Rahu Transit in Aries

Aries belongs to Mars, and in the usual lists Mars and Rahu are enemies. Rahu behaves like Saturn, as the saying Shanivat Rahu puts it, and Saturn is uneasy in Mars's sign. For about a year and a half Rahu in Aries amplifies the self, ambition, the head and the urge to act first.

Ketu stands in Libra at the same time, so the axis runs between self and partner. Rahu inflates identity and the appetite for recognition. Ketu withdraws interest from relationships and shared life, and the person feels driven to assert themselves and oddly detached from those closest to them.

Rahu moves backward, so it enters Aries at Krittika and leaves from Ashwini. Krittika, the Sun's nakshatra, opens the stay with a burning away of what was false. Bharani, ruled by Venus, is the most intense third, with desire and obsession running high, and Ashwini, ruled by Ketu, closes it with sudden starts and quick recoveries.

Rahu's favourable transit houses follow Saturn's, the third, sixth and eleventh from the Moon, which fall to Aquarius, Scorpio and Gemini Moon signs. Aries Moons carry Rahu in the first house and feel restlessness, confusion about direction and a pull toward unconventional paths. Libra Moons have Ketu in the first and Rahu in the seventh, where partnership becomes the whole preoccupation. Virgo Moons meet Rahu in the eighth and Taurus Moons in the twelfth, and the lagna is read the same way.

Rahu in Aries makes ambition loud, and the work is to watch the hunger to be first. Accidents, head injuries and rash decisions are the outer risks.

The remedy is the worship of Durga, who quiets Rahu, and the mantra Om Ram Rahave Namah. Parashara's graha shanti gives Rahu dana, and dark cloth, sesame and oil on Saturday are the traditional form. Avoid intoxicants, keep speech honest, and act after counting to ten.

Rahu in Aries for each Moon sign

Counted from the natal Moon, following Phaladeepika. Read the ascendant the same way. Vedha and the birth chart can change the result.