Rahu in Aries

Date 18 Dec 2022

Results given by Rahu in the sign of Aries

Rahu in Aries: acquisition of landed property, family happiness. Evasive, chooses roundabout paths. Being in the sign of Aries, Rahu gives positive effects. (Sri Govind Swarup Agarwal)

Rahu and Ketu are known as aprakasha, the shadow planets. Therefore the classical texts give no description of the placement of these planets in the signs of the zodiac. Since their nature is shadowy, Rahu and Ketu often take on the properties of the lords of the sign in which they are placed. In doing so one must look at how the lord of the sign in which Rahu and Ketu are placed is himself placed. If he is strong, then the possibilities of the shadow planets will also be great, and vice versa. (Indubala)

The karmic task with Rahu placed in Aries — Ketu in Libra

Ketu in Libra usually gives a balanced personality that spontaneously displays such qualities of Libra as social adaptability, diplomacy, a striving for harmony, an ability to take good care of one's appearance, an ability to judge things in a balanced way, abilities for commerce and sociability. An active social life is very important to them.

A past life taught such people the basic things from the sphere of Libra: law, sex, money and the social hierarchy. The compromising nature of Libra prompts them in this life to please everyone, to behave with excessive tact and diplomacy, but sometimes this manifests in a complete absence of the ability to take a definite decision. These people spontaneously try to follow the tendencies of Libra, but this life prepares a different scenario for them.

This is caused by the placement of Rahu in Aries, which prompts the person to immerse himself in such themes as independence, boldness, innovation, leadership, the quick taking of responsible decisions, the mastery of new spheres, voluntarism, impulsiveness, risk.

Libra dissolves a person's «ego», and this creates the danger of losing oneself. Therefore Rahu in Aries offers a programme for growing the ego. The positive side of Libra is that the person is able to look at things from the position of other people, which is very important for acquiring new knowledge and experience; but at the same time one must not lose oneself, for this knowledge must be made one's own personal experience. Rahu in Aries assists in this.

A person with such a placement of Rahu-Ketu needs consciously to learn to develop the qualities proper to Aries. He needs to learn to rely on himself and not to be dependent on his surroundings. He needs to learn to listen to himself and not only to those around him. He needs to learn to defend his own opinion, which is quite difficult for a compromising Libra. Such people are afraid of being known as egoists and of not receiving the approval of public opinion. This tendency in oneself must be fought.

Aries is a sign that makes a person like a child who is not concerned with the opinion of those around him. He is concerned only with egoistic urges that know no bounds. Libra, on the contrary, puts everything within a framework, since it is impossible to maintain balance without a sense of measure and definite bounds.

The balancing of the energies of these signs is like bringing the energies of the first and seventh houses into harmony, which means establishing harmony between oneself and others. One must keep away from the excessive egoism of Rahu in Aries and from the excessive superficiality of Libra.

Ketu in a venusian sign usually means some artistic talent from the past. But in this life it must be crossed with the freedom-loving and innovative spirit of Aries.

The placement of Venus points to talents from the past, and the placement of Mars to the sphere in which the possibilities of this life are hidden.

This placement of Rahu-Ketu often gives people of such specialities as: psychologists, advocates, sexologists, artists, discoverers, photographic models, actors, media workers and consultants of all kinds. That is, this placement helps the person to work where their own person is directly involved.

Ketu feels bad in Libra, a sign hostile to it. Therefore it does not give good material fruits in its own period. The exception is a chart in which Venus is strongly placed.

Rahu is in neutral relations with Aries, and therefore it may give good material fruits if it is in such degrees as 0.00 – 3.20, 6.40 – 10.00. It gives spiritual results in the degrees 16.40 – 20.00, 23.20 – 26.40.

Examples: Sigmund Freud has Ketu in the 1st house in Libra and Rahu in the 7th in Aries. It is natural that he devoted his life to the study of the nature of human relationships and of the nature of sexuality.

Paramahansa Yogananda (Ketu in the 3rd house in Libra, Rahu in the 9th in Aries). He used the principle of Love (Libra) in the sphere of relationships (the 3rd house), and Rahu in Aries in the 9th house helped him to sow the seeds of his teaching in a distant land (in America).

Rahu in Aries and Ketu in Libra: Ketu shows the past life. Ketu in Libra means that in a past life the person worked for the well-being of family life. The person was more family-minded; he enjoyed the harmony of family life. Rahu is in Aries: this is a fire sign, and Rahu strengthens the characteristics of the sign in which it is placed. They are very impulsive, impatient, radical, quick. Rahu in Aries shows the karmic task of building one's own life with one's own hands. In this life the person needs to learn to trust his intuition and to take his own decisions without relying on the opinion of others. His decisions must not depend on the opinion of other people. One must be bold and confident in one's own decisions. The wheel must be in one's own hands. When Rahu is under the aspect of malefics, the person may develop diseases of the head. This is an unfavourable combination for a happy family life. (Mahesh Dharmadasa)