What causes obsessions - for work, for love, for perfection, and many other cases?
Is it Mercury with its fast motions, going direct and retrograde, seeing the past, present and future, but unable to separate them?
But Mercury is the planet of communication, only the information gatherer. So does it then fall on to Mars, as the general, to be able to sift through the information and figure out which piece belongs where? And would his weakness towards the Moon, the emotions, cause him to make the wrong decisions?
@amit You might be right, especially when I think about my Ketu conjunct things. I think there is more to it, but I will have to wait until I get back to studies next year to dig deeper.
Another possibility is bad avasthas of planets like moon starving saturn or venus. Moon is ego consciousness, if it gets focused on saturn (nervous system), it gets body bound and if on venus then lost on worldly pleasures.
Rahu conjunct my sun seems to have an obsessive quality for me.
@rhiannon Just for elimination purposes -
Is there a cluster of planets around Rahu?
Does the axis involve 2nd-8th houses or Taurus-Scorpio?
Does the axis involve Water-Earth based signs?
Only looking for general information at the moment ????
In my western chart Rahu is in-between the sun and Saturn and about 8 degrees away from each, although Sun is in Leo and Saturn is with Rahu in Virgo. 5/11 axis, so yes water/earth.
When I listened to the class about Sun conjunct Rahu from the Healing Rahu/Ketu class I completely related when Ernst said:
"They are afraid they won’t be there first so they push. They think someone is going to steal their bed. They don’t trust that life is going to give them the raise or money according to their destiny. The road doesn’t seem clear to them so they think they need to push to get it."
I feel this gave me an obsessive quality of doing a lot and becoming obsessed with producing, learning, and working on things. Although this also shows up in my chart on a few other places (Ketu in 11th = obsessing over things that aren't going to last), Rahu closest to 4th angle (over masculine doing energy) and also a merc-moon-jup-ve-su conjunction (ha ha sorry my example wasn't more simple!) But I do really relate to the Rahu conjunct Sun obsessive energy and wanted to say that! I'm very sensitive so I can feel it and it dominates my dreams just like Ernst said in that video.
Also I should tell you what kind of obsessions I have had.
When I was a younger I would have dating/crush obsessions, then as I got older it was producing, creating, writing, working, art, being successful at everything I did (perfection). I always had to have top grades in every college/graduate school class, ect. I was obsessive over information, learning ect (virgo?).
Don't worry, I have got a good handle on all of it now. I have had a lot of therapy and healing and can recognize when the energy comes up and course correct myself as soon as I recognize it! Ha ha 🙂
@rhiannon Thank you for being so candid. It does come back to Mercury and water. I will have to look deeper later on. When I got into astrology, I never imagined it will be so deep and hold the answers I was looking for with regards to our psychological make-up. Rahu-Ketu just blows my mind every time!
I am trying to connect to Venus, at least for the next few months. There has been too much of Sun and too much of Pluto ????