Last week, two people I know lost their beloved pets. This event can cause alot of pain and depression to many pet owners. A look at these people's charts reveal similarities.

Because it deals with affection, the 5th house and its ruler denote pets. So does the planet Venus. For both pet owners, the natal chart set up the tragedies while the subperiod and the transits created the timing.

The first person is in a Rahu subperiod and the second is in a Ketu subperiod. Lunar nodes can bring about disturbing events in their subperiods.

In the first chart, the weak 5th house ruler is aspected by Rahu and weak Venus is closely conjunct the Most Malefic Planet (MMP). The transiting lunar nodes aspected the weak transiting 5th house ruler and weak transiting Venus simultaneously.

In the second chart, the weak 5th house ruler is aspected by Ketu. Transiting Rahu and MMP, Moon, aspected the transiting 5th house ruler. Weak transiting Venus was also afflicted by the nodes simultaneously.

I recently listened to an audiotape of an astrologer who claimed that not everything is visible in a chart and how they could not know that a fire would consume their home when it did.

Systems' Approach to Vedic Astrology can answer this question. A look at the chart revealed the natal promise. The ruler of the 4th house (ruling home) is 88% combust and closely aspected by the lord of the 12th house of losses. Further, the 4th house ruler's dispositor is located in the 8th house of tragedies and accidents.

The fire erupted during the main period of the 12th house ruler and either in the subperiod of the same or of the weakly placed aforementioned dispositor (only the approximate date was given). The fourth house Most Effective Point (MEP) was transited by the 12th house ruler showing loss of home/assets. The first house MEP was under the exact influence the nodal axis indicating a personal tragedy.