Rahu at its strongest: the appetite for more
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Taurus since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Apr 30, 2039
That is about 12½ years away. Last time it was here from September 2020 to April 2022.
Right now Rahu is in Aquarius →
Rahu at its strongest: the appetite for more
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 Taurus, a fixed earth sign ruled by Venus, the tradition calls Rahu exalted: appetite in the sign of wealth, land, food and pleasure, where wanting more is the nature of the sign.
With Ketu in Scorpio, secrets, debts and shared power are what the world is releasing. The theme is material hunger that gets what it wants. Markets and tastes swing wide. The lesson is that plenty can be a kind of fever, and that value is what remains when the fever breaks.
What did people want most in these years, and what did getting it change?
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.
6 years ago
September 2020 to April 2022
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 Taurus and read them against each other.
Born then: Greta Thunberg, Olivia Rodrigo, Joao Grimaldo.
2002–03 leaned to culture and sport, 2020–22 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 Taurus, 271 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 29% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 25% | 29% |
| Science and space | 19% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 27% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 7% | 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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