ಕೇತು ಮಹಾದಶೆ: 7 ವರ್ಷದ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಮಾರ್ಗದರ್ಶಿ

Ketu Mahadasha: The Spiritual Dissolver's 7-Year Mandate

Ketu, the southern lunar node and shadow Graha without physical form, governs a 7-year Mahadasha that Jyotisha classically describes as the most spiritually charged and materially dissolving period in the Vimsottari cycle. Unlike Rahu's 18-year amplification of worldly desire, Ketu's 7 years operate through subtraction — dissolving attachments, dismantling ego-constructed identities, and steering the native toward moksha-oriented values whether or not the native has consciously chosen a spiritual path. Parashara (BPHS, Chapter 47) describes Ketu as a Graha that mimics Mars in its separative and sudden qualities while functioning as the repository of the soul's past-life Karma. What Ketu touches becomes simultaneously familiar (past-life mastery) and unsatisfying (the soul has already exhausted this domain). This explains one of Ketu Mahadasha's defining phenomenologies: the native often achieves goals during this period only to find them hollow upon achievement. Classical Jyotisha identifies Ketu's strongest placements as Scorpio (own sign or sign of deep comfort), Pisces (exaltation in some classical schemes), and Sagittarius (where Ketu operates with spiritual clarity). Ketu in the 12th Bhava intensifies moksha-orientation; in the 1st Bhava creates identity dissolution and spiritual searching; in the 10th Bhava can paradoxically generate public recognition through spiritual or research-oriented work. The entire 7-year period carries Ketu's signature regardless of Bhukti — the question is which dimension of dissolution each sub-period activates.