Planets in houses · Kendra
Rahu in the 10th house
North node · Karma Bhava
Rahu is the karaka (significator) of ambition, foreign links, technology and desire. The 10th house, called Karma Bhava, shows career, status and karma. When Rahu sits here, these matters take on its colour.
In the 10th house a malefic gives ambition, authority and hard-won success in career.
The 10th house is a kendra (angular house), a pillar of the chart, so a graha here shows its results openly and strongly.
Rahu is a shadow graha and gives the results of the sign lord and conjunct grahas; it is considered strong in Vrishabha.
Results are weaker if Rahu is debilitated in Vrishchika, combust, or afflicted by malefics.
In transit (gochar)
When Rahu transits the 10th house counted from your Moon sign, the period traditionally needs more care.
A single placement is never read alone: sign, aspects, conjunctions, dasha and the whole chart change the outcome.