KETU IN VIRGO AND FOCUS ON KETU
Ketu moves into the sign of Virgo on Nov. 28th in the true node system until May 2025. We have outlined the impact on your chart by the rising sign and moon sign in our companion article.
Virgo is a business sign and Ketu is a very spiritual planet and is a fish out of water. This transit will attempt to be successful in business but will feel dissatisfied by its gains. Ketu is idealistic and does not know how to deal with the practical Virgo energy. It may just let go and want to go off and meditate and ignore its material duties.
Virgo is the natural 6th sign of the Zodiac and brings in 6th house affairs regarding, health, hygiene and healing and anD obsession with perfection. This transit may promote hypochondriac tendencies in people who have a tendency toward purity and cleanliness. It can increase our critical nature as Virgo has that quality and Ketu can be out of balance here. Virgo is also connected to the Virgin and the primal feminine sense of purity and Ketu will amplify this and maybe a good time to do pilgrimage to Spain to visit sacred sites of the Virgin Mary.Â
If you were born with Ketu in Virgo, you are happy with its service mode and desire to help society and humanity.Â
ALL ABOUT KETU
Ketu or the South Node is a combination of all our past lives and events and ideas from all incarnations and unresolved energies that are there to propel us into the future. We tend to rest comfortably on the energy of the South node because it is familiar territory and it provides a foundation for us to move forward in this life. If afflicted, it can be a burden from the past and impinge on our present life. If in dignity connected to Jupiter, it provides a deep foundation to support us in the present life with deep knowledge and devotion to religion or our Guru. Ketu has no head and it feels with heart and reacts instinctively, emotionally, and intuitively rather than intellectually. The deepest purpose of Ketu is to connect the conscious mind to the subconscious and open up mysteries to unlock our spiritual quest.
Ketu is the co-ruler of Scorpio along with Mars and as the natural 8th sign of the zodiac it is connected to mystical experience and interest in the occult. It can often become the sole ruler of Scorpio if conjunct another planet and if Mars is alone and this gets ignored often in analysis.  Even if you are not ruled by Ketus as Scorpio rising,   you can have a strong Ketu signature in your chart if Ketu is in the 1st house, Ketu is in the 12th, or your Sun, Moon, or rising sign is in Mula (Sag. 0-13.20) nakshatra, Ashwini (Aries 0-13.20) or Magha (Leo 0-13.20) nakshatra. Ketu closely conjunct your chart lord within 3 degrees could also give you a dominant Ketu personality.
Ketu is connected to mystical and magical powers, poverty, contemplation, and desire or knowledge and astrology. It tends to be rather unconscious and may have little awareness of how it appears in the world and may not be conscious of clothes or appearance. I have seen many Ketu people rejoice in wearing tattered and torn clothes and not even realize it was a problem. Ketu represents an accumulation of past life gifts and talents from past lifetimes that we have perfected over a series of incarnations and which come naturally in this lifetime.  For example, my own Ketu in the 8th in Gemini conjunct Jupiter gives me past life occult and astrological talents and made learning Jyotish very easy. Ketu is fiery and governs independent thinkers fixated on a cause, rebels, and cannot handle criticism without getting defensive.  Ketu types can have low self-esteem and self-doubt and can be self-destructive. They tend to become astrologers, psychics, and yogis and are very capable of transcending their egos.
Ketu people can suffer from anxiety, self-doubt, self-effacement, self-martyring, shyness, insecurity, and gullibility. At the same time, they may be overly impressionable receptive, and too accommodating. Ketu tends to explode out of nowhere and this is a real problem. You may think there is no problem until things go too far and there is an explosion. Ketu can be caught in fanaticism and in that case, it creates blind spots in not seeing its dogmatic and rigid ways. This irrational energy can often lead to higher wisdom after chaos, disorder, and surprise hits.
Ketu people, on the bright side, can be very generous, compassionate, surrendered to and devoted to the Spirit, and contribute much to the world’s store of wisdom It is the karaka or signifier for Moksha or enlightenment, and as the soul seeks liberation and hence it is most connected to the 12th house and wanting to reject and let go of worldly pleasures and find altered states of consciousness where there is no pain an eternal happiness. It tends to be too idealistic and may reject outer realities in search of happiness. The path of enlightenment requires a journey from head to heart if we are to let go and transcend the limitations of the logical world and find the mystical realm of the eternal.
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Rahu and Ketu form the core of our desire for this incarnation and what we need to heal from the past. If we understand their depth and can heal the lessons they present, then we will have completed our purpose in this incarnation. The signs, houses, nakshatras, planetary associations, positions in the Varga charts all reveal information about our core lessons in this life. This course will attempt an in-depth look at deciphering their mystery and the healing that we need to learn to master their lessons. This is a 21 week in-depth class with new material.
Basic knowledge of Vedic astrology is required. The class is being geared to benefit basic astrological students as well as those with a more advanced background. Please email questions directly to Barry Rosen at barry@appliedvedicastrology.com. PAYMENT PLANS ARE AVAILABLE. REQUEST BY EMAIL.
          Class Syllabus
·       Lesson 1-5: Rahu and Ketu in Depth
Addictions, Ethics, Personality, Karmic Flaws, and Blind Spots, Mythology, Archetypes, Case Studies of Famous People, Psychological Aberrations
·       Lesson 4-6: Rahu and Ketu by Sign Placement
Types of Signs: Moveable, Fixed, Dual, Male, Female, Zodiacal
·       Lesson 7-8-9 : Rahu and Ketu Lessons by House
Balancing Illusion and Falseness with Rigidity and Stuckness
- Rahu and Ketu in House Types: Artha, Kama, Dharma, Moksha
·       Lesson 10 : Rahu and Ketu Yogas and Dispositors
·       Lesson 11: Rahu and Ketu Dashas: A Survival Guide
·       Lesson 12: Rahu and Ketu Transits and Eclipses
·       LESSON 13A: Health, and Finance and Work
·       Lesson 13B: Rahu and Ketu & Relationships
The 1/7 and 4/10 Axis of Complication
·       Lesson 14: Rahu and Ketu’s in the Varga Charts
·       Lesson 15: The Five Wounds of Rahu and Ketu
o  Betrayal, Injustice, Rejection, Abandonment, and Humiliation
Lesson 16: Introduction to Rahu and Ketu Nakshatras
 Introduction to the Impact on the Mind
·       Lesson 17: Rahu and Ketu -owned Nakshatras
·       Lesson 18-19-20: Rahu in Different Nakshatras
 LESSON 21-22 Rahu and Ketu Remedies
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PART 2:Â QUALITIES OF KETU
Ketu can be cruel if afflicted by Mars or Saturn and in the chart of Adolph Hitler, we see Ketu in the 3rd house conjunct Mars and inflicted war and cruelty without any social consciousness. Â On the opposite pole, it can be selfless in service as we see in the chart of Mother Teresa with Ketu in the 12th.
Ketu people tend to be short and heavier in weight and put on more weight in older age. Their personality can be mesmerizing, and they have a strong sense of smell and they may even wear torn clothes like a beggar. I remember in my Ketu period at age 6 I put on a pair of pants with huge torn holes and went to the library myself and I had no idea why people were looking at me. Ketu is a wanderer who is not attached to the material and is disenchanted with material things. It wants to go on walkabouts, and spiritual pilgrimages, and often the homeless and hobos will have a strong Ketu influence. I met people in Asheville, NC who lived on the streets and they told me how they would hop on freight trains and wander through the US. This is typical of Ketu people.
Ketu is the karaka or signifier for Moksha or enlightenment as the soul seeks liberation and hence it is most connected to the 12th house and wanting to reject and let go of worldly pleasures and find altered states of consciousness where there is no pain and eternal happiness. It tends to be too idealistic and may reject outer realities in search of happiness.
The dark side of Ketu is that it can be morbid, suspicious, and even sadistic if connected to malefic signs and planets. Edgar Allen Poe had Ketu in the 7th in Aries and hence it connected to Mars and brought out the darker side. Ketu is like Mars in his spiritual warrior quest to dissolve breakthrough and release and discover the Divine. Ketu’s chief plan is to cause pain roadblocks and traffic jams on life’s journey to change psychic and force it to look for answers in the material world.  Ketu is so powerful with its fiery energy that it may be difficult to halt its karmic unraveling. It can be connected to accidents, fires, injuries, and assassinations particularly if there is a Mars influence or other strong malefic influences. These might manifest in strong Ketu periods or subperiods or if Ketu transits over a key area of your char
Whatever house and sign Ketu is in, binds up to past karmic residue but at the same time gives us positive impressions of the past to move us forward with past life skills. Still, Ketu will keep us locked in the past and prevent moving forward to the future which is represented by Rahu.  Ketu can be a kind of quicksand that binds us to our difficult past emotional patterns and it may not be useful and we have to learn to let go of its grip or drown in regret.  If we drive forward with always looking in the rearview mirror we will not see what is in front of us.  It is not useful to live in the past with difficult compressed memories that we are trying to unravel and that may take years of therapy a waste of time for many people although I do find that air signs like Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius do well with it. If we spend too much time in the past, it brings it to the present.
Ketu does well with Jupiter and Mercury so Ketu in Pisces, Sagittarius, Gemini, or Virgo or having strong aspects or conjunctions will allow Ketu to move past the past and draw upon it positively. .
Ultimately, Ketu-dominated people often are afraid to experience life fully and consequently may reject others because they reject themselves. They need to learn self-love, get out there, and be in the world more rather than retreating into a cave and meditating. The important adage, that was then, this is now is a constant mantra Ketu people need to work on daily to move toward the future and the Rahu pole of existence.
Special thanks to Komilla Sutton and Prash Trivedi for their insights into Ketu.
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DETAILS HERE;
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WATCH THEÂ FIRST FREE CLASS
Free introduction to Rahu and Ketu Class 1st edition on YouTube at:Â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGRv3hiuyCE
Rahu and Ketu form the core of our desire for this incarnation and what we need to heal from the past. If we understand their depth and can heal the lessons they present, then we will have completed our purpose in this incarnation. The signs, houses, nakshatras, planetary associations, positions in the Varga charts all reveal information about our core lessons in this life. This course will attempt an in-depth look at deciphering their mystery and the healing that we need to learn to master their lessons. This is a 21 week in-depth class with new material.
Basic knowledge of Vedic astrology is required. The class is being geared to benefit basic astrological students as well as those with a more advanced background. Please email questions directly to Barry Rosen at barry@appliedvedicastrology.com. PAYMENT PLANS ARE AVAILABLE. REQUEST BY EMAIL.
          Class Syllabus
·       Lesson 1-5: Rahu and Ketu in Depth
Addictions, Ethics, Personality, Karmic Flaws, and Blind Spots, Mythology, Archetypes, Case Studies of Famous People, Psychological Aberrations
·       Lesson 4-6: Rahu and Ketu by Sign Placement
Types of Signs: Moveable, Fixed, Dual, Male, Female, Zodiacal
·       Lesson 7-8-9 : Rahu and Ketu Lessons by House
Balancing Illusion and Falseness with Rigidity and Stuckness
- Rahu and Ketu in House Types: Artha, Kama, Dharma, Moksha
·       Lesson 10 : Rahu and Ketu Yogas and Dispositors
·       Lesson 11: Rahu and Ketu Dashas: A Survival Guide
·       Lesson 12: Rahu and Ketu Transits and Eclipses
·       LESSON 13A: Health, and Finance and Work
·       Lesson 13B: Rahu and Ketu & Relationships
The 1/7 and 4/10 Axis of Complication
·       Lesson 14: Rahu and Ketu’s in the Varga Charts
·       Lesson 15: The Five Wounds of Rahu and Ketu
o  Betrayal, Injustice, Rejection, Abandonment, and Humiliation
Lesson 16: Introduction to Rahu and Ketu Nakshatras
 Introduction to the Impact on the Mind
·       Lesson 17: Rahu and Ketu -owned Nakshatras
·       Lesson 18-19-20: Rahu in Different Nakshatras
 LESSON 21-22 Rahu and Ketu Remedies
