The craving for the next message
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Gemini since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Oct 11, 2037
That is about 11 years away. Last time it was here from March 2019 to September 2020.
Right now Rahu is in Aquarius →
The craving for the next message
Rahu is the Moon's north node, a shadow planet that stands for craving, novelty, technology and the drive to have more. It moves backward through the zodiac with Ketu opposite. In Gemini, a mutable air sign ruled by Mercury, a friend to Rahu, the craving is for information: news, trade, talk and the newest way to carry a message.
With Ketu in Sagittarius, settled belief and the authority of teachers are what the world is releasing. The theme is a media appetite that outruns judgement. The lesson is that more words do not make more truth, and that the fastest channel is rarely the most faithful one.
Which new ways of speaking or trading appeared in these years, and who used them first?
Three questions, in this order. They work for every planet and every sign.
Pick a visit to read its record. The most covered stories come first; the kinds of story show as colours.
7 years ago
March 2019 to September 2020
Anyone born under a transit carries it in their birth chart. Those with a chart in our library open straight into it.
Too soon to tell. People born during this visit will appear here once they are grown and well known.
The same transit, a generation apart. Pick any two of Rahu's visits to Gemini and read them against each other.
Born then: Billie Eilish, Joshua Bassett, Bukayo Saka.
Both visits had more conflict and disaster stories than any other kind. The same transit can carry a similar tone a generation apart, or the record can simply reflect what gets written about.
What made the news. Every story in the record for Rahu's visits to Gemini, 316 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 37% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 29% | 29% |
| Science and space | 12% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 22% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 6% | 10% |
Nothing here stands out from the usual mix by five points or more. That is a normal answer: a transit sets a tone, and the news keeps its own shape.
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