Ketu at its strongest, in the sign of what is hidden
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Scorpio since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Apr 30, 2039
That is about 12½ years away. Last time it was here from September 2020 to April 2022.
Right now Ketu is in Leo →
Ketu at its strongest, in the sign of what is hidden
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. Scorpio is a fixed water sign ruled by Mars, and the tradition calls Ketu exalted here: a planet of release and insight in the sign of secrets, crisis and deep change. It sees what others miss.
With Rahu in Taurus, wealth, land and pleasure are what the world is reaching for. On the Ketu side, fear of the hidden loses its hold. Research goes deep. Crises turn out to be turning points. The lesson is that facing the dark is how it stops being frightening.
What came to light in these years that had long been hidden?
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 Taurus, and the record is the same.
6 years ago
September 2020 to April 2022
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 Scorpio and read them against each other.
Born then: Greta Thunberg, Olivia Rodrigo, Joao Grimaldo.
2002–03 leaned to culture and sport, 2020–22 to conflict and disaster. 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 Scorpio, 271 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 29% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 25% | 29% |
| Science and space | 19% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 27% | 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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