in the 8th or I 2 house from the lagna and with
malefics, it creates fears, deaths and troubles in the family.
4. If Rahu is the lord of the 2nd or the 7th and posited in
the 7th it cause illness but if shanti (propitiation of planets) is done
properly it can give wealth and health.
In the case of Rahu sub period in Rahu mahadasha no separate table for the antardasha is necessary.

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54
RAHUIRAHU

Moon

Ketu

'
BH

Venus

Mer (R
Sun

Example of an
Englishman
Jupiter
(R)

Ex. 22

Rahu
Mars
Sat

Lagna

I. Here Rahu is in the 3rd house and in Scorpio which' is good.

2. But the same Rahu is with Mars and Saturn two malefics.
3. His Rahu Rahu sub period began in 1989 he took to drugs
and was nearly arrested. He travelled to western direction 'Yhen he
west to USA.
.\
4. But the association of Satum who is also tbe 5tb lord saved
him and rekindled in his interest to become an author.
RESULTS OF ANTARDASHAS IN THE MAHADASHA OF RAHU
In the tables being given below read the results of the
antardasha lords from the lagna and from the mahadasha lord. This
must be kept in the mind throughout in the application of the results being given.

RAHU JUPITER
Approach One : Relation between MDL and ADL

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55
5

From the
Lagna

From the MDL From the

MDL

From the
MDL

If the ADL
In kendra or
trikona it is
a positive
point.

If the ADL is
in 6,8,12 it
is a negative
point.

If the ADL
is in kendra
or trikona it
is a positive
point.

If the ADL is
2nd or 7th
house it is a
negative
point, even
fatal

Good results
like gaining
confidence,
religious
ardour,
good deeds
etc (See
column 6)

Bad Results. In the 2nd or

(See colunin 8) 3rd house,
there will
be strong
charitable
tendencies,

From the
Lagna

If the ADL
in 6,8,12 it
is a negative
point.

Illness, loss Fear of

of wealth.
death

~of

house, but
danger to
elder brother
and trouble
to parents
and native's
own sickness

Approach Two ( The condition of MDL and ADL )

If exalted, in
moolatrikona or
in own house in
the birth horoscope it is a
strong positive
point.

If exalted, in
moolatrikona
in own house
the Navamsha
it is a strong
positive point

If debilitated
in the
the birth horo- NAVAMSHA it
scope it it is a negative point
negative point

If debilitated,

orcombust, in

Comforts, gains, Same as under 6. Loss of wealth Same as in 8.

hindrance in
travel to west
or south west
work and
for pilgrimage,
difference with
spouse.
worship or birth
of a son.

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56

Lagna

Mer

Moon
Sat Yen
Mars

Sun

Ketu

BH
Female

Rahu

Ex. 23

Jupiter
She ran her Jupiter sub period in Rahu mahadasha from 1990
in which period she joined a medical college to become a doctor.
Rahu is in a kendra and Jupiter in trikona. But being 1/12 from each
other she had to struggle very to get selected. When she did not
succeed, her father got her admitted on the basis of a huge donation.

3. RAHU SATURN
Approach One: Relation between MDL and ADL

From the
lagna

From the
lagna

From the
MDL

From the
MDL

From the
MDL

If the ADL i ,
In kendra or
trikona it is
a positive
point.

If the ADL i: If the ADL is

in 6,8,12
in kendra or
trikona it is
it is a negalive point.
a positive
point

Or if in 3
or II, gains,
auspicious
events like
marriage and
return to
one's own
country.

Good.
Fear from
enemy quarrels (Same as
with spouse.
col. I)

If the ADL

Jfthe ADL
is in 6,8,12
is in 2nd or
it is a nega7th house
negative point it is a negative point
even fatal
Loss of
honour,

illness enlar
gement of
spleen, fear
from enemy,
on rhe positive side, marriage and also
foreign travels.

Sudden
death.

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Approach Two ( The condition of MDL and

7
8

ADL )
9

If exalted, in
moolatrikona or
in own house in
the birth
horoscope it
is a strong
positive point

If exalted, in
moolatrikona or
in own house in
the NA V AMSHA
it is a strong
positive point

If debilitated,
combust, in the
birth horoscope
it is a negative
point

If debil,itated
the NAVAMSHA
it is a negative
point

Auspicious in
many ways.
(same as in
in col I)

Auspicious.

Fear from enemies,

quarrels with
spouse. Grief to
and from relations

Same as under
column 8. For
shanti donate
buffalo.

Sun
Rahu
Mer
Sat
Ven

BH

Example of an
Englishman
Ex.24

~
Mars
Ketu

Moon
'

In 1984 when he was running the sub period of Saturn in Rahu

he decided to sell off all his property in London except two houses,
come to India, to join politics, fight elections on the ticket of the
Janata party. He lost in the elections, lost all his money and is still
( in 1995) in debts.
Saturn is in the 6th from the lagna and 12th from Rahu.

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58.

4. RAHU MERCURY
Approach One: Relation between MDL and ADL
2
3
4
5
From the
lagna

From the
lagna

From the

From the

From the

MDL

MDL

MDL

If ADL in
In kendra or 6,8.!2 it is a
trikona it is negative point.
a positive
point.

If the ADL is
in kendra or
trikona it is
a positive
point.

If the ADL
is in 6,
8.12 it is
a negative
point.

If the ADL
is in 2nd
or 7th house
it is a negative
point. even
fatal

Excellent,

Or in 3,II
good health.
listens to
religious
preaching.
does charities.

Not discussed But it

can be bad
if we apply
general principles of
astrology.

If Mercury is
in the 2nd or
7th from Rahu,
there can be
sudden death.
Do Vishnu
Sahastranam
(See the exampie of Rajive
Gan<\hi later.
wher~ Mercury
is 2nd from
Rahu.l

If ADL is

monetary
game comforts with
the other
sex.

If also
associated
with Saturn,
sacrilegious
tendencies.
death of
gum. son.
wife and
becomes
himself
evil minded.

Approach Two (The condition of MDL and ADL)

If exalted,
in moolatrikona
or in own house
in the birth
horoscope it is
a positive point.

If exalted, in
moolatrikona or
in own house in
the NA VAMSHA
it is a strong
positive point

If debilitated,
combust, in the
birth horoscope
it is a negative
point.

If debilitated in
the NAV AMSHA
it is a negative
point.

Very good
generally.

Same as under
column 7.

Not mentioned.

Not mentioned.

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Ven Su

Mer

59
Moon
Saturn

Ketu

BH
Male

Jupiter
Mars
Rahu

Ex. 25
Lagna

This young man ran Mercury sub period in Rahu from 1990
and he started his educational training in electrical engineering career in England. Mercury in the 5th house of education and Rahu
in the I I th from Mercury proved very favourable for him while from
P.ahu the ADL is in the 3rd from Rahu.
Again see another example, it is that of the ex-prime minister
of India, Rajiv Gandhi who died a tragic death in May 1991.
Saturn

Ketu

BH
Rahu
Rajiv Gandhi
August 20, 1944
Lagna
7-11-40 a.m.
Sun
(corrected time) Moon
Bombay
Mer Ven
Ex. 26
Jupiter
Mars

See remarks under colunm 9 above. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in the period of Rahu Mercury. Here Mercury is in the second house from Rahu and is the second lord from the lagna.
5. RAHUKEIU
Since Ketu is always in the 7th from Rahu, the sub period of
Ketu must be judged in a special way.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

When it is Good

l. If with a benefic it is good and the health will be good and

wealth will be gained. There can be material benefits also.
2. If Ketu is with the lord of Lagna there will be gain and fulfillment of wishes.
3. If in kendra or trikona, gains of material nature.
When It Is Bad
4. If Ketu is in the 8th or the 12th (Rahu will be in 2nd or the
6th) there will be mental tensions, diseases, fear of thieves,
snakes,separation from mother and enmity with, brother.
5, If in the 2nd or the 7th(Rahu will be in the 8th or the Iagna)
ailments.
Goats given in charity lessens the trouble.
6. If ketu is with the 8th-lord there will be physical ailments
and mental aberrations.
7. Generally the Ketu sub period is to be feared for administrative actions, rheumatic fever and loss of cattle.
Ketu
Mer
Yen
Sun
Jup
Mars

BH
Male
Ex. 27

R.ahu

Sat
Moon

Lagna

In I967 when he began his Ketu sub period in Rahu he underwent training in priestly work and made a career as a successful priest.
Here Ketu answers all the needs to be a benefic according to the
principles given above.
6.

RAHU VENUS

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Approach One :
2

61

Relation between MDL and ADL

3
4
5

From the
lagna

From the
lagna

From the
MDL

From the
MDL

If the ADL
is in kendra
or trikona it
is a positive
point.

If the ADL
is in 6,8,12
it is a negative point.

If the ADL
is in kendras
or trikona it
is a positive
point.

If the ADL
in 6,8, 12 it
is a negative
point

If the ADL
is in 2nd or
7th house it
is a negative
point, even
fatal.

Or the lith
house gains
from pious
people, birth of son,
favours
from ad-

Or with Satu- Enjoyments,

rn or Mars
music, scented
diseases,
clothes, attainquarrels,
ment of
separation
desires
from parents, deaths
in family an
agonizing
ailment

And :.Vith
malefics
all types
of fears,
urinary
troubles,
diabetes,
loss of
wealth.

Bad for
children and
spouse and
own death
can take
place. To
overcome
troubles worship Goddess
Durga or
Lakshmi

ministration

From the
MDL

Approach Two ( The condition of MDL and ADL

7
8
9
If debilitated,
I combust,
in the

If exalted,
moolatrikona or
in own house
in the birth
horoscope it is
a strong
positive
point.

If exalted, in
moola trikona or
in own house in
the Navamsha
it is a strong
positive point

Ceremonies and
gains.

As under
column 6.

birth horoscope
it is a negative
point

Bad in many
ways.
Note: There is
lot of controversy about
this period
but the principie given by
Parashara should be followed
as safe guide.
(See column 2)

If debilitated in
the NA V AMSHA
it is a negative
point

Nothing mentioned
but through the
application of general principles it
cannot be good

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Ketu

Lagna'

Mer
Sun

BH
Moon

Male
Venus
Mars

Ex. 28
Sat (R)

Jupiter

Rahu

Here many of the principles given above apply. In the sub

period of Venus he lost his job and had to fight a court case. But
he got a opening to earn more as Venus is associated with the 11th
lord Mars. Rahu in kendra, and Venus as the 5th lord gave him a
child in 1993 though he was married in 1987. The presence of Venus
the 12 lord with Mars from Mahadasha had to give bad results in
the fonn of loss of job but finally Rahu as kendra lord and Venus
as trikona lord improved everything for him.
This is how balanced and synthesized results must be ascertained.
7.

RAHUSUN
Approach One: Relation between MDL and ADL
2
3
4
5
From the
From the
From the
From the
From the
lagna
MDL
MDL
MDL
lagna

Ifthe ADL
in kendra or
trikona it is
a positive
point.

If the ADL
is in 6,8,12
it is a negat.ive point.

Gain of wealth. If the Sun

is with the
9th aspected
by the lOth
lord or is
with the lagna
lord, attainment of wishes.
Happiness,
gain of positJon

Or debilitated, fever
opposition,
fear of the
thefts etc.

If the ADL is
in kendra or
trikona it is a
positive

If the ADL
is in 6,8,12
it is a negative point.

If the ADL
is in 2nd or
or 7th house
it is a negative point,
even fatal

Or3orll
gains from
administration.

Fever,
dysentery,
opposition,
increase of
enemies, fire
etc

Critical illness
To overcome
it offer to
Sun God, rice
currl, milk

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63

Approach Two (Ibe Condition of MDL and ADL )

If exalted, in
moolatrikona or
in own house in
the birth horoscope it is a
strong positive
point

If exalted,
in moolatrikona or
in own house in
the NAV AMSHA
it is a strong
positive point

If debilitated,
combust, in
the birth horoscope is a negagive point
There can
be a controversy about the
combustuibof
Rahu as it is
shadowy
planet

If debilitated in
the NAVAMSHA
it is a negative
point

Gain of Wealth and of

position

Can be the
same as under
column 6,

Fears, fevers,
thefts etc.

May be the same

as under column
8.

Rahu

Moon

BH
Venus
Jup
Mer

Male

Ex.29

Sat (R)

Lagna
Sun

Mars
Ketu

His Sun sub period ran from 1991 to 1992 when he suffered
business losses. Sun is the 12th lord and both Rahu ad the Sun
are aspected by Mars the 8th lord. But he was not ruined as the
position of Sun is in kendra from Rahu.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

8. RAHUMOON
1
2

From the
lagna

From the
lagna

From the
MDL

From the
MDL

From the
MDL

If the ADL is
In kendra or
trikona it is
a positive
point in the
the 11 th
house or in
friend's
house. Again
here the
waxing moon
will give good
results which
will decrease
if the Moon
is waning.

If the ADL is
If the ADL
in 6,8,12 it is a is in kendra
negative
trikona it is
point.
a positive
point.

If the ADL

If the ADL

is in 6,8,I2
it is a
negative
point.

2nd or 7th
house it is
a negative
point, even
fatal

Favours and
gains.
Generally
period of
good health.

Not mentioned.
But can be bad.

If also weak,
fear of
animals,
thefts in
'ourney
diseases of
the stomach.

Sudden and
untimely
death can
take place.

Or 11, gain
of wealth
and success.

Approach Two (The condition of MDL and ADL)

6

If exalted, in
moolartikona
or in own
house in the
birth
horoscope it
is a strong
positive
point.

If debilitated,
If exalted, in
combust, in
moolatrikona
the birth
or in own
house in the
horoscope
NAVAMSHA it it is a negative
is a strong
point.
positive
point.

Favours and
gains of many
types

As under
6.
0

Generally as the
Moon grows
weaker, its
results of
favourable type
decrease.

9
If debilitated inthe NAV AMSHA
it is a negative
point.

Not good
generally.

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65
Venus
Mer

Jupiter

Sun
Rahu

BH
Saturn
(R)

Female

Lagna

Ex.30

Mars

Moon

Ketu

Here Rahu is in the lith house and the Moon in the second
house is aspected by jupiter, the 5th lord. Her Rahu Moon period
(1983-84) of prosperity for her husband when he gained a lot from
exports. The Moon is wa~ing here. Further, Rahu & Moon are in
kendra
9. RAHU MARS
Approaph One:Relation between MDL and ADL
2
3
4
From the
lagna

From the
lagna

If the ADL
is in kendra
or trikona it
is a positive
point.
Or in II,
recovery of
lost land,
happiness
and enjoyments,
material
gains, extension of land.

From the
MDL

From the
MDL

If ADL is
in 6,8,12 it
is a negative
point.

If the ADL is
in kendra or
trikona it is
a positive
point.

If the ADL is If the ADL

6,8, 12 it is
is 2nd or
a negative
7th house it
point.
is a negative
point,even
fatal.

Though nothing specific

been mentioned by
general principals is bad.

Gain of red
clothe(?)
Welfare of
son, spiritual interest,
big lift in
one's position
of authority,
very good if
in the army,
gain of wealth
from brother.

Fear of
thieves,
pain in the
body,snakes.
Bad for son
and spouse.

From the
MDL

Laziness
danger to
life. To
overcome it
give in
charity a
bull.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Approach Two (The condition of MDL and ADL)

6

, 7

rs

,9

If exalted, in
moolatrikona or
in own house in
the birth
horoscope it is
a strong
positive point.

If exalted,in
moolatrikona or
in own house in
the
NAVAMSHA it
is a strong
positive point.

lf debilitated,
combust, in the
birth horoscope
it is a negative
point.

lf debilitated in
the NAYAMSHA
it is a negative
point

Or in 11,
recovery of
lost land,
happiness and
enjoyments,
material gains

Or in 11,
recovery of
lost land,
extension
of land,
happiness and
enjoyments,
material gains

Not mentioned
but it can be
bad.

Same as under
column 8.

Mer
Rahu

Mars
Moon
Sun

Venus

BH

Jup

Male
S&tum

Ex. 31
Lagna

Ketu

Rahu Mars period was exceedingly good for him. He carne to

own more land for his sugar mills and also became the chairman of
many local bodies. Then he fought elections for the legislative assembly and won comfortably. Notice here some very subtle features.
(a) Rahu is in a benefic rashi of Jupiter with a benefic Mercury and is also aspected by an exalted Jupiter. He also happens to
be in the 6th house.
(b) The antardasha lord, Mars is in his own house with the
I Oth lord Moon of career making.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

STANDARDIZED APPROACH OF
PARASHARA - II
SUB PERIODS OF RAHU IN THE MAJOR PERIODS OF OTHER
DASHAS
Examine the condition of the mahadasha lord invariably by applying the well known principles for determining good and strong or
bad and weak conditions of these planets.
Now apply the principles given below to understand the results of the sub periods of Rabu in the dashas of another planets.
Again as in the case of Rabu mabadasha there can bel a standardized approach to the interpretation of the antardasha of Rabu in
five ways as given below.

SUNRAHU
I Position of
Rahu
In kendra
"trikona from
the lagna

2 Condition of
Rahu in the
NAVAMSHA
particularly.

From two
months there
is fear of
thieves and
loss of
wealth and
thereafter
happiness.

If in benefic
association or

Note: The
very start of
Sun-RahuRahu is not
good dysentery etc.

3. Condition
of Rahu
Rahu with
benefics or
with yogakaraka

Or in 3.6.10
from
in good
lagna there
NAVAMISHA. is happiness
there is
to family
recognition.
members.
favours from
honours.
administration good luck.

4. Position of
Rahu from
the MDL
Rahu and the
MDL well
placed.

Or in 3.6.10
II happiness
to spouse.
children

5. Position of
Rahu from
the MDL.
Rahu and
MDL not
well placed
from each
other
8 or 12
imprisonment,

if Rahu is
weak loss of
position and
suffering to
family memmbers If in 2
or 7 with
their lords
fear of premature death.
Disease of the
skin. dysentery etc.

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68

Lagna

Ketu

Jup

Moon

BH
Female
Ex. 32

Mer (R

Sun

Rahu
Venus
Mars

In 1979-80 she was passing through the period of Sun Rahu.

Here Rahu is in the 8th house which is not good and with the 9th
lord, Mars representing father in the house of agony or mourning
which the 8th house represents. And the Sun, the natural significator
of father is in the 9th house of father. From the Sun, Rahu is in the
J2th house. Her father died during this period.

MOONRAHU
I. Position of 2.Condition of
Rahu
Rahu in the
In kendra
NAVAMSHA.
trikona from
the lagna

Some good
results at
the start of
the dasha
but later
there is loss
of honour,
fear and
loss of.
property.
Note: Reverse of the
start of
the Sun sub
period.

If in benefic
association
or in good
iNAVAMSHA,
there is
recognition,
favours from
administration.

3.Condition of 4. Position of
Rahu
Rahu from the
Rahu with
MDL.
Well placed
benefics or
with yogaIn quadrant,
karaka or
trine.
or in 3,6,10
or II from
the lagna

5.Position of
Rahu from
the MDL
Ill placed
from each
other.

Or in 3,6,10
II happiness
to spouse,
children
If from the
Moon, Rahu
is 3rd or I Jth,
there can be
very good
spiritual
period.

8,12 loss
position and
unhappiness
to family
diseases and
mental
agony. If 2
,7 physical
ailments.

All round
success.
Favours
come
from west
or south
west.

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Ketu

69

Lagna

BH
Male
Ex. 33
Saturn
Moon

Jup
Mer

Sun
Mars

Venus
Rahu

Moon Rahu period (1990-91) was the period of a small promotion in his journalistic career. Here the Moon is with the lOth lord
Saturn and Rahu is in Virgo with a benefic Venus and in the lOth
from the Moon.

MARSRAHU
I Position of 2.Condition of
Rahu in the
NAVAMSHA
In kendra
trikona from
the lagna

Rahu

Honour, gain
of land,/house
marriage and
birth of
children,
success in
business,
foreign
journeys.
Spiritually a
good period.

If in benefic
association
or in good
Navamsha,
there is
recognition,
favours from
administration.

3.Condition of
Rahu
Rahu with
benefics or
with
Yogakaraka.
If Rahu is in
moolatrikona,
exalted or lith
from the lagna

4.Position of
Rahu from
the MDL
Rahu and the
MDL well
placed.

Same as co 1.1

Or in 3,6,10
11 happiness
to spouse,
children

5.Position of
Rahu from
the MDL.
Rahu and
MDL not
well placed
from each
other

Here some
special
points are
given.
I. If Rahu
is in the
8th or 12th
from the
lagna associated with
malefics,
dangers of
many
types like
thefts, health

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

upsets, imprisonment
etc.
2. If Rahu is
in the 2nd
house from
the lagna,
loss of
money.
3. If Rahu is
in the 7th
from the
lagna fear
of death.

Rahu

Lagna

BH

Male
Ex. 34
Moon

Ketu

Sun

Saturn
Mer
Venus
Mars
Jupiter

In 1982-83 ':"hen he was running Mars Rahu period he got an

excellent promotion in a foreign country as a tax account. He is an
American who has mostly been outside his country. Here Rahu is
Vrishabha is in an excellent condition,exalte~ according to Parashara,
and is in the I Oth house from Mars

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71

JUPITER RAHU
I Position of 2. Condition of
Rahu.in
Rahu
In kendra
NAVAMSHA
trikona from
the lagna
exalted,
moolatrikona
or own house

2.Condition of
Rahu
Rahu with
benefics or
with yogakarka

4.Position of
Rahu from
the MDL
Rahu and the
MDL well
placed.

S.Position of
Rahu from
the MDL.
Rahu and
MDL not
well placed
from each
other.

In the first
five months
gain of
wealth, position, long
journeys,
spiritually
a very good
period.

Not mentioned
separately
generally good
results can
be expected.

Or in 3,6,10
or II happiness to
spouse,
children

8,12 or with
malefics,fears
quarrels,
diseases.
If 2,7 physica! ailment.
Do
Mrityunjaya

If in benefic
association or

in good.
NAVAMSHA,
there is
recognition,
favours from
administration.

mantra.

Venus

Moon
Sun
Mer

Ketu

BH
An american
woman

Ex.35
Mars
Rahu
Sat

Jupiter
(R)
Lagna

In Jupiter Rahu she got her first posting in a foreign country

in an American diplomatic mission and got her first big job of life.
Jupiter, is in the 12th house of foreign country aspected both by the
12th lord Sun and the Moon fanning a gajakesari yoga.
Rahu, the planet for foreigners took her to foreign countries.
Rahu is in kendra from Jupiter.
SATURN RAHU PERIOD: THE NEED FOR CAUTION
It should be remembered that Parashara starts the discussion
of this period with a warning that it can be troublesome, giving mental

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72

agony, physical ailment, antagonism with sons, loss of wealth, disputes with relations, foreign travel, loss of house/land.
SATURN RAHU
I.Position of 2. Condition of
Rahu
Rahu in the
In kendra
Navamsha
trikona from
the lagna

3.Condition of
Rahu
Rahu with
benefics or
with
Yogakaraka

4.Position
of Rahu from theMDL
Rahu and
the MDL.
well
placed

5.Position of
Rahu from
the MDL
Rahu and
MDL.not
well placed
from.each
other

Though nothing specific

has been
mentioned
in the text,
applying the
principles of
astrology it
should prove
good if not
ill associated
or ill aspe-.
cted

If in Aries,
Taurus,
Cancer, Leo,
Virgo,
Sagittarius
or Pisces it
proves ex~eIIeut.
Remember this
extraordinary
exception. Or
in II, the
beginning of
the proves very
good but in the
middle it
proves
difficult.

Or in 3,6,10
or II happiness to
spouse,
children.

Generally it
is a trouble
some period
causing,
mental
physical and
family trouble

If in benefic
association or
in good
Navamsha,
there is
recognition,
favours from
administration

If it is with
2nd or 7th
lord it cause
physical
ailments.
Do
Mrityunjaya.

Rahu
13-01

October 4, 1948
2-48 p.m.
Venus
Male
Lagna
4-27
Sat 8-37
12-13
Ex. 36

Jup
29-31

Mer 11-1~
Mars
27-47
Moon
9-29

Ketu
13-01

Sun
17-56

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73

Saturn Rahu period was from July 1992 to l\fay 1995

I. Here Rahu weii placed from the lagna and in Aries and so
well aspected was going to be good period.
2. But Saturn iii placed with the lOth lord Venus in the 8th
house was showing some difficulty in job. He was in a government
job.
3. He was advised that if he changed job he would get more
money but not the higher status he was expecting in his own government job. He did it as advised and has been drawing since 1993
twice. now three times more salary than before.

MERCURY RAHU
!.Position of
Rlllm
In kendra
trikona from
the lagna.
yogakaraka

2.Condition
of Rahu in
NAVAMSHA.

3.Condition of
Rahu
Rahu with
benefics or
with
yoga karaka.

4.Position of
from the Ral
MDL Rahu
MDL well
placed.

I.In the lith

and in Taurus
Cancer, Virgo,
Aquarius then
are many types of gains,
recognition
of merit in a
religious
sense and
spiritually
a v<;ry
rewarding
period.

If in benefic
association or
in good
Navamsha,
there is
recognition,
favours from
administration

If Rahu is in

Or in 3,6.10 8 or 12 with
or 11 happi- malefic there
ness to
exists fear
of diseases,
spouse.
children.
loss of
honours, mental
agony.
Ifw or
7 fear of
premature
death also
exists. Worship
goddess
Lakshmi or
in charity
in charity
white cow or
female buffalo

2.1n the
begnning
there can be
some physical
suffering but
in the end
there is
happiness.

3,6,10,11 from
the lagna and
with benefics
moves in high
circles and
spiritually a
very
rewarding
period.

5 .Position of
Rahu from
the theMDL.
Rahu and MDL
not well placed
from each
other

If Rahu is in

8 or 12 frorri.
the lagna the
results are
not favourable.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Lagna
Moon
Venus

Mer
Sun

Mars

Ketu
Jup

BH
Female
Ex.37

Rahu

Saturn

This horoscope needs some special treatment. Given below are

the negative points first.
l. Rahu has two malefic aspects of Saturn and Mars.
2. Mercury with the Sun is aspected by Saturn from the 8th
house. Saturn aspects the 5th house while the 5th lord Moon is with
8th lord Ven 1\
Married in 1983 she had series of abortions for seven years
after marriage.
Now see the positive points.
I. Jupiter aspects Rahu in the house of Jupiter.
2. Mercury is in the 5th house from Rahu.
In this period she took to intense worship of Lord Krishna in
his child form (Bal Krishna) and soon after she became the mother
of a boy on Janmastami day, the day of the birth of Lord Krishna
(This case has been quoted in K.N.Rao's Planets and Children).

Mercury represents lord Vishnu in Parashari astrology.

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75

KETIJRAHU
!.Position
2. Condition of
Rahu in the
of Rahu
NAVAMSHA.
In kendra
trikona from
the lagna
'
exaltation,
own house
or friend's
house
If also in
2nd or 3rd
from lagna
quick gain
of money,
happiness
from
foreigners.
But the
beginning
of the

If in benefic
association or
in good
Navamsha, there
is recognition,
favours from
administration.

3.Condition
of Rahu
Rahu with
benefics or
with
yogakaraka

5.Position of
4.Position
of Rahu fr- Rahu from the
om the
MDL
MDL Rahu Rahu and
and the
MDL not well
MDL well placed from
placed.
each other.

If also in 2nd
or 3rd from
lagna quick
gain of money
happiness
from foreigners. But the
beginning of
the antardasha
is troublesome.

SeeRahu
Ketu period
Ketuwill
always
be in the
7th fiDm
Rahu.

antarda~ha

is
troublesome.
0

Saturn
(R)

IfRahu is in
8or 12
from the lagna
and with
melefic urinary
troubles,
diabetes, fever
quarrels.
If Rahu is in
the 2nd or 7th
from the lagna
trouble from
relations.
physical ailment. Do Mritujaya worship
Goddess Durga

Lagna
Rahu

BH
,Female
Ex. 38

Moon

Jupiter
Venus
Mercury
Mars

Sun

Ketu

In her ~etu Rahu period she had an agomzmg experience. Here

Ketu in the 7th house of marriage is aspected by a debilitated Mars,
here the 8th lord also. Her marriage was nearly settled by had to
be called off which for a Hindu girl was a bitter experience.

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76
VENUS RAHU

!.Position
2.Condition
of Rahu in
of Rahu
In kendra
the
trikona from NAVAMSHA
the lagna or
or exalted.
Happiness,
gain of
wealth
success
in journeys.

lf in benefic
association
good Navathere is
recognition,
favours from
administration

3 .Condition
of Rahu
Rahu with
benefics or
with
yogakaraka

4.Position of
Rahu from the
MDL Rahu
and the MDL
well placed.

5.Position of
Rahu from the
MDL Rahu
andMDLnot
well placed
from each
other.

ln Rahu in 3,
6,10,11 from
Lagna vict?ry
over enemies
and many
types of gains
in the first
five months.
The end of
its period
proves bad
for health

Or in 3,6,10
or II hap piness to
spouse,
children

8,12 and with

malefics
results are
unhappy
for oneself
parents and
enmity
with people.
lf 2, 7 physical distress.
Do
Mritunjaya.

Jupiter
18-39
Mars
27-24

Moon Mercury Venus

1-15
14-19
5-51
Sun
Sat
K~i~
24-12
21-0R
7-

BH
May 9, 1975
12.25 p.m.
Delhi
Ex.39

Lagna
29-21

Rahu
7-23
Here the sub period lord Rahu in the 5th aspected by MereU!)'
and Jupiter both benefics. She ran her Venus Rahu period between
1988 and 1991 in which period she did brilliantly in her studies.
We have seen that compared to all other astrological books it
is only in the Parashara Hora Shastra that we see vezy specific and
subtle points about the interpretation of the dasha are given. Out of
so many some which deserve our attention and which need intensive research for many decades are being given separately here in a
table.

PART TWO

CHAPTER TWELVE

SOME RESEARCHES
SOME ORIGINAL RESEARCHES
This part of the book contains some original observations of
my guide, K.N.Rao who wanted me to test some of his many
hypothesis which I will state one by one and see how they work.
It contains many original researches based on series of observations on the basis of which it is possible to evolve replicable techniques of astrological predictions. We have applied it on many horoscopes and found results amazingly correct. It is never possible for
any astrologer to give anything like a final word on astrological techniques of predictions yet it is possible to forge methods of predicting with eighty percent accuracy in majority of cases on the basis
of what is being given here. Readers may try these techniques.

HYPOTHESIS ONE
l. Jupiter conjoined with Rahu and also afflicted by another
malefic, say Saturn or Mars gives only daughters as children Or more
daughters than sons.

2. This should be ascertained after examining the position of

Jupiter from the lagna and its strength.
3. Even if sons are born they may not tum out to be ideal.
.
This is bein~ tested on series of horoscopes
.
Sat

Moon
BH

Jup
Rahu
Mer

OOB: Dec 10, 1978 1DB: 4.47 Al\11

POE: COIMBA1DRE

Ketu

C RAJA GOPAL
ACHARI

Ex40
Lag
Sun
Yen

Mars

GRAHA BAIA JUP

MARS=88

82

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

1t is the horoscope of the famous Indian elder statesman and

one of the wisest politicians produced by lndia. Here Jupiter with
Rahu is also the 5th lord. The aspect of Mars on Jupiter gave to
him only one or more than one female children.

Rahu

BH

Lagna
Moon

Jawaharlal Nehru
Ex 41

Jupiter
Ketu

Saturn

Venus Mars
Mercury

Sun

GRAHA BALA JUP

MARS= 101

107

His only daughter was the world famous Indira Gandhi. A son
born to him in 1924 died. As in the earlier case here Jupiter is not
exactly with Ketu but with Rahu but technically falls under the RKA
(Rahu-Ketu Axis) is aspected by Mars. Here Jupiter is not the 5th
lord yet the heavy affliction the natural putrakaraka. does show that
an afflicted Jupiter can prevent the birth of sons.

Moon
Mer
Yen

Sun

BH

Sat
Mars
Jup
Rahu

Male
Ketu

Ex42

Lagna
Both are among the strongest plnets in
Graha Bala

GRAHA BALA JUP

MARS= 133

135

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Some Researches
Sun
Jup
Ketu

Navamsha
Mars
R.ahu
Mer

Lag
Yen
Moon

Sat

I. Unlike the first two cases, here both Jupiter and Mars are
among the strong in grahabala and they gave to him only male
children.
2. Unlike the first two cases here Jupiter, the 5th lord Jupiter
is with Mars and Rahu in a trikona, the 9th house from the lagna.
Do these two differences give a valuable clue to the meaning
of afflicted Jupiter?

Ketu
Jup

Mars
Moon

(R)

Mer
(R)

BH

Male
Sun

Rahu

Ex43
Yen

Stroangest in Graha bala are

JUP= 136,MARS=155, SAT= 129

Sat

Lagna

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Sat

'

Mer
Rahu

Saptamsha
Lagna
Ketu

Mars
Jup

Moon
Ven

Sun

There is neither denial of children in the horoscope not had

he any children for many years as a deceit in marriage led him to
distrust women. Jupiter under such affliction along with a strong
5th lord Satum might have helped him. But the Sun in the 5th house
and retrograde Jupiter with Mars in the 5th house in the Saptamsha
was his disinclination to have children.

Jup
Sun
Ketu

Sat
Ven

Mer

BH
Male
MARCH 24,
1940
EX.44

(R)

Lagna

Mars

Moon
Rahu

GRAHABALA
SUN 109,MOON = 154,JUP= 107, VEN= 165

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81

Moon
Sat

Ketu

Jup

Saptamsha

Mars
Sun

Mer

Lagna

Yen
Rahu

Here the Moon and Venus are among the strongest in graha
bala. Jupiter under RKA and with the Sun gave him three daughters successively, no sons. All the births took place in the dasha
of Rahu. In the Saptamsha Jupiter is afflicted by Mars and Saturn.
What we have seen in all these cases, after calculating the graha
bala, the affliction to Jupiter gives enough clue to the birth of female children. Some clarity can emerge out if we also concentrate on
the position of Jupiter fium the lagna.

TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS
1. In the frrst case Jupiter is in the 3rd house and debilitated
with double affliction.

2. In the second case Jupiter advancing towards its point of

debilitation is in the 6th house fium the lagna and afflicted.
3. In the third case Jupiter as the 5thh lord in exalted and in
trikona with Mars and he had only sons. Jupiter is also strong in
Grah Bala.
4. In the fourth case Jupiter is retrograde 11nd afflicted. He
lost the inclination to have children but he would have daughters in
the corning years. Here Jupiter is in the I Oth house retrograde which
gives us some clue, based on Parashara Hora Shastra's hint that a
retrograde benefic can be enigmatic in behaviour.
5. In the fifth case afflicted Jupiter both in the birth horoscope and the Saptamsha but placed in the 3rd house gave him only
daughters. Jupiter is weak in Grah BaJa.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Ketu
Jup

BH
Male

Moo~

Ex. 45

Suri
Mer

Lagna
Sat

Rahu
Mar~

Yen

GRAHABALA
JUP= 108, MARS=l03, SAT= 138
fLagna Rahu

Saptamsha
Mars

Mer
Jup
Sat

Moon
Sun
Ketu

Yen

Taking a clue from afflicted Jupiter in the birth horoscope if the

Saptamsha is examined and the 5th lord of the Saptamsha in the 8th
house under RKA and aspect of Mars on the 5th house of the Saptamsha,
the horoscope does not appear to be good for children. He had a daughter born who died. After that his wife had an abortion.
This theory of .afflicted Jupiter not proving good for children
has been tested on thousands of horoscopes by many of us. But
in all cases the Saptamsha prepared on the basis of the chitrapaksha
ayanamsha (Labiri's) alone gives correct results. But the Saptarnsha,
should be prepared only when the birth time is correct. H necessary, the birth time should be rectified first. It is necessary to remember that even without Rahu joining Jupiter, problems of children
should be seen as in the following case.

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83

Ketu

Moon
'

Lagna
Jup

BH
Male

Sun

Ex.46

Rahu
Mars

Mars

Yen
Sat

Mer

Mer

Rahu

Sun
Lagna

Saptamsha

Sat
Yen
Jup
Moon

Ketu

This person married after the age of 35 years and has only
daughter. After that he and his wife have had no other child.
Thus the results most easily predictable in a very large percentage of cases are:
(a)

If more daughters are born, there is less mishap to chi!-

dren.
(b) If sons are born in some way or the other it proves unfortunate. But if a S<lll is born late, or if only one son is born it
proves quite good.
(c) One's luck with one's children may not be good.
In all the cases where Jupiter is under the RKA influence, some
curse of some life seems to haunt a person all his life.

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,84

See the following three cases given in a table for further at a

glance clarification.
No. Lagna

Birth

Afflicted Jupiter
Under RKA

Saptamsha

Remarks

Libra

June

Along Aq/Leo with

5th house
affliCted

One son
died, one

I.

21,1933 Jupiter Rahu Mars

in Leo.
2.

Capricom

1940

Jup combust and

with Ketu

survives.

Afflicted

Had only
one son who

died.
3.

Cancer

1933

Jup, Ketu, Mars

in Leo

Afflicted

A daughter
became
widow; and
had a son
very late.

Since we are discussing Rahu and its assocwtwn with Jupiter

it is necessary to examine the 5th house and the 5th lord also of
the birth horoscope and the Saptarnsha to arrive at scientifically valid and replicable conclusions. Without such sound and combined
approach predictions should not be given. Yet where Jupiter and
Rahu are seen together one must proceed cautiously particularly in
a count!)' like India where the birth of a female child is still looked
upon as a curse by many irrational and bigoted persons.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

GURU CHANDALA YOGA AND ITS

VARIATIONS
HYPOTHESIS TWO
Jupiter's association with Rahu is the well-known guru chandala
yoga, by guru we may mean a spiritually respectable person and
Rahu the corruptor. In what way does Guru Chandala Yoga manifest can be seen also when Ketu is associated with Jupiter and the
RKA covers Jupiter. If a malefic too aspects or joins it become intense. The guru chandala yoga can be from mild non-conformism to
intense jealousy and violent vituperative expressions.
Jatak Parijat makes a very pointed reference to afflicted Jupiter
thus:
Jeeve Rahuyute athava Shikhiyute Papakhiste Necehakrita
The translation given by Subramanyam Shastri is, " When Jupiter in conjunction with Rahu or Ketu is aspected by malefic planets, the person born will do base acts."
For instance in the case of C.Rajagopalchari (Ex. 40) it was very
mild and he did attack many of his contemporary leaders for agreeing to the formation of Pakistan as early as in 1942 because he alone
had the wisdom and foresight to see it all inevitable. He stuck to
his conviction and proved right in I947 when Pakistan was formed
after partitioning India. In the case of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (Ex. 41)
it was more intense as it happens in the 6th house of aggressiveness. He was known for his most wild expressions against Hinduism, the faith in which he was born. In the third case (Ex. 42) it
became very wild as here exalted Jupiter, as the 5th lord made all
his thinking totally perverse and all his expressions t rtally uncouth
and vulgar.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

A horoscope like this gives the uncontrollable tendency to

be maliciously critical. Back biting and scandal mongering becomes a
second nature as tbe 5tb lord, Jupiter exalted governs his mind and
intelligence.

Sat

Mars

BH
Male

Ex.47
Ketu

Mer
Sun
Jup
Rahu
Venus
Legna
Moon

It also gives to him a son who goes astray while a daughter's

marriage too is ruined. All otber details can be examined and proper
counselling done but even such counselling will fail when he runs
into bad period. There is an inevitability in a case like this. Some
shocks of life alone will help him overcome all virulent malicious tendencies.
Note: See the intensity here witb Jupiter under triple affliction.

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87

Checklist To Be Used to See the bad effects of this yoga.

The Hypothesis
For each Lagna the Guru Chandala Yoga can have different
meaning. It can be tabulated thus (fill in the blank columns after
seeing the horoscope)
Lagna

Jupiter
Owns
which
houses
and
placed

where

See how
Rahu or
Ketu gets
associated
with Jup
and in
which
house.
Rahu's

If another
malefic
influences

the gum
chandala
yoga(Mars
or Saturn
mostly.)

Calculate
the graha
bala of
Jupiter and
concerned
planets
(Rough
calculation
will do).

Examine how
intense is the
gum chandala
yoga. See
when Jupiter
or sub periods
of RKA is
Coming

association
is more
pertinent.

Aries

9,12

Taurus

8,11

Gemini

7,10

Cancer

6,9

Leo

5,8

Virgo

4,7

Libra

3,6

Scorpio

2,5

Sagg.

1,4

Capricorn

3,12

Aquarius

2,11

Pisces

1,10

I
!

There can be some vanatlons of guru chandala yoga which begin to show their effect right .from the birth.
EXCEPTIONS
Hypothesis: The guru chandala yoga gets toned down considerably if benefics join the Jupiter Rahu or Ketu combination. See
an instance.

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Ketu

Saturn

BH
Male
1936
Ex. 48

Ven
Jup
Mer

~~:~

Lagna

Mars

Sun

Here marriage and happy with two sons is the story of his life.
Benefics in the 5th seem to have changed the entire effect of the
guru chandala yoga.
See another instance.

Lagna
Ketu
BH
Female

1921
Moon

Ex. 49

Ven
Mars
Sun
Jup
rvter Sa
Rahu

Married become mother of five children, widowed, entered politics, lived with a man younger to her in age. Happy, wealthy, nonconformist. The fury of guru chandala yoga never manifested her
life exept in mildly.

Guru Chandala Yoga and Its Variations

See another exception
Sat
Mars

Moon

Sun

Jup (R)
Rahu

BH
Male

Ketu
Mer

Ex. 50

Ven

Lagna
A highly well placed person, religious, with happy married life
and children. See the aspects of two benefics, Venus and Mercury
on Jupiter and Rabu.

Sat (R)

Ketu

BH
Female 1972

Ex. 51
Rahu
Jup

Lagna
Moon
MPr

Venus
Sun
Mars

Not married yet (1995) but the guru chandala yoga in the 3rd
house has made her the only child of her parents.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Mer

Yen
Sun
BH

Ketu

Sat
Moon
Jup
Mars
Rahu

Male

Ex. 52
Lagna
Has Only daughters. The Marriage of one daughter is already
ruined. Has been highly disrepectful of people very senior to him in
age when he enjoyed some power. In the process has ruined himself
but has amassed lot the wealth in the process.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

RAHU AND CHILD BIRTH

FIRST THE SANPSHOT VIEW
Rahu has been treated only as destroyer generally, a demon
who devours children because in the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra
he has been given the role of a snake if associated with the 5th
house and is said to represent the curse of snake obstructing the
birtb of a child.
Is Rahu's role limited to preventing the birth of children only?
Some astrologer of Junagarh in the state of Gujarat, according to my
guide, used Rahu for more positive prediction like child birth though
he never revealed his research if he had done it Similarly' we have
heard about an astrologer of Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh who too
used Rahu for predicting some very good and optimistic events.
Here in this chapter we are showing how Rahu can have a positive
role in child birth.
To Understand this research prepare:
a) The birth horoscope and Saptamsha if the birth time is correct on the basis of the chitrapaksha ayanamsha (Lahiri's)
b) Now note the transit position of Rahu at the time of the
birth of the child.
c)

Prepare the sapatamsha position of the transit Rahu.

d) Take the 5th, 9th and the 12 the aspects of Rahu in transit, invariably.
Therefore, for the purpose of this part of the research keep the
Saptamsha table before your eyes, always, remembering that in
Saptamsha even seconds of a planet count for accuracy.

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92

Saptamsha TABLE

PARTS
DIM

I2 I3

10

I I

11 12
- --

10 5

12

9 14

11

17 2

11

10 5

12 7

12 '51

25

10 5

12 7

11

4.

17 08

34 4

11

10 5

5.

21

43

12 7

11

6.

25 42 51

10 5

7.

30 00

00 7

11

1.

04

17 08

2.

08

34

3.

25

6 11

12 7 12

1 j8

10

12 7

11

:w

12

Moon
Sun
Venus
Sat Mar
\1er (R)
Jup
Ketu

Rahu
BH
Male

...

Ex 53
Lagna

Rahu in Transit on Sept. 22, 1990 was m at 12-7m Capncorn

when the first child was born which means in the 5th house from
the lagna. When the second child was born on June 17, 1992 Rahu
was 6-54 in Sagittarius in the 5th house of the saptamsha.
Ven

Moon

Rahu

Sun
Saptamsha
Lagna

Jup

Ketu

Mars
Mer

Sat

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Sat (R)

93

Ketu

BH
Father
Ex.54

Jup

Lagna

Yen

::.un
Rahu
Mer

Lagna
Sat (R)

Rahu

Moon

Mars
Moon

BH
Son
21 Oct, 1967

Jup
Ven

Sun
Mer
Ketu

Mars
I

Son's Rahu is in the 5th house of the father.

Mars

5th

BH

9th

Father

Ex 55

Moon

Jup

Lagna

Note: Gochar RKA over any one of the following:- (See Ex. 55 i nd 56)
I . The Lagna and its lord. 2. The 5th house and its lord
3. The 9th house and its lord.

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94

Sun

Mars
9th

Jup

BH
Mother
Ex.56

Lagna

5th

Rahu

Ketu

First child
Second

A Son
July 18, 1923

Son
Rahu

Ketu

Ketu

'
Third

Ketu

Son,

The last child

also a son
July 19, 1942

Rahu

Rahu

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95

What is being stressed here is that the RKA (the abbreviation

we are using for Rahu Ketu axis must touch one of the six points
of parents (Ex. 56 to 59), particularly if it is a male birth is our tentative observation though we shall show later in detail that if this is
refined the results we get are much more precise. We are first taking only a snapshot. view of the birth of a child, particularly a male
child caused by transiting RKA which must touch one of the six
points we have mentioned here only in those cases where the birth
of a child is promised and dasha favouring such a birth is running.
We are not suggesting that the transit of Rahu will ever take precedence over the dasha or other relevant factors.
Our simple thesis is that Rahu is not merely destructive of child
birth but is indicative of the arrival of a child in the lives of married
couples in orthodox families or of even those societies where unwed
women are allowed to become mothers.
This research helps us time the marriage of women with the
transit of Rahu when the normal time of marriage has arrived.
It becomes necessary to stress repeatedly that all planets have
to have both positive and negative roles, Stressing merely the negativity of Rahu's transit is to forget that all planets represent avatars who must have all the three, the creative (the Brahma role) the
protective (the Vishnu role) and the destructive (the Rudra role) functions. To overlook this is to forgot the very basics of Parashara
astrology which speaks of all planets being representative of ten avatars.

We will show that while in K.N.Rao's "Planets and Children"

the double transits of both Saturn and Jupiter have been made use
of for timing the birth of children, it is necessary to stress that along
with those two major planets, Rahu too has a very positive role in
the birth of children. Therefore, to complete the picture we will take
up later all the three major planets. Here we are first showing only
the role of Rahu is transit and its significance.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Ketu

Mars

5th
Sat

BH
Father
June 13, 1941
Ex. 57

9th

Rahu

Lagna

Sat

Rahu

Lagna

Daughter
Feb. 17, 1971

Jup

The Daughter's Rahu is on the 5th lord of the father.

These examples have been given to show that only taking the
negative view of Rahu, as people do in the case of all malefics, is to
do lop-sided astrology. Astrologers must develop the habit of seeing the brighter side of a planetary combination.
What is given traditionally for Rahu has been given earlier. For
child birth, generally Rahu has not been given any positive role. Yet
:we have found from our experience that Rahu invariably gets connected with any of the following in birth horoscope. First we are
giving a snapshot view only. Five instances have been- given. some
more examples can be given from well known cases.

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97

9th H

Lagna
Saturn
Indira Gandhi
Ex. 58

Moon

5th

Mars

Yen
Ketu

Saturn

Rahu
First Son
Aug 20, 1944

lagna
Jup

1. Son's Rahu is in the lagna of the mother.

2. The Saturn of the son is aspecting the 5th lord of the mother,
Mars in Leo.
3. The Jupiter of the son is on the 5th lord of the mother.

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Rahu

The secon\l son

of Indira Gandhi
Lagna

Dec. 14,1946

Ketu

RKA the son is along the 5/11 axis of the mother.

Lagna

BH
Father
9th
Mer

Ex. 59

5th
RKA of the son in along the 5/11 axis of the Father
Rahu

Jup
(R)

Son

Lagna

Sept. 12, 1986

Sat

Ketu

CHAPTER FIFIEEN

RAHU AND CURSES FOR CHILD BIRTH

We are presenting two sides of Rahu and child birth. It is
well known that Rahu which represents curses has been dealt with
specially in the Parashara Horashastra for curses attaching to childbirth and not for other events. Rahu, the shadowy planet, is that
curse is of course a view we are discussing here. We have already
shown through our research the positive side of Rahu which becomes
an important factor in causing child births. We will now show how
Rahu represents the curses of so many persons preventing the birth
of children or causing loss or death of children.
What Parashara says is being given here.
The pivotal principles around which the problem of childlessness revolves are
(1) A weak Jupiter, the natural significator of children, the 5th
lord, the 7th lord and of course the lagna lord. (It should be remembered that a weak lagna lord or Iagna is a life long handicap for
almost any type of achievement.). and

(2) What can cause childlessness is the presence of strong

Rahu, Mars, Sun and Saturn in the 5th house.
We are not sure if it is necessary for both conditions to be
present. It has been seen by us that weakness in this area can have
many varieties. It can be seen in some examples which will be given later.
CURSE OF SERPENTS
The word used in the text is putrakhsaya which can mean both
childlessness or destruction of children as a result of the curse of
serpent in the previous birth. In this the role of Rahu has been
shown as primary in nine ways:
l.Rahu in the 5th aspected by Mars.
2. Rahu in the 5th house in the Rashi of Mars.
3. Fifth lord with Rahu and Saturn in the 5th house with the
Moon or the aspect of Moon.

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4. Three factors are combined here: putrakaraka (Jupiter) with

Rahu: weak fifth lord: and the lord of lagna with Mars.fNote here all
the three must be having malefic association.)
5. Again three factors are combined: Jupiter with Mars, Rahu
in the ascendant and the 5th lord ill placed in 6,8, or 12.
6. Now two factors are: the 5th lord Mercury (can apply only
to Taurus or Aquarius) should be with Mars and in the Navamsha
of Mars and Rahu and Gulika in the lagna.
7. Again two factors are taken: the fifth should have the rashi
of Mars(can be Cancer or Sagittarius as lagna) and the 5th lord with
Rahu or with Mercury or aspect of Mercury.
8. The fifth house should have Saturn, Sun, Mars, Mercury,
Rahu and Jupiter. (It is not clear whether all these should be present
or some of them with Rahu being there.) And the 5th lord and the
lagna lord should be weak.
9. Lagna lord with Rahu, 5th lord with Mars, putrakaraka Jupiter also with Rahu.
In the account given in all the nine combinations for the curse
of serpent, it is Rahu which has been given the pivotal role thus, if
we analyze.
1. Rahu should be with the 5th house or the 5th lord in five
cases(l,2,3,7,8 above Sl. Nos.)

2. Rahu should be in the lagna or lagna lord (5,6 and 9 above

Sl Nos.)
3. Rahu with Jupiter.
In all the nine cases Rahu is an important cause for childlessness or death of children.

RAHU'S ASSOCIATION WITH CURSES OF KITH AND KIN

This can be explained briefly in a tabular way showing the important points. The curses of father mother, brother, maternal uncle,
pious persons, wife,ghost(evil spirits).
We have rearranged the principle given in the book in the table below to show how the scheme of affliction includes, 6,8,12 houses, the lagna, the fifth house and along with Rahu some specific
house/planet becomes important.

Rahu and Curses for Child Birth

Whose

Father

101

Rahu
Com
men
to
AIL

One of the
trika houses
(6,8,12
houses)

Addition
a! planet
specific
to a

Malefics in
the Lagna
in some
cases.

Malefics
in the 5th
house,

Rahu a)Rahu and

Jup in the 8th
or with 12*,
b) Sun in the
8th
c) 6th lord
in the 5th
house

curse.

I) I Oth
lord in
the 6th
2)Jupiter
with
Rahu

a)Sun,
Mars and
Saturm
b )Malefics

a)Satum
Mars and
Sun
(a)
Saturn,

5th lord
with Rahu

Note: Rahu represents curse: Sun represents father: 8th or 12th house represents previous birth, The I Oth lord is the Shraddha (or oblations which
Hindu son must offer to his father, If he fails to do it he has to suffer it
Mother

Rahu a) 4th lord

and lagna
lord in trika
houses,
b) Sun, Sat
Mars Rahu
(one or two
or all perhaps) in 8th
Conjoined
with Mars
and Rahu,

a)4th lord
with Mars,
Saturn,
Rahu,
b) Rahu in
the 4th
house,
c) Waning
Moon in
the 7th
house,

a)Sun
Moon
b) Cancer
lagna with
Mars and
Rahu,
c) Mars
Rahu
Saturn
Sun (one
or more is
not clear)
d) Lagna
between
two
rnalefics,

a)Fifth
lord
in 5th
or 9th
house
with
Moon
'Saturn
Rahu
Mars
b) Sun
and Moon
c)Saturn
d) Moon
and Sat
e) Mars
Rahu, Sun
Saturn

Note: Notice, the importance of the Moon, the 4th house and the 8th and
12 houses,
Under the curses of uncles only maternal
and not paternal uncles have been discussed in the Parashara Hora Shastra,
Note: Mercury represents uncles,

Saturn

Rahu
Mars,
Mercury,
Jupiter

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102
Pious

Rahu

a)9th lord in a)Rahu in

the 8th.
the sign
b)12th lord . of Jupiter.
in 5th along
b)9th lord in
with Rahu
debility.
or aspected
c) Jupiter
by Rahu
in debility
c )5th lord in d)Rahu in
6,8,12houses. the 9th
d)Rahu Jup house
inthe 12th
house.

I
1

a)Rahu
in the
lagna
b)Jupiter
Saturn
in lagna.

a)Jupiter
Mars
Saturn .
b)Rahu

Note: The 9th house and its lord along with Jupiter represnts piou"s people. The presence of 12th lord in the 5th house shows the curse of a
previous life causing trouble with children.
Brother Rahu

a)Lagna lord and

5th lord in 8th
house.
b)l2th house has
Mars and Mer.
c)3rd lord in the
8th house.

a)3rd lord
in the 5th
house with
Mars
b) Rahu
Saturn
e)Jupiter
in 5th with
Rahu Saturn
or their
aspects.
d)Virgo or
Gemini
in the 5th
house.

Note: Mars, 3rd lord are well known but it is not clear how Virgo and
Gemini become important. Gemini being the 3rd house of the zodiac is
explainable.
Wife

Rahu

a)5th and 7th

lord in 8th.
b )8th lord in
5th house.
c )Malefics in
the 12th.
d)Jupiter in
in the 12th.

a)Malefics
in 2nd
house.
b)Satum,
Venus in
7th house
c)Mars in
th~ 2nd.
d)Mars in
the 9th
house.

a)Malefics
b) Sun
Rahu
c)Rahu

a)Rahu
Moon in
the rashi
of Venus
(can apply
only to
Gemini and
Capric. as asc.
b)Venus,
Saturn
Rahu in it
or aspect
on it.
c) Sat

Rahu and ~s for Child Birth

HB

Note: Venus, the houses of Venus, the 7th house, the 7th lord represent marriage. Mars represents mangalya( conjugal bliss) and also
violence. Some astrologers take Mars also as wife.
Note 2: The 2nd house is 8th from the 7th house which. is why in
the curse of a wife this house comes into prominence.
Curses of Evil Spirits
The curse of evil spirits in Parashara preventing the birth of children
should be made note of for the diagnosis of female diseases also.
Here five houses and seven planets becomes key factors.
Houses
I

Sun

Moon
Venus
or Jup
with
Rahu
co nnected with

Saturn
and Moon

With
Satm 1

Mars

Jupiter

Venus

Saturn

Rahu

Venus
or Jup
with
Rahu
connected
with
Saturn
and
Moon
b)Jup
and
Rahu
(also in
the lagna
accordin
to one
text)

Venus
or Jup
with
Rahu
connected
with
Saturn
and
Moon

Venus
or Jup
with
Rahu
co nnected
with
Saturn
and
Moon
b)Sat
alone

Venus
or Jup
with
Rahu
connected
with
Saturn
and
M"'aon
b)Rahu
and
Jupiter
c) Rahu
alone.

with
Sun

Rahu
alone

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104
Houses

Sun

7
8 is the
house
curses
from
lagna

Sun
alone.
(Could
be other
planets.

12
is the
house
of curses
from the
5th
house.

Moon

Mars

Jupiter

Venus

Saturn

Rahu

Waning
Jupiter
here.

Mars
here

Jupiter
and
Rahu
(also in
the lagna
according
to one
text)

Rahu
and
Jupiter

..

Note:lf the lagna lord ts m the 8th there I~ trouble from evtl spmts
here too.Treat the 8th and the 12th house as trouble spots.

Some Examples Which May Show Such Curses

It is not possible for any astrologer to insist that a particular
combination denying the birth of child or other types of troubles with
children is the result of a particular curse only. For our research it
is enough if the presence of the combinations given here proves either denial of child birth or trouble with children. Our purpose will
be served thus by showing the examples in some horoscopes given
below.
Saturn
Rahu

Venus

Lagna

BH
Mother's Shrap

Mars
Mer
Sun

Female :
Feb 10, 1945.
No child at all.
Ex.60

Moon
Ketu

Jupiter

1. Mother's shrap are visible in a variant form as the 4th lord,

Venus is being aspected by Saturn the 12th lord and Jupiter from a
trik house.

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Rahu and Curses for Child Birth

2. Saturn and Rahu in the 5th as being aspected by the Moon

(mother) which is waning.

3. The 5th lord with two malefics in the 12th house is a generally well known combination for denial of children.
4. Jupiter the natural significator is ill placed in the 8th house.
5. The lagna lord, Saturn is weak because of affliction.
6. The seventh lord in the 12th is again ill placed.
Note: Thus the general principles combined with specific combinations for shrap working always.
Jup (R)

BH

Rahu

Female.
Shrap of Evil
Spirit
Ex.61
Mars

Moon
Ketu
Sun
Mer
Lagna
Sat Ven

1. Rahu alone in the 5th house.

2. Waning Moon though not in the 7th house, is aspecting

the 5th house.

3. Jupiter is in the 8th house.

4. Jupiter is aspecting the 12th house. The most dreadful is
the presence of Saturn and Venus in the lagna with the 9th aspect
of Rahu on it.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

RAHU AND FATALITY

Rahu is generally associated with fatality which cannot be overlooked by any astrologer. We can look at it both in the dasha running and in the transit of Rahu. If these two seem tcr combine at the
time when the astrologically calculated span of life seems to be reaching its point of terminus, the maraka seems to manifest in clearest
way. Let us start with an example in which both the dasha and the
transit of Rahu makes it clear.
Moon

Rahu

Mars
Rahu

Jupiter

(tr.)

BH
Sun
Date of d~ath:
2nd week of
September 1984
~ercury
Male
Ex.62
Saturn

Lagna

Venus
Ketu
atu (tr.)

In transit Rahu was in Taurus on natal Mars and was aspecting

the lagna lord Venus in the 12th house by 5th aspect. Saturn in tum was
in the lagna, on natal Ketu and aspecting Rahu. He was passing through
Rahu Saturn.
The mahadasha lord and the antardasha lords were 6/8 also in
transit on the day ofhis death.
It will be seen that when the transiting RKA is over natal RKA
it is generally a difficult period if the dasha is not favourable.

See this in the following.

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107
Jup
Sun
Yen

Mer
Mars

Rahu
(tr.)
Ketu
Sat

BH
John Kennedy
Ex. 63
Rahu
Ketu
(tr.)

Moon

Lagna

Kennedy was shot dead on 22 November 1963 when transiting

RKA was over his natal RKA.
See a similar instance of a young man who met with a motor
cycle accident and died on June 12, 1991. The horoscope with the
transit position of RKA gives us clear indication of the fatality of
the event.
Died in the Major period of Venus and the Sun period of Mercury.
Mars

Lagna
Jup
Yen

Male"
Birth
Horoscope
15 Dec. 1973
11.59 a.m.
Jullundhur
J'y li<1

Rahu

Sun
Mer

Ketu
Sat (R)

Moon

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The Mystery of Rahu in a Horoscope

Mer
SliD
Moon

Ven
Mars
Jup

Death
June 12,
1991

Sat (R)

Ketu

Rahu

The transit ofRKA over the lagna and the 7th house is also seen to be
quite fatal
Jupiter
BH
Moon
Mahatma Gandhi Rahu
Birth
Horoscope
Ketu
Ex.65
Saturn

Mars
Mer

SliD

Here the transit RKA is over the lagna and the 7th axis. It was
also his sadhe sati.
Rahu

Mere
Ven

Killed on

Jan.30, 1948

Saturn
IRl
Mars
(R)

Sun

Jupiter

Ketu

Lagna
Sat

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'109

See again in the case of Sanjay Gandhi who died on June 23rd,
1980 in aeroplance accident.

Rahu

BH
Sanjay Gandhi

Saturn
(R)

Dec14, 1946
Lagna

Moon
Ex.66
Sun
Mer
Ketu

Mars

Jupiter
Venus

It was also his sadhe sati and the Transit RKA is over lagna.
Sun

Venus

Rahu
Death
June 23, 1980
Ketu

Mere
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars

Moon

RAHU VENUS AND VENUS RAHU PERIODS

The dasha periods of Rahu Venus and Venus Rahu are very
difficult to interpret and very risky for any astrologer to jump into a
hasty conclusion. This must always be checked very properly
through two well known methods of the composite technique we now
use. The first is to check it through the scheme of Parashara in the
horoscope and then in the divisional charts. The second is to cross
check it through other dashas like Jaimini's or the Yogini Dasha. If
it is not done there is always the lurking fear of predicting some"
thing which is not easily visible.

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The MYstery of Rahu in a Horoscope

These periods are the biggest astrological traps one should become aware of and fear. It is always better to understand all these
points through example charts instead of merely appreciating them
theoretically. Here is one example.
Saturn

Jup

Lagna

Ketu

BH
Male
July 26, 1938
11-30 p.m.
Ex.67

Mars
Sun
Moon
Venus
21-22
Mer

Rahu
01-22
This is the horoscope of a top govermnent officer of India who
asked in 1990 about his career.' His Venus dasha was running. From
July 1990 his Rahu sub period was starting. Apparently the Rahu
sub period does not promise much as he is placed in the 8th house
fium the lagna. Venus as the lord of the 7th house is the position
giver, though also a maraka if the span of life is coming to an end.
We were concerned about his job prospects and not death here in
this case. Venus is with a benefic, Mercury and is being aspected
by another benefic Jupiter.
What was the role of Rahu in the 8th? It is the house of
intrigues and he was a first rate intriguer. No one can reach a top
position without a consummate ability to intrigue. He had a strong
rival whom he had always outwitted. The question had to be examined closely. Rahu in Scorpio is not a good house but is receiving
no bad aspect. Most important aspect of it is that Rahu as the sub
dasha lord was in a kendra from the mahadasha lord, Venus.
Then the nakshatras in which both of these lords were placed
were examined. Venus in his own nakshatra was excellent while Rahu
in the nakshatra of Jupiter was still better as Jupiter the lord of luck
was very well placed in the house of gains, the lith.
Now the Navamsha became an important factor.

See this.

Rahu and Fatality

Ill

Mer
Lagna
Rahu

Saturn
Navamsha

Moon

Ketu
Ven
Sun

Jupiter

Mars

Here again both Venus and Rahu are in kendras and their position has improved. Venus aspects the lOth house and Rahu in
the lagna, Cancer is lOth from the mahadasha lord.
Then finally the transits had to be examined on the
sarvasastakvarga in July 1991.
19

31

Moon
Sun
38
Ketu 30

24
9, July 1991

Saturn
36
Rahu
34

22

24

Mer
Jup
28
Ven
Mars
23
28

Venus was in the Leo with the lagna lord forming a

rajayoga. Rahu in a strong 9th house (see the sarvastaka points)
was also in trikona from Venus in the first week of July 1991
when he got selected for a big post in the Customs service of
the Government of India.
Note: The deceptive Rahu in the 8th could have misled many
person .

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Ketu

'Mars

Moon

BH
A woman
Sun
Venus
22-20
Saturn
Mer
Here Rahu placed in the 12th house
urn from the 3rd house of siblings. She
dasha of Rahu Venus from 1988 to 1991.
in the nakshatras of the Moon in the 8th
brother met with a car accident and died in

Ex. 68

Jupiter

Lagna

Rahu
23-02

is being aspected by Satwas passing through the

Both Rahu and Venus are
house of mourning. Her
May 1990.

For confmnation of the event see the drekkana.

Mercury Moon
Rahu
Lagna

Drekkana
Sun
Saturn
Mars

Jupiter
Ketu

Venus

Here Rahu is with the 6th lord the Moon, the lord of accidents
and is being aspected by Jupiter the 2nd and the II th lord. But
Venus debilitated and in the 8th house again receives the aspect of
Saturn who is with Mars, the 3rd lord. The person who died was
her younger brother.
See the third example where the Navamsha clarifies the position.

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Ketu

Moon

BH
A woman

Ex. 69
Mars Venus
Mer
17-0
Sat Sun Jupiter

Lagna

Rahu
04-45

She was running Rahu Venus period from 1981 to 1984. Rahu
is in the nakshatra of the Sun the lagna lord excellently placed in
the 2nd house Virgo which according to some authorities is his
moolatrikona rashi. Saturn the 7th lord aspects Rahu. Venus in the
4th house with Jupiter the 5th lord is in the nakshatra of Mercury
who is also placed in the 5th house. The focus of the planets on
the 5th house was pointing towards maternity. Marriage had to precede in this case of an orthodox Hindu woman.
Now see the Navamsha

Mars

Jupiter

Lagna
Moon

Rahu
Navamsha
Mer
Ketu
Venus

Sun

Saturn

Venus the 5th lord is in the 7th house of marriage here. Rahu
is excellently well placed in the 9th house and gets aspected by the
lagna lord Mercury. She was married in October 1983. The aspect
of Saturn as the 7th lord in the birth horoscope on Rahu and the
placement of Venus in the 7th from the Moon are also indicators of
marriage.

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The Fourth Example
Jupiter
Moon

Saturn
(R)

BH
Male
Ja.11,1916
Venus
1144D
27..()5 '-IIIIi, Sri Lab
Rahu
M.G.

16-26
Mer

Rac
..ra
Es. 70

Sun

Saturn

Ketu

Mars

(R)
L.agna

Mer

Mars
Rahn
Lagna
Jupiter

Navamsha
Moon

Sun

Ketu

Venus

We can go deeper.
Here is the example of the late
M.G. Ramachandran, the first actor politician of the world to ride to
a high office on the crest of tremendous popularity. He was a phil
anthropic, socially progressive politician. In the period betwee11 1916
and 1989 he was passing through the dasha of Rahu Venus. See
the horoscope.
Rahu is with Venus the 2nd lord of death, Venus sub period
could not have been.good. In the Navamsha Venus is debilitated and is
being aspected by Saturn the 7th and the 8th lord. Rahu is in the malefic
company of Mars and is also being aspected by Saturn. Thus Saturn
aspects both the mahadasha and the antardasha lord.
Rahu is in the nakshatra of the Moon in the seventh bouse in
the birth horoscope while Venus is in the nakshatra of retrograde
Mars, the 3rd and the 8th lord in the 12th house. MGR as he was

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115

known lost 'his power of speech and had gone to USA for treatment
but could not recover. He died in December 1987.
We can take up these four horoscopes and evolve some parameters in a table.
Case Rahu how
Nu placed
mber from the
lagna and
Venus

One

Ex.
(67)

From lagna
8th and
from Ven
4th

Two In 12th
Ex.

from/lagna

(68)

Rahu placed
in the
nakshatra
of which
lord

Jupiter the
lord of the
9th, in the
lith house
Moon who is
in the 8th
house..

Venus how
placed
from
the lagna
and Rahu

Venus
placed
in the
nakshatra of
which
lord

How is
the
Nav
Rahu

Fromlagna Own
5th house nakshand from
tra
Rahu lOth
house

In lagna

11th from
Venus

house, a

trikona.

From lagna Moon

In D-3
4th and StJ who is in in the
from Rahu the 8th
4th
house
house

3rd from
Rahu.

in the
5th
house,
a trikon L

From
Lagna
5th conjoined
with Rahu

Mars,
retrograde
in the
12th.

r
Four From
lagna
Ex
5th house
(70)
conjoined
with Ven.

Moon who
is in the
7th.

the
Nav
Ven

Thm From lanp Sun who is in From lagna Mcrcui'J 9th

the 5th
in 4th and who is house
Ex. 2nd and
(69)

How is

Venin
4th
own
house.
In 8th,
debility in
D-3
In the
7th
house.

Affiicted

Weak
and
affiicted

The parameters that can be evolved are:

I.
In the birth horoscope they should be well placed and
well aspected.

2.
They should be in the nakshatras of planets who themselves are well placed and have good lordship.
3.
Their position should be. good in the relevant divisional
horoscope also.
4. Their Navamsha should be good.

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VENUS RAHU PERIODS.

We can now go deeper by taking up three interrelated horoscopes and examine- first the Venus Rahu periods.
Rahu
24-06

Jupiter
(R)

Lagna

Saturn
(R)
Ketu
Moon

BH
A woman

!Mer (R)

Ex. 71

Mars

Sun
Venus
15-59

Ven

Lagna
Sun

Rahu

Moon

Mars

Navamsha
D-9

Jupiter

Mer

Ven
Rahu

Ketu

Mars

Lagna

Moon

Mer

Dwadshamsha
D-12.
Sun
Jup

Sat

Kctu

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117

This young women ran her Venus Rahu period from 1974 to
1977 during which period her father, a police officer enjoyed immense
powers during the national emergency of 1975 during the regime of
Indira Gandhi. 1t is well explained by the exalted Venus with Rahu
in the Dwadashamsha.
But see it in the birth horoscope where the story is rather tick!ish. Venus is debilitated here and is in the nakshatra of the Moon
which is badly placed in the 6th house. Rahu is in the 12th house
from the lagna though in Gemini. Rahu is in the nakshatra of Jupiter who is retrograde ninth lord in his own house. The mahadasha
lord, Venus is also aspecting the 9th house of father.
ln the Navamsha Venus and Rahu both are in the 3rd house
aspecting the 9th house. They are being aspected by debilitated
Jupiter, by Mars from the 12th house and Saturn from the 6th house.

During this period her father her father enjoyed immense power but ran into serious trouble and was suspended. He nearly lost
his job. Later when he was reinstated he could not regain the glory
of his earlier years when he had enjoyed immense powers.

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Mars
Ven
16-17

Ketu
Sun
Mer

Birth Horoscop
or a male
Ex. 72

Rahu
13-48
Lagna

Jupiter Moon
Sat

Lagna

Mer
Ven

Ketu

Navamsha

Mars
Sun
Sat

Rahu

Jupiter
Moon

Moon
Ketu

Mer

Dwadashamsha
. Sun
Rahu

Ven

Lagna

Sat

Mars

Jupiter

See Venus and Rahu in all the three charts. In the birth horoscope they placed in 6th and 12th from the lagna and are 1!7 from

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119

each other. Venus is in he nakshatra of Rahu and Rahu in the

nakshatra of Venus.
Venus is in the 4th house from the Moon, representing the
mother and is aspected by Saturn who is also the 6th lord of diseases. His
mother was ill during the Venus Rahu period between
1993 and 1996.
In the Navamsha again they are in same position from the lagna
and from each other but both are vargottama. 1t gave him prosperity because of this strength of both of these from "foreign sources.
Again the Moon in the Navamsha is vargottama and again Venus is
in the 4th house from the Moon but in the 12th from the lagna.

ln dwadashamsha Rahu is in the 3rd house of the longevity of

parents, and Venus aspects the 4th house from the lOth house. The
4th house is again representing mother. But Venus and Rahu are 6/
8 from each other. Here again Venus is in the 4th house from the
Moon. His mother died in July 1995.
Sun

Ven
13-45

Lagna
Sat
Birth
Mer

Horoscop~

Ketu

Male

Rahu
4-46

Ex. 73

Moon

Jupiter

Mars

(R)

(R)

Mer

Jupiter

Rahu
NavaiDllha

Venus
Mars.
Ketu
Moon

Sat

Lagna

Sun

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He was a rich landlord and was successful in politics. He was

also in the Central cabinet of India. From 1988 to 1991 he was running the dasha of Rahu Venus. ln the birth horoscope Rahu is in
the 12th house from the lagna in the nakshatra of the Sun who is
the 7th lord.
Venus is in the 3rd house of journey from the lagna and is
being aspected by retrograde Jupiter, the maraka, retrograde Mars from
the 8th house and also Saturn who is also the 12th lord.
In the Navamsha Rahu and Venus are 1!7 from each other again
aspected by Mars, Venus and the Moon all trika lords. Rahu is being aspected by Jupiter from the 7th house.

He was travelling for political campaign and was shod dead in

November 1989.
The dasha sequence was Rahu-Venus-Jupiter-Satum. Rahu and
Venus are marakas as we have already seen. Jupiter as the second
lord and Saturn as the 12th lord intensified the maraka propensities
of this period.
On the day of his death, November 23, 1989 Rahu was in Capricorn over natal Rahu, a point of fatality we have already pointed
earlier. Venus was in Sagittarius in the 12th from transitting Rahu.
With this example we will conclude the discussion of the periods of Rahu Venus with the warning that these periods should not
be interpreted in haste.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CONCLUSIONS
It has been stated many times in the book that every planet
has to fulfil all the three functions the creative, the protective and
the destructive. Rahu cannot be and is not any exception to this
rule. Enough examples have been given in the book to show all the
three aspects.

They can be summed up briefly.

Note: In this book we have so far not gone into any discussion of the nakshatras in which Rahu is placed. How it influences
the results is well known to Hindu astrologers. In this chapter we
will show how effective it is.
1 PLACEMENT,

(a) Examine the placement of Rahu from the lagna in all cases.
It appears that it is the primary and starting point for the analysis
of the effects of Rahu.
(b) Next in importance must come the house occupied by Rahu.
Good or bad rashis like Aries, Taurus have a very clear meaning in
the nature of results that can be expected from such Rahu.
See in this instance.
Mer

Sun
Venus

Jupiter

Ketu

Male
April 16, 1954
01-55-22 AM
Ex. 74
Lagna
Rahu
25-28
Mars

Sat
(R)

Moon

His Rahu dasha started in 1973 when he migrated to the USA

Rahu in the 12th had to do that. The association of Mars, the 4th
lord gave him a foreign residence. Mars also being lith lord took

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him into business in a foreign country. Mars.here is in the nakshtra

of Venus. No wonder he did business in Venusian line, which was
hotel management in a foreign country.

Thus the frrst step is to combine the results of the placement

from the rashi and the nature of the house and examine the nakshatra
in which Rahu is placed.
2 OCCUPATION
(a) Rahu must act as the lord of the house where he is placed.
If Rahu say, in the case of Leo lagna is placed in Scorpio, it must
act both like Mars and the 4th lord, 4th lord only and not the 9th

lord,which the lord of Aries, Mars also is.

Male
Dec. 12, 1961
Jup
Moon

~~

Rahu
28-20

01-30 a.m.
Ex.75

tJI&rs
Sun
Ven
Mer

Lagna

His Rahu dasha was from 1975. Rahu in the lith and in Cancer
is excellent. It is in the nakshatra of Mercury, the lOth lord of distinction: The aspect of the Sth lord Saturn, and the benefic Jupiter
gave him an excellent education in management for distinction in the
life.

Thus Rahu does not act as the lord of two houses as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn always do. Here Rahu gave all
that Moon should have given him as the lith lord.
(b) Ont of all the positions, Rahu in the 6th or the lith has
always proved to be generally very good. Better if associated with
yogakaraka planets or benefics. Less effective if otherwise.

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Conclusions

3 CONJUNCTION
H Rahu is conjunct with one malefic it is bad, if with two it is
worse, is our experience. It is totally otherwise if associated with
benefics.
Rahu
1358
Ven
0132
Jupiter

Lagna
Sun

Mere

BH
Male
May 1,1950
04-40 a.m. BHP
Ex.76

Sat (R)
Mars
(R)
Moon
Ketu

Now we will go a little deeper Rahu is in who is the nakshtra of

Saturn in the 5th house of education but Rahu is'. in the 12th house of
foreign country. It is with exalted venus in the rashi of Jupiter and also
in the nakshatra of Jupiter. He did in his Rahu dasha between the ages of
five and twenty three only literary and cultural studies relating to a for
eign country. He is a Vietnamese national who studied the culture of
fudia deeply.
4 ASPECTS
The aspects falling on Rahu from any house have a deep and
subtle meaning always. It needs skill and deeper analysis to arrive
at true import of it.
Venus

Mars
Jupiter

Mer

Sun

BH
Male
May 24, 1926
06-37-08 p.m.
Ex.77

Sat(R)
Ketu

L'lgll3

Moon

Rahu
24-08
'

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He had his Rahu mahadasha from 1927 to 1945 in which period he distinguished in his studies. Rahu in Gemini has been praised.
Here he is doubly beneficial as he is being aspected by the 5th lord Jupiter, the lord of education. Further he is in the nakshatra of Jupiter.

5 THE ROLE RAHU'S DASHA IN PSYCHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

The Vimshottari dasha scheme always tells the story of psychological evolution. For instance after the Sun (father's influence)
comes the Moon(mother's influence). In these 16 years events relating to parents and their influence on a child is clearly perceptible.
It is followed by that of Mars, the period of daring, rashness
and dare devilry. In good cases it leads to developing initiative.

Then comes the period of Rahu which in a good case shows

the courage to take unorthodox and gainful decisions and in bad cases ruination but in most of malefic sub periods.
Note: In some cases it has been found that the end of Rahu
period leads to total change through the loss of whatever had been
achieved by then. In the second or the II th house it has led to
loss of financial prosperity in some cases. It needs further probe.
Note: The beginning of the dasha of Jupiter is to be welcomed,
particularly if such Jupiter is well placed and strong. It is the beginning of the refashioning of life in a wise way.
Note: The Saturn dasha is one of detachment and higher wisdom. A desirable sense of discrimination based on divine considerations has been seen in spiritual persons, if Saturn is blemishless.
Note: Mercury period is one of distilled wisdom. But such a
Mercury must be good.
Note: Then comes Ketu the liberator.
Note: The role of Venus, if followed-by spiritual development
is the poetical flowering of inner. spiritual development.
What happens when such is not the dasha scheme in the case of
an individual. Follow the Parashara scheme of yogakarakas and well
placed in houses of higher evolution and assess the role ofRahu in the
total scheme of psychological evolution.

Conclusions

12'5

The inevitable conclusion is that Rahu can be good, bad or

mixed depending on the factors mentioned in the book.
The most important fact that we must remember about Rahu is
that it is not a planet which can be seen through an astronomer's
microscope and yet it is used in Hindu; astrology so effectively and
accurately for predictions which have been verified and are verifiable. This fact alone makes the astronomer's assessment and pronouncement of the effects of planets on human life and destiny totally irrational Either astronomers should learn predictive techniques
of Hindu astrology and see whether they work or keep quiet and
not express any opmwn. We have in India the slavish counterparts
of western astronomers who only repeat the imported prejudices to
sound intellectual and scientific. A scientist with a genuine curiosity to see and assess the invisible influence of planets on man and
the world alone can qualify to be a scientist. Others working in other
fields of physical sciences need not trespass into a region about
which they know nothing by expressing their opinion on astrology
they look totally prejudiced and irrational.
How was Rahu discovered? Without the discovery of Rahu the
calculation of eclipses is not possible. That it has always been done
in India long before the west or many other countries witnessed the
glimrnerings of a civilization, shows that India's continuous yet broken astrological tradition has much greater wisdom to offer to the
world than has been assessed so far.

CHAPfER EIGHTEEN

RAHU PERIODS AND SPIRITUAL BLOSSOMING

Astrologers who are in the habit of frightening people when
they run into Rahu mahadasha or antardasha will do well to remember
what the great Rarnanujacharya said about the periods of Rahu in ills
famous and small classic 'Bhavartha Ratnakar'.
The periods as very clearly pointed out by Rarnanujacharya are
periods of spiritual blossoming. People come! and ask for quick remedial
measures. It is more so in the beginning of the dasha of Rahu when a
transformation becomes visible in the life of an individual, depending
on where Rahu is placed. This analysis can start with the well known
instance of Mahatma whose major acillevements and disappointments
in the dasha of Rahu. Here Rahu is placed in the 1Oth house with the
lOth lord, Moon. In turn, the Moon is involved with an excellent
Gajakesari Yoga.

Example One
Mahatma Gandhl's public life in India started most actively in
India in the mahadasha of the Moon willch started in 1905 when after a
life of terrible humiliation at the hands of racist willte man, he returned
to India and started ills public life. But Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopal
Krishna Gokhale and other senior leaders, he had not yet become very
prominent, In the dasha of Mars he gained in importance willch was
over in 1922.
The Rahu dasha saw in Mahatma a total transformation willch
had begun in the preceding dasha of Mars in willch in 1920 (Mars Venus) he had taken active interest in the Khilafat movement But it
was left to Rahu in the lOth house to allow him to blossom out as a
religious leader for a brief period for both Hindu and Muslims. Rahu
who represents Muslims made him, very strangely, a leader accepted
under the compulsion of the ill story of the twenties of India of twentieth
century. In Rahu- Rahu ( 6 February 1922 to 19 October 1924) he seemed
to be riding a wave of unprecedented popularity as the leader of entire
Indian communities. But it was a short lived dream as the subsequent
illstory revealed. Later, though Muslims who disowned him, stopped
respecting him, even insulting him, he became the famous half naked
fakir of India, as Winston Churcillll described him. It was with ills lion
cloth and the dress of a half-naked fakir that he met even the King of

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England in the Buckingham Palace offending the conservative Englishmen.
He founded his famous ashrams, Sabarmati near Ahmadabad
and Sevagram, near Wardha, to become a saintly national figure. It was
in the Rahu period that that Rabindranath Tagore recognised him as a
Mahatma. See Gandhiji's horoscope.

Example Two
Rahu Dasha of a European Woman
This European woman had trerrible spells of mental depressions. The 5th lord, Mars in the 12th house, aspected by Jupiter the 6th
and the 9th lord and Saturn, the 7th and the 8th lord made her search the
meaning and purpose of life. She felt out of sorts in the social whirl of
sensuous life around her obviously because she was born with different
sarnskaras. In the mahadasha of Rahu a change started in her life. Notice, here Rahu in the 2nd house is aspected by Jupiter who is also the
9th lord of her horoscope. The 9th lord being the Guru and Rahu the
giver ofholy dips in the Ganga water, she decided to seek a spiritual
solution to her problems. She joined the international Society of Krishna
Consciousness (ISKCON) and lived in the Krishna temple where she
has been living for fifteen years now. There she got married also and
has been leading the life of a devotee with her highly cooperative husband. She loves India and feels that the USA is terribly materialistic
and Europe has nothing to offer but broken homes and lonely life. The
meaning and purpose is to devote it to Lord Krishna. She can sing many
bhajans and knows all the rituals of a Vaishnava worship. All this happened in the antardasha of Venus who is well placed in his own house
with Mercury, representing the ashram of Guru, being the lord of the
12th house.

Example Three
A Tormenting Period ofRahn
And Spiritual Unfoldment
In this case, Rahu became a great harbinger of unexpected source

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of bliss in a period of torments. Mars in the 5th house with Ketu
aspected by Saturn was a source of great mental torment as he had
clashed with high authorities on some strong principles but rather obstinately. The I Oth lord, Saturn in the 8th aspected by Mars had led to his
leaving his excellent government job. But he could earn much more was
the astrological assurance given as the mahadasha of Rahti in the lith
house aspected by exalted Jupiter was to follow. The hurt to his ego and
prestige was still immense. His astrologer friend told him to accompany
him to Vrindavan where he met a great Mahatma and also did parikrama
(circumambulation) ofvrindavan What started in Rahu mahadasha has
become a pattern of life. He is very prosperous now never misses to visit
V rindavan once a month and visit temples. Rahu dasha has helped him
discover the meaning and purpose of life.

Example Four
The fourth case is that a young brilliant man who had come
under the spell of socialism and had almost become an agnostic. In the
dasha of Rahu in the 9th house, aspected by the Moon, the exalted 5th
lord, he changed dramatically and all the spiritual samskaras of his childhood came back. Emulating his elder brother, he decided to seek a spiritual answer to life's question, not out of any sense of frustration but
genuine spiritual hunger. The influence of the 5th lord, the Moon, Rahu
had its full effect when in Rahu-Moon he was initiated into a Krishna
mantra by a great Guru.

Example Five
Independent India's first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawarharlal
Nehru, has often been portrayed as an agnostic. Yet, in the Rahu period,
particularly in Rahu-Satum when he suffered badly at the hands of China
in 1962, he remembered that in that hour of crisis only Anandmoyee the
great woman saint could help him. Photos showing Nehru meditating in
the presence of Anandmoyee Ma were published in some papers.
It was also reported that after the death of Nehru a rudraksha
garland and the Gila were found on his bed, under the pillow of the bed
he used to sleep on.

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Rahu is a spiritual transfonning agent under all circumstances.

The best advise an astrologer can give to a person in the mahadasha or
antardasha of Rahu is to take to pilgrimages more and more, seek the
company of holy men and do some worship sincerely. A pleased Rahu
shows then its splendrous spiritual side.

EXAMPLE ONE
Jup
Mahatma Gandhi
2 October 1869
08:35A.M
Porbander
Ketu

Ex. 78
Sat

Lagna

Moon

Lagna
Mer
Yen
Mars

Sun

Mere.
1144

115
Sat

2019

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MAHADASHA SEQUENCE OF MAHATMA GANDHI

Birth
Mercury over
Ketu
Venus
Sun
Moon
Mars
Rahu

Day

Month

Year

2
6
6
6
7
7
6
7

2
2
2
2
2
2
2

10

1869
1872
1879
1899
1905
1915
1922
1940

EXAMPLE TWO
Moon

Ketu

A European

Mars

Lagna

Rahu

Ex.79
Jup
Sat

Van
Mer

Sun

EXAMPLE THREE
Rahu

Lagna

An Indian

Jup

Male

Ex. SO

Sun
Mer
Ven

Moon

Ketu

Sat

Mars

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Moon
Sun

Lagna

An Indian
Male

Ex.81

Rahu

EXAMPLE FIVE
Rahu

Jawaharlal" Nehru
The first Prime
Minister of India

Lagna
Moon

Sat
Ex.B2

Ketu
Jup

Sun

Mer
f'en

'

Mars

CHAPTER NINETEEN
RAHU IN SARPA DRESHKONA
The addition that is being made to the third edition of the book
is on the effects of Rahu in the Sarpa Dreshkona.
First the concept of Sarpa Dreshkona must be understood.
Of the thirty six dreshkonas, those in Karka, Vrischika and Meena
will fall in Sarpa Dreshkona. Out of the three dreskonas, which are
Sarpa Dreshkonas and which are not will have to be understood first.
According to Varahamihira, the second and third ofKarka, the
first and second of Vrischika and the third of Meena are Sarpa
Dreshkona.
But according to Bal Bhadra, the first and second of Karka, the
second ofVrischika and the third ofMeena are Sarpa Dreshkonas.
According to Vaidyanath Dikshit of Jataka Parijata, only the
second of Karka, the first of Vrischika and the third of Meena are
Sarpa Dreshkonas.
Out of all these the common are:
1)
2)
3)

Second of Karka and third of Meena are Sarpa Dreshkonas.

They differ with regards to first and third dreshkona of
Karka.
They have half agreement with regards to first and second
dreshkona ofVrischika.

It will be seen that the lords of the dreshkonas rashi-wise are:

1.
2.
3.

Moon (first), Mars (second) and Meena (Jupiter) of Karka.

Mars (first), Jupiter (second) and Moon (third) of
Vrischika.
Jupiter (first), Moon (second) and Mars (third) of Meena.

Note: Sarpa Dreshkonas are also known as Pasha (noose) or

Bhujaga (meaning snake).
Also remember dreshkona is known as decante and drekkana.

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Jup (R)

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Moon
Rahu
Example 83
Mahatma Gandhi

Ketu

Sat

Lag Ma"
Ven
Mer

Ketu

Sun

Lag

Example 84
A woman

Rahu
Sat

Sun
Mer

Ven
Jup

The calculation of dreshkonas are easy.

Upto 10 degrees in these rashis you get the first dreshkona and
from 10 to 20 the second and from 20 to 30 the third in each rashi.
The degree ofRahu in Karka is 1339 and it qualifies to fall into
Sarpa Dreshkona by all the three texts quoted here.
Moon here is 2818 and is also in Sarpa Dreshkona. What is
notable here is that both of these planets fall in Sarpa Dreshkona here:
Therefore note, that Rahu is not alone in Sarpa Dreshkona here.
Here there is one planet in Sarpa Dreshkona.
Rahu at 540 qualifies to be in Sarpa Dreshkona.
But it is not alone. It is conjunct Saturn here as in the previous
case.
But Saturn is not in Sarpa Dreshkona here according to the
classification above.

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The Results
Planets in Sarpa Dreshkona are said to give malefic results in all
the texts.
Observations
The observation of ours as far as Rahu in Sarpa Dreshkona is
concerned is that:
I.

If Rahu is alone in Sarpa Dreshkona no malefic results accrue.

2.

If Rahu on the other hand is with any planet also in Sarpa

Dreshkona as in the examples given here, Rahu dasha proves
malefic as can be seen in contrasting examples given here. Here
in one case two planets are in Sarpa Dreshkona while in the
other case only Rahu is in Sarpa Dreshkona and Saturn is not.

In the case of Mahatma Gandhi, Rahu is Sarpa Dreshkona but

with Moon. Both are in the tenth house from the lagna, and both are
in Sarpa Dreshkonas and in the dasha of both, Moon and Rahu,
Mahatma Gandhi came into prominence through his famous satyagraha
and ahimsa. In the mahadasha of Moon, he was in South Africa where
he launched his first known public agitation while in the mahadasha of
Rahu he was in India fighting for India's freedom. In this dasha, he
acquired world fame as a Mahatma but was jailed many times by British
rulers. The number of imprisonments he had in this dasha apart, there
were three attempts made on his life in 1934. In the mahadasha of
Rahu, Mahatma Gandhi fasted many times which was part of his
agitational method and his health deteriorated many times. His life
had to be saved through some extraordinary intervention many times,
particularly during Poona Pact fast.
In the case of the woman whose horoscope has also been given
here, only Rahu is in Sarpa Dreshkona while Saturn is not. Unlike
Mahatma Gandhi, her Rahu mahadasha passed off peaceful with no
notable event or suffering.