The craving to believe
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Sagittarius since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Jun 23, 2028
That is about 1½ years away. Last time it was here from November 2009 to June 2011.
Right now Rahu is in Aquarius →
The craving to believe
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 Sagittarius, a mutable fire sign ruled by Jupiter, which is neutral to Rahu, the craving is for belief, law, foreign ideas and the big answer.
With Ketu in Gemini, the local, the everyday and the small fact are what the world is releasing. The theme is ideological surge. Movements promise meaning. Laws are fought over as if they were faiths. The lesson is that a borrowed certainty is still borrowed, and that a teacher worth following is one who lets you check.
Which big answers were offered in these years, and who checked them?
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.
16 years ago
November 2009 to June 2011
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 Sagittarius and read them against each other.
Born then: Selena Gomez, Neymar, Demi Lovato.
1991–92 leaned to politics and society, 2009–11 to conflict and disaster. 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 Sagittarius, 246 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 31% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 36% | 29% |
| Science and space | 11% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 23% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 13% | 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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