Ambition, foreignness, obsession and sudden change. Read as the years of hunger and of the unexpected rise or fall.
Meaning
In the Vimshottari cycle the Rahu period runs for 18 years and colours everything that happens in it, whatever the birth chart promises otherwise. Its fruit is taken from the graha's own condition: its house, its sign, its dignity, its aspects and the yogas it forms, so that the same period is kind in one chart and hard in another.