“Wealth, grains, family, death, collections, friends and metals, minerals, gems, etc. are all looked at from the Dhanasthaana (place of wealth).” BPHS, Ch.13, 9
Rahu & Ketu on the second/eighth axis shows a need for balance in our material life (artha) and spiritual & emotional life (moksha). For the Ketu in Eighth house person, security is being valued by other people, by having secrets and by having a deep emotional fortress to retreat to.
Ketu in the eighth is a little difficult to understand because the eighth house is such a deep, hidden house. Those with this placement feel secure if they can retreat into a hidden world of mystery and if they have at least one person who values them. They are usually not clear about what they need from other people. Due to the fact they do not really understand what they need from others, they will not voice their needs and will appear aloof or as if they do not need other people at all. What they are searching for is a subtle connection, a subtle bond with another person.
Ketu in the eighth house gives strong emotional sensitivity to what other people find important. They are psychic when it comes to others’ deep emotions. This is a classic empath position. Generally, the native can read others easily but this talent is overly relied upon.
For spiritual seekers and aspirants, Rahu in the second house will force the person to develop their material resources and manage their worldly responsibilities before they are satisfied with any type of spiritual practice.
Ketu in the eighth will feel secure relying on others’ resources and following certain spiritual paths, usually those that are not dominant in the culture they were born into. The eighth house rules over the taboos of a culture and following a different religion is considered taboo. However, if the Ketu in eighth house person is avoiding worldly responsibilities and not making their own living, there will always be problems with their chosen spiritual path. They may believe these problems are due to the type of spirituality they are following but that is not the case. The problem lies in the position of Rahu in the second house.
Ketu in the Eighth house tends to have massive breaks in their lifetime. Breaks where their entire life changes and they move to a completely different place, change careers, lose old friends and make new ones. These breaks in their lives are generally not reparable because the eighth house is vulnerabilities and Ketu reveals weaknesses. The two together cause irreparable breaks. The good news is that the person is subconsciously geared toward living life that way. They have an uncanny talent to see the essence of things rather than outward forms.
Outward forms always change but the essences remain. Their friends may change but they understand the essence of friendship and are able to weather the massive changes in their friendships. Lovers may change but they understand the essence of love. Careers and jobs may change but they understand the essence of inspiration and duty. Residences may change but they understand the essence of feeling at home, feeling comforted in one’s environment.
The second house is related to the Moon and comfort. The person longs for stability in their financial and material life, and to be able to adapt to fluctuations in their material life to get their needs met. Despite the massive breaks in their life, they have a fixed ideal about how their material and financial resources should be and are stubborn about these views. Prosperity is getting what we need when we need it and is different than wealth. If a person has a rare illness and finds a doctor who correctly diagnoses it, that is prosperity, not wealth. Rahu in the second house people have problems accessing prosperity. In regards to wealth, it usually takes them a very long time to build up savings they have earned on their own.
The eighth house represents other people’s needs, especially the partner’s needs. Ketu in the second spends too much time focusing on other people’s needs and molding themselves to others’ value systems. They often look for a value system because they are clueless about what their values are and what their needs are. At some point they snap because their needs are not being met by others and they will need to leave the relationship for awhile or permanently. In some cases, they begin a secret relationship.
These people are often born into a family dynamic that is chaotic or highly unusual in that the environment is vastly different than their core being, so they feel like the black sheep of the family or at least, very different from everyone else in their family. This dynamic is also revealed in close friends. In the first part of life, they can have close friends who betray them or unstable, chaotic friends. The reason is that the person is learning the value of friendships and having the family as a resource. They do not have an inherent sense of their own value or self-worth. In this life, they are designed to discover what that is. The process can be painful or humiliating in certain phases of life. As they grow in their own self-worth, they begin surrounding themselves with a familial environment that reflects their newly budding self-worth.
As the Rahu in the second position is integrated, the Ketu position is healed. The massive breaks in the outward life become inner transformations in the service of greater emotional and psychological evolution. They lessen their need to retreat and hide their vulnerabilities as they learn to manage their lives more efficiently. The second house is managing our material life. Rahu’s position is always a test for how well we are managing Ketu’s position. In the case of Ketu in the eighth, if we are not managing our financial and material resources in a healthy way, if we have low self-worth, we can never be secure enough to practice our spiritual life effectively.
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