Rahu and Ketu — the lunar nodes — always travel retrograde and always stay 180° apart. Every 18 months or so they change signs together, redirecting where you chase (Rahu) and where you release (Ketu). Their transit is read from your Moon sign.
How to read a nodal transit
Find which house Rahu is transiting from your Moon. That house becomes an area of hunger, obsession, and rapid (sometimes unstable) growth. The opposite house, holding Ketu, is where you feel detachment, dissatisfaction, or a sense of "been there".
General themes by node placement
- Rahu in 1st / Ketu in 7th: reinvention of self; partnerships feel distant or karmic.
- Rahu in 10th / Ketu in 4th: career ambition surges; home and roots take a back seat.
- Rahu in 2nd / Ketu in 8th: drive for wealth and family; less interest in the occult or shortcuts.
- Rahu in 11th / Ketu in 5th: networks and gains expand; detachment from romance or speculation.
Who feels it most
The transit intensifies if you are running a Rahu or Ketu dasha/antardasha, or if the nodes touch natal planets. Otherwise it is a background current rather than a headline event.
See your exact picture
Because generic sign predictions ignore your actual chart, Sivayan overlays the live nodal transit on your natal houses and running dasha — so you see which of these themes genuinely applies to you and when it peaks.