Details of Rahu in Sagittarius (Dhanu) and Ketu in Gemini (Mithun)

Rahu in Sagittarius is the surest sign of happiness and quietude, so long as the native knows how to be contented, which is usually the case, inasmuch as progress is fairly quick in this sign.

The close family ties - that is, the wife and children - live on good terms within a relatively restricted circle. It is the sort of happiness what does not proclaim itself. Success is somewhat slow in coming, but can be relied upon, as the ascent is gradual and teaches patience.

Ketu in Gemini often causes inharmonious relations with those around the native, or with distant relatives. This may entail disputes over money matters which will be detrimental to the native, as many people may be jealous of him and put obstacles in his way. Nevertheless, he will know how to defend himself, especially with the help of a good aspect from Mars or Mercury. In the former case, success will come through violence; in the latter, through cunning.

Rahu in Sagittarius points the way to far horizons, physically and spiritually. Person gains through associations with others and pioneering in new lines of philosophical and educational endeavors. An inner positivity that will be of great help in overcoming any negative aspects in the birthchart can be developed.

Ketu in Gemini shows too much superficiality in past lives; too little willingness to stabilize; and a flitting from one experience to another. If continued in this lifetime, there will be little success or any sustaining power.

The keyword here is promise. For lifetimes, this individual has enmeshd himself in dualities, resulting in indecision. He has tried to be all things to all people, and as a result has made himself attuned to superficiality.

Now he has strong karmic lessons to learn in areas of loyalty and allegiance. Eventually he will come to see that by playing both sides against the middle he can only hope to make himself the center of the sandwich, caught in the squeeze. Nevertheless, he retains a past-life fear of committing himself fully to either side, for at least on the superficial level, he sees truth and right in both. He still believes that a definite commitment to one side would leave him with the feeling of missing the opportunity inherent in the other.

THis ability to remain uncommitted enables him constantly to adjust himself to fit the needs of the moment. Like the chameleon, his colors change with his surroundings.

In past incarnations, he was not too discriminating, knowing that it really didn’t matter where he gave his affiliations since he never gave his complete self anyway. Now he swings like a pendulum in the breeze, open to ride if but for a brief time only on the winning wind.

He purposely makes himself the pawn of others, and, even if only for the moment, seems to agree with them so that he can temporarily feel accepted and a part of something.

Through many lives, his sense of self-identity has become not merely a signle division but filled with all the questions of everybody with whom he was in contact. Since so many people have formed the building blocks of this inner self, it is impossible for him to be anything but a hypocrite!

When he speaks, his facial expression as well as body language will change from sentence to sentence, taking on the appearance of the person whose words he is not trying to pass off as his own. In fact, when he makes a definite positive statement, his eyes will always examine the recipient to see if it was received as truth. If not, then it doesn’t really matter for he will now start talking incessantly, trying one collected statement after another on for size in the hope that somewhere in his collection of information a few words might be worthwhile.

He loves activity; and when circumstances make him feel cooped up or bogged down, he becomes highly nervous and restless.

Always over-programmed, he struggles to keep up with the myriad of details and people that fill his life. He has so much to do, and yet at the end of each day feels distracted from his purpose.

In past incarnations, he never developed a long attention span. As a result, he spends much of this life constantly changing his mind about everything.

At one point, he will go through conflict over whether to live in a large city or in the country. The conflict is really between the continuation of his past-life need to be with people and his present-life desire to be away from them.

Direction does not come at an early age. More often than not, it comes through the aid of parents or an older person who sets him on his course. This occurs usually after age twenty-eight.

Underneath it all he is unsteady; he has been so busy seeing the shades of gray in everything that he has difficulty seeing the light of truth in himself.

For this individual, life’s biggest task involves a quest for higher knowledge. Through the Sagittarius Rahu, he must learn that in order for man to be capable of seeing the truth, he must first be the truth!

He will go far if he teaches himself to speak from his higher mind, for the esoteric meaning of all he says will ultimately show him his real identity.

When he starts to mesh with Transcendental Thought, he will begin to reach a spiritual union within himself.

First he must work through his karma of perpetuating trivia and come to see that participating in gossip is the greatest sin against liberty. Then he must turn his back on all the past-life residue of pretended sophistication and reach for all that is real and natural. Ultimately, he comes to see that although a coin has two sides, it’s still one coin! When he develops this perspective of vision, he will be able to transform the knowledge he has acquired into Divine Wisdom.

The house position of the Ketu shows the area where past incarnation personality conflicts still plague the lower mind. The house position of the Rahu shows the ways in which a Higher Consciousness can be developed into a vehcle which enables him to rise above all conflict.

His present-life evolution will free him from the bondage of indecision, and in its place give him glimpses of Universal Truth.

You should follow through on your interest in psychology, travel, etc.. Your Gemini Ketu may reply: ‘Yeah, but my day-to-day activities don’t leave me any time. Besides, I hate studying’.

Your problem is that a mental block prevents expansion.

Possible reasons: Environmental restrictions hindered learning. Refusal to take chances. Dislike of reading or distrust of any type of indirect communication. Reluctance to be put in a position where you may be asked to give advice, teach, etc.. An upbringing that encouraged superficiality. Little success with early education.

Possible solutions: Take interest courses. Loosen stifling ties and routines. Sever all ties, and spend your time drifting.

You’ll remember that we said Gemini Rahu relies on book learning to replace awareness. With Gemini Ketu, the tables are turned. Knowledge remains at a very rudimentary level. There cna be an ‘I read it in teh Enquirer so it must be true’ philosophy. Or there can be a distrust of any information that comes from afar. In other words, teh local news commentator knows what he’s talking about but the foreign news commentator’s full of bull unless he’s voicing the same opinion. Frequently, Gemini Rahu relies on rumors, gossip and small talk to form the basis of his or her knowledge. College education is looked on with suspicion; in fact, sometimes there’s a reverse snobbism in connection with education. Gemini Ketu tends to be content with his or her knowledge no matter how incomplete it is. It’s only when the Gemini Ketu is suddenly thrust into a new environment that he or she becomes aware that something’s missing. At that point, he or she can tap the Sagittarius Rahu’s potential and expand his or her knowledge and understanding of the world.

The person with an over-developed Gemini Ketu has few long-range goals; is restricted by his or her routine or environment; is immature or retains an emphasis on dressing and acting as he or she did at a much younger age; sees no point in college unless it’s a prerequisite to a certain job; does not like to waste time on abstractions or unproven theories; may be fickle; may be a bigot; is sarcastic or cynical; marries a childhod sweetheart, neighbor, high school friend, etc.; usually marries early and settles into a routine where the only big change is a transition from school to work; and loves travel as long as the place visited isn’t too different from what he or she is used to.

Rahu in Sagittarius wants to be thought of as natural, sincere, intellectual, refined, and broad-minded. This is a person of such changeable emotions that he or she may be mistaken for a yes-person or a phoney. He or she has trouble focusing on one thing at a time, and tends to scatter energy to the point where objectives seldom reach completion. Restlessness keeps dreams in an ever-changing state, so that they may never be clearly defined. In effect, this person might dream of having a dream.

Antidotes for Sagittarius imbalance: The client should be encouraged to share any specialized knowledge he or she has, either by teaching or through other means - writing, public speaking, etc.. As with Scorpio, the study of philosophy is a beneficial antidote. Religious studies could also prove helpful. The client’s intuition should be devloped and given a positive outlet. Dream study, astrology, palmistry, graphology and many branches of parapsychology could prove useful outlets, although you should be very certain that the client is level-headed enough to use these properly. Travel is very often a beneficial antidote. Work invovling giving tourists various types of information (i.e. tour guide, travel agent, hotel information desk, etc.) could be quite rewarding.

Sports can be good antidotes. High-jumping, rope-jumping, walking, running, jogging, or any other type of physical exercise for which aptitude is shown could be recommended. It sometimes happens that the client is for one reason or another stuck in a dull, routine job - clerical, assembly line, switchboard, etc.. If there’s no way out of the job due to the client’s age and economic needs, it’s crucial to expand the sphere of after-work activities.

If career advice is sought, challenge should be the primary quality stressed. According to the client’s aptitudes, consider the following options: adult education, lecturer (with philosophy, law, and civil rights being ideal areas), priest, minister, rabbi, nun, doctor, nurse, paramedic, inspector, proofreader, publisher, publisher, missionary, evangelist, salesperson. The client should be encouraged to free himself or herself from stagnant ties where possible. At the same time, he or she should be discouraged from drifting or living totally on an intellectual plane. Sometimes pet ownership can provide a helpful counter-balance for these tendencies.

Previous incarnation for this person was spent in many intellectual and communicative activities. He had to deal with ‘others’ constantly. Thus, he was often drained of his intellectual resources by others. He had to fulfill what they expected of him. In this lifetime, he is choosing a path of independence and isolation. He likes to be a free-floating soul without getting involved with many earthly interactions. He can solve their problems when he feels like it, but at the same time, he has a choice and the ability to turn them away from him. In this lifetime, he will achieve substantial esoteric knowledge or understanding with or without being too involved in the occult. He is not very much interested in the material things or in human emotionalism. When his feelings are seen, he just transcends them or throws them at others the way they come.

The Gemini energy makes you restless, searching for stimulation, diverse interests, and experiences, and encourages an active life-style. Whenever you feel restricted - whether in work, relationships, or even in allowable attitudes, thoughts, and emotions - you feel extremely uncomfortable and look for ways to change the situation.

Your mind is alert and receptive to a multitude of impressions from other people and the mass of information received during daily life. Yet, due to distracted fluctuations in attention span, you may find that focus and concentration becomes difficult to maintain.

Changeability is likely, often displayed as indecision and regular shifts of mind and emotions. Your mutable nature sometimes appears to reflect various personality types which are temporarily adopted to deal with others.

You find choice-evaluation difficult, seeing the virtues of different decisions and actions, recognizing that, from each perspective, each option may present a valid position. This inhibits your decision-making ability, making you afraid that, by choosing either posiion, you will lose the value of the other decision. Personal decisions are hard to make; and when having to evaluate others’ viewpoints, you often take the easier way out, which is to agree with whoever presents the most persuasive and powerful argument. The danger with this is that you may devalue your opinions, beliefs, values, and feelings.

You find it hard to discriminate between different options, and resist giving commitments, because you recognize that you change your mind too often. Refusing to make responsible choices, you try to be agreeable to all. It may even seem that you agree with another’s views when in his or her company, only to change again, chameleon-like, when with others. This may increase social acceptability, but can damage your integrity.

The Sagittarius Rahu indicates the need for a unifying philosophy that becomes a life foundation. You require a belief or purpose that offers meaning and direction, rather than simply being swayed by the winds of superficiality, diversity, and mutability.

This becomes the issue of purposeful direction. You will probably be at least in your late twenties before you accept the necessity for a self-chosen direction; and then you will start looking for signposts; these guiding indications may come from an influential older person, either personally or indirectly, or perhaps as a ‘teaching’.

One important step is to reduce your reflective tendency by determining your own attitudes and feelings, irrespective of whether this pleases others. Agreeing with all sides, or agreeing with none, leaves you nowhere, and you should find your own light. Changing this behavior pattern may not be easy, but you will benefit from becoming yourself. As you feel free to express your nature, you will have a growing feeling of joy and vitality, and will discover the liberation of being natural and real without any compulsion to agree with others. Take tentative steps to release the past and to enter the present and future as yourself, because you have much promise and much to offer. Then you will realize that, while a coin has two sides, it is just one coin, and that, while life has a multitude of faces, it is just one life.

The mutable Fire sign, Sagittarius, and the cardinal Earth sign, Capricorn, are the two individual sings that promote the expression and the maturation of the individual personality. In Sagittarius, we always strive hard for mental autonomy. Sagittarians have an independent outlook. They want to work out their own ideas and philosophy, and to have these under their own control. With the Node in Sagittarius, the task is to develop this mental autonomy. One’s thoughts should be fostered so as to produce clear-cut opinions of one’s own and independence of the opinions of others.

This placement of the node is quite likely to occur when the chart indicates that the native is very much inclined to fall in line with the opinions of others. In which case, its message is: ‘You must think for yourself and form your own views’. This Node is an antidote to mental laziness.

With the Sagittarian Node, we have to answer for our opinions, which may not suit us at all, because we like to think that they are beyond criticism. In hard aspects of the Node, there is often a tendency to be dogmatic and fanatical.

In the Fire sign Sagittarius, self-confidence becomes important again. The preceding Fire signs, Aries and Leo, are brimming with self-confidence. However, matters are not quite so simple for Sagittarius, which has to prove, by its spiritual autonomy, that it has the right to stand up and be heard.

To Be Continued ......

Details of Rahu in Scorpio (Vrishchik) and Ketu in taurus (Vrishabh)

Rahu in Scorpio gives activity, perseverance and subtlety, which will enable the native to succeed. It is also a sign of good-health, or, more strictly speaking, of physical stamina. Success will not always be attained as quickly as may be desired, but will come after great difficulties; and the native’s dearly-bought happiness will endure all the longer.

Ketu in Taurus gives material instincts, the necessity for physical exertion, and sensuous desires, which will often cause the commission of blunders. This position makes the native selfish; he likes his own comfort above everything else, and as he is not lazy or work-shy he will obtain what he wants. Ketu in Taurus gives fits of energy followed by periods of unconquerable weariness and laziness.

Rahu in Scorpio shows the need to go the way of regeneration. Spiritual integration comes through going from selfish interests to concern for others. Must let the Divine Will be done, not the personal will. Only through the way of the Higher Self will thus person find peace.

Ketu in Taurus means emphasis has been on material things in the past. Person has overemphasized their importance. In whatever house this node is placed in, there must be relinquishment of a possiessive or materialistic attitude.

Here the individual is learning how to accept revolutionary changes within himself as well as the conditions in his life. He would like to rest, thinking that his soul journey is over. So tired is he, from past life memories of the yoke of his earthly burdens, that whatever the cost he would like to feel settled. As a result, he finds it difficult to develop the strength for future changes.

Tenaciously he clings to old behavior patterns which served him well during past incarnations. He has become personally attached to doing things the hard way. Like the oxen plowing the fields, he walks laboriously through this life as if it were one long, straight furrow. He expends so much physical energy that he weakens his Spiritual Self to the point that he becomes blinded from seeing any new possibilities other than the singularly drab existence he has been accustomed to leading.

He finds it difficult to learn by watching others. Instead, he would rather work through each of life’s experiences himself. As a result, he spends more time, effort and energy that he has to in each growth phase. Still, he feels he must be sure of himself. So great is his need fr security that even when he makes changes in his life, they are in fact not changes at all, but merely other aspects of the same behavior patterns he has been using all along.

In past incarnations, he developed a sensitivity to his environment. In order to cope with the continuation of such a sensitivity, he starts early in this life to explore the world of sensory impressions. He learns what feels pleasurable and how to obtain it. Nevertheless, he always seems to fall short of reaching complete and lasting satisfaciton. He doesn’t realize that one appetite begets another. His great need for possessions makes it difficult for him to enjoy what he does not personally own. As a result, he thrusts himself into long-enduring battles of ownership over people, things and ideas. He stubbronly holds onto all that comes his way. The more he collectively accumulates, the more he traps himself. What was in other lifetimes a great need for the acquiring of substance now turns into the extra weight of excess baggage he is carrying. As the years go by, the yoke of his burdens becomes heavier.

He has created a need to feel powerful so that he can seek temporary refuge from the dismal sense of failure that ha splagued him in former incarnations. As a result, he even goes so far as to seek in this life an occupation which puts him in an authoritative position.

He has undergone so much past life damage to the ego that he now experiences an intense need to prove himself worthy of respect. He will fall into deep depression when confronted with the possibility of others finding him lacking in any area. To prevent this from happening, he will push himself towards success no matter what the cost.

It is almost a certainty that at some time in this life the intensity of his karma will bring him to be at least circumstantially involved with the police.

As he reaches for his Scorpio Rahu, this individual undergoes a complete transformation. He starts to kill old behavior patterns by burning bridges behind him. Experiences teach him how to cut ties cleanly, so that he does not walk into the future with both feet tied to the past. His biggest growth occurs when he is able to let go.

Inner dependency needs must be transformed into complete independence of thought and action. Strength increases with each passing year as he slowly discards from his consciousness all that oppresses him.

He must learn how objectively to study the results of his subconscious desires so that he can earn self-respect through practising self-discipline.

These Nodes symbolize the soul who for many lifetimes has been moving along a decadent path. Now teh soul vessel is to be turned upside down in order to rid itself of the decay it has collected.

Fulfiling the karma of this overturning process is extremely painful to the individual, as he may lose all he ever held near and dear. In the end, he will unquestionably relinquish more than he bargained for.

So powerful is this transformation that many with these Nodes eventually spend their later years alone. In the process of eliminating excess, they have discarded everything but themselves.

Nevertheless, much of htis is necessary if the individual is to reach the point where he can see himself clearly on the very deepest of levels. Out of this symbolic death of all he ever possessed will come his new life.

The house position of the Ketu indicates the area which has become decadent as a result of past incarnations. The house position of the Rahu shows the way in which a current-life rebirth can be accomplished.

You must learn to accept (or give) financial and other types of help when necessary. Your Taurus Ketu may reply: ‘Yeah, but if you can’t earn it (or do it) yourself, you don’t deserve it’.

Your problem may be a hang-up about power.

Possible reasons: A repressive environment has made you feel that it’s you against the world. A lack of understanding of your environment. A refusal to help unless there’s something in it for you. An upbringing where there’s been an overemphasis on money, things, or importance.

Possible solutions: Become more active in joint endeavours - a business partnership, encounter group, community project, etc.. Sharpen and develop your imagination. Concentrate on material growth regardless of what happens. Give all your money and possessions to a guru or religious sect and let them provide for you.

Taurus Ketu often tries to make willpower a substitute for insight. He or she feels that by developing his or her willpower he or she will be able to handle whatever curves life throws him or her. He or she is often especially fond of simplistic self-help books and success formulae that promise unlimited earnings. Now there’s nothing wrong with wanting to help yourself. And no-one would deny the importance of willpower. We’ve already seen what problems can arise when you don’t build up your own resources. But all the money, power and determination in the world is useless unless you know where your problems are coming from. Developing the Scorpio Rahu’s potential for insight will improve success potential drastically.

Signs of an over-developed Taurus Ketu are: refusal to think about anything that’s not backed up by conclusive and irrevocable proof; insensitivity: disregard for others’ rights; shyness; everything viewed in terms of money; excessive introversion; shrewdness rather than intelligence; self-indulgence; a very conservative or ‘dated’ manner of dress or speech; vanity but no real confidence; and cowardice.

Rahu in Scorpio consciously or subconsciously wants to be tested. He or she wants to experience the highest and lowest phases of existence in order to get in touch with his or her deepest emotions and learn to balance them. He or she wants a crash course in living and experiencing. In contrast, we find a person with good common sense and rather repressed emotions. He or she clings to home, possessions, and routines in a way that keeps life on an even keel, devoid of major highs or lows. Conservatism often squelches this person’s dreams.

Antidotes for Scorpio imbalance: These seem to be the most subconscious of all imbalances; and client awareness is often very limited unless he or she is in a rather painful situation. Unless the client is receptive to what you say, you may not have much luck. Even if the client is receptive, these types of imbalances often need psychological counselling before they can be alleviated, due to their strong fixed overtones.

The study of mysticism can be a beneficial antidote if the client is relatively level-headed. Astrology, palmistry or graphology would be safe suggestions. Scientific studies such as chemistry can also be beneficial. For some clients, perfume-making will appeal. Philosophy is another good antidote. The particular philosophy would of course depend on the client’s aptitudes and interests. Research work of any type would prove beneficial. The client will be happiest doing something that he or she feels will have important results. Hobbies are less effective for these clients than for most unless they involve serious study. Study and research are the best antidotes for these imbalances provided the client has sufficient intelligence and powers of concentration, since this type of antidote requires minimal risk-taking and only a modest cash outlay. The client should be referred to the appropriate study and research groups since, as with Libra, teamwork is an important factor in balancing.

Previous incarnation for this person was spent in considerable luxuries and a routine life. He really resisted any change that would come by his way or alter his lifestyle in that life. During this life, he will be modifying his value systems continuously and constantly. A total destructive tendency in those respects will be fully justifiable as far as he is concerned. Thus, he will go from one extreme stage of living to another during the same life. His hidden motive and energies are strong, and he will use them whenever he has to. As long as nobody obstructs his way, he is very quiet, polite and well-mannered. His instincts are strong, but they have a ‘get-even’ type of attitude. He may forget, but never forgive, what others do to him.

The Taurus Ketu’s house position may indicate the nature of certain restrictive behavior patterns which obstruct your progress. Radical attitude changes may be required to transform these from limitations to offers of new opportunities. Often these patterns involve the Taurean tendency toward possessive materialism, where feelings of insecurity and stability are connected to material well-being. The desire for pleasure, comforts, and home enjoyments can exaggerate materialistic demands, so that your needs involve ongoing acquisitions and possessions.

Contention over ownership and possessions may rise from this impulse, or over people and family matters. Relationships can be affected detrimentally if this tendency becomes excessive or is not consciously modified. People rarely like feeling ‘owned’ by anyone; and a family is the most common situation where authoritarian attitude are easily applied and abused, particularly by force or emotional manipulation of circumstances in your favor.

It may be difficult to avoid an organized but repetitive lifestyle, especially one self-created to shield disruptive change. This is an example of Taurean placidity, a ruminative enjoyment of stability and security. Yet, even accumulating possessions will begin to weigh heavily, restricting freedom. Eventually, Scorpio’s transforming energy will undermine your foundations. If your identity becomes dependent on material status and possessions and your values are dominated by materialism, this may become an area for unavoidable change.

You may be a slower learner than most, relying on traditional social attitudes for your worldview. You develop and learn at your own pace. Fixed life foundations are established and relied on for security and as a defence to resist change and any disturbing influences. Yet you may need to redefine and reshape yourself, gradually forming a new self-image based on higher values rather than on self-centredness.

Your preoccupied focus toward materialism needs changing, redirecting attention from the outer world and possessions toward self-understanding and inner growth. If developed, this can create greater self-esteem and assertiveness, which comes from inner stability rather that being based on external supports, habit patterns and possessions. Personal talents and material resources are then applied toward constructive practical action, and directed to build a renewed life-style.

Understanding the tension between Taurean resistance to change and the Scorpionic transformative impulse is necessary. What may occur is that the Scorpio energies gradually undermine efforts to maintain stability. Once stability becomes fragile and you feel vulnerable and exposed, you may realize the necessity to transform restrictive and limiting behavior patterns and life-styles. Such experiences may prove uncomfortable and difficult. You may feel forced by circumstances to ‘burn bridges behind you’, to release the ties of the past and become receptive to new experiences. Your dependency on fixed behavior patterns or on a materialistic life-style may be dissolved by the Scorpionis transformation. This would not be a negative experience - despite your reactions to its impact - but rather one which aims to liberate you. How much you could be expected to release and relinquish mat depend on your resistance to change; the more you resist, the more transformation may ‘cost’ you. It is a rebirth that awaits and may be unavoidable. The old always has to be replaced by the new. You are advised to welcome this crisis whenever it arrives, because it is for your benefit, even though initially you may not see it in that light.

In the fixed Water sign, Scorpio, an effort is made to establish a regular system. Here, too, as in the opposite sign, Taurus, one is concerned with the use of material resources; now, however, they are other people’s material resources. Thus in Scorpio we often meet the type that administers the property of others, manages them, utilizes and fosters their talents, and acts as an agent for their skills and services. In principle, the Scorpio Node challenges us to be prepared to act on behalf of others and to exploit their resources for their benefit and in accordance with their intentions. Obviously, in such a situation, the natives have to stand back a little, though of course having a personal part to play. In order to exercise such a function, they have to gain a place in society. The Scorpio Node always indicates an effort to achieve a certain social status. This can mean nothing more than ambition and the aspiration to be someone important, especially with hard aspects to the Node. Scorpios always think they are able to decide what is good for others. Usually they can give them helpful advice on how to realize their assets, and on how to find the best chances of success.

Scorpios avail themselves of existing forms and structures. With the Scorpio Node, one can easily adapt to current social arrangements. One can also develop the knack of exploiting them to the advantage of oneself and others.

To Be Continued .............

Details of Rahu in Libra (Tula) and Ketu in Aries (Mesh)

Rahu in Libra is a sign of balance and harmony in the native’s life as a whole. It also gives stability in regard to the affections; the gratification of noble desires is shown in all things. The native has a fine intellect as well as great courage. Progress will be rapid; and wealth as well as honor will be acquired. Rahu in Libra is favourable for the children and for the family ties.
Ketu in Aries is often a sign of lack of conscience, or, at all events, of inconsequence. The native acts too precipitately; what he has decided to do must be done forthwith, and this leads to want of due reflection, which is detrimental to his affairs. He may suffer material losses, or experience trouble in other directions, due to his lack of cautiousness. This position inclines to fits of anger, but also gives great physical courage; and if the horoscope generally is good, Ketu in Aries will not be so unfortunate.
Rahu in Libra implies spiritual integration which comes from moving from self to others; from personality levels to the soul levels. Emphasis should be on loving others and getting away from self-love.
Ketu in Aries means an over-assertion of self has been the problem in the past, and personality should become the servant of others in this lifetime.
This nodal position requires much learning about self-sacrifice and the needs of other people. All the lifetimes of work spent on building self-confidence and esteem must now be transferred to others. The Libra Rahu keeps the individual from adding to his sense of self-identity any further. He must guard against strong ego influencing his current life actions.
His long-standing me-first attitude now brings him sharp and painful experiences as he is learning the lessons of co-operation. He must slow down and make sure that all he works for is meaningful, in his marriage and close partnerships as well as all his relations with others. He has to learn to take the sharp edges out of his life and start to balance. While the center road seems less attractive to him, it is still the only path he can have towards happiness.
Ultimately he must learn the very subtle lesson that his strong pioneering individualism isn’t actually meant for himself at all, but rather to equip him better so that he can provide others with a more harmonious life. Many individuals with these Nodes have a tendency to be contrary. The experience of listening to other people is a new one which they find objectionable when they feel it hampers their forward motion.
In past incarnations, progress was all-important, and getting there first was part of the highly competitive Arien drive. This carries over into a definite closed-mindedness which the Libra Rahu will ultimately open, showing to the individual the other side of the coin which he had never before thought was important enough to recognize.
Selfishness and vanity of all sorts must be curbed unless the individual wishes to find himself alone. Usually he feels himself being driven towards something, yet he doesn’t understand what or why. Through the Libra Rahu, he is now to reconsider his goals and objectives so that his Arian energy is put to some useful purpose.
He changes his mind often; and allegiance to a single cause is not one of his finer attributes. Past incarnations have made him accustomed to a constant impatient restlessness that still has a tendency to keep him on the move. He knows that he is to give rather than to receive in the current life, yet he finds it difficult to cope with such karma with his full heart.
The Martian quality of the Ketu impatiently pushes him in new directions. Upon arrival at each destination, however, he finds the gossamer cloud of Libra in the middle of the seesaw, and is surprised to see that hte goal was not a goal at all, nor was the destination the end of the journey. Puzzled and confused, he sits in the middle, trying to evaluate the circumstances which he hopes will point the way towards his next successful drive. And yet each goal, each ambition, each sprint of running and striving brings him to Libra - the half-way point!
Finally, out os sheer exhaustion he makes the amazing realization that the second half of the journey involves other people. He is to learn the karmic lesson that he is not alone. Until he learns to share, something always comes up to put the brakes on his efforts. Eventually he is brought to the realization that winning or losing the game is much less important than the fairness with which it is played.
Many individuals with these Nodes are highly opinionated as a result of selfish or bigoted past-life attitudes. Now it is time for the shoe to be worn on the other foot. Much of the current life’s events are painful blows to the ego. The individual has to guard against becoming embittered as he sees many of his own wants and desires being taken away from him and given to others. At first his natural tendency is to be jealous. He wants to fight back for all those things he feels he has lost; yet the more he fights, the more he loses. Eventually, drained of much of hie inner resources, he must surrender his selfish ego and accept living in a world built on sharing.
Until he overcomes his Ketu, his biggest frustration is the witnessing of other people receiving all for which he himself had wished. He doesn’t quite yet undersand how this works, and is puzzled at why all the things he has ever wanted are coming to people around him and yet not to himself. He hardly realizes that all his desires, wants and wishes are actually designed for others.
He is mentally energizing the wishes of people around him so that he can ultimately be an instrument for their fulfillment. In actuality, he is earning himself a new place in the world by living through the karma of selflessness. Still, the insistent urges of the Ketu keep pulling him backwards, often making him feel that this is a lesson he would rather not yet learn.
He must try to resist past-life tendencies to make waves, for he is now capable of witnessing disharmonies between people without taking sides. Often he is thrown into the position of referee, whereby in helping others to become more objective, he in fact helps himself. The more he can get others to co-operate, the more he can learn to do it himself.
Underneath all the hustle and bustle, this individual is learning to see hte consequences ofhis actions before taking them. In effect, he must learn to look before he leaps!
For many with this Nodal position, there is a deep-seated anger coming out of past-life memories of frustrations which block the self-expression.
In this life, th ere is usually a very pleasing physical appearance, which is part of the karmic lesson in vanity that the Aries Ketu is here to overcome. Any narcissistic residue also causes difficulty in marriage as this is the battleground where the war between love of another and needs of the self must be fought.
The balance between Aries / Mars and Libra / Venus is a difficult one to achieve. The Aries Ketu constantly seeks to assert its needs, while the Libra Rahu needs nothing for itself but to love others, regardless of their demands. This individual can feel love for others best only after his own needs are fulfilled.
Until the desires of past incarnations are left behind, the incessant pulling of his subconscious demands continues to be so strong that he has a tendency to drain energy from other people, actually putting them to sleep. In effect, he is a walking anaesthetic, constantly wondering why people avoid talking with him for more than a few minutes. He would like to talk for hours, if only to continue the focus of attention on himself. But in his private moments, he is deeply saddened by a sense of loneliness and the knowledge that his relationships with others are so far short of what he would like them to be.
There is nothing subtle about this Nodal polarity. Happiness comes only after he is forced to re-evaluate his desires and truly discovers that they involve other people. The ego-self must be abandoned, and with it a heightened sensitivity to the needs of others acquired.
The Libra Rahu is one of the most difficult to achieve because the Aries sel-flove looms as such a large hurdle to overcome. Still, the individual must overcome if there is to be a new cycle for him; and he will find the key to this new cycle as he begins to reflect back upon himself through the eyes of others.
The house position of the Ketu indicates the area where insatiable desires of past incarnations are still demanding priority. The house position of the Rahu shows how fulfillment can be reached through self-sacrifices, co-operation and the expression of unselfish love to others.
You need to learn to co-operate and get along better with others. Your Aries Ketu may reply ‘Yeah, but they never want to go along with my plans’.
Your problems may include that you have an exaggerated need to prove yourself; that you tend to be uncomfortable; and that, because of your upbringing, you’ve come to place too high a value on assertiveness.
Possible solutions: Stabilize your relationships in terms of five and take. Learn to differentiate between caring and controlling. Learn to let others have a chance to decide for themselves. Stifle your need for others, and look out for yourself.
Ketu in Aries often complains of having been forced into something which has irrevocably fouled up his or her life. This could be a too-early marriage, a career, a specific mode of behavior, etc.. In any case, he or she, as a result of this experience, justifies his or her reluctance to co-operate in other areas. Aries Ketu generally hasn’t developed his or her ability to commit himself or herself in a long-term situation. He or she wants fast results. If these aren’t forthcoming, co-operation is curtailed. Aries Ketu is also generally unwilling to take responsibility for hte effects of his or her actions on other people. He or she is sometimes unwilling to share. The Aries Ketur generally wants exclusive rights to the things in which he or she is interested. He or she feels that future well-being depends on immediate gratification and success. However, goals can often be attained only when the Libra Rahu’s ability to co-operate is tapped and developed.
Signs of an over-balanced Aries Ketu are: high blood pressure; impulsiveness; hyperactivity; a cold, critical attitude towards others’ accomplishments; argumentativeness; a tendency to brag about accomplishments and be a poor loser; an insistence on leading; an unco-operative attitude; difficulty in finishing what he or she has started; and boredom or a short attention span.
Rahu in Libra dreams of happiness and harmony. He or she would like to be known as a very sociable person. Others play a very important role in this person’s dreams. In contrast, this is an enthusiastic, emotionally active person whose selfisheness may interfere with social interaction and harmony in general.
Antidotes for Libra imbalance: The client should be advised to get a complete beauty treatment, including new hair style, in preparation for devloping a new lifestyle. Even men can benefit from a new hairstyle. Likewise, shopping for a new wardrobe or new furnishings can be a beneficial antidote, as any purchase would tend to remind the client that a new lifestyle is beginning. For best results, color selection should be geared to the imbalance. Dancing is a good antidote. If the client has any physical symptoms, a medical check-up should be advised, since this is another one of the imbalances that’s most capable of triggering illness. Boating, cruises, and water sports can be helpful antidotes.
The client should be advised to consciously seek out activities that stress partnership and teamwork, rather than trying to do everything himself or herself.
If career advice is sought, the following could be recommended if other factors in the chart show aptitude: hairdresser or barber, artist, interior decorator, lawyer, stewardess or pilot.
Previous incarnation for this person was spent with a lot of physical actions, temper and aggression. He had, in that life, achieved and lost many things as he could not learn to understand the significance of balance. In this life time, he will definitely learn and be able to use the concept of balance as applied to ‘soul growth’. Everything he undertakes in this life will have a definite sense of justice, priority and deeper significance. His diplomatic talents are well worth noting in this life. He will achieve things without fighting for them; and often others will surrender to him just by his senses and magnetism. Utilization of mental energies is strongly noticed in this person in this life. Although he may not be after material success, he always manages to be plentiful in that respect.
You may have to learn about the value of relationship co-operation and how you can give to satisfy others’ needs. Be less self-preoccupied with your needs, and focus on how relationships can become more meaningful and harmonious through co-operation, rather than preserving selfish attitudes.
You can experience a competitive drive, but this powerful individualism and pioneering spirit is available not just to benefit you. It also enables you to give more to others. There is much in life waiting for you to recognize its presences; and you would benefit by taking time to listen to others who can reveal aspects of life that you had never previously registered or considered of any value.
It is futile driving yourself onward when you do not know why or what objective you seek. Perhaps stop and re-evalutate your distinction, then direct energy toward a definite purpose. You may feel restless and impatient, changing your mind less often and finding fewer difficulties being focused. You consider each new prospecive direction, but rarely know what you are looking for. Each direction you take may eventually seem unfulfilling - a cul-de-sac or a destination which allows little rest or permanence. What you may need to realize is that others are needed for you to complete your journey. Until you learn how to share and give, each aim achieved can only fail to satisfy, because it is not meant for you alone.
Indeed, you may pass through phases when it appears that life is against you, meeting many painful confrontations which chip away at your egocentric approach. It may appear that you fail to attain your desires, and it becomes frustrating to see others making successful progress. Even though you apply greater effort, your aims seem to move further away. Attitudes and values may need transforming, so that efforts are less directed toward yoru solitary benefit and more toward the benefit of others. Instead of feeling envious of a friend’s success, you should be pleased. Until you base your life on co-operative sharing - and, in a sense, turn it around - then your desires may remain frustrated. You will probably resist this lesson, but this would be your free choice, expressing your contrary nature. The eventual consequences would be self-created.
In social relationships, you often assume a role as ‘mediator’, and have to learn how to aid others to resolve problems without taking sides. In these experineces, you will discover co-operation and compromise; encourage this in relationships as an energy of goodwill and harmony.
Marriage can be a challenging experience - an ideal ‘school’ for vital insights and self-understanding. With both potential conflicts and opportunities for creative relations existing within the partnership, it can summarize your dilemma. You probably do know that your relationships could be more satisfying and meaningful, and you may recognize that intimacy does not just revolve around your needs alone. But your self-regard must expand to include others. Once you see that life could be much better by sharing and giving, your life can become a more peaceful and fulfilling one.
The cardinal Air sign, Libra, in contrast to Virgo, has a dynamic approach to the ‘You’. We are able to react positively to the environment and to do something about it. We need not feel uneasy at making certain demands of the environment, but first we should ask the world, just as Virgo asks the world: ‘What can I do for you?’ Then, on considering the reply, we can respond pleasantly. Our approach to society includes the attempt to come into harmony with it.
More especially, the native may wish to bring harmony to the world. Diplomacy can figure strongly in this placement of the Node - in the interests of concord of course. With hard aspects, various compromises may be made in order to come out on top and look good at the same time. In the extreme case, the native says something to one person while saying the exact opposite to someone else.
With the Libran Node, it is important to strike a balance between the ‘I’ and the ‘You’, to form a correct judgement, and to live in harmony with the world. For this, a measure of self-discipline is required. The emotions have to be held in check if one is to avoid being thrown off balance and being carried away by private feelings and opinions. This position of the Node places a restraint on, excessive automony, and undue egocentricity.

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Details of Rahu in Virgo (Kanya) and Ketu in Pisces (Meen)

Rahu in Virgo gives fine aspirations. It is an ideal position for poets and writers, but not for business people, as it is too idealistic and not sufficiently practical. This position of Rahu is not good for marriage; physical love is non-existent, but on the other hand there may be much platonic or idealistic love. There is an entire absence of anything mean; the mind endeavours to free itself from matter, and this does not always benefit the pecuniary position. The native does not view life in its true perspective, and will therefore have to contend with the problems of existence. Success comes nevertheless after a long delay. There may be a fortunate and wealthy marriage, which will turn out happily if helped by good aspects of Venus and the Moon. Failing this, the position often indicates celibacy.
Ketu in Pisces is again a sign of deceit in love, and of infidelity. The native unconsciously indulges in gossip which is detrimental to him. The position also brings physical and moral sufferings, brought about through the native himself. A general indolence is indicated, which can be modified by a good aspect of Mars. Stability in matters connected with the affections will never exist.
Rahu in the sign of discrimination and purity shows these are the qualities that will lead to growth and progress in this life. The hidden ‘Christ within’ must be expressed through service. Ketu in Pisces would show past tendencies of escapism, copping out of responsibility; and it would be easy to follow that pattern in this life, for the tendency could be there unless the rest of the chart showed differently. Senses and sensuality have been strong in the past; now the higher senses must prevail.
The object here is crystallization. The individual has to overcome past life superstitions which now impede his growth and see clearly the truth of all things before him. Prior tendencies to be dependent on others as well as to swim in the self-pity of non-achievements are strong obstacles to be dealt with and surpassed in the current life.
The individual must make every attempt not to allow himself to become bewildered amidst the maze of confusion that clouds his inner vision. Strongly conscious of trying not to hurt other people, he spends much effort to develop the ability to say what he really feels. In essence, his weak spot is hurting himself, even though he will have many opportunities in this life to know better.
He must work to build his confidence, from which he ultimately learns that nothing happens in his life until his goals and objective are clearly defined. In past incarnations, this individual was deceived by many through his over-compassionate tendency to fall for sob stories. Now, he still cringes at the sight of suffering, strongly feeling the emotion of other people’s pain. He thereby allows external sorrows to drain him of his strength, until he reaches the point where he’s had enough. Then the realization that his soft heart is his weak spot pushes him to his Virgo Rahu, where he begins to develop the ability to discriminate between what is truly worthy of his sympathy and what is indeed fantasy!
He spends much time in the current life sifting through his value systems, discarding all that is uimportant, so that he may ultimately develop a filtering system which will enable him to make critical judgements without being swayed emotionally.
This incarnation is to teach him how to swim out of the pea soup he has fallen into; and what never ceases to amaze him is the fact that so subtle was his slipping into illusion that actually he never saw it happen.
He must try to avoid escapism and daydreaming at all costs, for in the end these weaken him to the point that he may forget how to function on the physical earth plane. From past incarnations his intuition uis unusually strong and accurate, but with it comes the Piscean depressions stemming from a sensitivity to other people’s disappointments.
In learning the karmic lesson of not to depend, he ultimately discovers that all those hs desired to lean on eventually come to lean on him. He constantly has to pull out of events, circumstances and relationships whose very heaviness cloud his vision. His own pity for other people can lead him into positions in which he spreads himself too thinly. Hating to tell people what they don’t wish to hear, he develops the art of subtlety.
One of his biggest lessons in this life is to develop the ability to say ‘no’ and mean it, for the softest plea from a tear-stained eye has always made him go back on his word. Well, he knows his own weaknesses, and it is through this knowledge that he can develop his greatest strength. By the refusal to be swept off his feet by emotion, he gradually swims his way out of confusion.
Many with this Nodal position have been through past-life persecution experiences, and as a result they develop a deep understanding of the pain of others. Still, they can be deceived by others, almost as if their inner gentleness becomes confused with weakness to the point of inviting again in this life the very persecution they are running from.
They have the ability to carry deep hurts within them for many years. Yet from time to time the build-up eats away at their nervous system.
Here the Virgo Rahu can act as a savior by cueing them into the diet and health conditions which will bring the most benefit.
These Nodes are especially helpful in the fields of medicine and healing, where the past-life carry-over of a strong compassion for humanity, coupled with a fresh desire for perfection, can be readily expressed. Idealism is high, but the soul’s memory of a lack of self-confidence brought about by so much past persecution makes it difficult for the individual actually to believe that he can reach his ideals. He has constantly to fight the tendencies he feels towards giving up. Ultimately it is the great wisdom learned through the bitter lessons of the Pisces Ketu that redeem him. For no matter how difficult conditions get, he still clings to his rainbow dream where peace and love rule the world.
He is highly critical of others when he sees them falling short of the perfected ideals he knows they are capable of reaching. He has to learn to put into practical use the essence of his own ideas which he has always vaguely felt but has been unable to verbalize. To the extent that this continues, he feels misunderstood. In times of need, he truly wishes for others to help him, yet he feels that it wouldn’t be fair to ask for such help. Instead, he keeps seeking out people with depth, silently hoping that they who can see through him will care enough to fathom his problems.
Constantly seeking warmth in others, he turns stone cold when in the company of coarse or crude individuals. One of the most beautiful things about the Pisces Ketu is that as the years go by he is afforded the opportunity to develop forgiveness for all those who have hurt him in this life as well as in past incarnations
These Nodes represent the clouds and the sunshine, the illusion and the real. Always seeking some better state, this individual eventually comes to learn why other people suffer so much. Until he learns this, he goes far out of his way at the risk of hurting himself to help any and all who suffer.
His current life karma is to strive for purification and perfection in himself, while tolerating with gentleness weakness in others. This brings him his biggest lesson - self-discipline! He must learn clearly when to let the water run, when to shut it off and when to alter its course.
He must not overlook details, for it is often the Piscean lack of attention to detail that causes him to miss the clarity of understanding he is seeking. By developing a clear perspective, he can start to avoid the tendency to excess that he has brought with him into this life.
If he is to be happy, his life must be dedicated to service rather than secretly wishing others to drown his past sorrows. His biggest lesson of all is never to doubt the purity of his objectives.
This individual is starting to make things work on the earth plane. In past lives, he developed an intuitive understanding of the nature by which man and machine function, but now he is confronted with putting this knowledge to use, rather than daydreaming about some future far-off moment when all his dreams might come true. He must be careful to make all times the present as well as all places here; for only through living in the here and now is he able to funnel into crystalline form the vast reservoirs of essences which he has accumulated through all his lifetimes.
He is to become the focusing lens on a form projector which contains millions upon millions of blurred negatives. Yet through his Rahu, he is capable of refining each one so that ultimately no knowledge he has ever acquired will be wasted. In effect, this is a rather frugal Node position. Here also the mind and life become as a machine, with all the separate parts forming an integral part of the whole. When any part of the life is not functioning properly, it must be immediately repaired or discarded.
The life is geared to striving to raise efficiency and order out of the sea of the Piscean whirlpool. Much prior life work was spent in renunciation. Now only vague memories remain. In this life, the individual must learn to display the perfected ideals he ahs achieved through giving up all but his appreciation of the Divine Essence.
The house position of the Ketu indicates the area in which a past incarnation reached Cosmic Understanding. The house position of the Rahu shows the area through which crystllization can now bring that understanding into material reality.
You need to learn to work. Your Pisces Ketu may reply ‘Yeah, but that means giving up my privacy’.
Your problem may be your inability to analyze feelings.
Possible reasons for this problem: excessive tolerance of unacceptable behavior from others; faulty reasoning; a tendency to gloss over flaws; a tendency to help others while letting your own life disintegrate; escapist tendencies; your early upbringing having led to a ‘you owe me’ attitude; your sense being over-active, overwhelming your logic.
Possible solutions: Channel your fantasies into creative work - poetry, fiction, psychology, etc.. Learn to rule your senses instead of letting them rule you. Learn to lie skillfully or speak the truth tangentially. Shun human contact as much as possible or try and reduce contacts with strangers as much as possible. Avoid over-eating, drinking too much, get stoned (looked down upon).
Health problems are a frequent manifestations of the Virgo Rahu - Pisces Ketu imbalance. These may be physical or mental, real or imagined. Both fear of people and excessive dependency are common - sometimes simultaneously. Compulsive over-eating or an obsession with thinness can be a manifestation. Occasionally I’ve seen this position in what I call the spiritual or psychological hypochondriac who drifts from guru to soothsayer to therapist looking for someone capable of solving his or her problems for him or her. Invariably, there’s a craving for happiness; however, the client can’t generally define what this happiness would entail, except to say there would be ‘no more problems’. Well-being improves when the Virgo Rahu’s potential for objectivity and practicality is channeled into some sort of meaningful work.
Some signs of an over-developed Pisces Ketu are: excessive daydreaming; constant requests for help; a ‘too sweet for words’ façade; strange attitudes towards work; little control over emotions; masochistic or morbid tendencies; overall discontentment with his or her lot in life; shallownes and game-playing; moodiness; and a tendency to attract chaotic conditions and disorganized people.
Rahu in Virgo dreams of being the trusted second-in-command without whom things would fall apart. He or she wants to be a policy-maker or manager, or at least the chief executive’s right-hand person. He or she wants to be known as someone who can’t be deceived or boondoggled. This is generally a quiet person whose feelings are more important than logic in terms of outlining a direction in life. Instead of a policy-maker, he or she is generally a dreamer whose dreams seldom become realities. He or she lacks - or at least hasn’t developed - the analytical abilities inherent in the Virgo Rahu. He or she is vague about goals and vaguer still about how to realize them.
Antidotes for Virgo imbalance: Typing is a very helpful antidote, since it encourages neatness and order. The study of history is recommended if there’s aptitude along these lines. Gardening is a very good antidote. Weiting should be encouraged, with inspirational writing, social commentary, and ideas stressing reform being especially good. Public speaking should also be encourageed, with literary, analytical, scientific, and gardening topics being favored. Should there be no aptitude along these lines, an alternative topic should be sought according to the overall chart.
If career advice is sought, secretarial work is an obvious choice; however, few male clients are likely to find this attractive, no matter how much aptitude they have. Other good choices would be bookbinding, statistical work, historical work, work in a stationary store, and writing of any type. If the client is young enough and capable of receiving proper training, law or paralegal work might be considered. Again, you’d want to look for additional corroboration from the rest of the chart.
When Rahu is in Virgo in the twelfth or first house, there are usually problems connected with a lo self-image or a negative outlook on life. There’s often a history of restriction of some sort. In these cases, it would be a good idea to suggest professional counselling if the problems are severe. reading such as ‘I’m OK - You’re OK, Assagioli’s writings, and much of the literature on Gestalt Therapy (especially Fritz Perls’ writings) might also be helpful.
Certain hobbies could prove to be both enjoyable and beneficial as antidotes. Among these are music, bicycling, walking, and many types of volunteer work. Crafts of various types might also be considered if according to the client’s aptitudes. It’s common for clients in these categories to have no idea what they might be interested in - let alone good at - so you should be prepared to spend a fair amount of time exploring along these lines.
Previous incarnation for this person was quite a mediocre life. He did not have many opportunities because he could not properly identify them and use them. All he had was a great sense of instincts in that life. In this lifetime, he may not explicitly believe in inner instincts, as his logic and synthesis are well-developed. He would want to achieve things entirely by their use. However, as a fail-safe mechanism, he has been given the gift of ‘insight’ to things which he can use when in great need. Discrimination is one of his major enemies, and he often makes decisions based upon pre-discrimination. He has been given many opportunities in this life, but, at the same time, he has to achieve them very methodically. Thus, he cannot just skip and go on to the next game in life.
One challenge is how to relate your emotionally sensitive perceptions to the world in a way that becomes creatively positive and bridges both spiritual and physical realities. You tend to depend on others to define your life direction, perhaps through earlier social and parental conditioning, which also shapes your self-image.
Your weak spot is emotions. You will be highly compassionate, feeling the world’s suffering and pain due to empathic attunement to others’ anguish. This may inspire efforts to minimize pain for others, and will even be displayed through tact and diplomacy, often controlling what you say, feel, and think. You try to remold yourself to avoid giving offence to others; but in so doing, you can damage your integrity and become confused by ignoring the messages of your feelings. A combination of sympathetic sensitivity and inner / outer evasion can weaken and distort your energies and strength of identity, leaving you open to exploitation by unscrupulous characters.
Emotions will dominate judgements and decision-making; and you need clarity as to your real needs, desires, and thoughts. Saying ‘no’ to others poses problems, and you are easily undermined when others appeal to your vulnerable emotions and persuade you to change your mind. Self-assertion is required when you are confronted by others. Acknowledge the equal importance of your individuality, and be less passive and self-sacrificial in attitude.
Escapism, daydreaming, and fantasies attract, and you may retreat into an ideal and perfect inner world where all is good. This is the conflict between illusions and external reality which reflects the interplay between the Virgoan dream of perfection and the Piscean dream of idealism. A misapplication of these impair your ability to deal with the real world.
You can contribute to society when you work with your strengths, which emerge from an idealistic vision applied in daily life to benefit others. You may develop service concepts which embrace an understanding of how to serve, when to serve, how to receive from others, and how to recognize those you can benefit.
You may display idealism but, until you achieve self-confidence, may limit opportunities to manifest ideals, or even give up making the effort. Yet it will be the lessons learned from these struggles which strengthen you. Often disillusionment is a most effective teacher; the challenge is to continue to maintain your dream of peace and love ruling the world, despite the painful struggle. You have to live your vision, beliefs, and principles in the outer world; they have no reality if they remain as dreams. They need testing in the crucible of daily experience. Your sensitivity, spirituality, and vision of the ideal world need grounding; even in a small way, it is a step forward.
Facing conflict between illusion and reality, you always seek a better state for yourself and others. Much enlightenment can come when you realize why people suffer so much, but in this you also find the key to your own suffering. The deeper your self-understanding, the less you need to rely on others. The more you test your beliefs in real life, the more ideals can emerge in pragmatic and practical activity. You may find that directed imagination - perhaps through creative visualization techniques - especially benefits your self-healing transformation. Within the Virgoan service impulse of working for the community is a potential path which corresponds to the Piscean vision of fulfillment for all.
The mutable Earth sign, Virgo, calls for mobility, fluidity, and flexibility. In contrast to Leo, we should total up everything of real value in our life, and discard the pomp and circumstance. We must come to terms with the community in which we live and with the environment as a whole. The ‘You’ is clearly emphasized here.
Leo also lays emphasis on the ‘You’, but in Leo we are free to make an impression on the world. Virgo is a serving sign, in which we are in a weak position and more or less at the mercy of others. Society has the last word, and our partner tells us what to do. When the Node is in Virgo, we even have to let the world decide what good we are and assign us a place - not the place we may dream of occupying, but the one for which we are suited. Conformity and adaptability are keynotes of Virgo. Now, to have to knuckle under can be very tiresome, not to mention painful. For this reason, we find many Virgoans grumbling about the miserable circumstances they had to endure.
Of course, a readiness to fit in and find one’s proper place must not lead to identity loss - as can happen with hard aspects to the Node. Then one would end up in a state of alienation and become nothing and nobody.
The Node in Virgo should make us willing to adopt a positive approach to the people around us, and to see and understand what they really need before giving them what we have to offer. In the Virgoan Node, helping and serving are essential forms of expression of an active and practical love for others.

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