Rahu Dasha is almost killing me. What am I supposed to do?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

What would you do if you didn’t know how to swim at all and were picked up and thrown right at the deep end of the pool?

Don’t bother answering. I’ll tell you what you’re most likely to do.

• You’d thrash around, trying to stay afloat.
• You’d move your legs, your arms and try all kinds of things to be able to swim.
• And in the process you’d inhale a lot of water into your lungs.

Don’t do that.

Do the opposite of that.

Become perfectly still.

Do the dead-man float.

You’ll be fine.

“What?”

I know, I know. This isn’t enough. You need more information.

Sure.

The basics of the North node and his energy and what his time period is all about, you can read in a lot of popular answers I’ve written over the last few years. You could try my book too. It’s very detailed and has multidisciplinary correlations you won’t find anywhere else.

But coming back to the question.

See, ‘Rahu ji’ is your teacher. He is a taskmaster.

He isn’t concerned about you getting hurt, getting stronger or anything of that sort that works with other planets.

Like, with Saturn, he is here to teach you with lack, delay and difficulties. Jupiter is here to teach you with wisdom and higher philosophy.

Every planet is here to teach you something to enable your soul to grow in a particular direction so that in the end, you can just decide to let it all go and achieve liberation.

The North node’s job is the most critical.

His job is to ensure that you absolutely, 100% go through the experiences that your soul signed up for before manifesting in a physical form here on this planet.

If you survive it or not, it honestly doesn’t make a difference to ‘Rahu’.

Why is that?

Because all of it is just an illusion.

The real lesson you are required to learn over and over and over again, that you’re missing out on and reincarnating here again and again is..

There’s always going to be some desire that is going to remain unfulfilled. You have to make your peace with that and transcend beyond this physical experience, for good; Anyway!

Even so, it won’t happen until you have reached that end of the cycle in reality.

So the job of the North node of the Moon is to deliver the experience to you. How you handle it will define how much you can gain or lose during these 18 years.

Here are some things you can do:

1. ‘Kala bhairava saadhna’
   1. ‘Kaala bhairava’ is the deity of the North node and controls all the negative and positive duality of everything that the north node represents. Pray to him, get his blessings and you will see your life transform.
2. ‘Going with the flow’
   1. This is actually something very deep to understand and to truly discover it, you will have to experience it and don’t worry. You will get there, within the first 6 months of this period itself. For better or worse, you will learn to not make plans but to ‘flow’ and follow your heart’s desires. To stop cheating yourself and to accept what you truly desire and go get it instead.
3. Thinking positively
   1. The North node is about the mind. He’s about your thoughts, your consciousness, your desires and your ambitions.
   2. A very important thing to take care of during his time period is to ensure that you learn to meditate and work through your fears. If you don’t work through your fears, they will manifest very fast in this period.
   3. What would you do, I’m asking this question again. What would you do, if you didn’t know how to swim and were simply picked up and thrown at the deep end?
      1. You need to learn to stay calm.
      2. You need to learn to believe you can make it.
      3. You need to learn to believe that if you stay calm, you will have the control you need to make it through.
4. Keep your ‘karma’ slate clean
   1. The north node is forward manifestation of ‘karma’.
   2. The North node leads you to the events and experiences that you need to perform.
   3. This also means that whatever place you find yourself in and whatever role you are performing right now, you are in ‘create’ mode. You are creating a chain of events for the future bound within the rules of ’cause and effect’. So if you do good things, good things will come back and surround you. If you do bad things, you are setting events in motion bound by the ’cause and effect’ mechanism.
5. Learn!
   1. You aren’t in a ‘familiar’ domain in this period. Even if you have plenty of the North node’s energy already in your chart in the form of star placements or conjunctions with key planets.
   2. You need to learn from every new thing that comes across on your path.
   3. You need to learn about what you’re going through and please don’t try to solve the problems that you are encountering on the basis of past knowledge of how you’ve encountered these problems in the past.
      1. Why?
      2. Because it just won’t work!
   4. For the 18 years long time period of the North node, your life has changed irreversibly and you need to adapt to this new reality and not just ‘adapt’ to it, but ‘thrive’ in it! Forget how life was before this. Embrace and accept life as it is now!
6. Get help.
   1. It could be because I’m a life coach myself, however the best results I have had have been with clients who were in ‘Rahu mahadasha’.
   2. With some work, after some time, It was amazing how they adjusted to setting goals and going after them. It’s the energy of ‘desire’ you see. This is what the North node is, it’s the energy of ‘desire’. The more you learn to harness it, channel it, the more it manifests faster and faster.
   3. To be able to work with this energy to your best potential, getting some help is a good idea. Early on in the time period of the North node at least, it is quite possible that you get all ‘caught up in your head’ and end up making no real moves at all. If you were to channel these energies, on the other hand, you would be able to accomplish a lot more.
      1. For this, when you’re not thinking straight and getting too overwhelmed, it is best to get someone on board to help you out. Coach, therapist, whoever works for you.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

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