When the Nodes transit the 4th and 10th house cusps, they will come to understand the psychology and emotional states of those born with these placements. In fact, this applies to wherever Rahu and Ketu are transiting in the Birth Chart.
Rahu Transiting the 4th Cusp
When Rahu transits the 4th cusp, destructive emotions will emerge around regrets about the past, repressed anger and those who wronged you, resentment against the mother. Rahu will manifest negative emotions over events that you did not realize had bothered you so much. In a state of extreme resentment, the person may take out these feelings over that past on those who occupy their present, creating new problems with loved ones that have no basis pertaining to the particular loved one, but whose basis resides in the past.
The 4th house represents the ground, the Earth, the Mother, our foundation as an emotional being. The 4th house is the place in the sky directly below us, a place that is hidden to us, therefore a ‘hidden house’, a house of liberation. Rahu or Ketu transiting this house is highly significant because it touches our emotional origins in this incarnation on this planet. Rahu will force us to examine these emotions in a new light and this process is painful but necessary for emotional and psychological growth of the individual. The way the person handles this transit is the test of Rahu.
The transit of Rahu over the natal Moon is a little different. The Moon represents the emotionally comforting side of the Mother but it is also the sense Mind, what we need from the world to make us comfortable. When Rahu transits over the natal Moon, the person’s environment will no longer satisfy them in the way it did before the transit. This does not mean they are unsatisfied with people in their lives, but their overall general environment in the food choices, in music and entertainment choices, in what makes the person feel like they are getting their needs met. They may surround themselves with different kinds of art and music. The activities they enjoy will change completely or incrementally but they will change. Their reactions to stimuli will transform. During the transit, the person will feel confused about what they need in their lives to feel comfortable. It is a difficult transit as one of Rahu’s names is “Moon Troubler”.
Due to the Mother usually being the first person to care for us while we are helpless and dependent, her attitude towards us in the first years of life sets up an emotional foundation. The brain is not fully developed during these years so the memory is non-existent or foggy. To the degree the Mother’s attitude is contemptuous and mean, the child grows into an adult with a feeling of self-loathing because during the baby years the infant cannot distinguish between himself and his primary caregiver, usually the mother. Rahu transiting the natal Moon will bring up some of these uncomfortable emotions and because of this uncomfortable feeling, the person will change what they need to feel secure.
Rahu transiting the 4th cusp is similar but there are differences. There is more of a focus on the mother as a person rather than the emotional foundation. The person is also regretful or resentful of actual events in the past. They may feel a lot of resentment towards certain people in their past by which they felt harmed in some way.
It is important to allow these emotions to surface and to try to transmute them into a force for evolution. However a person does that depends on their spiritual and philosophical platform but the goal is always transmutation and completion so the person is stronger and has let go of resentment, shame, guilt and anger.
Ketu transiting the 4th Cusp
Ketu transiting the 4th cusp is similar but the emotions that are triggered are familiar and not new. The person will overly scrutinize their feelings, putting them into categories of right and wrong. To feel this way is good, to feel that way is bad. This can be emotionally crippling and overwhelm the native with shame or guilt. In this situation, they will also lash out at those in their present lives for events that occurred in the past. Ketu transiting the 4th will make them feel emotionally stunted and cramped, not wanting to allow the emotion to flow, becoming rigid and cold. In extreme cases the person can begin to hate their emotional side. This is unhealthy and potentially dangerous. During this time, the person should try to do exercises or therapies geared towards transmuting the emotions into something higher, into willingly seeing the bigger picture. In fact, the key to Ketu is Rahu. So the person should concentrate on their career and how they will increase their power and influence. By doing this, Ketu will automatically improve and some of the emotional stuntedness will be alleviated.
Ketu transiting the 4th will be overly critical of the mother and her role in the native’s life. It will trigger a rigid attitude about transgressions of the past both performed by the native to others and by others towards the native. Focusing one’s attention on work, career, making oneself known or being a good leader is the remedy. The native should not overly focus on ‘healing the emotions’ as this will only backfire and cause more scrutiny to the psyche and emotional body. Ketu is healed through Rahu, there is no way around it. Only through Rahu can we gain better perspective to Ketu and thus, heal his natal and transitory position.
Rahu transiting the 10th cusp
This is a much easier position to handle. The 10th house is an outward house and Rahu is an outward planet. Rahu throws us into the unknown, a jungle. But rather than the jungle and unknown territory of our emotional life (4th house) we are thrown into a quagmire of our work and career life, which is much easier to navigate because we expect to encounter the unknown in the outside world rather than within ourselves. Usually, Rahu transiting the 10th will present new opportunities and new problems in the work life and these challenges can be exciting.
Ketu transiting the 10th house cusp will give us a feeling that anything we do in our career and work life is not good enough. We will find fault with our career and how much influence we have through that career. If opportunities come along, we will find something wrong with those opportunities. This transit can also manifest too much work to do and not enough time to do it. Having to cope with too much work will make the person focus on the work that is most fulfilling and inspiring rather than that work they find boring but brings in more money. Focusing on what is more fulfilling is moving toward Rahu transiting the 4th house.
Being overly critical of the father and his role in the person’s life will also manifest during Ketu’s transit to the 10th cusp. The 10th house is the body of the father, the father as a person. Many people use the 9th house as the father but this is the father as the guru or teacher of the child. In modern times, this represents the mother and father together and their influence upon you. The father as a parent is seen from the 10th house. It is the mother’s (4th house) partner (7th from 4th).
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