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The Wisdom of Rahu and Ketu ~for your Dharmic Path

7/31/2020

The Wisdom of Rahu and Ketu
~for Your Dharmic Path

Whenever the darkness is not integrated and unified with the light, the effects will not be balanced or harmonious. The shadow always seeks the light and the light will always return to darkness. This is a Law of Nature- as they are one and the same.

Ultimately, Rahu can not be denied, nor Ketu- his counterpart in karmic liberation. One's jyotish chart shows where the shadow is seeking light and how it will bring your awakening.

The blessing of your courageous efforts and your willingness, is finding that within the darkest and most disturbing parts of yourself, you will actually find the missing pieces you are desperately longing for; your whole and empowered life. If you are truly willing to courageously look into your own shadows you will undoubtedly find the very gifts you so desperately long to receive. Your shadows in fact hold the gifts you seek for wholeness, for your dharmic giving, your offerings to the world, and for a meaningful life.

This is What your Karma Tells You About Your Dharma

We all have resistance. Finding the resistance within yourself and within your life, will point the way towards your own shadow parts. Remember that the energy you use to resist your own darkness takes incredible energy to maintain, and is a drain to the vital life force energy that could be put to good use elsewhere. Energy you could put into living your one precious life- actualizing your dreams, taking bold, fulfilling action steps!

We each have an attraction and repulsion dynamic within us-
a push and a pull.

What you desperately long for and desire is the core of your shadow work and points the way to all the pieces of your darkness. What you deeply long for is seeking you in other words. And it's hidden beneath your shadows. This shadow, and working with one's darkness in order to awaken, is the juxtaposition of Rahu (shadow) and Ketu (light) in ones Jyotish chart, and why Rahu is both darkness and compulsions, as well as desires and insatiable needs.

Let Rahu drive you towards your own wholeness. Let him show you what you long for, what you need the most in this life, and let him also show you what you are resisting simultaneously.

Wherever Rahu sits in your jyotish chart (the house, the sign, the planets he interacts with, the nakshatra he resides in etc.) points directly to the main theme of your personal life story. Rahu and Ketu are quite literally karma points and they show you why you have incarnated into this body, into this life, and what you are here to learn. The dance of shadow and light, Rahu and Ketu, fully express your ability and your willingness to grow and awaken in this life time. Will you continue to resist your shadows, your darkness (Rahu)? Or will the compulsion to emerge from the illusions be strong enough to force your awakening and crack you open (Ketu)?

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The power within the shadow is two fold. When you resist your darkness, you refuse and resist the healing and the medicine that your life has to offer. You are essentially refusing and resisting awakening to your most essential gifts. These gifts always reveal your dharma, your life purpose, your reason for being alive, and thus there is an immense reward for your efforts- if you choose to take on the task fully.

However, it is not the path of ease, numbness, ignorance and denial. In order to awaken, you must invite in your shadow parts, continue to go deeper into your darkness in unending cycles, to dive for pearls of truth tirelessly- as though your life depends on it. It does.

This is why aligning with one's dharma, one's true reason for being alive, is not for everyone, and is in fact evasive for most people. For those who thrive on transformation though, the gifts are unending and continue to unfold.

The shadows after all, hold your most potent power, and the wisdom you need for your life and your cycles of death and rebirth. The skill then becomes not just the willingness to go into your shadow, your darkness, but to also know when to let go of it, to release and shift into something new.

Some will never walk into their shadows and bravely peel back the layers of their suffering and pain. For those willing to do this courageous work, you must also remember how to come up for air, to take a breath, to dance with both the darkness and the light, to heal and overcome the vow of brokenness, while continuing to bravely dance with your shadows cyclically.

Clients who come to me are walking this fine edge of wanting to awaken; there is a desire to know what their life means and how to overcome their biggest obstacles- and yet simultaneously there is a strong fear to look. This is the attraction/repulsion dynamic at play, a true expression of Rahu driving us towards answers, yet fearful of what we will find once we get there.

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Rahu and Ketu are not planets at all, they are mathematical points on either side of the Moon with rather significant implications on our Self experience.

The Moon is arguably the most influential part of the chart- indicating our experiences within the womb and our relationship with mother, as well as our inner nature.

The Moon is our guide for emotional well being and our connection to our intuitive self. In fact, the Moon is so important to our life experience, the relationship the nodes have with the Moon indicates their impact on our emotional well being- among other things. Rahu and Ketu, the Moon and the rest of the chart, all create our own unique stories, mythologies and individual karmic dramas.

The nodes, as Rahu and Ketu are referred to, are mischievous in nature. They present our karmas to us in this incarnation. Without them, and their very valuable life lessons, we would not have incarnated into a human body. They are essential to this lila, this play of life, that we are involved with in this dimension.

Both Rahu and Ketu have their own unique array of offerings, but because they are shadow "planets" they often evade prediction.

Their nature is to deceive, mystify, to be illusive, and to blind us from our true nature. They represent forces that can't be seen and are the parts of ourselves that go unnoticed and unrecognized. When, and if, the shadow or veil of illusion is removed, and we do see what has been hidden from us, it is often extremely painful.

Rahu and Ketu request that we ask ourselves:
What am I not seeing or what am I not willing to see?
What am I clinging to and unable to let go of?

Studying your jyotish chart is an essential tool for understanding your dharmic path.

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My approach to dharma and Jyotish Astrology is body-centered. I consider the body to be the primary resource for cultivating a path of joy and nourishment. Using Jyotish in a body-centered way can help strengthen the depth, richness, and healing capacity of Vedic Astrology, while also helping create alignment with dharma more fully.

⚡️Dharma is your souls purpose.

⚡️Dharma is your passion and pleasure.

⚡️Dharma is your transformation and growth.

⚡️Dharma is turning shadow into light.

⚡️Dharma is the light of your soul.

⚡️Dharma is your greatest joy.

⚡️Dharma is your awakening.

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Wishing you a clear and joyful path aligned with your soul purpose!

Swati*

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1/17/2016

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Create Your Life ~ In Five Easy Steps

I have said it before, but it's worth repeating over and over again. You do not create your life or manifest your desires from thoughts, thinking or the mental body. Creating what you want can only be done from the feeling level. Therefor the emotional body is a crucial resource for developing the skill of manifestation.

The trouble is that your feelings also get in the way. On a conscious level, you may really want the new job and think you deserve it. You may even think you have a great shot at getting it! But under the conscious level of your awareness are emotions that will sabotage your ability to receive the job. You say you want it, but your unconscious feelings determine the outcome.

Subconscious patterning, stories and your personal mythology are actually what is running your life. They often emerge as self sabotage behaviors and a resistance on some level to attract nourishment and support. The default story keeping you from the job may be "I don't deserve" or "I'm afraid of success". These stories are connected to deeply rooted, old wounds. These old stories, stir feelings and emotions that keep you locked in a cycle of not getting the results and outcomes you long for.

I am a huge advocate of self development work and targeted resources to re-pattern, change and transform these old, subconscious stories and patterns. I use jyotish, embodiment resources, creative and art therapy tools, as well as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to help my clients move, change, transform and recreate their life stories. These resources work to bring change in a sustainable way.

Remember that feelings are what help you create what you want. If you don't feel nourished, you won't be able to create more of it in your life. Here are five steps to deepen your relationship with your feelings and start manifesting your desires.

Five Steps to Create The Life You Want

1) What is the outcome you are hoping to achieve?
Get vivid and descriptive. Visualize the outcome you want and picture it actually happening.

2) How will you feel when this outcome happens?
Drop into the emotional body and identify the feelings and emotions you will have when this outcome takes place.

3) Track it.
Let the awareness of this feeling or emotion arrive with clarity and notice where this lands in your physical body. Track physical body sensations and deepen your relationship with this feeling.

4) Notice when this feeling or sensation arrives.
What actions, experiences, places, people, etc. bring this feeling to you?

5) Keep deepening your relationship with this feeling.
Invite in more of this feeling and sensation. Keep deepening your relationship with this feeling daily. This will attract more of it to you and your life.

Want some extra support with this process? Use my Release and Transform Podcast below for some extra guidance:

In the podcast below, I share a tapping (EFT) sequence with you that will guide you through transforming and releasing the old stories and invite in more receptivity. Remember, we start with identifying the challenges, then moving into possibility and desires in order to transform our shadow into light.

Use this podcast as you tap through these points:

Karate chop point (side of the hand).
Crown of the head.
Eyebrow point (above the eye).
Side of the eye.
Under the eye.
Under the nose.
Chin point (crease of the chin).
Throat point (collar bone/throat chakra).
Heart point (center of chest).
Stomach point (above the navel).
Side body (nipple line at side of chest).

Tap six to ten times on each point and just keep cycling through the points. Repeat the phrases I use aloud.

Share your experiences below! What emerged for you in this process? Excited to hear from you!

* One of my favorite things to do is hike in the woods. Often I tap and walk. This is a recording I made on one such hike. It was windy and snowy, so you'll here the elements along the way!

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The Wisdom of Rahu and Ketu ~for your Dharmic Path

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~for Your Dharmic Path

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