Release in the sign of the sea
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Pisces since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Feb 16, 2033
That is about 6½ years away. Last time it was here from July 2014 to January 2016.
Right now Ketu is in Leo →
Release in the sign of the sea
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. Pisces is a dual water sign ruled by Jupiter, a friend to Ketu, so the planet is at ease here: the sign of faith, dreams, the sea and the end of a cycle. Both lean toward the inner world.
With Rahu in Virgo, method, health and the technical fix are what the world is reaching for. On the Ketu side, illusions lose their hold. Some escapes close down, and some spiritual paths deepen. The lesson is that letting go is a skill, and that this sign teaches it more gently than most.
What did people let go of in these years, and was it a loss or a relief?
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 Virgo, and the record is the same.
12 years ago
July 2014 to January 2016
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 Pisces and read them against each other.
Born then: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Rosé.
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 Pisces, 288 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 40% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 29% | 29% |
| Science and space | 14% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 17% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 11% | 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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