Ketu Transit in Aries

Aries belongs to Mars, and Ketu behaves like Mars, as the saying Kujavat Ketu puts it, so Ketu is at ease in this direct sign. For about a year and a half it works on the self, the body, initiative and identity. Whatever was held for the sake of ego loosens.

Rahu stands in Libra, pulling attention toward partners, the public and approval. Ketu in Aries removes interest in one's own image, and the person may feel invisible or free of the need to be seen.

The nakshatras are Ashwini, Bharani and Krittika, and Ketu crosses them backward. Krittika, the Sun's nakshatra, opens the transit with a sharp cut between what serves and what does not. Bharani, ruled by Venus, is the middle third, where desire is met and released, and Ashwini is Ketu's own nakshatra, and its third closes the stay at full strength, with healing and sudden insight.

Ketu's favourable transit houses follow Mars's, the third, sixth and eleventh from the Moon, which fall to Aquarius, Scorpio and Gemini Moon signs. Aries Moons carry Ketu in the first house and feel detached from body and ambition, with accidents as the outer risk. Libra Moons have Rahu in the first and Ketu in the seventh, where a partner grows distant. Virgo Moons meet Ketu in the eighth and Taurus Moons in the twelfth, and the lagna is read the same way.

Ketu in Aries shows how much of the self was built for an audience. For a person with a practice, losing that audience feels freeing.

The remedies are Ganesha, the deity for Ketu, and the mantra Om Kem Ketave Namah. Parashara's graha shanti gives Ketu dana, and a blanket, sesame or food for dogs on Tuesday is the traditional form. Keep the body active and the head cool.

Ketu in Aries for each Moon sign

Counted from the natal Moon, following Phaladeepika. Read the ascendant the same way. Vedha and the birth chart can change the result.