• Scattering of focus in the occupied bhava.

• Bust-up, break-up, split-up, cut-off, chopped off, severing, apathy, decapitation, dismemberment, guillotine = chidakaraka Ketu

• Karaka = abandonment and divorce

• One feels "cut-off from" matters of the bhava and co-tenant graha may operate with apathetic detachment

• Passive spiritual awareness of the inherent transient emptiness of matters of Ketu's occupied house.

• Spiritualized detachment caused by psychic perception of the unconscious karmic baggage of self and others. For those who can utilize it = benefic trait of Ketu.

• Harassment from disaffected ancestors, predatory spirits, ghosts. Look to the house for the identity of the ghost.

• Inordinate emotional detachment caused by "Self-Doubt"= a malefic trait of Ketu.

• Wherever Ketu resides, long-term "material" success in matters of that domain is inhibited by Doubt.

  • One doubts the Appropriateness and adequacy of one's connection to the agent (person or activity) signified by Ketu's bhava.

• Material matters of the house will suffer ambivalence and benign neglect.

• Ketu's signature behaviors = "denial", "disconnection" and "alienation" via detachment.

• Ketu is a splendidly helpful graha in all matters of meditation and spiritual truth.

The mind is structured by infinite numbers of polarity-pairs called in English "ratio".

E.g.,

• dark : light :: night : day

• 2:4 :: 400:800

• large : small :: elephant : mouse

Most spatial ratios are common across humanity, but many socio-cultural ratios are unique to the local culture. When Ketu occupies a bhava, the ratios which normally create the rational structure of that bhava are dissolved.

For example, a normal polarity in bhava-6 = medicine: disease.

• But when Ketu occupies Ari Bhava, there may be a long wandering search for medicines which match the disease; physicians may be of no avail, and the native might self-heal with no apparent method or cause.

A normal polarity in bhava-7 = two partners with matching interests or backgrounds.

• But when Ketu occupies yuvati bhava, there is an "apples and oranges" incommensurability or mis-match between the partners. They hail from disjoint and often incompatible backgrounds, and rarely share a common perspective. Unless another graha also occupies 7, Ketu provides little opportunity to find a point of mutual interest.

Lacking the normal the "ratio" pairs of crucial linked opposites, the mind becomes "unglued" = incoherent.

In "free association" mode, any object of perception can pair with any other object; there are no "natural pairs" and no rules for matching. The behavior in matters of the bhava becomes "irrational" (no ratio) = crazy.

Ketu dissolves the inherent relationships between objects of perception.

• For example, Ketu in Bhava-9 "unglues" the normal pairing of priest:temple or professor:university. the native may find that father, priest, guru, professor, and preachers are misleading guides toward wisdom.

Into whichever house He is born, Lord Ketu causes a disconnection between the normal polarities. Inherent spatial and social relationships are disrupted by a scattering of the parts.

Thus Ketu tends to effect a dis-coherence, dis-adherence, un-adhesiveness (ungluing) or in-coherence in the structural relationships of the matters of His bhava.

• Ketu in 1 may produce a socially "incoherent personality" or at the very least one that is eccentric, peculiar, or socially irregular = Mother Teresa

• Ketu in 2 = incoherent family history = Barack Obama

• Ketu in Bhava-3 = incoherent messaging = often a dissolution of the normal polarities in conversation such as "truth-lie" = Bill Clinton

• Ketu in Bhava-4 = incoherent home life = dissolution of roots = Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (highly unstable early childhood)

• Ketu in 5 may produce an incoherent or aberrant child; perhaps one with a significant learning disability, or an alternative lifestyle = Stephen King (eccentric eldest daughter). One may also be prone to a highly eccentric expression of literary genius (King).

• Ketu in 8 = incoherent or dissolved inheritance = BV Raman(his inheritance was spent before he received it)

• Ketu in 10 may produce an incoherent or eccentric style of governance, or one that is suddenly cut off from its directional source = USA Pres-35, John F. Kennedy(suddenly scatter-shot in the head while president 10) One's moral conduct while holding the highest office in the land may also be questionable (JFK).

• Ketu in Bhava-11 = incoherent regulation of the income, unreliable friends, one that is suddenly cut off from the source of earnings = Steve Jobs (fired from his own company)

• Ketu in 12 can yield an incoherent imagination, hearing voices or wandering in search of sanctuary = Virginia Woolf (misleading voices leading to life-force severance suicide, bi-polar disorder)

Ketu always offers intensively spiritual potential via non-discrimination.

for the person who has the right constitution, grounded in the other bhava, Ketu's gift of freedom to not adhere to the customary pairings in social relationships can create a remarkable liberation from the bondage of conventional perception yielding direct access to other worlds.

The Ketu native can cross the social-category boundaries lines of gender, class, and caste with complete impunity. Those serving a higher purpose such as Mother Teresa can walk through war zones and throw expensive gifts out the window showing utter disregard for both kings and criminals. However for those lacking a higher purpose, there may be trouble from mis-matches of every variety in matters of the portfolio of Ketu's bhava.

the native may find that no matter how great one's success in the other departments of one's life, the bhava containing Ketu will be permanently weakened by instability of pairings and poor psychic boundaries.

• Behavioral results include excessive detachment leading to neglect in matters of the bhava, unpredictable interactions in relationships due to fluctuating self-doubt, chronicallyunmet emotional needs, and vulnerability toAbuseby the significators of the kendra (1 = self; 4 = parents, 7 = spouse, 10 = boss).

• Kendra = "corner" = the stabilizing pillars of the kundali. Kendra bhavas indicate the major reinforcement relationships which are required to sustain a coherent, sane, and productive individuality in its physical, emotional, mental, and social contexts. (Note that spiritual sustenance is not determined by kendra relationships.)

• The social self is anchored in four key relationships: body (1), parents (4), partner (7), and work (10). The reason that Ketu is so crippling in kendra is that Ketu signifies BOTH the presence of a constitutional psychic weakness AND the compulsive denial of that weakness.

• Due to denial based in fear of losing control over one's own personality, the native is typically unable to achieve the conscious awareness of one's own weakness which is the prerequisite to making the behavioral changes necessary to correct the problem. Thus the native with Ketu in kendra will tend to remain in bondage to Ketu's unresolved frustration, doubt, and resignation rather than ever be able to fix it.

yields psychic intuition regarding the unsavory or forbidden behaviors of others.

• This unusually sensitive perception of occult truth, while not especially welcome in the lives of those seeking the safest path through life, may prove useful for healers, detectives, conflict managers, and agents of social change.

improves over time.

• There is early-life psychicfragilitydue to self-doubt in matters of the bhava. Abuse from disrespectful or mentally-ill behavior of a sibling or team-mate (3), mother's relatives or servants (6), supervisor or empowered decision-maker (10) and friends or marketplace associates.

• However the native typically will learn, over time, to improve their conscious management of personal psychic boundaries.

• With maturity, one's acute sensitivity and intuitive perception can evolve from a liabilityto an Asset.