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Rahu and wisdom
Written by Neelam Gupta
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:36 - Last Updated Wednesday, 17 June
2009 12:36
Rahu in a chart holds the key to the inventory of our karmas,
and also reserves the right to
boomerang the effects of past karmas in our lives. Everyone has
a Rahu posited somewhere in
the chart, like a volcano, ready to erupt when it is time to
reap your harvest, and as you sowso shall you reap.
Rahu has been compared to a poisonous black serpent, which is
both wise and deadly. Like the
serpent, changing its robe like the snakes skin which is shed
for a new and glistening form.
While its wisdom is self-manifest in the newer forms, it remains
the same in essence. It has a
bipolar or forked tongue, an aid to express his wisdom can be
very acidic or saccharine.
Wisdom of Rahu can be a misguided missile when it is susceptible
to degradation and turns
cunning and criminal when employed for wrong deeds or it can act
as a divine guide forelevation into lofty intuition and excellent
intellect when used for high ideals and purpose. Snake
venom can destroy as well as heal depending upon its use and
dosage. Degraded it poisons
and corrupts and when rightly used, it is an antidote to all
ills.
It is Rahus wisdom which makes a Charles Sobhraj when it
afflicts an exalted Jupiter in Cancer
and it also has the power to make a great educationist like
Radhakrishnan even when posited
with Saturn in cancer. Of course, as I said earlier Rahu is a
planet on mission, but is not alone
and other planets join hands and help him in accomplishing his
mission.
The great churner that Rahu is, offers us the cream as well as
the buttermilk of all grades and
shades. An astrologers job is to understanding Rahus energy in a
nativity and to guide the
distressed persons on how to harness this energy. How to become
the Lion and carry themighty Rahu to our advantage is what we need
to learn from our lessons in astrology.
It is significant that Leo represents a mountain and the serpent
Vasuki was tied around a
mountain to churn the nectar. What does it mean? Does it imply
the fixity of a fixed leo lagna
which can churn the ocean but remains like a fulcrum or does it
imply that Leo is the point
where if Rahu is present, the native is born to make a sea
change in his life and surroundings?
Does it imply that the native will revolt and would like to
change his way from what is expected
of him to what he expects of himself? Does it also mean that he
is at a point in his life cyclewhere he has to regenerate, which is
also the souls progress to Leo? Have you seen Rahu not
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