nodes

April 17, 2004

Dear Bettina, Flick, All,

Hi! I know it is late to chime in on this thread, but just wanted to note that I always look not just at the house and the rasi ruler of the nodes, but also at the nakshatra ruler and its placement. I have Ketu and Jupiter in a nakshatra lord parivartana and Jupiter is my final dispositor. I think my life has had an overall Ketu flavor. Shortly after my birth we moved abroad immediately and I did not return till university, after which I travelled again extensively. Have been intensely interested in spiritual matters since I was a very young child (at 3 was writing little books about God - much to my parents horror as they were adamently agnostic intellectuals). I was born into Ketu dasa, but it was near the end, so can't say how it was except that we moved abroad. My husband has Ketu in his lagna in Mula (so a double nodal hit) and he is very psychic and has also been deeply interested in spiritual

studies, reincarnation, etc. all his life and at 5 when he heard someone play piano at his school he broke down in tears and went home insisting he had to learn to play. He was something of a prodigy and to this day still plays 3 hours or so daily, mostly Beethoven and Bach. He is sadly disdainful of any music of this century. He has also had 3 major career changes. I think Ketu can bring sudden changes, a chaotic sense if we're not looking within and connecting with the spiritual. I have 2 good friends with Ketu in Aslesha (in dustanas) and both have finished their Ketu dasas recently. They had very rocky beginnings of the dasa, rebelling against all changes, but both cried Uncle before the midpoint of the dasa, became deeply spiritual in a quiet manner and ended up having excellent overall luck (including financial) for the rest of Ketu...none of the dramatic losses at the end that some people say they have. As for Rahu, I

know one ACVA Jyotishi who has dubbed it "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride", which is a roller coaster somewhere I believe. Anyway, it can be rough because I think it propels one towards this life's karma and often we interpret that as achieving material success. I think if we look upon both nodes as, in the end, having spiritual agendas it can be less intense. Another close friend is midway through Rahu, but has always been very spiritually oriented and for her it has been very productive, health oriented (it is in a nakshatra whose lord is in her 6th house with her lagna lord) and has led her to travel abroad a lot (Rahu's rasi lord is in her 12th). She has never been particularly career oriented and did not become that with Rahu dasa. But she did start earning part of her income in this dasa from Shiatzu massage. My husband has Rahu in the 7th in a Rahu ruled nakshatra. Before marrying me all his relationships (including one very

long term live-in one) were with foreigners and unusual partners. And compared to people from his family and background I am totally foreign as well. I know his family have always been tempted to report me to INS as an illegal alien (from Mars in their opinion). He also has worked with foreigners over the years (thinking of 7th as also relating to business partners). His Rahu subs always seem to involve travel and academic interests. I have recently started my Rahu dasa. It is in my 8th house in a nakshatra of the 8th lord. Some traditional Jyotishis have blanched upon seeing this and tried very hard to not blurt out all the dire things they were obviously thinking. :-) Suggested shockingly expensive extreme remedial measures. But I have always found Rahu sub periods to be quite wonderful - always with an amplified spiritual tone and so far my Rahu maha is at least starting that way as well. Lots of changes in my

life, but I've had some fantastic luck in spiritual matters and am so far feeling quite content despite unpredictable stuff happening. Feels like surfing and requires focusing on the wave, but my mood is really upbeat. Don't have any material goals, but lots of spiritual goals for this dasa. Don't have much of an artha oriented chart and doubt Rahu will turn me into a raging arthaite. I guess my point is that I think there is a high road for everything and, like Mark has said so well in a recent posting, it is about learning to steer our ships better. Also wanted to mention that Komilla's books are indeed wonderful and she also has some good lectures on tape on the nodes. I also think Bepin Behari has excellent info on the nakshatras and nodes in his books...on the esoteric side, but I like that. Dr. Frawley also has good info on both subjects as well.

Ann

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