The ladder loses its pull
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Capricorn since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Mar 24, 2036
That is about 9½ years away. Last time it was here from August 2017 to March 2019.
Right now Ketu is in Leo →
The ladder loses its pull
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. Capricorn is a movable earth sign ruled by Saturn, which is neutral to Ketu: the sign of status, duty, government and the long climb.
With Rahu in Cancer, home, homeland and belonging are what the world is reaching for. On the Ketu side, institutions and hierarchies lose their hold. Old orders fall. Careers end suddenly. The lesson is that a structure lasts only as long as people believe in it.
Which old structures fell in these years, and what grew in the space they left?
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 Cancer, and the record is the same.
9 years ago
August 2017 to March 2019
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 Capricorn and read them against each other.
Born then: Erling Haaland, Sabrina Carpenter, Percy Liza.
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 Capricorn, 312 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 42% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 25% | 29% |
| Science and space | 13% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 20% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 7% | 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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