Rahu in the 1st house of the solar return

Rahu in the 1st house of the solar return makes the year a time of bold experiments with oneself: ambitions grow, one wants to change one's image and make a statement, but restlessness increases too.

The first house of the annual chart is the person themselves during the year. Rahu here strengthens the wish to step beyond familiar limits, while Ketu at the same time stands in the 7th house and makes partners less predictable.

What the year brings

• A wish to change one's image, field of activity, social circle.
• An interest in the unusual, the foreign, new technologies.
• A restless background: it is hard to relax and easy to get carried away by other people's expectations.

The year favours those who are ready for novelty, but is poorly suited to decisions made on a wave of excitement.

What the result depends on

Rahu has no sign of its own, so its result is largely determined by the lord of the sign it occupies in the solar return: a strong and favourable dispositor channels ambitions in a useful direction. A conjunction with benefic planets softens Rahu, one with malefics makes the year harsher. In Tajika the nodes do not become the lord of the year; their influence is read through the house and conjunctions. The natal background is Rahu in the 1st house; about the planet itself — Rahu.

Start with the birth chart: a calculation will show the original planetary positions with which the solar return is compared.