Chhaya graha
Also called: chhaya
A 'shadow graha'. Rahu and Ketu, the two points where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's, are not physical bodies but the places eclipses happen. Classical Jyotish counts them among the nine grahas and reads them as powerfully as any planet, but gives them no shadbala (strength) score and no rashi to own, because there is no body there to measure.
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