Stepping back from the crowd
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Aquarius since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Sep 5, 2034
That is about 8 years away. Last time it was here from January 2016 to August 2017.
Right now Ketu is in Leo →
Stepping back from the crowd
Ketu is the Moon's south node, a shadow planet with no body of its own. It stands for letting go, the past, sudden endings and the turn inward. It moves backward through the zodiac, and Rahu always sits in the opposite sign, reaching for what Ketu releases. Aquarius is a fixed air sign ruled by Saturn, which is neutral to Ketu: the sign of groups, networks, causes and the future.
With Rahu in Leo, fame, spectacle and the single leader are what the world is reaching for. On the Ketu side, mass movements and shared ideals lose their pull. Groups split. Causes burn out. The lesson is that a cause needs people who keep it going after the crowd goes home.
Which groups or causes lost their pull in these years, and who kept going?
Three questions, in this order. They work for every planet and every sign.
Pick a visit to read its record. The most covered stories come first; the kinds of story show as colours.
Rahu and Ketu always sit opposite each other, so these visits are also the visits of Rahu in Leo, and the record is the same.
10 years ago
January 2016 to August 2017
Anyone born under a transit carries it in their birth chart. Those with a chart in our library open straight into it.
Too soon to tell. People born during this visit will appear here once they are grown and well known.
The same transit, a generation apart. Pick any two of Ketu's visits to Aquarius and read them against each other.
Born then: Malala Yousafzai, Kylian Mbappé, Max Verstappen.
Both visits had more conflict and disaster stories than any other kind. The same transit can carry a similar tone a generation apart, or the record can simply reflect what gets written about.
What made the news. Every story in the record for Ketu's visits to Aquarius, 304 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 44% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 23% | 29% |
| Science and space | 11% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 22% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 9% | 10% |
Gold numbers differ from the usual mix by five points or more. Wikipedia covers some kinds of story more than others, and a few visits are a small sample, so treat a difference as something to notice and check, not a rule.
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