Uttara Bhadrapada 1/2	Uttara Phalguni 3/4
Stars	Andromeda or Mirach’s Ghost	Denebola
Sign – Sign Ruler	Pisces – Jupiter	Virgo – Mercury
Nakshatra Ruler	Saturn	Sun
Pada signs	Leo/Virgo	Aquarius/Pisces
God	Ahirbudhnya: Serpent of the Deep	Aryaman: The Prosperous Patron
Meaning	The left foot, or the back foot	Latter Reddish One, or The Fig Tree
Main Symbols	Back legs of a funeral cot	Back legs of the day bed
Secondary Symbols	Cosmic rain, Thunderbolt	Lions Tail, Colour Blue
Secondary Deities	Leviathan	Apollo
Body part	Sides of the body, ribs, shins, soles of feet	Lips, sex organs, left hand
Sexual Animal	Female Cow	Male Cow
Tree	Mango, Neem, Indian lilac	Rudraksha or Wavy Leaf Fig
Place	Snake den	Water
Colour	Purple	Bright Blue
Direction	North	East

Natal Charts

They don’t have a good sense of boundaries and can be found meddling in areas where they don’t really belong. They might be criticised as a kind of traitor, a foreign spy, a stranger. Always a stranger in a strange land. When they return home they are even stranger. It’s like being the one man in a crowd of woman or visa-versa. That one person who gets all the attention because their are different; they have infiltrated and gotten into the back rooms where they don’t really belong; but at least for a time Rahu can pretend like he does belong. They belong to some kind of foreign organisation; for better of worse they will always look to the outsiders. They often provide some kind of inroad into foreign cultures, a path that others can follow to acquire entrance to the most closely guarded back rooms.

There are several military personnel, spies, special operations, They often use some kind of special status or protected status to gain entry in the way Ketu might use surrender, peace, non-violence, non-attachment and these various irregular methods of defeating the enemy. They can be masters of ignoring provocation, or abandoning the dispute. They can also be jacks of all trades as they do many random jobs throughout their life. It’s usually a bit unclear just what it is they do.

They can be very good fighters. Stoic, ambivalent, unmoved. Ketu in Virgo can absolutely annihilate the enemy even before the enemy realises they are at war. From another perspective they might loose the battle but win the war. Things are never really clear when Rahu & Katy are involved.

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Rahu in Uttara Bhadrapada Pada 1 – Ketu in Uttara Phalguni Pada 3 (Leo – Aquarius Navamsha)

Rahu in Uttara Bhadrapada Pada 2 – Ketu in Uttara Phalguni Pada 4 (Virgo – Pisces Navamsha)

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Transits of
Rahu in Uttara Bhadrapada &
Ketu in Uttara Phalguni

Summary

Oddly enough, plastic garbage bags were invented in this cycle. Considering plastic is the biggest source of durable waste, we have managed to make more garbage just to hid the garbage. The nuclear option always seems to come up: the concept of mutually assured destruction; world wide disarmament, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Hamas came to being, funded by foreigners. The Korean War was not so different from the current Ukraine war with foreign wealth disrupting the whole region. This transit has never been good for Lebanon, Israel and ht middle east. Previous aggressions against Lebanon in 2006; the assassination of their president, the creation of Hamas.

The Korean War was part of a much greater aggression against China from all side. In 1950 China was forced to invade Tibet in order to counter the British moves there. That was when then British enthroned the Dalai Lama and the whole Free Tibet movement began as what we can now see was a typical wester operation to destabilise their enemies. The I believe the whole lineage of Buddhism that flows through the Dalai Lama is deeply tainted by their  this, what is essentially the foundation of modern Buddhism by British & American secret service. They saw the effect Gandhi’s non-violence had in rallying the people, they simple used that to the world to rally against China. We might note that Gandhi was arrested by the British in the previous cycle. The Ketu side of this seems to support irregular forms of warfare, spying, physiological warfare, random acts of violence. Assassination attempts are a common occurrence which we’ve also seem in recent times around the world. It’s not a good time to be a right wing politician.

In 1894 the e women of Australia were the first in the world to get the right to vote. In 1913 a woman’s rights activist in Norway died running in front of the Kings racehorse during a race. These days women women are literally fighting for their rights in the Olympic boxing ring. This Rahu brings and imposture into what is typically a safe, quite, isolates space or a private affair. This Rahu brings is a meddlesome foreign influence to things which are really none of their business: like women voting or men in the woman’s change room.

It quite interesting that the Human Genome Project also came out in this transit to really highlight the mixed ancestry and the blending of castes that makes up each of us. Inroads seems to get made in this transit, or perhaps it’s just a foot hold. At the same time people were turning their fascination toward the whole history of the Human Gene (2006) Tibet also got it’s first modern railway opening the land again to outside influence, eroding local cultures, and ultimately destabilising the world through the reduction of borders and boundaries. India and China also opened a mountain pass to traffic after many years that it was closed as Rahu turns our attention to the most distant places, and the most exotic cultures. I the current transit we find that many countries in the world overhauled their visa process to make it easier people to travel while also trying to control and document the people crossing their borders.

Native land acts to make aboriginals wards of the state and confiscate their land (1876) were enacted 1876 in 1913 Australia restricted Aboriginals from owning land outside of reservation areas. It seem fitting that in between these two transits some American Indians struck oil on their land and instantly became one of the richest groups of people in the world.

We find some historic footnotes on music through these transits, mostly in the past, but I’m sure a good researcher would fins more recent examples. The first issue of Billboard Magazine 1894; meanwhile Vogue magazine already established, started turning towards progressive feminism. From a spiritual prospective there seems to be some shady proselytising, early American churches in Korea and Philippines buying converts, Uttara Bhadrapada is supposed to provide a life line, but when rahu is here it does just the opposite, he puts some kind of slow poison in that life line so that we don’t immediately see the or connect the consequences. We might again look at the current period where the news has been non-stop about the blockades holding back life saving aid from Gaza. Western fund pouring into Ukraine to provide a lifeline for the proxy war against Russia. Local cutters around the world are being completely destabilised in numerous ways.

This Rahu is incredibly destructive for local cultures, the home, the education system, security or underlying stability. As we would expect in a water sign there is a big ripple effect from Rahu’s intensity. It’s of course so generous of the NATO countries to ‘help’ Ukraine destroy itself. Regardless of how we might feel about either side, it would just be a border skirmish without NATO involvement. It has since evolved into what could become WW III at any moment. And this is the tension provided by this Rahu.

I have written before about how Rahu in Virgo can be very provocative; Ketu is just the opposite, like Ghandi: “I didn’t do anything, why are you arresting me.” (At least I’m sure he must have said something like this at some point. Passive non-resistance might also be called aggressive sitting in the way.  It sort of manages to be both completely passive and extremely aggressive all at the same time with Ketu’s specialty of mixing the two extremes. Surrender is used as a means of defeating the enemy; a strategic defeat.

There were also a few high profile royal (or like royal weddings) and high profile weddings. One marriage was expected to overcome a dynastic feud between royal families of Europe. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in this cycle. I’m not sure what to think of this other than to say that Ketu in 6th house ignores red flags and inherent imbalances. The tribal chief is so in awe that he takes foreign funds and allows the building of a church or home of a foreign agent on their land without realising the consequences. Do you really think Rockefeller started his foundation and gave generously to Red Cross out of a sense of altruism? These. Peaceful foreigners are very often the first wave a foreign invasion, We can see how recently countries around the world have been realising this and setting strict limits on foreign NGOs, regulating church activity, foreign agents and spy’s seem to be everywhere. Border infiltration, a massive influx of foreigners.

One of the troubles we face in this transit is that Saturn is coming into Pisces from the other direction. It’s often said that Rahu gives effects like Saturn, so Saturn will give effects like Rahu, thus drawing the whole thing out. Saturn is also to like try to bring some law and order and thus more firmly establish regulated a life line. Saturn doesn’t directly affect the 4th house but he could trigger mass migrations for work. Many poor countries are likely to get their digital nomad visas in order. The energy of this Saturn is like railing that you’ve just been lied to and you go away a little dejected to be alone for a little while. It’s certainly isolationist. Over the next couple of years he will show us the consequences of Rahu’s foreign fascination and the frustration of local cultures. These two heavyweights will be conjunct in Purva Bhadrapada on April 21, 2025.

Historical Timelines

3 December 2024 – 26 Feb 2025: ??

30 April 2006 – 22 July 2006: 

Israel-Lebanon War (Jul. 12 – Aug. 16): Jun. 28: Israel launches offensive into Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire from Hamas.  Jul. 12: Israel invades Lebanon after Hezbollah kill a couple soldiers and kidnap a couple more in solidarity with Palestine.

Iraq War: (Mar. 19, 2003 – Dec. 15, 2011)
Afghanistan – USA War: (Oct. 7, 2001 – Aug. 30, 2021):
Chechen Insurgency (May 1, 2000 – Apr. 16, 2009):

Science, Space & Technology: May. 17: Human Genome Project published final chromosome sequence in Nature. May 27: Major earthquake on Java kills almost 6000.  Jun. 3: Montenegro & Serbia declare independence. US disbands the Iceland Defence Force.  Jul. 1: Tibet gets a modern railway.  Jul. 6: Nathu La Pass, sealed during the China – India war, is reopened after 44 years.  Jul. 11: Seven bomb blasts in Mumbai kill more than 200 people.

6 Aug 1987 – 29 December 1987: 

— INF Arms Reduction — Black Monday Stock Crash — Hamas is Founded —

Cold War: Reagan and Gorbachev sign the  Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This whole negotiation process that started in 1985 created a major thaw in relations.

Iraq – Iran War (22 Sept. 1980 – 20 Aug. 1988): Iraq – Iran war a lull in the fighting as both sides stockpile for a last major bout of violence to begin in February. Iran was suffering, from international pressure and their citizens from war fatigue.

Soviet-Afghan War (Dec. 24, 1979 – Feb. 15, 1989):
Lebanese Civil War (Apr. 13, 1975 – Oct. 13, 1990):
First Palestinian Intifada (Dec. 9, 1987 – Sept. 13, 1993):
Second Sudanese Civil War: (Jun. 5, 1983 – Jan. 9, 2005):
The Troubles IRA-British Irregular War (May 1966 – Apr. 10, 1998):

Economy: Oct. 19: Black Monday stock crash (down more than 22%) brings down a thriving economy; computerised trading is blamed.

Arts & Entertainment: Film: Jun.:  “Predador,”

Nobel Prize Awards Dec. 10: 1. Chemistry: development of molecules that can link with other molecules. 2. Economics: Theory of economic growth. 3. Literature: Joseph Brodsky: Persecuted Soviet Poet. 4. Peace: Central America Peace Plan. 5. Physics: Discovery of Superconducting materials.  6: Medicine: genetic aspects of antibodies.

General Transits: Oct. 15: Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso is assassinated. Dec. 9: The First Palestinian Intifada against Israeli occupation begins. Dec. 10: Hamas is founded.

6 January 1969 – 9 June 1969: 

— Heart Transplant — 747 Jumbo jet — Arafat — FLQ — border between North & South Sudan — AIDS —

Cold War: Jan. 20: Richard Nixon becomes US President. Arafat is elected President of PLO. Gold Meir becomes first female PM of Israel.

Vietnam War (Nov. 1, 1955 – Apr. 30, 1975): May 10: Battle for Hamburger Hill.  Jun. 8: After meeting with South Vietnamese President, Nixon announces the withdrawal of 25 000 troops.

First Sudanese Civil War (Anyanya (Snake Venom) Rebellion: (Aug. 18, 1955 – Mar. 27, 1972): May 25: Military coup brings Gaffer Nimeiry to power for the next 16 years. Leftist Arab politics, he nationalised much land and sought peace with the south. One of the first things he did was declare a border between north and south, and offered amnesty to opposition fighters. Jun. 9: Border between North & South is declared.

The Troubles IRA-British Irregular War (May 1966 – Apr. 10, 1998):

Science, Space & Technology: 747 Jumbo jet flown for the first time.  Mar. 3-13: Apollo 9 probe is launched and returns.  Apr. 4: Denton Cooly installs the first temporary artificial heart.  May 18: Apollo ten is to be a full rehearsal of the moon landing.

Arts & Entertainment: Mar. 20: John Lennon & Yoko Ono are married.

General Timeline: Jan 28: Massive oil spill off the coast of Southern California.   Feb. 9: FLQ bomb the Montreal stock exchange.  Feb.14: The Pope removed Saint Valentine and money other from their list of saints.  Mar. 30: Eisenhower dies after a long illness.  Apr. 28: De Gaulle steps down as president after a referendum defeat. May 4: Indian president dies of a heart attack.  May 15: The first case of AIDS in the USA baffles doctors.  Jun. 8: Franco closes the border between Gibraltar and Spain due to their Sovereignty referendum.

20 June 1950 – 23 November 1950:

— Korean War — Current Dalai Lama is Enthroned — Peanuts Comic — Garbage bags — Rabbits —

Cold War: Aug.: Jun. 25: South Africa passed Suppression of Communism Act. Discussions about a Pan European Army allies with Canada & USA. Aug. 23: An actor and athlete in the USA meets with the president to try to have his passport reinstated; it was revoked for his supposed “Communist affiliations.” Indonesia is admitted into the UN.  West Germany decides to purge Communist officials. Sept.: Australia passes the Communist dissolution act which is later struck down by the courts. A B-29 Super-fortress full of bombs crashes into a California neighbourhood. By the end of Nov. A B-50 Super fortress is detonated over Quebec after an inflight emergency.

Korean War (Jun. 25, 1950 – Jul. 27, 1953): Jun. 25: Korean War begins; America would join the war a few days later. This war quickly turn brutal after North Korea sizes Seoul, the south then blow up a bridge crowded with refugees. The North slaughter hospital personnel and the South executed 100 000 suspected sympathisers of the North.  Over the course of Jul., most of North Korea n air force would be destroyed. Aug., the South Africa Air Force takes part in Korean campaign. The Bloody Gulch massacre, North Korea executes 75 US POWs. Hill 303 sees another 35 US troops killed while surrendering.  Sept.: Douglas McArthur begins a counter offensive in Korea with the Battle of Inchon and defence in the Battle  of Nam River. Rede Tupi. South Koreans massacre 153 unarmed civilians hiding in a cave. China enters the Korean war by sending thousands of troops across the border. The Korean War has the world’s first dog-fight between opposing jets as an American takes down two North Korean jets.

China & Tibet: Oct. 6 – 24: China begins annexing Tibet with the Battle of Chamdo; the Tibetan Army will surrender within a couple of weeks.  Nov. 17: The current Dalai Lama is enthroned as the ruler of Tibet.
First Indochina War – France v. Viet Minh (Dec. 19, 1946 – Aug. 1, 1954):
Malayan Anti-British National Liberation War (Jun. 16, 1948 – Jul. 31, 1960);
Columbian Civil War – La Violencia (Apr. 9, 1948 – May 10, 1957): Aug. 7: new conservative President is elected in a manipulated vote.
Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency (1949 – 1956):

Arts & Entertainment: Sept. 18: TV Broadest in South America.  Oct. 2: Peanuts comic strip in the USA is first published in seven newspapers.  Federal Communications Commission releases first licences to broadcast colour TV but this is blocked and there are disputes.

Religion & Spirituality: Aug.: Pope Pius XII declares that evolution should be taken seriously and that it does not contradict essential Catholic teachings. Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary is opened in the Philippines.  Nov.: “Miracle of the Sun”; the assumption of the blessed virgin Mary says that god took her body to heaven after death.

General Timeline: Rabbits are a big problem in Australia and a couple Canadians introduce the garbage bag to the world.  Jul.: The “Royal Question” is Belgium causes four striking workers to be shot by police, which leads to demonstrations and riots.  Aug. 8: Florence Chadwick swims across the English Channel in under 14 hours.  Sept. 7: Mining disaster in Scotland kills 13, 116 are rescued.  Oct. 7: Agate Pass Bridge opens in Washington.  Oct.: Minimum wage laws come into effect in France.  Oct. 30: Uprisings in Puerto Rico against the US supported government.  Nov. 1: Attempted assassination of President Truman by Puerto Rican militants.

2 December 1931 – 3 March 1932:

— Gandhi arrested — League of Blood assassination — Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is dynamited by Stalin — Japan attacks China — World Disarmament Conference — Lindbergh baby kidnaping —

Great Depression (Sept. 1929 – Sept. 1939):
Chinese Civil War Phase One (Aug. 1927-Dec 36)

Organisations & Buildings: Dec. 5: The original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow is dynamited by Stalin.

Arts & Entertainment: Feb 15: Clara, Lu & Em becomes the first day-time radio soap opera.

Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10: 1. Chemistry: Invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. 2. Literature: Erik Axel Karlfeldt Swedish tradition-bound style of poetry. 3. Peace: Their co-founding of Hull House & ‘social settlements’ in the USA. 4. Medicine: Discovery of nature and action of respiratory enzyme within cellular respiration.

General Timeline: The 2nd Spanish Republic is established with a new constitution.  Dec. 11: The Statute of Westminster establishes legislative equality with self-governing Commonwealth Nations. Jan.4: Gandhi is arrested by the British Government in India. Jan. 9: After an assassination attempt on the Emperor of Japan fails, and a Chinese paper expresses regret, Japan attacks Shanghai and send warship to Nanking by the end of the month.  Jan. 22: Salvadorian Peasant Uprising is suppressed and the government kills tens of thousands of supporters over the next few months. Jan 26: British submarine sinks killing all 60 personnel on board.  Feb.2: World Disarmament Conference begins with Germany contesting their disarmament by the Treaty of Versailles; the French, meanwhile, are insisting on security.  The League of Nations seeks to bring China & Japan to the negotiating table.  The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins operations in Washington and will support economic development for 25 years before it’s disbanded.  Jan. 9: The League of Blood assassinated prominent Governor of the Bank of Japan.  Japan declares Manchuria to be independent from China and instals a puppet ruler.  Feb. 25: Hitler gets German citizenship so he can run in the next election. Mar. 1: Lindbergh baby kidnaping, ten weeks later the body was found by the side of the road. The man who was convicted and put to death always swore his innocence and even today researchers are unsure if he was the culprit.

26 April 1913 – 18 July 1913:

— Rockefeller Foundation — Royal Wedding — Natives Land Act — Riot at classical music concert due to Modernist style of “The Rite of Spring” — Norway: woman vote after activist is trampled by kids racehorse —

Mexican Revolution (Nov. 20, 1910 – Dec. 1, 1920):

Organisations & Buildings: May 14:  Rockefeller Foundation is established. Jun. 13: predecessor to the Aldi store open in Germany. Jun. 8: The Natives Land Act in Australia limits aboriginals to owning land only in aboriginal territories.

Arts & Entertainment: May 3: beginning of the Indian Film industry with the release of “Raja Harishchandra. May 29: the most famous classical music riots in history breaks out when the ballet, “The Rite of Spring” is first performed. Some in the audience objected to the modernist style.

Acts of God: Jul.10: Death Valley California reaches 134F or 57 degrees celsius.

General Timeline: May 9 – Jul. 11: Major industrial strike in Britain affects war time preparations.   May 24: Prince & Princess of Hanover and Prussia are married, ending a rift between the two great families and marking the last time there was a gathering of European Sovereigns.  May 26: a four-engine fixed wing aircraft takes to the sky’s for the first time.   May 30: The Treaty of London brings an end to the first Balkan War; the independence of Albania is guaranteed and Greece gets a few scraps that it was about to get anyways. The Greeks then sign a treaty alliance with Serbia paving the way for the second Balkan War which will begin by the end of June. Jun. 4: A woman activist runs out in front of the kings horse during a race, she is trampled in killed.  Norway soon gives women the right to vote.  Americans slaughter the Moro people of Philippines. Jun. 11: Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire is murdered during a coup d’état.  Jun. 18: The Arab Congress of 1913 meets in France to discuss the rights of Arabs under the Ottoman Empire.   Jul. 10: Romania declares war on Bulgaria but they suffer from an outbreak of cholera.

2 Aug 1894 – 26 December 1894:

— Billboard Mag. —  Royal Wedding — Dreyfus affair (spying) — Split in the Freemasons — Society of Beaux-Arts Architects — Women in South Australia are the first int he world to vote —

Organisations & Buildings: The Masonic Grand Lodge de France splits away from the Mother Lodge of the Freemasons.

Arts & Entertainment: Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded in USA. The song “Little Lost Child” is releases with illustrations (a precursor to the music video).  The world’s oldest record shop, Spillers Records, opens in Wales; it’s still in operation.  Nov. 1: First issue of Billboard Magazine.  Dec. 6: One of the first feminist stories is released in Vogue Magazine.

Acts of God: Sept.: The Great Hinckley forest fire kills more than 450 people in Minnesota.

General Timeline: Aug. 16: Sadi Carnot, who assassinated the French president meets the Guillotine. Aug. 31: New Zealand enacts the world’s first minimum wage law.  Sept.: 12 000 tailors strike against sweat shop like conditions.  Ships collide in Lake Huron.  Oct.: Dreyfus affair, a French army officer is caught spying.  Nov.: Republicans win by a landslide in USA. The Japanese capture a Chinese port city and massacre over 1000 people.  Wedding of the Emperor of Russia takes place in the Grand Church of the Winter Palace. Dec.: Women in South Australia become the first women in the world to gain the right to vote.  Oil is discovered on Osage Indian Reservation making them the riches group of people in the world.

Ancient History

Apr. 12, 1876: The original Indian Act is implemented in Canada making the natives into wards of the state and regulating

1876: The Library of Parliament is established in Ottawa Canada.

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