I’ve met a lot of people who speak well.

And then I met a Rahu in the 3rd house( a personal post for me, since I have this placement in the 3rd house along with Mars and Venus)

But an experience at the airport in public speaking? It wasn’t just “well.” It was… otherworldly. I once watched a girl with this placement convince a man to let her skip an airport security line by quoting Rumi, complimenting his aura, and then pivoting to “I have a mild phobia of time.” He let her through. No ID check. Just a nod. I stood there, shoes off, proud, because I would have done something similar. Brings this GIF to mind( no offence)

Rahu in the 3rd house doesn’t communicate. It hypnotizes.

This is not just “good with words.”
This is the placement of linguistic glamour, of social masks so well-crafted they don’t even feel like masks — they feel like personalities.
Like skins.

🧠 The Mind: Downloading at the Speed of Desire

Let me tell you something about how this mind works: fast, jagged, and obsessive.

Rahu in the 3rd doesn’t want to learn the way school teaches. It wants osmosis. It wants to steal fluency from the air. They read one book and start a podcast about it. They skim a Wikipedia article and walk into meetings like they authored it.

They don’t just absorb information — they curate realities from it.

There’s always a subtle hunger with this placement. A feeling like you’ve barely scratched the surface, like there’s more to know, more to become. It’s never enough — and weirdly, that’s their power source.

A boy I once was friends with( of course, the friendship became a rivalry later on) had Rahu in the 3rd. He spoke four languages, lied in three, and flirted in all of them. He wasn’t lying to harm. He was lying to become something — to level up. Every word out of his mouth was an audition. I once caught him practicing different laughs in the mirror. “I want to find the one that makes people trust me,” he said.

I should have known then. So I would love to tell you that this is the best placement for actors, conmen, politicians, cult leaders and well, anything that involves speaking. Inventing Anna, the show about Anna Delvey, the woman who conned her way to high society? Yep, that is Rahu in the 3rd.

💬 The Style: Disarming, Disorienting, Deadly Smart

This is the placement that can mirror you so well you forget they’re not you.

They adopt your slang. They time their emojis to your emotional pattern. Their voice note sounds like a soft friend, but there’s always something underneath — like a knowing that’s just one step ahead.

They can sound wise without understanding. Or innocent while scheming. They talk like they’ve been rehearsing in another dimension.

And they’re excellent storytellers. Even when the story is mostly made up.

I had a client with this placement who once pitched an idea for a tech startup — a dating app that used moon sign compatibility. He had no app. No code. Nothing. But his pitch? Stunning. He got funding. Later, I asked him how. He said, “I just told the story like it had already happened. People love confidence more than credentials.”

That’s Rahu. Say it like it’s true, and watch it become true. Because nothing does the job better than confidence. Dhirubhai Ambani, the man who made Ambani a household name from a surname? Again, the magic of this placement.

🧨 The Trickster Mind: Not Evil — Just Always Becoming

Let’s get one thing clear: Rahu in the 3rd isn’t a liar in the malicious sense. It’s more that the truth is fluid for them.

They bend it because they believe it’s flexible. That it’ll catch up later.
They say what needs to be said to move forward — not what’s grounded, but what’s useful.

Sometimes this unnerves people. Sometimes it inspires. Sometimes both. And the reason is maddeningly simple, it is because, if you use lofty terms at the right time, the right conversation and with the right people without second guessing yourself, you can very easily assume dominance in the room. Robert Greene, the man who has written books like The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The Laws of Human Nature and many other bestsellers, would definitely have a Rahuvian influence, these themes are all part of the Rahu world.

I’ve watched someone with this placement convince a room that she had a degree in psychology when she didn’t. She used phrases like “cognitive schema realignment” and “therapeutic projection dynamics.” No one questioned it. She just had the tone right. Later, she told me, “I do study people. Just not at university.”

This is a placement that gets mistaken for genius. Or danger. Or both.
But really, it’s someone grabbing the controls of language like a video game and playing it until it bends.

👯‍♀️ Siblings, Schemers, and the Shadow Self

The 3rd house also rules siblings — and Rahu here often comes with a complicated dynamic.

Either they’re endlessly fascinated by a sibling’s personality, trying to become like them… or they’re locked in a subtle rivalry, a lifelong “I’ll be more interesting than you” contest.

One of my clients — a journalist — said she started writing because her elder sister was always the golden child. “If she was perfect, I had to be powerful,” she said. She wrote her first op-ed at 14. It was about the ethics of teenage surveillance. Her sister is now a dentist. She has 300k followers.

Sometimes, if they’re an only child, the sibling becomes symbolic — a neighbor, a cousin, a best friend who becomes a benchmark. Someone to defeat. Someone to outtalk. Someone to outgrow.

Rahu in the 3rd doesn’t sit still. It climbs — usually over someone through talk. American Psycho anyone? Patrick Bateman definitely had this placement. The novel is even more Rahuvian than the movie. For that matter, all Quentin Tarantino movies do to, like excuse me, do you debate a burger joint in a room where you are about to kill the people in that room? No, but then Rahu is not your conventional cup of tea.

💼 The Career Hustle: Build a Brand Out of Thin Air

Give this placement a laptop, a strong Wi-Fi connection, and 2 days of obsession — and they’ll build a brand so compelling, you’ll swear it’s been around for years.

They are:

• Influencers who change accents mid-video
• Writers who self-publish under pen names and review themselves
• PR agents who can handle scandals because they’re built from one
• Startup founders with a thesis made of buzzwords, but still, it sells
• Content creators who make you cry over almond milk

I once met someone with Rahu in the 3rd who wrote fake Yelp reviews for a living. Yes. Fake. He made five figures a month. “I don’t sell food,” he said. “I sell desire.” That stayed with me. Robert Greene would have been proud at this one. Also this placement makes excellent mimics, so do not be surprised if these guys can mimic your body language and voice in the first two meetings. That guy could do a fantastic Al Pacino, De Niro among others and used those accents in everyday life?

This placement is rarely where you expect it. But once it speaks, you can’t un-hear it.

💸 Money, Fame, and the Hustler’s Dilemma

They attract money — fast, weird, sideways.

But they also attract scams, fame that burns out, and reputations built on foundations of fog.

If they’re not careful, they become a brand with no soul — charming, successful, but utterly disconnected from anything real. And eventually, people notice. You can’t illusion your way through Saturn returns.

But when they evolve?

They become messengers of new paradigms. Voices that lead revolutions. Truth-tellers who learned the value of illusion by burning in it.

📱 Vibe Check: Is It Performance or Purpose?

If you’re dealing with someone with Rahu in the 3rd, ask:

• Mercury: Is there clarity underneath the chaos?
• Saturn: Can they sustain what they start?
• Moon: Are they connected to what they say, or just high on attention?
• Ketu (in the 9th): Do they respect wisdom — or cosplay as it?

The high road of this placement is media mastery with moral clarity. A Swami Vivekananda.
The low road is manipulation with a mood board. A Tom Ripley( the sociopathic, utterly charming con man from the book adapted movie, The Talented Mr Ripley, with Matt Damon giving the performance of a lifetime)

✨ In Closing: Talk That Transforms

Rahu in the 3rd is not here to be “nice.” It’s here to open doors with words — then burn those doors and build staircases instead.

This is the placement of:

• The self-taught genius( Rahu in Gemini, Virgo, Aquarius, Scorpio)
• The fast-talking dreamer( Rahu in Cancer, Pisces, Sagittarius)
• The digital magician( Rahu in Libra, Leo)
• The one who learned early that if you don’t like your identity — you can simply write a better one( Rahu in Aries, Taurus, Capricorn)

It’s dangerous. It’s powerful.
And when conscious? It’s world-changing.

🔮 Remedies for the Trickster’s Tongue

• Wear smoky gray, teal, or ultraviolet on Wednesdays
• Recite: Om Ram Rahave Namah daily
• Donate books or tech kits to students who can’t afford them
• Fast from speaking one day a week — and journal instead
• Keep a “truth log” for 30 days: What did you say that was true? What wasn’t? Why?

Because Rahu in the 3rd doesn’t need to fake it till it makes it.
It just needs to learn when it’s time to stop performing and start embodying.