Ketu at its weakest, in the sign of what we keep
Returns about every 18½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Taurus since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Jan 10, 2030
That is about 3 years away. Last time it was here from June 2011 to December 2012.
Right now Ketu is in Leo →
Ketu at its weakest, in the sign of what we keep
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. Taurus is a fixed earth sign ruled by Venus, and the tradition calls Ketu debilitated here: a planet of release in the sign of holding on to land, money, food and comfort. The two pull in opposite directions.
With Rahu in Scorpio, secrets, debt and hidden power are what the world is reaching for. On the Ketu side, settled wealth and old comforts lose their footing. Values shift. Savings feel less safe. The lesson is that what we own was never the same as who we are.
What did people lose or give up in these years, and what did they find they could live without?
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 Scorpio, and the record is the same.
15 years ago
June 2011 to December 2012
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 Taurus and read them against each other.
Born then: Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus.
1992–94 leaned to conflict and disaster, 2011–12 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 Taurus, 235 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 28% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 34% | 29% |
| Science and space | 11% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 27% | 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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