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HomePlanetary TransitsRahu–Ketu TransitMakara Rashi › 2026–2028

Rahu–Ketu in Makara 2026–2028 for Makara Rashi — the first house from Capricorn Moon sign

Rahu–Ketu enters Makara (Capricorn) on 5 December 2026 and stays until 24 June 2028, which is the first house counted from a Makara birth Moon. Every date on this page is the Lahiri boundary moment for the same calculation the Rahu–Ketu hub uses.

This stay has not begun. It opens on 5 December 2026. Rahu–Ketu is in Kumbha (Aquarius) until then — that stay is read on Rahu–Ketu for Makara rashi.
Rahu–Ketu in Makara (Capricorn) Always retrograde
From Makara Moon First house House 1 of 12 · Ketu in the seventh
Classical house reading Rahu on your Moon Rahu & Ketu in your 1st & 7th
The stay 5 December 2026 – 24 June 2028 About 18 months
House reading

Rahu & Ketu in your 1st & 7th for Makara rashi

Rahu sits on your Moon sign itself. Read as restlessness, ambition without clear direction, and a period in which you are not quite recognisable to yourself. Ketu in the seventh detaches from partnership.

Rahu–Ketu enters Makara on 5 December 2026 and leaves on 24 June 2028. It arrives from Kumbha (2025–2026). It moves on to Dhanu from 24 June 2028.

Written from the calculated house

What this first-house Rahu–Ketu stay will ask Makara to review

Six result sections derived from house 1, written against this stay's own dates rather than copied between rashis or between stays.

Overview

From 5 December 2026 until 24 June 2028, Rahu sits on your Moon sign itself in Makara. Identity, vitality and the way you meet the world feel restless and not always familiar.

Ambition may run ahead of clear direction. Ketu in the seventh detaches from partnership patterns, asking you to redefine self-other balance across the stay.

Always retrograde from entry, the period turns the mirror inward through to the exit on 24 June 2028. You may not feel fully recognisable to yourself at every stretch.

Work with the restlessness as raw material. Care for direction, vitality and boundaries serves better than forcing a fixed new persona overnight.

Career and profession

Role definition, visibility and self-directed work come forward through this stay. Who you are in the role matters as much as the tasks listed.

Clients, contracts and work that depends on negotiation sit opposite with Ketu’s cooler hand. Partnership-heavy work may feel less sticky or less central.

Across these months, write down what the role is for you now. Visibility without a compass drains; small experiments in direction help.

Choose efforts that match a direction you can name. Standing grows from coherent self-presentation, not from chasing every open door.

Money and finance

Personal spending and the cost of a new direction mark money from entry through exit. Identity shifts often show up in the ledger first.

Shared commercial terms and the cost of commitments to others pull from the seventh. Detachment there can change how joint deals feel.

Through the stay, pause before outlays meant to prove a new self. Separate necessary costs from symbolic ones.

Track personal spending against aims you still endorse. Discipline here stabilises the period without prescribing specific financial moves.

Health and routine

Energy, posture and repeatable daily care define health across these months. The body registers identity strain as fatigue or restlessness.

Balance, reproductive care and routines negotiated with a partner sit opposite. Solo habits may need rebuilding when shared rhythms loosen.

From 5 December 2026 until 24 June 2028, simple posture work and fixed wake times anchor a shifting sense of self. Diet stays regular rather than experimental every week.

Keep daily care boring enough to sustain. Seek qualified help if energy stays uneven; the transit is not a medical label.

Family and home

How personal change alters the atmosphere at home colours family life through this stay. Your shifts are felt even when unspoken.

The spouse or partner as a full participant in family decisions sits opposite with Ketu’s detachment. Joint decision habits may need rewriting.

Across the stay, name changes in your schedule and needs before they become surprises. Home runs smoother with advance notice from you.

Offer presence you can mean and keep listening open. Your choices about disclosure and duty matter; others’ feelings stay theirs to own.

Marriage and relationships

Self-other balance and clearly stated boundaries set the relational work across this stay. Ketu in the seventh cools old patterns of merging.

Commitment, reciprocity and the durability of agreements sit on that opposite house. You may need to restate terms without drama.

Through the retrograde stretch, practise saying where you end and the other begins. Honesty about restlessness beats silent drift.

Define what you can give and what you need back in plain language. Your conduct carries the period; do not script the partner’s reply.

The sign and house are calculated; individual outcomes still depend on the natal chart, its rulership and the running dasha.
Calculated within this stay

How Rahu–Ketu moves inside Makara

Stations

The nodes are retrograde by nature and have no station.

Retrograde re-entry

Rahu–Ketu does not leave and re-enter Makara during this stay.

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