KetuKetu
Malefic · governs 7 years of the Vimshottari cycle
The south node, opposite Rahu. Associated with detachment, specialisation and the things a person is already so good at that they no longer value them.
Rulership and dignity
- Rules
- No signThe nodes own no sign in the Parashari mainstream
- Exalted in
- Not defined
- Debilitated in
- Not defined
- Moolatrikona
- Not defined
- Dasha length
- 7 years
Relationships and reach
- Aspects
- 7th, plus 5th and 9th
- Friends
- Mars, Venus, Saturn
- Enemies
- Sun, Moon
- Neutral
- Mercury, Jupiter
- Combustion orb
- Not applicable
Ketu is not a body
Ketu is a point, not an object: one of the two places where the Moon's orbit crosses the plane of the ecliptic. Nothing is there to see. It always appears to move backwards through the zodiac, at a little over nineteen degrees a year, which is why this platform marks it retrograde without treating that as an event.
Because it owns no sign, the engine reports its dignity as neutral rather than inventing a rulership. Schools disagree about the nodes' exaltation signs, and this platform declines to pick a side quietly.