Friday, December 4, 2026 · 3:00 pm New York time

For the Next 18 Months, Your Work and Your Home May Pull You in Opposite Directions: Rahu and Ketu Change Signs This Weekend, Bringing Your Past-Life Karma Around Ambition, Career, Family and Emotional Security to the Surface. Clear It Now, Before It Shapes the Next Year and a Half of Your Life

Once every 18 months, the two karmic nodes of the Moon — Rahu and Ketu — change signs, and the karma they govern rises up to be worked with. This weekend, Rahu enters Capricorn, the sign of career, ambition, status and responsibility, and Ketu enters Cancer, the sign of home, family, the mother and emotional security. We will clear on Friday, the eve of the shift, and your recording will arrive by email on Saturday, the day the nodes change signs, so you can listen as the new cycle begins.

So many of the people I work with are describing the same thing right now. A restless hunger to finally get somewhere — to be recognized, to build something that lasts, to prove they’ve made something of their lives — alongside a nagging sense that they may not be climbing the right ladder at all. And at the same time, home and family don’t feel as solid as they once did: old family karma coming back up, questions about where they belong, and for some, a numbness, a pulling away from the people closest to them.

If any of that sounds like you, there’s a reason. Rahu and Ketu, the two planets that govern your karma, change signs only once every 18 months, and that shift is happening now. Its first days are the most important time to have the correct astrological remedies performed on your behalf, so that as much as possible of the karma connected with these planets can be transmuted for you, and the next phase of your life can be far more auspicious.

Rahu and Ketu: the Lords of Karma

In Vedic astrology, Rahu and Ketu are the north and south nodes of the Moon. They are not physical planets, yet the tradition considers them among the most powerful influences in your life, by some estimates even stronger than Saturn. They are called the Lords of Karma, and they form the karmic axis of your life: the link between what you carried in from past lives and what you are driven to do in this one.

Ketu is the past — what you have already lived, mastered and need to release. Rahu is the hunger — what you are driving toward in this life, often without knowing why. Together they hold your inner struggles, your shadow, your fears, your unfulfilled desires, and the best and worst parts of your nature competing for the lead.

Why this transit matters for you

Rahu in Capricorn turns up the pressure around work, career, achievement, authority and public standing. Capricorn is Saturn’s sign, so Rahu here brings Saturn’s weight to the hunger to succeed: overwork, the need to prove yourself, power struggles with bosses and institutions, and the feeling that I’m not doing enough, I should be doing more.

Ketu in Cancer loosens what we have been holding on to around home, family, the mother, food, land and emotional security. Many people will find themselves questioning where they live, where they come from and where they belong. Old family karma surfaces, and some people respond by going numb and pulling away.

The shift also falls on Shani Pradosham, one of only four rare opportunities this year when Saturn’s karma can be most fully transmuted. It matters here because, according to Vedic astrology, Rahu acts like Saturn, and for the next 18 months it will sit in Saturn’s own sign, with Saturn shaping how its karma unfolds. So we will also perform Saturn remedies, to ease the delays, burdens and heaviness Saturn can bring, and help Rahu’s ambition become something solid and lasting.

How the Rahu–Ketu transit may affect you, according to your Vedic Moon sign

• Aries: heavy career pressure and a hunger for status, while peace at home slips away; property or family-home troubles

• Taurus: unsettled beliefs and a restless urge to escape; your confidence to act may dip, and siblings may feel distant

• Gemini: sudden upheavals, anxiety about health and the future, and tension around money, inheritance and family finances

• Cancer: Ketu sits on your Moon — confusion about who you are, emotional flatness, and intense, unstable relationships

• Leo: conflict with competitors and opponents, disturbed sleep, rising expenses and a pull toward isolation

• Virgo: impulsive romance or risky investments, worries about children, and friendships that thin out

• Libra: unrest at home, property problems and concern for your mother, alongside confusion about your career

• Scorpio: a crisis of faith, strain with your father or teachers, and the temptation to take rash risks

• Sagittarius: money pressure and impulsive spending, harsh words in the family, and sudden shocks to health or finances

• Capricorn: Rahu sits on your Moon — restlessness and obsession with your goals, poor sleep, and strain in your closest partnership

• Aquarius: sleep disruption, unplanned spending, and feeling isolated or lost

• Pisces: unrealistic expectations of gain, worries about children and romance, and blocks in your creative life

What we will clear for you

• Past-life karma around ambition, status and achievement that Rahu in Capricorn is about to push to the surface

• “I’m not doing enough, I should be doing more” — overwork and the need to keep proving yourself

• Power struggles with bosses, authorities, institutions and systems

• The fear of falling behind, and the pull toward shortcuts you would not otherwise take

• Past-life and ancestral karma around home, family and the mother that Ketu in Cancer is about to stir up

• Emotional insecurity, and the feeling of not knowing where you belong

• Going numb and pulling away as a way to cope with family pain

• The spiritual roots of property, housing and family-home difficulties

• The tug-of-war between work and home — sacrificing one to hold on to the other

• Rahu and Ketu afflictions in your own birth chart (only available in the individual version of this clearing)

The remedies we will perform for you

• Rahu and Ketu mantras, to ease the hard edges of this transit and draw out its blessings

• Durga and Ganesha remedies — Durga as the overlord of Rahu, Ganesha as the overlord of Ketu

• Remedies at the most important Rahu–Ketu power vortexes, the serpent temples of South India

• Shiva and Saturn remedies for Shani Pradosham, as Rahu enters Saturn’s sign

The spiritual potentials we will reveal & anchor for you

• Success that feels secure, instead of success that always demands more

• Ambition aligned with your values, and the clarity to know what is truly yours to pursue

• A sense of home within yourself, wherever you live

• Emotional security that does not depend on outer circumstances

• Peace in your family relationships, and with your mother and your roots

• A clear direction for the next 18 months, and more grace as this transit unfolds

This clearing can also be done separately for you. In the individual version, I take this same clearing deeper for you — tuning in to your own energy, finding the blocks unique to you, and clearing them — plus a bonus clearing of the entities you are carrying now and the underlying issues that allowed them in. You receive a full personal report, typically 7 to 8 pages: your specific blocks on each point of this clearing, the karma this transit is bringing up for you, the entities that were cleared, and a personalized action step plan to ground it all into real, tangible change in your life.