June 6, 2025 • 45 mins
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Every 18 years, Rahu and Ketu return to the Aquarius/Leo axis. And every time, there’s this deep invitation to evolve — to shed the ego-driven patterns that no longer serve, and step into something more authentic, aligned, and future-focused. In this episode, I walk you through exactly what this karmic shift is about from a Vedic astrology perspective — not just the signs and dates, but what it feels like to live through it.
Rahu in Aquarius brings this hunger for connection, innovation, and breaking out of the box — but that hunger can also lead to burnout, hyper-individualism, or being pulled into trends that don’t actually align with who we are. And then there’s Ketu in Leo, quietly pulling us back from center stage, helping us release the need to be “the one” — the performer, the leader, the persona we’ve been clinging to.
These next 18 months (May 29, 2025 – November 24, 2026) are all about recalibrating that tension between belonging and expression, spotlight and service, recognition and authenticity.
This episode covers:
- What Rahu and Ketu really mean in your chart — not just intellectually but energetically
- Why this transit is a karmic echo of 2006–2008, 1988–1989, and earlier
- The deeper invitation to realign with your soul path — without needing to perform or prove anything
- How to work with this energy personally and collectively
- A free guide you can download with rising/moon sign horoscopes
This is a rare opportunity to step off the stage, shed the layers that feel performative or ego-based, and ask: What’s really calling me forward now? What role is no longer mine to play?
It’s not about disappearing. It’s about re-emerging aligned.
✨ 5 Key Ideas from the Episode
- “This is a cycle of ego death — and not in a scary way, but in a liberating way.”
- “Ketu in Leo is asking us to let go of being the main character. You don’t have to perform your dharma. Just live it.”
- “Rahu in Aquarius wants innovation, but it can lead us to lose ourselves in the noise of the collective if we’re not grounded.”
- “These are the moments when life says: You don’t need to be validated. You need to be aligned.”
- “Look at what was happening in your life during 2006–2008. You’re revisiting that karmic thread now — but from a higher level.”
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Every 18 years we experience a shift of energy that brings in
bold innovation and community awakening and opportunity for
letting go of old identities that don't work for us anymore
and don't serve anymore. Ego death and also a rebirth.
So this is a time that challenges us to let go of
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performative identities and needmore from our purpose and our
Dharma rather than from pride orcontrol or trying to be
something. There's an opportunity to
realign with what is going to beof the greatest service to the
collective and let go of the places where we are seeking
approval and trying to control things.
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This is the shift of Rahu and K2into the signs of Aquarius and
Leo, respectively. And in today's episode, I'm
going to talk all about this bigshift going on from May 2025
until November 2026. And I made a free guide for you
to follow along with this episode with much more detail in
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the free guide. It's actually you can pay what
you want. If you want to pay for it, you
can, but it's available for free.
It's at quietmineastrology.com/karma
2025, so it's Karma 2025. The link is in the show notes as
well. So you'll definitely want to get
this guide. The last one I offered like this
was the Jupiter guide and that'sbeen super popular and that is a
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good compliment to this one because that one just talks
about Jupiter. This one is going to talk about
Rahu, K2, and Saturn. In today's episode, I'll talk
about all these things as well. So you want to get that free
guide at quietmanastrology.com/karma 2025
and see what it says for your unique rising and moon sign in
Vedic astrology. So I have interpretations for
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each sign there in depth and detail what to do over the next
two years. But in today's episode, I'm just
going to talk about what it affects all of us equally.
Regardless of where your signs are, how do you work with this
big shift of energies? And the first thing I want to
say is, do you know the most widely recognized age of legal
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adulthood in the world? Now, there's some different
ones, different states, even in the US have different age that
they consider. You're now a legal adult and you
can sign contracts, you can vote, you can do all these
things. The most widely recognized age
is 18. In over 150 countries, it's the
age 18. So 18 is the amount of time, 18
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years it takes for Rahu and K2 to move back to where they
started. So every 18 years the individual
you, you have a Rahu K2 return or a karmic node return.
What does that mean? We'll talk about in a second.
But the that being the age of adulthood tells you a lot.
It's like an age of maturing, and you've worked through some
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stuff and you've got to let go of some stuff that's not working
anymore and step into a new role, a new identity.
But then what are Rahu and K2? Why do we call them the karmic
nodes? Well, there's a whole deep
mythology about them I've talkedabout in past episodes,
especially on the eclipses. Check out my guide to the
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eclipses in a previous episode where I go in detail about what
Rahu and K2 are. But essentially Rahu is the
thrust for desire, what we want in life, what we want to move
towards, our passion, obsessions.
And it can become creating karmaand in a harmful way of karma
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that creates cycles of having togo through processes, pain,
suffering, challenges, obstacles, and you create more
and more challenges and problemsfor yourself.
When Rahu goes to its extreme onthe shadow side of it,
everything in astrology can havea positive, negative or neutral
expression. Just like every atom in every
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cell in your body has a proton, electron, and neutron.
There is that potential in everything positive, negative or
neutral. So Rahu can be positive and
we're passionate and we have a mission and we're goal oriented
in a healthy way and moving intounconventional paths and
exploring new ideas and we have a passion for it.
On the shadow side, the negativeside, it can be obsession,
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addiction, and just getting overly controlled by our
passions and desires. That's Rahu.
And the karma that it creates can now create more of those
related things. We can have actions that create
karma or we can have actions that are a karmic and Sanskrit,
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whenever you put a in front of aword, it negates that word.
So it's like the opposite of karma.
Karma is your doing and then it creates a sort of chain of
events that's going to what goesaround, comes around, as we say
in the US and then I'm not in the US anymore.
I'm just so used to saying that.But then that's, Rahu says
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creating karma in a way, whetherwe, we, you know, we want to
make it a karmic as much as we can, but it's almost unavoidable
that we're going to create karmain this lifetime just by living
and breathing and eating and existing.
We're going to create karma, butas much as we can, we want that
to be intentional and satvik, somore pure, less harmful, less
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destructive, less negative patterns repeating.
Now K2 is the karma that shows us where our karma has actually
been expressed and we are complete with that.
We need to let it go. So it represents detachment,
renunciation, and past lives. It also shows hidden strengths
and depths to the psyche and thesoul and the self because these
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are things that have become sortof second nature.
Like you've gone through the Rahu cycle with that energy and
now K2 is like you've done there, you've been there and
you've done that. So that energy is innate and
that's where you get this sort of 6th sense and intuition.
And the lesson of K2 is to let go and to release and attach in
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a healthy spiritual sense of theword, which is a very spiritual
energy. And the positive expression of
K2 is knowing when it's time to end something and let it go.
And the negative side of K2 is just cutting things off
abruptly, being sort of spiritual, bypassing
interesting. Everything is, you know, it's
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all live and light and not really going through the deep,
real, authentic process of letting go of detachment.
Sometimes loss, sometimes grief can be with K2.
So the karma here has been experienced, it's been expressed
and now it's time to let it go. So wherever Rahu moves, it's
showing where we now are going to move towards that thing and
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we want to do it as best as we can a karmically, not creating
more problems for ourselves. And K2 is showing us where it's
time to let something go and move on and go into this more
Rahu direction. And again, ideally A comically
where we're not creating a bunchof wreckage and crashing out,
but that happens sometimes. And we see that in such glorious
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ways and pop culture many times when people have these big
falling outs and oftentimes those things get a lot of
attention. So that is one way K2 can
express and specifically right now between May 2025 and
November 2026, that K2 energy, that releasing, that letting go
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is showing up in the sign of Leo.
So it's even more of all the K2 things I just talked about,
letting go of your identity is just amplified even more and
ways that you've controlled and tried to say, this is who I am,
this is what I'm all about. If it's not really serving you
anymore and it's not really partof your authentic spiritual
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essence and your expression, it's time to let it go.
And there might be a dramatic, intense, crashing out kind of
thing. Or it could be a Rahu and
Aquarius just gently moving towards more spiritual focus,
more community focus. What's going to be of greatest
good to the society, The collective, unique, innovative
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causes. That's Rahu and Aquarius at its
best. So K2 and a Leo at its best is
just this healthy sense of humility and surrender and like
putting your swords down and saying, OK, I've played this
role, it's time to let it go, time to move on.
And then Rahman query says, well, what are you moving on
towards? It's towards the collective
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good, towards spiritual progress, towards innovation.
And we have massive innovation happening right now and now how
do we really know this? How can we observe this?
How can we predict anything withthis?
To me, one of the best ways to do that is to look back at
history is what's happened 18 years ago, 36 years ago, and so
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on when Rahu and K2 were in the same position.
Now to get all of the same big players in the same position
actually hasn't happened in about 900 years.
It's about a 900 year cycle. So I did a whole episode just on
that. So you want to check a couple
episodes ago if you want to go into more of the big picture
societal collective, what is themovement of the unconscious
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happening here? But Rahu, K2 is an 18 year
cycle. So just we're just focusing on
that today. Rahu and K2 alone, without the
big influence of when we're Saturn and Jupiter also in the
same places, which is another factor.
But Rahul, Ketu and Aquarius andLeo happens every 18 years, and
the most recent one was October 2006 to April 2008.
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And you can just think back for yourself what was going on in
your life between October 2006 and April 2008?
Maybe you had some weird fashionchoices.
Maybe you're in a very differentrelationship, different work
situation. Well, collectively we saw the
release of the iPhone, which is a pretty big deal.
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And we saw the rise of social media, Facebook and Twitter
especially this movement towardsa digital identity.
So again, K2 in Leo was like, all right, this old identity
that you had of all in person and knowing all your friends and
you only hang out in person. That's going to change.
You're going to take on a new identity now, a new ego.
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And that part of that was Rahu and Aquarius.
Well, let's move towards innovation and towards something
in the collective. And it's an evolution.
So social media is part of that evolution.
We've been going on through history that moves us towards
more connection, more societal, big picture stuff, and a lot of
big questions about individuality.
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Coming up around this time, there was the Occupy Wall Street
movement, which was a Rahu and Aquarius kind of thing of like
power to the people. Let's have an idealist, utopian
kind of vision of what we could do of taking down these egoic
structures and systems. That's very much Rahu and
Aquarius, K2 and Leo. So we saw that around that time.
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So we're likely we'll see similar things now in this time
between 2025 and 2026. I think part of that is some
sort of AI device. There's a lot of talk about the
evolution away from iPhones likeand screens and Androids and
like the way that we've engaged with the Internet since this
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last transit has been largely onscreens, like especially the
phone. So there's a lot of talk about
movement towards something different like glasses,
implants, all sorts of devices. Like you just talk to it.
It's just like a voice thing. And there was just announced
this partnership with Open AI and Johnny I've, who was the
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main designer for Apple for a long time and the iPhone and
they're going to work on some sort of device for using AI that
is like beyond the iPhone, beyond the screen, beyond the
typical way. So that's in development now and
nobody really knows exactly whatthat is yet, but that will
likely be announced at some point in this range between May
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2025, November 2026. Now in the free download, I go
through all of the major, all the last times this happened
over the last 100 years plus. So all the way back to 1913 to
1915 when this is again Rahu andAquarius, K2 and Leo.
So I'm just going to touch on some of the other past big
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events that happened. There was the fall of the Berlin
Wall, there was the moon landingWoodstock.
There was the rise of TV and mass media.
And you know, back then in 1951 and 1952, it was like everybody
you watch TV just watch the samecouple channels.
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So it was this breakthrough of this new way of relating and
collecting to the collective unconscious through TV.
And it was all, everyone was kind of focused on the same
direction. And it seems like in this time,
things are a lot more spread outin 2025.
But I think there is a big movement towards AI and
everything is a lot, a lot of ways moving in that direction.
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And a lot of people working in AI are saying it's about 5 years
before basically every industry is somehow affected by it.
So the more you can integrate that into the work you do and
how you express yourself, I think the better.
I've talked about this a lot in recent episodes.
That is a movement towards the collective and away from the
individual. So a lot of the ways of
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controlling information or accessing information of Leo are
being let go. So we're moving towards, again,
what's best for the collective. That's Rahu and Aquarius.
So one of the big lessons here is the more that the ego, the
sense of self, tries to hold on to the way it was, the more we
suffer. And that's going to be true
pretty much all the time with the ego.
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It's like the more you try to control and like this is the way
it has to be in my way and control everything, you're
probably going to suffer more. The more tense and tight you
hold on to your identity, the more tense and tight you get
energetically and internally, mentally, physically, everything
just gets tighter and more tense.
So the more you do that, the more you're going to suffer and
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struggle more likely. So there's a level of letting
go, of softening, allowing, opening, receiving, and stepping
into a new sense of self, new identity, new role.
And in all of the Vedic texts, in the source texts of yoga,
Ayurveda, Vedic astrology, Jyotish, they talk about
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basically it all starts with allthe suffering in our life,
starts with avidya or ignorance or forgetting the true self.
Because you are always the true self.
You're always this spiritual essence, having a human
experience. And then at certain points along
the way, you realize, you know, if I behave this way, I get
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attention. If I behave this way, I get
money. If I behave this way, things go
well. And then we start to try to
repeat those things over and over again because they worked.
And that becomes our identity, becomes our ego and our way of
interacting with this interesting thing called life.
Then every 18 years, K2 comes and messes all that up and says,
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Are you sure? It's maybe time to change that
up a bit and time to let go of some of those things that you've
held on to. And maybe that used to work and
be acute the way you got attention over here and it
worked with your parents. But it's time to let that one
go. Or maybe, you know, this seemed
like the right career path and you invested all this time and
money in this career path, but AI is just coming through to
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mess all that up. In a way, you could see it as
messing it up. You could see it as an
opportunity though of like, it'schange.
And that's the one constant in the universe.
And there will always be change and for all industries, all
things and hallways, it's just all going to keep changing.
And we can perceive that as positive, negative or neutral.
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And we have a choice in that. And as long as we know we have
that choice, then we're in our true selves.
If we forget we have the choice and we're reactive, afraid,
craving good, avoiding pain, trying to control life and hold
on to identities, you know, as long as we are aware we're doing
these things and then we have choice, then we can break free
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of that cycle. If we don't have awareness, then
we get kind of stuck in it. We suffer.
It's more pain, more struggle, and This is why we have these
yogic paths and these ways of working with this stuff.
As I'm currently right now updating the Yoga teacher
training manual for Quiet Mind Yoga that Ioffer, I did a huge
deep dive into just revising allof it and getting a new
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perspective on the yoga philosophy and especially
Patanjali's model of yoga philosophy and basically looking
at all the Vedic texts and traditions like the main text.
And they all say the same thing.Like Avidya is the first issue
to be aware of. Like you forget who you are.
Avidya is ignorant. It's forgetting yourself.
And then you get attached to theforms, the nice house, the body,
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the hair, the this, all the appearance stuff, the external
stuff, the material stuff start to get attached to that.
Then you form ego. Then you now have a lot of
problems and a lot of issues come up from that.
And then eventually that reachesa sort of point where you're
like, OK, I'm had enough. I don't need to control
everything. I don't need it to be this way.
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You, you're loosen the grip a bit and eventually you might
even hit a rock bottom where it's like, I've had enough of
this, like I just don't want to do this anymore.
And you reach a point of lookingfor something different.
And that's a big reason some people come to astrology or yoga
is you hit a point where it's like you've got to change
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something. It's not working anymore.
For me, in my early 20s, I was struggling with depression and
really looking for something. I didn't have a father growing
up, don't know my paternal father.
So just always kind of looking for some direction and guidance.
And I was fortunate to find thatin different forms, men's groups
and, and weight training and philosophy, spirituality.
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But for me, yoga was a really big part of it.
And then to Vedic astrology is areally big part of it.
Having this path of like sense of meaning and purpose and place
in the world. So I was really in a point of,
you know, it wasn't working anymore.
Whatever I was doing was causingmore suffering and was getting
stuck in depression. So I needed to change something.
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So if you reach that point, thenyou start looking for answers.
And you know, as I'm working through this model of yoga
philosophy, you know, yoga is what Patanjali offers in the
Yoga Sutra. It's the eight limb path of
yoga. And you might find different
paths, like there's no one rightpath.
I think you might find Yana yoga, which is the path of
wisdom, which is a lot simpler actually.
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It's just the, hey, your God, remember?
Oh yeah, I remember. OK, all is good now, but that
can be spiritually bypassing, soyou got to be careful with that.
But in all these paths, it's like just remember your true
self and you know, just step back for a moment and just see
you do have a choice and all thechanges going on in your life.
So you can reflect for yourself and look back what was going on.
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October 2006 to April 2008, and depending on your age, maybe
March 1988 to September 1989, maybe even July 1969 to February
1971. These are the last times this
transit was happening, and you can look back at your
relationship in that time between self and community,
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between letting go of familiar, comfortable identities and
stepping into more innovation, more change, a new way of being.
Anything around lessons from collaboration or leadership or
visibility. So you might want to pause and
reflect on this, journal about it, take a note, come back to
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this later. But these are some good
questions to consider for all ofus.
What collective awakening were you part of around this time?
Maybe it was the Occupy movement, maybe a social media,
Maybe it was some spiritual awakening for me.
That was actually the time when I reached the end of this
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depression line. It was like, OK, I got to do
something different and I started going to yoga, even
though I'd walked by the yoga class and saw only women in
there. And it was like, can I even go
to this class is at the gym? So I was like all the weight
lifters would walk by. So there was a very small part
of me, my masculinity, like afraid of where all the guys
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going to think walking by see mein this class silly.
But I went to the class and it'slike, Oh my God, this is
amazing. I need to do this all the time.
But that was in that time for me.
And the last time K2 was in Leo.This identity shift of you know
what, I'm just going to try it. I mean, this thing, I've been
kind of called to it. I'm just going to try it.
It's outside of my comfort zone.Maybe people are going to judge
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me and think I'm weird. I don't care.
I just feel like I need to try something different.
That's Rahu and Aquarius of likesomething different, something
new. And K2 and Leo, it's like
letting go of the attachment to how you look and what people
think of you. Now I've got much more detail on
this on the free guide. The dates, the events, the big
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themes and explanations of all of the Nakshatra transits over
the next 18 months. But I'm going to talk about the
biggest ones, which are on May 29th, 2025.
We just passed it before I recorded this, but we're in this
energy now at least until July, but especially until December.
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So it's most of the second-half of 2025.
These are the major energies going on.
So the first one is Rahu in Aquarius in the nakshatra of
Parva Bhadrapada. And that nakshatra, that small
section of the sky is 27 of these sections of the sky.
It represents radical change, mysticism, revolution, being
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unpredictable. Instead of sort of fire and
lightning energy, like the energy of lightning, it's like
fast bolt actually doesn't make sound.
The Thunder makes the sound, butthe lightning is like, that fast
movement of energy is a big sortof surprise.
Like, wow, this kind of thing with Rahu in Aquarius in Perva
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Bajapada from May to December 2025.
So it's an opportunity to think differently, to have new ways of
thinking, to question your role in communities, break away from
outdated ways of doing things. Be open to unexpected
connections, to be more authentic, seeking more
authenticity rather than approval, owning your own unique
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weirdness, your own way of expressing yourself.
The future you want will not come from the past, so it's
thinking forward in new, innovative, creative ways.
But no matter what you do, it's like it kind of doesn't matter
what the results are. What matters is you're being
authentic. You're expressing yourself, like
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with this podcast, maybe nobody listens, maybe it's the most
listened to episode. Doesn't really matter to me.
It just matters that I feel likeI'm expressing myself.
I feel like this is what I meantto be doing and it feels aligned
and inspiring. And it's like I would be doing
this for free if nobody listens.And if lots of people listen,
that's awesome too. But it's from this place of
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authenticity and expression. So I encourage, especially with
this particular transit, like this is a time to really lean
into that part of yourself. At the same time, on the same
day, May 29th begins this movement of K2 into Leo, as we
talked about, but it's specifically in the Nakshatra of
Uttara Falguni. And this represents partnership,
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fairness, commitment. It's related to to Dharma in
relationships and aligning with what is just and right and in
service. So Dharma, not drama.
So as K2 is here now from May 29th to July 6th 2025, it's
about letting go of needing admiration to feel worthy.
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It's not getting yourself worth through validation from others.
Your relationships in your life are mirroring your control or
your avoidance. They are showing you how you
show up in relationship. So if you're looking at your
partner or relationships close to you and saying you are XY and
Z, you're being so blah, blah, blah, that's a good opportunity
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to write that sentence down and turn it around.
If you're familiar with Byron Katie's The Work, it's a good
process for this. It's a free guide you can find
for that. But basically that's the short
version of it. It's just look at your judgments
and especially if somebody really gets a reaction out of
you and if they don't, if they even if it's a positive
reaction, oh, they're so loving and affectionate.
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If that's genuinely true. Now that I tell you this, you
know, don't try to cheat. But if if you look at them and
you feel a certain way, write itdown and look at yourself like
that's probably telling you something about how you feel
about yourself and your relationships are a reflection
of that. So they're a sacred mirror as an
opportunity from May 29th, July 6th, to get honest about your
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desire for approval. How much of what you're doing is
for attention or approval? Is it really your authentic
expression? It's an opportunity to
recalibrate towards what is really soul aligned, what is
really you, and detach from glamour and focusing on things
that are just superficial so that you can more fully focus on
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what is true, what is really aligned.
It's an opportunity to know thatreal love doesn't ask you to
perform or to put on a role or identity or persona.
Real love comes from the heart, which is just really being
yourself. So you can really strip away
performative patterns and roles and the whole song and dance you
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think you need to do to get attention or to get money or to
get validation or to get love. This is just all about shedding
those layers. Now that energy's been in effect
to some degree since December 2024 until July 6th, 2025.
Everything I just said about K2 and Leo and Atara Falguni,
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because K2 was an Atara Falguni in Virgo.
To keep it short, it's Nakshatras.
Some of them crossover into two signs.
So with Tara Falguni, energy hasbeen present since December
until May. So all those things I just
talked about of kind of letting go of the false roles or persona
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if we're playing for relationships.
So we can get to what's really true, our true essence and stop
over giving or performing or trying to do these things to get
love. Instead just being loved, just
receiving love, just giving lovefrom an authentic place has been
a big theme from December till all the way till July 6th, 2025.
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And while I'm talking about the past, I'll just briefly touch on
also with Rahu that was in PervaBajrapada for a while too.
So I talked about from May 29th to December 1st, all that stuff
with Rahu and Aquarius, questioning your own
communities, getting out of old outdated things, owning your
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weirdness. There's been some level of that
since February 25th, 2025, because Rahu was in Perva
Bajrapada in Pisces, which is anamazing time.
That time from February to late May was about awakening mystical
insights. A lot of synchronicities you
might have noticed in your life,leading you in the right
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direction about challenging any beliefs that are not really true
and authentic. A lot of spiritual growth
through chaos and change was happening collectively and
possibly personally as well. It's a very rebellious energy
that was going on February to May of this year that pushed you
out of your comfort zones. And it's an opportunity that was
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an opportunity to let go of needing to explain yourself.
That opportunity is passed though, so that's done.
That will come back in 18 years,so next time, but that one is
passed. And there's still some degree of
all that though until December 1st, 2025.
But it's now perfect. Bhajupada and Aquarius, So more
of this collective focus. Now again, if you want all the
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details on all of this stuff I'mtalking about today, it's in the
free guide, Quiet Mind astrology.com/karma 2025.
The link is in the show notes and you can get that.
But I will touch on a little bitmore because I know most people
will listen to this around the time it comes out.
So I want to go to what's comingup just shortly after this July
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6th, 2025 when K2 moves out of Uttara Falguni into Purva
Falguni. So what is Purva Falguni about?
It's creativity, sensuality, enjoyment.
It seeks pleasure, beauty and artistic expression and it can
be indulgent. It's people who have this
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nakshatra prominent in their charts tend to be pretty
powerful leaders. They do well and being in some
role of leadership or management, tend to be quite
successful in whatever they do and have a good sense of
enjoying the pleasures of life. They are often quite hard
working as well, quite creative,quite sensual.
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So you add K2 to that and K2 again shows us OK, it's time to
let go in that area and not get attached to those things.
So from July 6th, 2025 all the way until April 20th, 2026, you
have K2 in Purvisalguni in Leo. This is quite a big shift, quite
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a big time in transit. And you might feel the energy
shift more around July. You might just be going through
a long lesson between July and April with this.
You know, I feel it more at the end.
And so I find quite mixed results with this, trying to
predict when you will feel it. But I do think people who are
more spiritually aligned and like there's not a whole lot of
resistance or misaligned or a darmic things in your life, the
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more you are in your Dharma, in your purpose, the more these
things will come even before thedates, I'm saying.
And but at the beginning of the transit, because the energy
shift is here, you're not blocking it, you're going with
it. You're allowing it.
And yeah, it doesn't mean it's easy.
But still, this time, July 6th begins.
This time to let go of fantasiesand illusions you have,
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especially around romance, especially around power and
control, letting go of fantasiesand grounding yourself into more
reality. So it's letting go of
overinflated ego or some sort ofway of grandiosity that you
might experience. It's an opportunity to bring
more creativity from your depth and your essence.
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And that's a big part of this whole cycle, to move from your
ego to your essence to your trueself, especially between July
and April. So time for really owning your
sensuality and sexuality and seeing the sacredness of that
and taking away the performativeelements of it.
There's so much performance around beauty and sexuality and
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sensuality that's sort of baked into Western culture, how you're
supposed to look and dress and act sexually and sensually.
There's an opportunity to reallydrop those layers and just
really be authentic and true to yourself.
Like what actually lights you up, what actually turns you on
or gives you pleasure or enjoyment in life rather than
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what you think it should be or maybe what you think your
partner wants or performing in some way as an opportunity.
Again, this is coming July 6th. So if you're listening to this
before then it's coming up. So July 6th, April 20th, detach
from being the source of other people's joy.
So if you have any sort of people pleasing tendencies,
hello, raising my hand, any sortof ways of not honoring your
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true self, fawning over others. You know, we all have elements
of these, some more or less. It's an opportunity to just
observe that and put it down. If it's time to just let that
go, Just really be yourself and not try to make someone else
feel something or be something, or bend over backwards to appeal
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to somebody, unless that is yourauthentic sexual sensual desire.
And if you're into that, great. But doing it in a way that's
intentional rather than obligatory, or you feel like you
have to do this and you can really reconnect with joy that's
not externally driven. So a joy that's coming from
within, like your essence. If there's any sort of
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overindulgence or escapism goingon in your life, it's an
opportunity to step back from that and get real with yourself.
And there's AI, think it's Gabramatte has this article
about this. Like the cure for addiction is
connection, right? It's not some sort of drug or
some sort of program. It's just connection.
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And this is a really strong example of it.
This transit is about that kind of thing.
So like if there's some part of your life you're hiding from
others you feel embarrassed, ashamed about, if you can bring
light to that and perspective and a witness to that, a
community, a support group, somesort of light to the darkness of
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that thing sort of connection where you feel isolated and
maybe ashamed or compulsory in some way just to talk about it
can be very healing around this time.
So if there is some sort of addiction in your life as an
opportunity to find more connection and shift that
energy, it's if it's more subtle, if it's just like
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patterns of snacking or scrolling that just I don't like
that you waste a couple hours still, it's an opportunity to
just be a more aware of this July 6th to April 20th and
change that pattern and really good time for expressing your
love and your desire. A selfless sort of love, a heart
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centered love. To be more healing and
connecting, to receive healing, to receive love and care, to be
aware of reactivity and ego controlled ego is form.
It's like I am this person, I have this much money, I have
this identity and that is the way it is.
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And anything that threatens it is a problem.
It needs to be attacked. That's how the ego sees reality
and that's not your true essence.
Your essence was just playing, playing, playing.
And then at some point you took on this ego because it worked
for you and it became more and more hardened over time.
So it's an opportunity. It's like you can play those
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roles. You can be in that role like if
you're a mother and be the best mother, you can be.
If you're a father, be the best father you can be.
Play the role well, but know that it's a role and it will
change and you will need to put it down at some point or in some
points, not necessarily completely, but the way it
expresses now will probably change.
It will definitely change. And this is an opportunity to
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see that and work with that rather than against it.
All right, so I'll talk about one more here on the episode.
But again, if you want the rest,there's eleven of these
important dates. They're all in the free guide.
And if you want to pay somethingfor it, you can.
But let's pay what you want. December 1st, 2025.
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December 1st, 2025, Rahu moves into Satabisha in Aquarius.
So still Aquarius all the way till November 2026, but right
now it's December 1st 2025 through July 1st 2026.
Is this part in Satabisha? So I just started to talk about
healing. That time.
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December 1st to July 1st is verygood for healing, particularly
any sort of solitude like going into meditation retreats, I
would count like getting a massage or something that's like
one-on-one therapy. Also in this realm of healing in
more solitude kind of setting because Aquarius is a collective
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energy so you might think collective healing that can be
good too. But especially this part.
December 1st to July 1st, more internal self healing.
Very favorable as an opportunityto release any dependence on
groups. Group validation.
If you are part of a group and you have a thought that is
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outside of that group and that now makes you excluded from that
group, then you are actually part of a cult and you're not
allowed to have independent thought.
Rahu and Aquarius is a movement towards community but also
independent thought. So like if you're part of a
community in some sort and you have a thought or a way of being
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or thinking that is outside of that box, then a healthy
community will understand you and still accept you and accept
and honor your difference and respect your difference.
So I just encourage any group you are part of that your unique
expression is welcome December 1st to July 1st.
And you might need to change. You might need to leave groups
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that are no longer really serving you, that are not
honoring your unique expression.It's a healthy expression of a
community that they can toleratedifferent points of opinion and
views. If they cannot, then it's more
of a cult than a culture. Again, December 1st to July 1st,
tech, astrology, innovation. These tools of understanding
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ourselves and working with reality are very, very useful at
this time. It's very good time to step more
in towards working with innovations in your life.
Like if there's like robo taxis on the road at this time, maybe
start using them to commute or maybe start using AI more in
your personal life. So many amazing uses of these
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things and there's just more andmore coming.
So around this time, December toJuly, it'll become more and more
embedded in culture, just like previous transits of this.
We got Facebook and Twitter, youknow, not embedded in culture so
much yet at the time of Rahu andK2 in this placement in like
2008, 2009, an iPhone, not so much yet embedded in culture,
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but it was the starting point ofthat.
And now 18 years later, it's embedded in culture and it's
time for disruption. So that's just the nature of
Rahu. K2.
OK, We've, we've been there. We've done that with Facebook.
What else? We got universe.
Let's try some other stuff. We got AI now we got these
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dystopian metaverses. I hope that is not where we go,
but we've got things like that. We got options.
Also, speaking hard truths is very good during December 1st to
July 1st. So like if you've been in a long
marriage and you bottled a bunchof stuff up and you haven't
talked about it, it's, it's going to come out one way or
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another December 1st to July 1st.
So hopefully do it intentionally, proactively
working with it rather than working against it.
Ride the wave. Don't have the wave.
Ride you, right? So this is an opportunity to
speak the truth in your work, inyour position, whatever role you
play, to be authentic, to be true, express yourself.
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Lean into your edges. You want to grow.
You want to find new parts of yourself.
Go to those places that are uncomfortable.
Lean into your edges. Especially December 1st to July
1st. Try some new things.
Question the masks you wear. We've talked about this a lot
today, but you know, just being aware of when you're with these
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friends, you talk this way and when you're with those friends,
you talk that way. And when you're with this group,
you put on this identity. When you're at that group, you
put on this identity. Sometimes that's healthy and
helpful. Sometimes it becomes sort of a
burden and sort of a weight thatwe carry.
That's not being your true self,not really expressing yourself
with care, with love. And there's no need to be
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understood to be impactful here.So with all that, I'm saying
like express yourself, be authentic, lean into your edges.
You don't have to make somebody understand you.
And I like the idea of seek to be under, seek to understand
rather than to be understood because I think you're going to
bridge more gaps that way. You're going to create more
connection if you approach relationships and differences
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with curiosity and try to understand them, but still be
true to yourself. Hold your ground, don't be a
pushover, don't be inauthentic, but also be curious.
Be open. Aquarius is a communal,
harmonious, seeking, harmony seeking kind of energy.
So see this as an opportunity tocreate more understanding and
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connection, but also be yourself.
Don't be a pushover, don't be inauthentic, don't be a people
pleaser like I have been in the past.
But if you want, you know, sometimes we need to learn those
lessons and just make those mistakes.
That's part of this karma of December 1st to July 1st.
So as I've talked about earlier,Rahu could be positive,
negative, or neutral. So with all this stuff going on,
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Rahu could become obsessed with change and innovation and just
being myself and being authenticand radical.
Honesty, I don't care what anyone thinks.
That's too far, too much Rahu. Now you're creating a lot of
karma. It's going to come back around
and like, if you're in a relationship and it's going this
way, you're probably going to end up another relationship and
it's all reversed and you got toexperience the the implications
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of what you created. Try it out, see for yourself and
test it yourself. Or you do something that's more
a karmic. OK, Rahu's an Aquarius.
Lean into my edges a little bit.Be a little more authentic
point. Take off some of the masks, keep
the ones that are useful, but just put down the ones that are
not authentic. Be a little more authentic.
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Be a little more in the flow of these changes of society, these
new devices, new technology, newways of understanding things.
And all of it stems from knowingyourself, knowing your own birth
chart. So if you don't have your free
birth chart, go to Quietman astrology dot coms and get your
free birth chart. If you want to know how all this
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effects you on a very personal level, get the free guide.
I go into each sign, rising and moon signs.
So you want to read the ones foryour rising and moon sign and
have this as a reference. Over this 18 months, you'll want
to come back to it, especially towards the end and see what
changed, how it played out for you.
I find these guides super useful.
I've used the same sort of things.
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I made them for myself for many years and for past clients.
So I think you'll get a lot of alot out of this.
I put a lot of heart into it. I really love it.
I'm very happy with it, but the truth is I really just want you
to have this great resource. So if you want it, it's there.
If you want to pay, great. If you don't, that's OK too.
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So it's there for you. And this is a really powerful
time. It's really exciting.
I like innovation, I like change.
I like new identities and tryingnew things.
So there's an opportunity, a bigopportunity to go into that kind
of stuff and I hope you really enjoy it and get a lot out of
it. And yeah, if you want to go into
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more personalized, really one-on-one look at this with
your birth chart holistically inall the detail, go to
choirmyastrology.com/reading. You can book a one-on-one with
me. We'll go deep into this and
whatever else you want to talk about, and I will be offering
the Vedic Astrology mentorship in August 2025.
Is the next class starting? It's a six month immersion into
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reading your chart, making predictions accurately, and
giving great readings for yourself and others.
I love it. It's so fun.
It's my favorite thing that I dowith Vedic astrology.
So that will be coming in August.
Stay tuned for that, but get thefree guide.
It's there. Check it out, download it, save
it, print it out if you want andsee how it plays out for you.
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Do the journaling stuff to reflect on it and see see how it
plays out. I would love to hear leave a
comment on Spotify, send me Adm on Instagram at Quiet Mind
Astrology and look forward to sharing more with you next time
on the Quiet Mind Astrology Podcast.
Every 18 years we experience a shift of energy that brings in
bold innovation and community awakening and opportunity for
letting go of old identities that don't work for us anymore
and don't serve anymore. Ego death and also a rebirth.
So this is a time that challenges us to let go of
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performative identities and needmore from our purpose and our
Dharma rather than from pride orcontrol or trying to be
something. There's an opportunity to
realign with what is going to beof the greatest service to the
collective and let go of the places where we are seeking
approval and trying to control things.
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This is the shift of Rahu and K2into the signs of Aquarius and
Leo, respectively. And in today's episode, I'm
going to talk all about this bigshift going on from May 2025
until November 2026. And I made a free guide for you
to follow along with this episode with much more detail in
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the free guide. It's actually you can pay what
you want. If you want to pay for it, you
can, but it's available for free.
It's at quietmineastrology.com/karma
2025, so it's Karma 2025. The link is in the show notes as
well. So you'll definitely want to get
this guide. The last one I offered like this
was the Jupiter guide and that'sbeen super popular and that is a
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good compliment to this one because that one just talks
about Jupiter. This one is going to talk about
Rahu, K2, and Saturn. In today's episode, I'll talk
about all these things as well. So you want to get that free
guide at quietmanastrology.com/karma 2025
and see what it says for your unique rising and moon sign in
Vedic astrology. So I have interpretations for
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each sign there in depth and detail what to do over the next
two years. But in today's episode, I'm just
going to talk about what it affects all of us equally.
Regardless of where your signs are, how do you work with this
big shift of energies? And the first thing I want to
say is, do you know the most widely recognized age of legal
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adulthood in the world? Now, there's some different
ones, different states, even in the US have different age that
they consider. You're now a legal adult and you
can sign contracts, you can vote, you can do all these
things. The most widely recognized age
is 18. In over 150 countries, it's the
age 18. So 18 is the amount of time, 18
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years it takes for Rahu and K2 to move back to where they
started. So every 18 years the individual
you, you have a Rahu K2 return or a karmic node return.
What does that mean? We'll talk about in a second.
But the that being the age of adulthood tells you a lot.
It's like an age of maturing, and you've worked through some
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stuff and you've got to let go of some stuff that's not working
anymore and step into a new role, a new identity.
But then what are Rahu and K2? Why do we call them the karmic
nodes? Well, there's a whole deep
mythology about them I've talkedabout in past episodes,
especially on the eclipses. Check out my guide to the
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eclipses in a previous episode where I go in detail about what
Rahu and K2 are. But essentially Rahu is the
thrust for desire, what we want in life, what we want to move
towards, our passion, obsessions.
And it can become creating karmaand in a harmful way of karma
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that creates cycles of having togo through processes, pain,
suffering, challenges, obstacles, and you create more
and more challenges and problemsfor yourself.
When Rahu goes to its extreme onthe shadow side of it,
everything in astrology can havea positive, negative or neutral
expression. Just like every atom in every
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cell in your body has a proton, electron, and neutron.
There is that potential in everything positive, negative or
neutral. So Rahu can be positive and
we're passionate and we have a mission and we're goal oriented
in a healthy way and moving intounconventional paths and
exploring new ideas and we have a passion for it.
On the shadow side, the negativeside, it can be obsession,
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addiction, and just getting overly controlled by our
passions and desires. That's Rahu.
And the karma that it creates can now create more of those
related things. We can have actions that create
karma or we can have actions that are a karmic and Sanskrit,
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whenever you put a in front of aword, it negates that word.
So it's like the opposite of karma.
Karma is your doing and then it creates a sort of chain of
events that's going to what goesaround, comes around, as we say
in the US and then I'm not in the US anymore.
I'm just so used to saying that.But then that's, Rahu says
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creating karma in a way, whetherwe, we, you know, we want to
make it a karmic as much as we can, but it's almost unavoidable
that we're going to create karmain this lifetime just by living
and breathing and eating and existing.
We're going to create karma, butas much as we can, we want that
to be intentional and satvik, somore pure, less harmful, less
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destructive, less negative patterns repeating.
Now K2 is the karma that shows us where our karma has actually
been expressed and we are complete with that.
We need to let it go. So it represents detachment,
renunciation, and past lives. It also shows hidden strengths
and depths to the psyche and thesoul and the self because these
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are things that have become sortof second nature.
Like you've gone through the Rahu cycle with that energy and
now K2 is like you've done there, you've been there and
you've done that. So that energy is innate and
that's where you get this sort of 6th sense and intuition.
And the lesson of K2 is to let go and to release and attach in
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a healthy spiritual sense of theword, which is a very spiritual
energy. And the positive expression of
K2 is knowing when it's time to end something and let it go.
And the negative side of K2 is just cutting things off
abruptly, being sort of spiritual, bypassing
interesting. Everything is, you know, it's
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all live and light and not really going through the deep,
real, authentic process of letting go of detachment.
Sometimes loss, sometimes grief can be with K2.
So the karma here has been experienced, it's been expressed
and now it's time to let it go. So wherever Rahu moves, it's
showing where we now are going to move towards that thing and
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we want to do it as best as we can a karmically, not creating
more problems for ourselves. And K2 is showing us where it's
time to let something go and move on and go into this more
Rahu direction. And again, ideally A comically
where we're not creating a bunchof wreckage and crashing out,
but that happens sometimes. And we see that in such glorious
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ways and pop culture many times when people have these big
falling outs and oftentimes those things get a lot of
attention. So that is one way K2 can
express and specifically right now between May 2025 and
November 2026, that K2 energy, that releasing, that letting go
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is showing up in the sign of Leo.
So it's even more of all the K2 things I just talked about,
letting go of your identity is just amplified even more and
ways that you've controlled and tried to say, this is who I am,
this is what I'm all about. If it's not really serving you
anymore and it's not really partof your authentic spiritual
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essence and your expression, it's time to let it go.
And there might be a dramatic, intense, crashing out kind of
thing. Or it could be a Rahu and
Aquarius just gently moving towards more spiritual focus,
more community focus. What's going to be of greatest
good to the society, The collective, unique, innovative
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causes. That's Rahu and Aquarius at its
best. So K2 and a Leo at its best is
just this healthy sense of humility and surrender and like
putting your swords down and saying, OK, I've played this
role, it's time to let it go, time to move on.
And then Rahman query says, well, what are you moving on
towards? It's towards the collective
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good, towards spiritual progress, towards innovation.
And we have massive innovation happening right now and now how
do we really know this? How can we observe this?
How can we predict anything withthis?
To me, one of the best ways to do that is to look back at
history is what's happened 18 years ago, 36 years ago, and so
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on when Rahu and K2 were in the same position.
Now to get all of the same big players in the same position
actually hasn't happened in about 900 years.
It's about a 900 year cycle. So I did a whole episode just on
that. So you want to check a couple
episodes ago if you want to go into more of the big picture
societal collective, what is themovement of the unconscious
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happening here? But Rahu, K2 is an 18 year
cycle. So just we're just focusing on
that today. Rahu and K2 alone, without the
big influence of when we're Saturn and Jupiter also in the
same places, which is another factor.
But Rahul, Ketu and Aquarius andLeo happens every 18 years, and
the most recent one was October 2006 to April 2008.
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And you can just think back for yourself what was going on in
your life between October 2006 and April 2008?
Maybe you had some weird fashionchoices.
Maybe you're in a very differentrelationship, different work
situation. Well, collectively we saw the
release of the iPhone, which is a pretty big deal.
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And we saw the rise of social media, Facebook and Twitter
especially this movement towardsa digital identity.
So again, K2 in Leo was like, all right, this old identity
that you had of all in person and knowing all your friends and
you only hang out in person. That's going to change.
You're going to take on a new identity now, a new ego.
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And that part of that was Rahu and Aquarius.
Well, let's move towards innovation and towards something
in the collective. And it's an evolution.
So social media is part of that evolution.
We've been going on through history that moves us towards
more connection, more societal, big picture stuff, and a lot of
big questions about individuality.
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Coming up around this time, there was the Occupy Wall Street
movement, which was a Rahu and Aquarius kind of thing of like
power to the people. Let's have an idealist, utopian
kind of vision of what we could do of taking down these egoic
structures and systems. That's very much Rahu and
Aquarius, K2 and Leo. So we saw that around that time.
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So we're likely we'll see similar things now in this time
between 2025 and 2026. I think part of that is some
sort of AI device. There's a lot of talk about the
evolution away from iPhones likeand screens and Androids and
like the way that we've engaged with the Internet since this
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last transit has been largely onscreens, like especially the
phone. So there's a lot of talk about
movement towards something different like glasses,
implants, all sorts of devices. Like you just talk to it.
It's just like a voice thing. And there was just announced
this partnership with Open AI and Johnny I've, who was the
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main designer for Apple for a long time and the iPhone and
they're going to work on some sort of device for using AI that
is like beyond the iPhone, beyond the screen, beyond the
typical way. So that's in development now and
nobody really knows exactly whatthat is yet, but that will
likely be announced at some point in this range between May
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2025, November 2026. Now in the free download, I go
through all of the major, all the last times this happened
over the last 100 years plus. So all the way back to 1913 to
1915 when this is again Rahu andAquarius, K2 and Leo.
So I'm just going to touch on some of the other past big
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events that happened. There was the fall of the Berlin
Wall, there was the moon landingWoodstock.
There was the rise of TV and mass media.
And you know, back then in 1951 and 1952, it was like everybody
you watch TV just watch the samecouple channels.
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So it was this breakthrough of this new way of relating and
collecting to the collective unconscious through TV.
And it was all, everyone was kind of focused on the same
direction. And it seems like in this time,
things are a lot more spread outin 2025.
But I think there is a big movement towards AI and
everything is a lot, a lot of ways moving in that direction.
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And a lot of people working in AI are saying it's about 5 years
before basically every industry is somehow affected by it.
So the more you can integrate that into the work you do and
how you express yourself, I think the better.
I've talked about this a lot in recent episodes.
That is a movement towards the collective and away from the
individual. So a lot of the ways of
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controlling information or accessing information of Leo are
being let go. So we're moving towards, again,
what's best for the collective. That's Rahu and Aquarius.
So one of the big lessons here is the more that the ego, the
sense of self, tries to hold on to the way it was, the more we
suffer. And that's going to be true
pretty much all the time with the ego.
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It's like the more you try to control and like this is the way
it has to be in my way and control everything, you're
probably going to suffer more. The more tense and tight you
hold on to your identity, the more tense and tight you get
energetically and internally, mentally, physically, everything
just gets tighter and more tense.
So the more you do that, the more you're going to suffer and
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struggle more likely. So there's a level of letting
go, of softening, allowing, opening, receiving, and stepping
into a new sense of self, new identity, new role.
And in all of the Vedic texts, in the source texts of yoga,
Ayurveda, Vedic astrology, Jyotish, they talk about
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basically it all starts with allthe suffering in our life,
starts with avidya or ignorance or forgetting the true self.
Because you are always the true self.
You're always this spiritual essence, having a human
experience. And then at certain points along
the way, you realize, you know, if I behave this way, I get
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attention. If I behave this way, I get
money. If I behave this way, things go
well. And then we start to try to
repeat those things over and over again because they worked.
And that becomes our identity, becomes our ego and our way of
interacting with this interesting thing called life.
Then every 18 years, K2 comes and messes all that up and says,
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Are you sure? It's maybe time to change that
up a bit and time to let go of some of those things that you've
held on to. And maybe that used to work and
be acute the way you got attention over here and it
worked with your parents. But it's time to let that one
go. Or maybe, you know, this seemed
like the right career path and you invested all this time and
money in this career path, but AI is just coming through to
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mess all that up. In a way, you could see it as
messing it up. You could see it as an
opportunity though of like, it'schange.
And that's the one constant in the universe.
And there will always be change and for all industries, all
things and hallways, it's just all going to keep changing.
And we can perceive that as positive, negative or neutral.
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And we have a choice in that. And as long as we know we have
that choice, then we're in our true selves.
If we forget we have the choice and we're reactive, afraid,
craving good, avoiding pain, trying to control life and hold
on to identities, you know, as long as we are aware we're doing
these things and then we have choice, then we can break free
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of that cycle. If we don't have awareness, then
we get kind of stuck in it. We suffer.
It's more pain, more struggle, and This is why we have these
yogic paths and these ways of working with this stuff.
As I'm currently right now updating the Yoga teacher
training manual for Quiet Mind Yoga that Ioffer, I did a huge
deep dive into just revising allof it and getting a new
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perspective on the yoga philosophy and especially
Patanjali's model of yoga philosophy and basically looking
at all the Vedic texts and traditions like the main text.
And they all say the same thing.Like Avidya is the first issue
to be aware of. Like you forget who you are.
Avidya is ignorant. It's forgetting yourself.
And then you get attached to theforms, the nice house, the body,
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the hair, the this, all the appearance stuff, the external
stuff, the material stuff start to get attached to that.
Then you form ego. Then you now have a lot of
problems and a lot of issues come up from that.
And then eventually that reachesa sort of point where you're
like, OK, I'm had enough. I don't need to control
everything. I don't need it to be this way.
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You, you're loosen the grip a bit and eventually you might
even hit a rock bottom where it's like, I've had enough of
this, like I just don't want to do this anymore.
And you reach a point of lookingfor something different.
And that's a big reason some people come to astrology or yoga
is you hit a point where it's like you've got to change
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something. It's not working anymore.
For me, in my early 20s, I was struggling with depression and
really looking for something. I didn't have a father growing
up, don't know my paternal father.
So just always kind of looking for some direction and guidance.
And I was fortunate to find thatin different forms, men's groups
and, and weight training and philosophy, spirituality.
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But for me, yoga was a really big part of it.
And then to Vedic astrology is areally big part of it.
Having this path of like sense of meaning and purpose and place
in the world. So I was really in a point of,
you know, it wasn't working anymore.
Whatever I was doing was causingmore suffering and was getting
stuck in depression. So I needed to change something.
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So if you reach that point, thenyou start looking for answers.
And you know, as I'm working through this model of yoga
philosophy, you know, yoga is what Patanjali offers in the
Yoga Sutra. It's the eight limb path of
yoga. And you might find different
paths, like there's no one rightpath.
I think you might find Yana yoga, which is the path of
wisdom, which is a lot simpler actually.
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It's just the, hey, your God, remember?
Oh yeah, I remember. OK, all is good now, but that
can be spiritually bypassing, soyou got to be careful with that.
But in all these paths, it's like just remember your true
self and you know, just step back for a moment and just see
you do have a choice and all thechanges going on in your life.
So you can reflect for yourself and look back what was going on.
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October 2006 to April 2008, and depending on your age, maybe
March 1988 to September 1989, maybe even July 1969 to February
1971. These are the last times this
transit was happening, and you can look back at your
relationship in that time between self and community,
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between letting go of familiar, comfortable identities and
stepping into more innovation, more change, a new way of being.
Anything around lessons from collaboration or leadership or
visibility. So you might want to pause and
reflect on this, journal about it, take a note, come back to
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this later. But these are some good
questions to consider for all ofus.
What collective awakening were you part of around this time?
Maybe it was the Occupy movement, maybe a social media,
Maybe it was some spiritual awakening for me.
That was actually the time when I reached the end of this
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depression line. It was like, OK, I got to do
something different and I started going to yoga, even
though I'd walked by the yoga class and saw only women in
there. And it was like, can I even go
to this class is at the gym? So I was like all the weight
lifters would walk by. So there was a very small part
of me, my masculinity, like afraid of where all the guys
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going to think walking by see mein this class silly.
But I went to the class and it'slike, Oh my God, this is
amazing. I need to do this all the time.
But that was in that time for me.
And the last time K2 was in Leo.This identity shift of you know
what, I'm just going to try it. I mean, this thing, I've been
kind of called to it. I'm just going to try it.
It's outside of my comfort zone.Maybe people are going to judge
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me and think I'm weird. I don't care.
I just feel like I need to try something different.
That's Rahu and Aquarius of likesomething different, something
new. And K2 and Leo, it's like
letting go of the attachment to how you look and what people
think of you. Now I've got much more detail on
this on the free guide. The dates, the events, the big
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themes and explanations of all of the Nakshatra transits over
the next 18 months. But I'm going to talk about the
biggest ones, which are on May 29th, 2025.
We just passed it before I recorded this, but we're in this
energy now at least until July, but especially until December.
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So it's most of the second-half of 2025.
These are the major energies going on.
So the first one is Rahu in Aquarius in the nakshatra of
Parva Bhadrapada. And that nakshatra, that small
section of the sky is 27 of these sections of the sky.
It represents radical change, mysticism, revolution, being
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unpredictable. Instead of sort of fire and
lightning energy, like the energy of lightning, it's like
fast bolt actually doesn't make sound.
The Thunder makes the sound, butthe lightning is like, that fast
movement of energy is a big sortof surprise.
Like, wow, this kind of thing with Rahu in Aquarius in Perva
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Bajapada from May to December 2025.
So it's an opportunity to think differently, to have new ways of
thinking, to question your role in communities, break away from
outdated ways of doing things. Be open to unexpected
connections, to be more authentic, seeking more
authenticity rather than approval, owning your own unique
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weirdness, your own way of expressing yourself.
The future you want will not come from the past, so it's
thinking forward in new, innovative, creative ways.
But no matter what you do, it's like it kind of doesn't matter
what the results are. What matters is you're being
authentic. You're expressing yourself, like
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with this podcast, maybe nobody listens, maybe it's the most
listened to episode. Doesn't really matter to me.
It just matters that I feel likeI'm expressing myself.
I feel like this is what I meantto be doing and it feels aligned
and inspiring. And it's like I would be doing
this for free if nobody listens.And if lots of people listen,
that's awesome too. But it's from this place of
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authenticity and expression. So I encourage, especially with
this particular transit, like this is a time to really lean
into that part of yourself. At the same time, on the same
day, May 29th begins this movement of K2 into Leo, as we
talked about, but it's specifically in the Nakshatra of
Uttara Falguni. And this represents partnership,
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fairness, commitment. It's related to to Dharma in
relationships and aligning with what is just and right and in
service. So Dharma, not drama.
So as K2 is here now from May 29th to July 6th 2025, it's
about letting go of needing admiration to feel worthy.
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It's not getting yourself worth through validation from others.
Your relationships in your life are mirroring your control or
your avoidance. They are showing you how you
show up in relationship. So if you're looking at your
partner or relationships close to you and saying you are XY and
Z, you're being so blah, blah, blah, that's a good opportunity
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to write that sentence down and turn it around.
If you're familiar with Byron Katie's The Work, it's a good
process for this. It's a free guide you can find
for that. But basically that's the short
version of it. It's just look at your judgments
and especially if somebody really gets a reaction out of
you and if they don't, if they even if it's a positive
reaction, oh, they're so loving and affectionate.
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If that's genuinely true. Now that I tell you this, you
know, don't try to cheat. But if if you look at them and
you feel a certain way, write itdown and look at yourself like
that's probably telling you something about how you feel
about yourself and your relationships are a reflection
of that. So they're a sacred mirror as an
opportunity from May 29th, July 6th, to get honest about your
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desire for approval. How much of what you're doing is
for attention or approval? Is it really your authentic
expression? It's an opportunity to
recalibrate towards what is really soul aligned, what is
really you, and detach from glamour and focusing on things
that are just superficial so that you can more fully focus on
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what is true, what is really aligned.
It's an opportunity to know thatreal love doesn't ask you to
perform or to put on a role or identity or persona.
Real love comes from the heart, which is just really being
yourself. So you can really strip away
performative patterns and roles and the whole song and dance you
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think you need to do to get attention or to get money or to
get validation or to get love. This is just all about shedding
those layers. Now that energy's been in effect
to some degree since December 2024 until July 6th, 2025.
Everything I just said about K2 and Leo and Atara Falguni,
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because K2 was an Atara Falguni in Virgo.
To keep it short, it's Nakshatras.
Some of them crossover into two signs.
So with Tara Falguni, energy hasbeen present since December
until May. So all those things I just
talked about of kind of letting go of the false roles or persona
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if we're playing for relationships.
So we can get to what's really true, our true essence and stop
over giving or performing or trying to do these things to get
love. Instead just being loved, just
receiving love, just giving lovefrom an authentic place has been
a big theme from December till all the way till July 6th, 2025.
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And while I'm talking about the past, I'll just briefly touch on
also with Rahu that was in PervaBajrapada for a while too.
So I talked about from May 29th to December 1st, all that stuff
with Rahu and Aquarius, questioning your own
communities, getting out of old outdated things, owning your
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weirdness. There's been some level of that
since February 25th, 2025, because Rahu was in Perva
Bajrapada in Pisces, which is anamazing time.
That time from February to late May was about awakening mystical
insights. A lot of synchronicities you
might have noticed in your life,leading you in the right
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direction about challenging any beliefs that are not really true
and authentic. A lot of spiritual growth
through chaos and change was happening collectively and
possibly personally as well. It's a very rebellious energy
that was going on February to May of this year that pushed you
out of your comfort zones. And it's an opportunity that was
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an opportunity to let go of needing to explain yourself.
That opportunity is passed though, so that's done.
That will come back in 18 years,so next time, but that one is
passed. And there's still some degree of
all that though until December 1st, 2025.
But it's now perfect. Bhajupada and Aquarius, So more
of this collective focus. Now again, if you want all the
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details on all of this stuff I'mtalking about today, it's in the
free guide, Quiet Mind astrology.com/karma 2025.
The link is in the show notes and you can get that.
But I will touch on a little bitmore because I know most people
will listen to this around the time it comes out.
So I want to go to what's comingup just shortly after this July
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6th, 2025 when K2 moves out of Uttara Falguni into Purva
Falguni. So what is Purva Falguni about?
It's creativity, sensuality, enjoyment.
It seeks pleasure, beauty and artistic expression and it can
be indulgent. It's people who have this
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nakshatra prominent in their charts tend to be pretty
powerful leaders. They do well and being in some
role of leadership or management, tend to be quite
successful in whatever they do and have a good sense of
enjoying the pleasures of life. They are often quite hard
working as well, quite creative,quite sensual.
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So you add K2 to that and K2 again shows us OK, it's time to
let go in that area and not get attached to those things.
So from July 6th, 2025 all the way until April 20th, 2026, you
have K2 in Purvisalguni in Leo. This is quite a big shift, quite
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a big time in transit. And you might feel the energy
shift more around July. You might just be going through
a long lesson between July and April with this.
You know, I feel it more at the end.
And so I find quite mixed results with this, trying to
predict when you will feel it. But I do think people who are
more spiritually aligned and like there's not a whole lot of
resistance or misaligned or a darmic things in your life, the
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more you are in your Dharma, in your purpose, the more these
things will come even before thedates, I'm saying.
And but at the beginning of the transit, because the energy
shift is here, you're not blocking it, you're going with
it. You're allowing it.
And yeah, it doesn't mean it's easy.
But still, this time, July 6th begins.
This time to let go of fantasiesand illusions you have,
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especially around romance, especially around power and
control, letting go of fantasiesand grounding yourself into more
reality. So it's letting go of
overinflated ego or some sort ofway of grandiosity that you
might experience. It's an opportunity to bring
more creativity from your depth and your essence.
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And that's a big part of this whole cycle, to move from your
ego to your essence to your trueself, especially between July
and April. So time for really owning your
sensuality and sexuality and seeing the sacredness of that
and taking away the performativeelements of it.
There's so much performance around beauty and sexuality and
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sensuality that's sort of baked into Western culture, how you're
supposed to look and dress and act sexually and sensually.
There's an opportunity to reallydrop those layers and just
really be authentic and true to yourself.
Like what actually lights you up, what actually turns you on
or gives you pleasure or enjoyment in life rather than
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what you think it should be or maybe what you think your
partner wants or performing in some way as an opportunity.
Again, this is coming July 6th. So if you're listening to this
before then it's coming up. So July 6th, April 20th, detach
from being the source of other people's joy.
So if you have any sort of people pleasing tendencies,
hello, raising my hand, any sortof ways of not honoring your
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true self, fawning over others. You know, we all have elements
of these, some more or less. It's an opportunity to just
observe that and put it down. If it's time to just let that
go, Just really be yourself and not try to make someone else
feel something or be something, or bend over backwards to appeal
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to somebody, unless that is yourauthentic sexual sensual desire.
And if you're into that, great. But doing it in a way that's
intentional rather than obligatory, or you feel like you
have to do this and you can really reconnect with joy that's
not externally driven. So a joy that's coming from
within, like your essence. If there's any sort of
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overindulgence or escapism goingon in your life, it's an
opportunity to step back from that and get real with yourself.
And there's AI, think it's Gabramatte has this article
about this. Like the cure for addiction is
connection, right? It's not some sort of drug or
some sort of program. It's just connection.
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And this is a really strong example of it.
This transit is about that kind of thing.
So like if there's some part of your life you're hiding from
others you feel embarrassed, ashamed about, if you can bring
light to that and perspective and a witness to that, a
community, a support group, somesort of light to the darkness of
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that thing sort of connection where you feel isolated and
maybe ashamed or compulsory in some way just to talk about it
can be very healing around this time.
So if there is some sort of addiction in your life as an
opportunity to find more connection and shift that
energy, it's if it's more subtle, if it's just like
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patterns of snacking or scrolling that just I don't like
that you waste a couple hours still, it's an opportunity to
just be a more aware of this July 6th to April 20th and
change that pattern and really good time for expressing your
love and your desire. A selfless sort of love, a heart
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centered love. To be more healing and
connecting, to receive healing, to receive love and care, to be
aware of reactivity and ego controlled ego is form.
It's like I am this person, I have this much money, I have
this identity and that is the way it is.
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And anything that threatens it is a problem.
It needs to be attacked. That's how the ego sees reality
and that's not your true essence.
Your essence was just playing, playing, playing.
And then at some point you took on this ego because it worked
for you and it became more and more hardened over time.
So it's an opportunity. It's like you can play those
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roles. You can be in that role like if
you're a mother and be the best mother, you can be.
If you're a father, be the best father you can be.
Play the role well, but know that it's a role and it will
change and you will need to put it down at some point or in some
points, not necessarily completely, but the way it
expresses now will probably change.
It will definitely change. And this is an opportunity to
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see that and work with that rather than against it.
All right, so I'll talk about one more here on the episode.
But again, if you want the rest,there's eleven of these
important dates. They're all in the free guide.
And if you want to pay somethingfor it, you can.
But let's pay what you want. December 1st, 2025.
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December 1st, 2025, Rahu moves into Satabisha in Aquarius.
So still Aquarius all the way till November 2026, but right
now it's December 1st 2025 through July 1st 2026.
Is this part in Satabisha? So I just started to talk about
healing. That time.
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December 1st to July 1st is verygood for healing, particularly
any sort of solitude like going into meditation retreats, I
would count like getting a massage or something that's like
one-on-one therapy. Also in this realm of healing in
more solitude kind of setting because Aquarius is a collective
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energy so you might think collective healing that can be
good too. But especially this part.
December 1st to July 1st, more internal self healing.
Very favorable as an opportunityto release any dependence on
groups. Group validation.
If you are part of a group and you have a thought that is
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outside of that group and that now makes you excluded from that
group, then you are actually part of a cult and you're not
allowed to have independent thought.
Rahu and Aquarius is a movement towards community but also
independent thought. So like if you're part of a
community in some sort and you have a thought or a way of being
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or thinking that is outside of that box, then a healthy
community will understand you and still accept you and accept
and honor your difference and respect your difference.
So I just encourage any group you are part of that your unique
expression is welcome December 1st to July 1st.
And you might need to change. You might need to leave groups
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that are no longer really serving you, that are not
honoring your unique expression.It's a healthy expression of a
community that they can toleratedifferent points of opinion and
views. If they cannot, then it's more
of a cult than a culture. Again, December 1st to July 1st,
tech, astrology, innovation. These tools of understanding
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ourselves and working with reality are very, very useful at
this time. It's very good time to step more
in towards working with innovations in your life.
Like if there's like robo taxis on the road at this time, maybe
start using them to commute or maybe start using AI more in
your personal life. So many amazing uses of these
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things and there's just more andmore coming.
So around this time, December toJuly, it'll become more and more
embedded in culture, just like previous transits of this.
We got Facebook and Twitter, youknow, not embedded in culture so
much yet at the time of Rahu andK2 in this placement in like
2008, 2009, an iPhone, not so much yet embedded in culture,
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but it was the starting point ofthat.
And now 18 years later, it's embedded in culture and it's
time for disruption. So that's just the nature of
Rahu. K2.
OK, We've, we've been there. We've done that with Facebook.
What else? We got universe.
Let's try some other stuff. We got AI now we got these
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dystopian metaverses. I hope that is not where we go,
but we've got things like that. We got options.
Also, speaking hard truths is very good during December 1st to
July 1st. So like if you've been in a long
marriage and you bottled a bunchof stuff up and you haven't
talked about it, it's, it's going to come out one way or
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another December 1st to July 1st.
So hopefully do it intentionally, proactively
working with it rather than working against it.
Ride the wave. Don't have the wave.
Ride you, right? So this is an opportunity to
speak the truth in your work, inyour position, whatever role you
play, to be authentic, to be true, express yourself.
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Lean into your edges. You want to grow.
You want to find new parts of yourself.
Go to those places that are uncomfortable.
Lean into your edges. Especially December 1st to July
1st. Try some new things.
Question the masks you wear. We've talked about this a lot
today, but you know, just being aware of when you're with these
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friends, you talk this way and when you're with those friends,
you talk that way. And when you're with this group,
you put on this identity. When you're at that group, you
put on this identity. Sometimes that's healthy and
helpful. Sometimes it becomes sort of a
burden and sort of a weight thatwe carry.
That's not being your true self,not really expressing yourself
with care, with love. And there's no need to be
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understood to be impactful here.So with all that, I'm saying
like express yourself, be authentic, lean into your edges.
You don't have to make somebody understand you.
And I like the idea of seek to be under, seek to understand
rather than to be understood because I think you're going to
bridge more gaps that way. You're going to create more
connection if you approach relationships and differences
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with curiosity and try to understand them, but still be
true to yourself. Hold your ground, don't be a
pushover, don't be inauthentic, but also be curious.
Be open. Aquarius is a communal,
harmonious, seeking, harmony seeking kind of energy.
So see this as an opportunity tocreate more understanding and
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connection, but also be yourself.
Don't be a pushover, don't be inauthentic, don't be a people
pleaser like I have been in the past.
But if you want, you know, sometimes we need to learn those
lessons and just make those mistakes.
That's part of this karma of December 1st to July 1st.
So as I've talked about earlier,Rahu could be positive,
negative, or neutral. So with all this stuff going on,
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Rahu could become obsessed with change and innovation and just
being myself and being authenticand radical.
Honesty, I don't care what anyone thinks.
That's too far, too much Rahu. Now you're creating a lot of
karma. It's going to come back around
and like, if you're in a relationship and it's going this
way, you're probably going to end up another relationship and
it's all reversed and you got toexperience the the implications
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of what you created. Try it out, see for yourself and
test it yourself. Or you do something that's more
a karmic. OK, Rahu's an Aquarius.
Lean into my edges a little bit.Be a little more authentic
point. Take off some of the masks, keep
the ones that are useful, but just put down the ones that are
not authentic. Be a little more authentic.
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Be a little more in the flow of these changes of society, these
new devices, new technology, newways of understanding things.
And all of it stems from knowingyourself, knowing your own birth
chart. So if you don't have your free
birth chart, go to Quietman astrology dot coms and get your
free birth chart. If you want to know how all this
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effects you on a very personal level, get the free guide.
I go into each sign, rising and moon signs.
So you want to read the ones foryour rising and moon sign and
have this as a reference. Over this 18 months, you'll want
to come back to it, especially towards the end and see what
changed, how it played out for you.
I find these guides super useful.
I've used the same sort of things.
(43:46):
I made them for myself for many years and for past clients.
So I think you'll get a lot of alot out of this.
I put a lot of heart into it. I really love it.
I'm very happy with it, but the truth is I really just want you
to have this great resource. So if you want it, it's there.
If you want to pay, great. If you don't, that's OK too.
(44:07):
So it's there for you. And this is a really powerful
time. It's really exciting.
I like innovation, I like change.
I like new identities and tryingnew things.
So there's an opportunity, a bigopportunity to go into that kind
of stuff and I hope you really enjoy it and get a lot out of
it. And yeah, if you want to go into
(44:27):
more personalized, really one-on-one look at this with
your birth chart holistically inall the detail, go to
choirmyastrology.com/reading. You can book a one-on-one with
me. We'll go deep into this and
whatever else you want to talk about, and I will be offering
the Vedic Astrology mentorship in August 2025.
Is the next class starting? It's a six month immersion into
(44:51):
reading your chart, making predictions accurately, and
giving great readings for yourself and others.
I love it. It's so fun.
It's my favorite thing that I dowith Vedic astrology.
So that will be coming in August.
Stay tuned for that, but get thefree guide.
It's there. Check it out, download it, save
it, print it out if you want andsee how it plays out for you.
(45:14):
Do the journaling stuff to reflect on it and see see how it
plays out. I would love to hear leave a
comment on Spotify, send me Adm on Instagram at Quiet Mind
Astrology and look forward to sharing more with you next time
on the Quiet Mind Astrology Podcast.
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