Disconnection and detachment:
Ketu Yuti Yoga
Ketu Combinations with other planets
Ketu = disconnection from the desire (Rahu) to experience perceptual reality.
Generally, Ketu materially harms the native's ability to connect with, and utilize the powers of, any graha which is yuti with Ketu.
Native is "unable to get to it." Cannot reach it, attain it, schedule it, manage it, appropriate it, is not entitled to it.
However Ketu simultaneously improves the native's spiritual position by disabling the ego attachment to the portfolio of grahas with whom Ketu shares a rashi.
At higher levels of consciousness, Ketu gives increased awareness of impermanence & a spiritual sensitivity to the desires of others
At normal levels of consciousness, Ketu connotes ignorance, frustration, denial and despair.
In all cases, Ketu's motive is to clear away obstacles which are inhibiting the native's spiritual development.
Even when the material consequences appear to be unfavorable, Ketu will succeed in separating the native from unnecessary ego attachment to some external artifact of perception.
Graha yuti Ketu
Effect
Brad Pitt (actor)
Patsy Cline (singer)
Julia Roberts (actress)
Extremely sensitive head.
Moral doubt. Unsure about ethical boundaries. Irrational behavior. May be extraordinarily lucky, but one experiences deep ambivalence about the meaning or value of one's own good fortune.
If Surya is strong, one may accept leadership positions and become very famous, but one is not attached to the high position. Feels compelled to politicize the public image and use one's position to further noble ideals.
Extremely sensitive breasts & chest, front & back torso.
Confused emotions & strong survival instinct to disconnect from intimacy. Poor boundaries with an unpredictable Mother: she is both distant & invasive by turns.
Native is sincere but emotionally somewhat unreliable; prone to emotional escape tactics to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Sorrowful individual, far too sensitive to the feelings of others in despair of ever finding his own emotional balance, to be truly comfortable in this life.
Tries to be a brave protector, but emotionally numbed, so courage is modeled on outsiders, not coming from within.
Gifted psychic, can flourish in a protected sanctuary environment. Excellent for deep meditation & spiritual practice of sacrificial love, anything in the bhakti tradition will be satisfying.
May have trouble expressing his feelings verbally and may also be unable to recall his childhood, which is often traumatic.
Extremely sensitive abdominal region.
Unacknowledged anger & diffused competitive instincts. Likes to fight but may take bribes on the outcome, or work for the opposing team. Natural double-agent, or mercenary soldier. Has no moral or political attachment to the outcome of the war.
Uncomfortable in their own skin. Ambivalent about winning or losing, yet very sensitive on the point. Sore loser.
Trouble expressing clear physical directive. Ambivalent about the cycle of birth and death, and his place in it. Little patience for sustained efforts, and tendency toward passive-aggressive emotional response, esp. if Chandra is involved.
Behaviorally, the effective equivalent of neechha Kuja. Not overly attached to the physical body. Therefore, can accept - and often surmount - tremendous risks of life & limb.
Beneficial for high-risk occupations where safety is a dream. By transit, stimulates disease of connective tissue, blood coagulation, and other "disconnection" imbalances.
Julia Roberts (actress)
If other grahas support it, this yoga is a key piece of the "Rescuer" profile that is often found in healers.
Unfortunately this type of healer is generally not conscious of what they are trying to accomplish - i.e., manipulate/improve another's field of perception - and therefore the native is often exhausted mentally and physically from their work.
Extremely sensitive hands. Psychic absorptiveness. Profound sensitivity to the mental patterns of others in one's environment.
Not a clear analytical thinker unless Budha is uccha or swakshetra, or receives drishti of Shani. Shani drishti gives sobriety and a degree of pessimism which is actually stabilizing for this spacey, intuitive yoga.
Impulsive decisions, particularly in intimate relationships, where sexuality (Budha) is confused with spirituality (Ketu).
Mystical views on love and commitment which may not match up very accurately with the real world behavior of either self or spouse, but the native persists in the eternal hope of a perfect love.
Attracts needy & deceptive partners - particularly if Ketu or Budha feature prominently in navamsha.
Charlie Chaplin
U.S. Senator Hillary R. Clinton
U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle
Pablo Picasso
Gov. of New Mexico: Bill Richardson
bribery-disgraced U.S. Congressman: Tom DeLay
U.S. Sec. of Defense 1975-1977 & 2001-2006, Donald Rumsfeld
actress & model Jennifer Aniston
comedian Jerry Seinfeld
Extremely sensitive sciatic nerve & reproductive complex.
Native is a nice, friendly, slightly eccentric person with a pernicious tendency to promote ideals which one neither understands nor believes in.
Groundless optimism & false generosity. Highly sensitive to religious dogma & the elite behaviors of the priesthood, but disconnected from the actual source of the wisdom.
Ketu yuti a strong benefic, e.g. well-placed Shukra or Guru, indicates surprisingly easy popularity (what Americans call "like-ability) with the common folk, even despite potentially glaring character flaws.
Ketu is inherently unpredictable and His effects fluctuate over time. The Ketu-supported ride to popularity can also collapse into public disgrace.
If Guru is stronger, native may be an ungrounded spiritual minister.
If Ketu is stronger, native can become a "talking head" who promotes a certain religious or philosophical view to which he is not personally connected.
Profound ambivalence veiled in an aura of humanism. Will promote any view that brings him acceptance & gain.
Confusion about what genuine faith is, or feels like. Public approval can replace personal faith.
Subject to cult beliefs & idolatry of a guru or an ideology. Sudden changes of religious or moral conviction, in order to serve the interests of others.
Tendency to absorb the children of others. Large family with numerous offspring, but few are one's own. Beholden to many for one's own prosperity.
Usually a happy person, not prone to deep inquiry, willing to serve as a symbolic guru or social figurehead. Enjoys public approval through promoting a generalized positive view of life & the future. Constitutional dislike of religious inquiry.
Ketu is trying to eliminate attachment to belief systems which have become an obstacle on the native's path to spiritual development. In this process, the native experiences confusion about what expansion is and what faith is & how to connect authentically to the source of prosperity & faith.
Strong tendency - unless native is sufficiently conscious - to enthusiastically promote beliefs to which one has no authentic connection. Classic yuti for a hypocritical preacher.
Extremely sensitive to sugars: delicate kidney/pancreas/hormones.
Persistent romantic. Wanting relationships to be pure, innocent, and sweet. Often severely disappointed. Karaka for disconnection with the spouse. May substitute a plethora of sensual pleasures for abiding love, if Shukra is stronger. If Ketu is stronger, at birth or by dasha/gochara, extraordinary disappointment in love leading to depression & despair. Karaka for alcoholism & other sugar addictions.
Poor choice of spouse due to wearing "rose colored glasses" at the time of marriage.
Does not harm sexual relations, esp. if Shukra is strong.
This yoga limits sexual communication to the realm of sensual pleasure and does not permit deeper psychic union in sex, due to the distancing of Ketu.
Both native & spouse practice distancing behaviors due to trauma in their childhoods.
Typically the parents' marriage was also sensually rather than spiritually focused and/or subsisted in a condition of deep despair.
Meditation engaging a female deity such as Laxmi, Saraswati, Tara, KwanYin, Mother Mary, or any female divine energy form from the native's own religious tradition, will improve native's awareness of this distancing habit (rooted in an underlying despair).
It may be helpful to appreciate that Ketu is trying to remove excess sensual pleasures which have become obstacles in the native's spiritual development.
Typically the native "fights back" by asserting their right to pleasures, the exclusive focus on pleasure will - ironically - deprive one of love!
This is a tricky yoga because of the strong addiction & denial, but it will resolve in honest meditation if the native so desires.
Extremely sensitive to oppressive & drying forces: delicate bones, skin, nails, hair.
Profound & incurable sense of harsh separation from the Source. Crushing workload, never-ending & undeserved.
Social distancing behaviors as a form of survival. Social marginalization due to not adhering to, or never having been educated in, the basic social rules for politeness, obligations, status ranking.
Taciturn despite great sensitivity to the plight of mankind. Resents the whole fact of incarnation, despite having chosen the privilege. Anxiety over social injustice.
May exhaust oneself in futile attempts to spiritualize "the system" or personally correct social class inequities. Missing basic information about conformity, boundaries, rules.
Fabulously good yoga for true mystics who are finished with the cycle of lifetimes of infatuation with material reality.
For the less evolved, will signify frustration with their own social marginalization, impotence in fixing the problems to which they are so sensitive, and a lifetime Sisyphus complex caused by wanting to spiritualize a materialistic society.
Typically a karaka for "outsider" status, but can be skillfully successful in "fringe" roles if other grahas give ego support.
updated: 16 August 2008
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