Letting go of the need to go first
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Aries since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Jul 31, 2031
That is about 5 years away. Last time it was here from December 2012 to July 2014.
Right now Ketu is in Leo →
Letting go of the need to go first
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. Aries is a movable fire sign ruled by Mars, a friend to Ketu, so the planet is at ease here. Both are sharp and quick, and both cut.
With Rahu in Libra, partnership, alliance and fairness are what the world is reaching for. On the Ketu side, the lone fighter and the urge to win alone lose their hold. Conflicts end suddenly, or burn out. The lesson is that courage still counts when nobody is watching.
Where in this record did someone stop fighting, and what took the place of the fight?
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 Libra, and the record is the same.
13 years ago
December 2012 to July 2014
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 Aries and read them against each other.
Born then: Dua Lipa, Kendall Jenner, Raheem Sterling.
1994–95 leaned to conflict and disaster, 2012–14 to politics and society. The same transit set the backdrop both times; what played out in front of it differed.
What made the news. Every story in the record for Ketu's visits to Aries, 261 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 34% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 34% | 29% |
| Science and space | 11% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 20% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 16% | 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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