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Graha
Rahu
राहुRahuDesire, ambition, foreign, obsession.
Where Rahu is now
Kumbh 5°39', in Dhanishta pada 4Retrograde
- Sign lord
- Saturn
- Western sign
- Aquarius
- Dignity here
- Neither exalted nor debilitated
Computed for Sat, 8 Aug, 2026, 5:30 pm IST, sidereal Lahiri.
Classical attributes
From the standard texts. These do not change.
- Rules the signs
- — — the shadow planets rule no sign in the classical texts.
- Exalted in
- Traditions differ — commonly Vrishabh, sometimes Mithun
- Debilitated in
- Traditions differ — commonly Vrishchik, sometimes Dhanu
- Moolatrikona
- Not assigned
- Aspects (drishti)
- 5th, 7th, 9th house from itself — the 7th plus its special aspects
- Natural friends
- Venus, Saturn
- Neutral toward
- Mars
- Natural enemies
- Sun, Moon
- Karaka of
- Desire and ambition, foreign lands and languages, technology, obsession and sudden gain.
- Presiding deity
- Durga
- Weekday
- None — the nodes rule no day
- Gemstone
- Hessonite (Gomed)
- Metal
- Lead
- Direction
- South-west
- Beeja mantra
- Om Bhraam Bhreem Bhraum Sah Rahave Namah
- Vimshottari mahadasha
- 18 years
Rahu in the Vimshottari cycle
Ambition, desire, foreign gains and sudden change; intense, unconventional, worldly years.
Rahu rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras, evenly spaced through the zodiac. A birth Moon in any of them starts life in a Rahu mahadasha of 18 years.