The craving for the other
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Libra since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Jul 31, 2031
That is about 5 years away. Last time it was here from December 2012 to July 2014.
Right now Rahu is in Aquarius →
The craving for the other
Rahu is the Moon's north node, a shadow planet that stands for craving, novelty, the foreign and the drive to have more. It moves backward through the zodiac with Ketu opposite. In Libra, a cardinal air sign ruled by Venus, Rahu's friend, the craving is for partnership, foreign alliance and a fairness that is new rather than inherited.
With Ketu in Aries, the lone warrior and the impulse to go first are what the world is releasing. The theme is relationship redefined. Alliances form across old lines. Justice is argued in new terms. The lesson is that wanting a partner is not the same as being one.
Which partnerships in these years crossed a line that had seemed fixed?
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.
13 years ago
December 2012 to July 2014
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 Libra and read them against each other.
Born then: Dua Lipa, Kendall Jenner, Raheem Sterling.
1994–95 leaned to conflict and disaster, 2012–14 to politics and society. The same transit set the backdrop both times; what played out in front of it differed.
What made the news. Every story in the record for Rahu's visits to Libra, 261 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 34% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 34% | 29% |
| Science and space | 11% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 20% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 16% | 10% |
Gold numbers differ from the usual mix by five points or more. Wikipedia covers some kinds of story more than others, and a few visits are a small sample, so treat a difference as something to notice and check, not a rule.
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