![]() The Moon takes 27 days to return to the same node. The nodes are not fixed but move backward in the zodiac in a 18.6 year cycle. ![]() There are usually two sets of eclipses every year around six months apart. When the full Moon occurs in conjunction with one of the nodes, a lunar eclipse occur. ![]() When the New Moon occurs in conjunction with one of the nodes a solar eclipse occur. Along with Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn they make up the nine planets or Navagraha of Vedic astrology.Īstronomically speaking Rahu and Ketu mark the nodes of the Moon or the points in the zodiac where eclipses of the Sun and Moon can occur. Rahu and Ketu are not actual planets but they have such powerful influences astrologically that they are regarded as half-planets or shadow planets. It is always opposite in the zodiac to Rahu, the north node of the Moon, the Dragon’s head or serpent’s head in Vedic astrology. Ketu is the Sanskrit name for the south node of the Moon, called the Dragon’s Tail in western astrology or the tail of the serpent in Vedic astrology. Ketu represents the subtle energies that allow us to either transcend our karma or have to face the most powerful and dangerous karmas within us, either individually or collectively.
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