First love was a karmic echo

There was something about that first love—too immediate to be new, too deep to be simple. It didn’t feel like beginnings. It felt like picking up where something left off. You looked at them and didn’t just feel attraction. You felt memory. But not the kind stored in this life. Something older. Quieter. Rooted in the soul.

In Vedic astrology, this sense of déjà vu often points to Ketu. The South Node. A marker of the past—not just childhood or yesterday, but lifetimes ago. When your chart touches theirs there, it’s like brushing up against an old story. Familiarity floods in. You recognize their energy before they speak. Their smile feels like a place you’ve lived before.

But Ketu isn’t here to make you stay. It’s here to show you what was. And Rahu—the North Node—what could be. It pushes you toward what’s unfamiliar, uncomfortable, sometimes painful’. That first love may feel like home, but Rahu asks: will you evolve? Will you choose growth over comfort?

And then Saturn lingers. The planet of structure, of weight. If Saturn casts its shadow between your charts, it might bind you. Through duty. Through hardship. Through lessons that hurt before they heal. You may have loved with all your heart and still walked away heavier. Wiser.

Not every first love lasts. But some are meant to arrive like storms—to clear karma, to wake the soul, to remind you that love is not always gentle, but it’s always sacred.

So perhaps that first love wasn’t an accident. Perhaps it was a promise fulfilled. A contract signed long ago. And when it ended, it wasn’t failure—it was completion. A thread tied off in the great weaving of your spirit’s journey. Not forgotten. Just… finished.