Rahu at its weakest, in the sign of hidden power
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Scorpio since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Jan 10, 2030
That is about 3 years away. Last time it was here from June 2011 to December 2012.
Right now Rahu is in Aquarius →
Rahu at its weakest, in the sign of hidden power
Rahu is the Moon's north node, a shadow planet that stands for craving, novelty and the drive to have more. It moves backward through the zodiac with Ketu opposite. In Scorpio, a fixed water sign ruled by Mars, the tradition calls Rahu debilitated: the craving turns to secrets, control, debt and the power that works in the dark, and it is hard to satisfy there.
With Ketu in Taurus, comfort, possessions and settled value are what the world is releasing. The theme is exposure. Crises break open what was hidden. Finance shocks. The lesson is that an appetite for control feeds on fear, and that what is brought into the open loses its grip.
What was exposed in these years, and who had been counting on it staying hidden?
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.
15 years ago
June 2011 to December 2012
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 Scorpio and read them against each other.
Born then: Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus.
1992–94 leaned to conflict and disaster, 2011–12 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 Scorpio, 235 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 28% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 34% | 29% |
| Science and space | 11% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 27% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 9% | 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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