Rahu – Page 4 – Nexus Astrology

An interesting aspect in 2024, that probably nobody else will talk about, is the conjunction of Rahu (North Node) to the asteroid Chiron. Chiron in astrology is a comet, usually summarized as “the wounded healer”. It represents deep wounds, blockages and damages to the psyche of a native. It shows an area in life where you need healing. The name Chiron comes from Greek Mythology, Chiron was a healer and teacher who could heal everyone, except himself.

Any planet that gets close to Rahu gets intensified, this is specially true in transit. So with this comet transiting close to Rahu, these ideas of healing and wounds will be intensified in 2024.

Timing

05/03/2024 Chiron conjunct Rahu 23°16′ Pisces

The exact aspect will happen early in March, but the effects sprawl from September 2023 until around May 2024. As such, this aspect will be prominent around the eclipses in March and April, becoming an important influence for early 2024.

Meaning

This influence will unlock old wounds, old problems and blockages we feel in regards to the Pisces house in our charts. This is an emotional and transformative time, on many levels. We can feel hurt, attacked or ineffective in regards to this house initially. But this transit invites us to take back our power, and get back in charge of the subjects at hand.

With Chiron, it is always about an internal journey, not an external one. It means healing yourself, for yourself, not for others. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Impress anyone. Get approval of anyone. You have to fix the problem inside yourself first and foremost.

This is an important concept to reiterate, as we live in a world of proving them wrong and showing them, where life is an imaginary high school movie where you get revenge in the end.

Live your life for yourself, solve your problems for yourself, not for a person who barely thinks or cares about you. That is the lesson of Chiron transits.

It is a time to build your self-confidence and self-worth. You should avoid overcompensating, trying to impress others, trying to follow/please/appease others. Chiron signals a time for internal, not external, solutions.

Predictions – Mundane

With Chiron dealing with old wounds, it becoming prominent shows old conflicts, old issues coming into play on a mundane level. This relates a lot to the ethnic conflicts, ethnic wars and disputes, arising in the world right now. But it can also show a trend towards vengeance or revenge.

Chiron is the deposit of any old slight, or old issue, and that can trigger an idea of payback. So revenge will come strongly as a theme in the world in late 2023 and early 2024. This can specially come through courts, lawsuits and judicial systems. Short term, fun. Long term, trouble. A lot of the actions made now, in pursuit of revenge, will only create further (probably bigger) problems later on.

Similarly, during this transit, we should be careful with our words. As people will be more sensitive, and prone towards getting hurt. A lot of arguments, discussions and even fights will tend to arise out of this emotional instability.

Predictions – Personal

In a way, this transit is a complemental force to the Nodal transit happening on the Pisces/Virgo axis, so I would recommend reading my predictions on it to better understand this.

Below we have predictions for all the 12 signs, please read in accordance to your Ascendant or Moon sign:

Aries: The 12th house is all about letting go, release and loss. You are learning a lot about releasing things, rather than trying to hold on to them eternally. Similarly, your money expenditure could be changing. Your tendency to spend to impress others is getting a reality check.
Taurus: The 11th house shows achievement, large groups and great gains. Many lessons about what is important to you, what is an actual achievement, are coming into play. Maybe you did something impressive to others, now what? Are you really happy? Your tendency to please and carry your friends could also come in check. Are your relationships worth your effort? This is a great time for reevaluating how much energy you put into things, and how much they matter.
Gemini: The 10th house shows work, career and your relationship with the world. You might feel hurt or diminished in your career, maybe your role was reduced, or you were passed up for an opportunity. This can be a moment of rethinking your career, maybe finding a new path, considering new ways of doing things. Your fresh ideas can help you, even if others might not perceive the same as you.
Cancer: The 9th house shows wisdom, spirituality and the relationship with our father. Your beliefs could be put to the test, or you could be doubting yourself right now. Going back to the root, and understanding why you believe, or were attracted to, a certain idea in the first place is important now. You could also be discovering new ideas and ways of seeing the world. Old wounds with your father can come up, and it is time to release yourself of them.
Leo: The 8th house deals with transformation, change, sudden events and death. A big point of this transit can be the purpose of change. Who are you changing for? Yourself or others? You can be used to making changes to please others, or to follow a trend, or because your loved ones advised you to. And yet you don’t feel satisfied, the change never fixes anything. This is a moment of changing for yourself, making the changes you want and need, rather than what others think you should do. Physically, you could go through surgeries, procedures or health ailments at this moment. The 8th house is the higher octave of the 4th house, so it deals with deep emotions and deep wounds. Many issues of the past can arise now, old trauma, fears, identity issues, etc. You are releasing yourself of these deep wounds, learning to be freer and bolder.
Virgo: The 7th house puts the other, your relationships, in focus. This could mean feelings of abandonment, usually stemming from the past, that you are projecting in your current relationships. Your constant need for validation, and external assurance, is a bottomless void that hurts you. You need to be secure about yourself, love yourself, before you can love others. In business relationships, this transit could make you mistrust people and scare them off with controlling trends. If someone will betray you, deal with it when it happens, don’t keep anticipating it and suffering beforehand — it might not even happen.
Libra: The 6th house puts a focus on health issues. Obsessions, hypochondria and body-image issues could figure strongly now. This is a time to learn how to manage things, stay healthy and in shape, without making it an obsession. Healing old wounds, of fears and sickness in childhood, can go a long way into healing your psyche now.
Scorpio: The 5th house puts a focus on creativity, expression and children. Getting over a fear of expressing yourself could figure strongly now. You could be used to second-guessing yourself, or fearing how others will react. This is a time to let go and learn to express yourself. Alternatively, this can be a moment of expressing yourself less. Maybe you use external expression, and outer approval, as a replacement for your inner turmoil. You please people, they laugh, they compliment you, yet you still feel empty. This is a time to fix that and focus on your inner world. If you have children, this is a time of learning to let them be, rather than wanting to control them and their lives.
Sagittarius: The 4th house puts a strong focus on feelings, emotions and the relationship with your mother. Old wounds, feelings of abandonment or overall emotional issues from your past can come up strongly now. This is a strong time of learning how to feel secure about yourself, by yourself, rather than by external things. A trend towards consumerism, or using expensive things as a substitute for feeling well about yourself, should be reevaluated. If you feel bad inside, no Balenciaga tacky coat outside will fix it. Dealing with your feelings will though. Alternatively, this can be a moment of dealing with trauma related to your mother and your relationship with her, releasing yourself from old blockages and wounds created there.
Capricorn: The 3rd house deals with expression, as well as siblings. So old wounds related to siblings might pop-up, and it is the time to outgrow them. A fear of expressing yourself, or a trend to get easily hurt, can figure now. Pay attention to speech or words that bother you, they are key to understanding old wounds and problems you have. The person on TV isn’t your bully, or your friend that left you, no matter how much they remind you of them. Deal with that old wound and release yourself from that blockage.
Aquarius: The 2nd house deals with family, finances, self-esteem and sustenance. Lack of self-worth, over reliance on family, and a fragile ego are some of the issues that come up with this transit. Maybe controlling parents caused you to always second-guess yourself, maybe being different made you consider yourself weird or ugly. These issues are coming back strongly now, and it is time to rise above them. Maybe facing your fears, taking risks and relying on your own self-worth; rather than external validation.
Pisces: The 1st house deals with, well, you. Your whole life comes into focus now, any of the 11 descriptions above could apply to you. This is a time where all your dissatisfactions, or your wounds, from life are popping up. Maybe a disease, or a health scare, can show up as a physical expression of this. With Pisces being a sign that usually gets what it wants, this could be a time of learning to let go. Be it with your wife, your mother, your father, your children, your friends, your sex-demon bondage mistress, it doesn’t matter the specifics. This is a time of letting go, learning that you can’t win everything, you can’t always have your way. Your way might not even be the best way, it might simply be an illusion. Let go, let people be. You might be stuck by trying to merge (and control) other people into your ways. It is time to release this idea of fixing everyone.

Nodal Inversion in Astrology simply refers to a time where the Lunar Nodes will transit in the opposite position that they are in your birth chart. So, for instance, if you have Rahu (North Node) in Libra, between 2022-2023 would be your Nodal Inversion; as Rahu was transiting Aries.

The Nodes transit a sign for about 1.5 years, taking about 18.5 years to transit the whole zodiac. As the Inversion is the half cycle, it first happens around 9 years old, repeating about every 18 years afterwards. So the Nodal Inversion ages are 9, 27, 45, 64, 82.

Of course, this is only the basic concept and timing, not the actual experience and process of the transit. To understand that, we must first understand the Nodes themselves.

Understanding the Lunar Nodes

Rahu is the name of the North Node, Ketu is the name of the South Node. North and South are modern names, Rahu and Ketu are the names used by Vedic Astrologers, like me.

Mythologically, the Nodes are said to come from the splitting of a snake-like creature. This snake defied the gods by swallowing the nectar of immortality, and was cut in two as they attempted to kill it. As it became immortal from swallowing the nectar, it was forced to remain alive split into two parts, the head and the body.

The head, Rahu, represents the forward thinking part. Dealing with our desires for the future, what we want to accomplish and the biggest obsession of our lives, the thing that caused us to reincarnate. Rahu represents this one area where we desperately want to achieve, as it is a great desire emanating from our karmic past.

The body, Ketu, is the larger portion of what remains, showing all our past baggage. A lot of times, modern astrologers give a negative connotation to this. But Ketu represents the whole past, bad and good too. It can represent excesses, or areas where we overextended ourselves in past lives. But it can also represent talents, great skills, and long cultivated fruits of past lives.

The main mission when dealing with the Lunar Nodes in astrology is to find balance. To find equilibrium between the past, and what comes from Ketu; and our desires and aspirations for the future, that come from Rahu.

Going back to the mythology, we have a split creature, trying to be whole again. That is the big mission of the Lunar Nodes, being whole again. Honoring and dealing with our past, while embracing and building the future.

The Nodal Inversion

During a Nodal Inversion we have transiting Rahu touching natal Ketu, and transiting Ketu touching natal Rahu. This creates a deep sense of contrast in life.

As explained above, Rahu represents the great desires and pursuits of our current incarnation. It shows areas that infatuate us, as well as things that we want to understand better. Ketu shows the past, representing what we’ve already done. It represents areas where we have a good degree of knowledge and experience, even representing talents at times.

Transit wise, Rahu tends to show an area of great desire, focus and new developments. While Ketu tends to show an area of closure, endings and letting go.

Putting two and two together, we get transiting Rahu exciting and stimulating the past and the baggage of our charts. And we get transiting Ketu promoting closure and release of our current desires and pursuits. Both things point towards a deep review, or reassessment, of life.

Some desires or needs established in the past might have outlived its purpose, or even felt empty. Maybe you accomplished something, and it wasn’t what you expected it to be. Alternatively, your failure at a pursuit could come into a new focus. All defeats cause sadness, but some are blessings in disguise. They can reveal that we are meant for something else, rather than what we initially wanted.

Either way, the Inversion shows a point where you let go of some desires or pursuits. This can lead you towards finding focus, rather than wanting to be an astronaut, a neurosurgeon and a ballerina at the same time. Or it could lead you towards a great change of approach.

On the other hand, the stimulation of the past leads you to familiar, yet often forgotten roads. You might rediscover a talent, or skill, that you didn’t give much importance to. You could find yourself in a new path, founded on an old contact, skill or place from your life. Alternatively, an old project or desire can return with great intensity. Nevertheless, a fresh perspective on the past gives you a new outlook on life, what you did and what you could’ve done differently.

The Nodal Inversion is an inflection point in life. Where we reevaluate our past and future, as well as our desires. Maybe we let go and forget about a project that didn’t live up to our expectations. We can find a new focus, or a new approach towards our great desires. We might rediscover something from the past, much to our benefit. This is a great moment of change triggered by a review of our past.

Nodal Inversion Ages

Nodal Inversion Ages: 9, 27, 45, 64, 82.

The first Nodal Inversion is relevant, although not that noticeable. It happens in late childhood, in a time where we start to experience new responsibilities or demands from society. A lot of times, big changes in the family life can happen around that age. But, being such an early age, it is usually not something that noticeable for most.

The second Inversion at 27 tends to be the most important one. It comes after the first Nodal Return at 18, when the native reached independence and started intensely going after his desires and pursuits. The early 20s are a strong time of trial and failure, learning to deal with life and your own impulses.

In all of the later inversions, after the first one, there is a strong sense of purpose around this transit. The Nodes show the main reason, or the main impulse, that caused us to reincarnate. The jolt of energy of the Nodal Return shows a great moment of expressing yourself and exploring possibilities, but the Inversion is the necessary opposition, the contrast.

The Nodal Inversion is a karmic “The Emperor has no clothes” moment, where the issues in our approach to life are highlighted. The exact events will vary from chart to chart, but the goal is always the same, showing problematic areas in your life.

For instance, someone with natal Rahu in the 10th. This placement indicates a focus on career, or a focus on an expressive public life. Ketu in the 4th shows a past mostly focused on the native’s inner world, somewhat in the shadows. This placement could indicate someone that overworks, so the Inversion here could excite the 4th house and stimulate the native towards taking time off and having more fun.

In some other cases, this placement could show someone that isn’t that great in managing their career, even with their big desires towards this area. Here the Inversion could highlight that their approach to work isn’t proper, and that they should try new ideas, or maybe a new job.

To give another example, Rahu in the 5th promotes the creative mind. This placement promotes artists and intellectuals, as the mind is very active. Ketu in the 11th shows a past where the native relied mostly on community, and ideas from groups, rather than their own. This life has a strong desire for independence, and charging ahead with your own ideas, but this gets tiring at times. The Inversion could point you towards letting go, and trusting others in some areas of life, rather than trying to do it all on your own.

The Inversion of the polarities creates the perfect moment to see and understand negative patterns, problem areas and things that are not working. Around 45 and 64, mid-life crisis like events are possible in regards to this transit, maybe showing some need that the native has long neglected in his life.

The second inversion at 27 will show how some of the plans, and strongly held beliefs, of the Nodal Return at 18 have failed. Understanding the reason behind such failures becomes a key focus, and this transit is an important moment of maturity. Letting go of shadows, blockages and fears are things that can happen; making for valuable life lessons.

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