What Ketu Means in Your Chart
Ketu (केतु) is the south lunar node — always directly opposite Rahu in your chart. Where Rahu craves, Ketu renounces. The house Ketu occupies represents an area of life where you have over-invested in past lives and now feel little motivation. This manifests as disinterest, sudden detachment, or spiritual insight in that domain. Ketu rules intuition, past-life memory, and the path toward Moksha (liberation). Planets conjunct Ketu become highly internalized and psychic.
Ketu's Significations and Placement
Ketu is exalted in Scorpio and performs well in the 12th house (liberation), the 9th (spiritual wisdom), and the 3rd (detached courage). He is challenging in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 7th — where his severing nature cuts into identity, family, home, and relationships.
- 12th house — deep spirituality, foreign lands
- 9th house — unconventional dharma, guru detachment
- 4th house — restlessness at home
Working With Ketu in Your Life
Ketu Mahadasha lasts 7 years. Early on, things the Ketu house represents often fall away — it can feel like loss, but it is purification. Track which planets Ketu conjuncts or aspects: they take on Ketu's detached, sharp, sometimes eccentric quality. Strengthening Ketu through spiritual practice, meditation, or service to the elderly and disabled reduces the painful side of his transits.