Rahu Transit in Mula

Mula is the root, Ketu's nakshatra at the start of Sagittarius. Nirriti is its deity and a bundle of roots its symbol. Here Rahu stands on its counterpart's ground, and the usual lists set the two nodes neither as friends nor as enemies. Jupiter owns the sign and is neutral toward Rahu.

Rahu moves backward, entering Mula at the fourth pada and leaving from the first after about eight months, and a direct spell of the true node can split the stay into two visits. Roots, origins, destruction, medicine from roots and the digging that finds what is buried are Mula's themes.

Rahu digs. Old family matters, buried faults and forgotten debts are pulled up, and research into origins, genetics, herbs and ancestry prospers. Nirriti rules calamity. Where the roots were already loose, Rahu can enlarge a small collapse into a large one.

Ketu stands in Ardra for the first half of the stay and in Mrigashira for the second. Libra, Cancer and Aquarius Moons hold Rahu in the third, sixth and eleventh, the houses Phaladeepika names favourable. Sagittarius Moons carry Rahu in the first and should watch the hips, their faith and their teachers. Gemini Moons have Ketu in the first and Rahu in the seventh, and Capricorn and Taurus Moons take the twelfth and eighth.

The transit shows what a person is rooted in. Roots in dharma are strengthened by the digging.

Worship Durga, with Om Ram Rahave Namah as the japa. Take no intoxicants, and dig into no one's past. Parashara prescribes mantra and dana, and for Rahu the dana is dark cloth, sesame and oil, given on Saturday to someone without a home.