Transit · Gochar
General Effect
Ketu's transit brings detachment, spiritual insight, and sometimes loss to the house it occupies. The opposite of Rahu's inflation, Ketu deflates and dissolves, removing what you no longer need (whether you agree or not). Ketu transit often feels like involuntary surrender.
What It Activates
Spiritual awakening, past-life patterns surfacing, loss of attachment, health mysteries, sudden insight, isolation from material world, moksha-oriented events, ancestral karma, research and investigation.
Favorable Transit
Spiritual depth, liberation from toxic attachments, intuitive breakthroughs, research mastery, past-life talent emergence, healing through surrender.
Challenging Transit
Unexplained health issues, sudden losses, relationship detachment, confusion about direction, ancestral karma surfacing, feeling invisible or irrelevant.
How to Read This Transit
Ketu transiting over natal planets creates detachment from those planetary significations. Ketu in the 1st dissolves ego; in the 4th disrupts home comfort; in the 7th creates relationship aloofness; in the 12th (its best placement) deepens spiritual practice. Always read Ketu with its axis partner Rahu, as they work as a pair.
Practical Tip
Ketu transit periods are ideal for meditation, spiritual retreats, research deep-dives, and letting go of what has served its purpose. Don't cling to what Ketu is dissolving. It's clearing space for Rahu's new chapter on the opposite axis.
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