Rahu-Ketu Transit 2026-2028
राहु मकर – केतु कर्क गोचर 2026-2028
The shadow planets Rahu (☊) and Ketu (☋) move into Capricorn (Makar) and Cancer (Kark) on November 26, 2026, and stay for about 18 months. Every rashi’s karmic axis rotates back by one house on that day.
What changes on November 26, 2026
Rahu and Ketu move backwards through the zodiac, so when they leave Aquarius and Leo they step back into Capricorn and Cancer. For your chart that means one specific thing: every house the axis touches moves back by one. If Rahu has spent the last eighteen months in your 11th house of gains, it now sits in your 10th house of career. The subject changes, not the intensity.
☊ Rahu-Ketu Transit 2026-2028 — Key Facts
Rahu and Ketu always move in retrograde (backward) motion through the zodiac, always exactly 180° apart. Rahu represents material desire, ambition, and karmic lessons still to be learned; Ketu represents past-life wisdom, spiritual detachment, and release. Their 18-month transit through each axis reshapes all 12 rashis at once.
Personalized Report
Rahu-Ketu Transit Report
Your Moon sign tells you which house the axis lands in. It cannot tell you what is already sitting there. The report maps this 18-month axis onto your exact birth chart — which houses activate, what surfaces when, and the timing of the shifts worth planning around.
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Rahu-Ketu Transit 2026-2028 — All 12 Rashi Predictions
Select your Moon sign (Janam Rashi) to see the complete effects
☊ What is the Rahu-Ketu transit, and why does it matter?
Rahu (☊) and Ketu (☋) are the shadow planets (Chaya Grahas) of Vedic astrology — the north and south lunar nodes, formed where the Moon’s orbit crosses the ecliptic. Unlike the other grahas they have no physical body, which is precisely why the tradition treats them as karmic rather than material.
Rahu stands for unfulfilled desire, worldly ambition, and the part of life where the soul still has something to learn. Ketu stands for what has already been mastered and is now being released. Because they are always opposite, they describe a single axis: whatever Rahu is enlarging, Ketu is emptying directly across from it.
They spend roughly 18 months in each sign pair, which makes this one of the longest transits in Jyotish. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn — structure, hierarchy, patience and consequence — and the tradition reads Rahu as working well in Saturn’s signs. What that produces across the next 18 months is ambition with an institutional shape to it: slower than the Aquarius years, heavier, and harder to walk back.
Frequently Asked Questions — Rahu-Ketu Transit 2026-2028
When does Rahu enter Capricorn?
Rahu enters Capricorn (Makar Rashi) on November 26, 2026 and stays for roughly 18 months, until May 25, 2028. Ketu moves into Cancer (Kark Rashi) on the same day, because the two nodes are always exactly opposite. This is the axis that succeeds Rahu in Aquarius and Ketu in Leo.
Which rashis benefit most from the Rahu-Ketu transit 2026-2028?
Meen (Pisces) receives the strongest placement, with Rahu in the 11th house — the house of gains. Mesh (Aries), Vrishabh (Taurus), Singh (Leo), Vrishchik (Scorpio) all receive favourable four-star placements. Kumbh (Aquarius) faces the most demanding one, with Rahu in the 12th.
What changes when Rahu moves from Aquarius to Capricorn?
Every rashi’s Rahu house moves back by one, and so does Ketu’s — the whole axis rotates. A rashi that had Rahu in the 11th house of gains now has it in the 10th house of career, and so on around the wheel. Both Capricorn and Aquarius are ruled by Saturn, so Rahu remains in a sign it is classically comfortable in, but the themes shift from the collective and the networked toward the structural, the hierarchical and the slow. Makar rashi natives get Rahu directly on their own sign.
Know your personalised Rahu-Ketu transit effects
Your Moon sign is just the starting point. Your full kundli — ascendant, dasha, and planetary positions — determines the exact impact of this axis on your life.
Where the planet is, is public. What it is doing to you is not.
This page gives you where this planet is now and the general reading for each Moon sign. What it cannot know is which house it occupies counted from your ascendant.
The same Saturn transit that sits on one person’s 10th house — visible pressure at work, and eventually promotion — sits on someone else’s 8th, where it reads as upheaval and health. Both are "Saturn in Pisces". Neither reading helps the other person.
The report reads which of your houses each slow planet is activating, how strong those houses are, which months inside the transit bite hardest, and how it lands against the dasha you are running.