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Graha
Ketu
केतुKetuDetachment, spirituality, past karma, moksha.
Where Ketu is now
Sinh 5°39', in Magha pada 2Retrograde
- Sign lord
- Sun
- Western sign
- Leo
- Dignity here
- Neither exalted nor debilitated
Computed for Sat, 8 Aug, 2026, 5:30 pm IST, sidereal Lahiri.
Classical attributes
From the standard texts. These do not change.
- Rules the signs
- — — the shadow planets rule no sign in the classical texts.
- Exalted in
- Traditions differ — commonly Vrishchik, sometimes Dhanu
- Debilitated in
- Traditions differ — commonly Vrishabh, sometimes Mithun
- Moolatrikona
- Not assigned
- Aspects (drishti)
- 5th, 7th, 9th house from itself — the 7th plus its special aspects
- Natural friends
- Mars, Venus, Saturn
- Neutral toward
- Mercury
- Natural enemies
- Sun, Moon
- Karaka of
- Detachment and moksha, past karma, insight, healing and sudden loss.
- Presiding deity
- Ganesha
- Weekday
- None — the nodes rule no day
- Gemstone
- Cat’s eye (Lehsunia)
- Metal
- Lead
- Direction
- North-west
- Beeja mantra
- Om Sraam Sreem Sraum Sah Ketave Namah
- Vimshottari mahadasha
- 7 years
Ketu in the Vimshottari cycle
Detachment, spirituality, endings and moksha; inward, karmic, sometimes unsettling years.
Ketu rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras, evenly spaced through the zodiac. A birth Moon in any of them starts life in a Ketu mahadasha of 7 years.