Rahu Transit in Dhanishta

Dhanishta is Mars's nakshatra, with the eight Vasus as its deities and a drum and a flute as its symbols. The first two padas lie in Capricorn and the last two in Aquarius, so Saturn owns the whole ground. In the usual lists Mars is Rahu's enemy and Saturn its friend. The star is uneasy and the sign is calm.

Rahu enters at the fourth pada, in Aquarius, and moves backward to the first pada in Capricorn over about eight months, splitting into two visits when the true node runs direct for some weeks. Wealth, music, rhythm, fame, generosity and the hollow instrument through which sound passes are the themes.

Rahu enlarges wealth and its display. Sudden money, speculative gains, music that reaches many and fame that arrives overnight are all possible, and some of it proves as hollow as the drum. Ketu stands in Magha during the Aquarius padas and in Ashlesha during the Capricorn padas.

• For the Aquarius padas, Sagittarius, Virgo and Aries Moons hold Rahu in the third, sixth and eleventh, the houses Phaladeepika favours.
• For the Capricorn padas the favoured signs are Scorpio, Leo and Pisces.
• Aquarius Moons, and later Capricorn Moons, carry Rahu in the first.
• Leo and Cancer Moons meet Ketu in the first and Rahu in the seventh, and the lagna is read by the same count.

The transit shows a person's relationship with abundance. The Vasus give, and gifts received quietly tend to stay.

Worship Durga and recite Om Ram Rahave Namah, and offer music in worship for the Vasus. Take no intoxicants, and keep no gain secret from the family. Parashara prescribes mantra and dana, and the family may give Rahu's gifts of dark cloth, sesame and oil on Saturday.