The craving to perfect and to fix
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Virgo since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Feb 16, 2033
That is about 6½ years away. Last time it was here from July 2014 to January 2016.
Right now Rahu is in Aquarius →
The craving to perfect and to fix
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 Virgo, a mutable earth sign ruled by Mercury, Rahu's friend, the craving turns to detail, health, work and the technical fix for every problem.
With Ketu in Pisces, faith, surrender and the acceptance of what cannot be fixed are what the world is releasing. The theme is anxiety made productive. Health is scrutinised. Work is measured. The lesson is that analysis can become obsession, and that some things are healed rather than solved.
Which problems in these years were attacked with method, and which refused to be solved that way?
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.
12 years ago
July 2014 to January 2016
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 Virgo and read them against each other.
Born then: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Rosé.
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 Virgo, 288 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 40% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 29% | 29% |
| Science and space | 14% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 17% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 11% | 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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