Ketu Transit in Cancer

Cancer is the Moon's sign, and Ketu is the shadow that darkens the Moon at an eclipse. For about a year and a half Ketu in Cancer works on home, mother, feeling, memory and the sense of belonging. Attachment to the familiar loosens.

Rahu stands in Capricorn, driving the person toward career, status and the wider world. Ketu in Cancer lets go of home comforts and emotional demands. The person may live away from family, or live with them and still feel far away.

The nakshatras are Punarvasu, Pushya and Ashlesha, crossed backward. Ashlesha, ruled by Mercury, opens the stay with the shedding of an old emotional pattern. Pushya, ruled by Saturn, is the middle third and the steadiest, where Ketu's detachment becomes quiet care without clinging, and the transit ends in Punarvasu's last pada with a return of some faith.

Ketu's favourable transit houses, the third, sixth and eleventh from the Moon, fall to Taurus, Aquarius and Virgo Moon signs. Cancer Moons carry Ketu in the first house and feel emotionally flat, detached from home and unsure of their roles. Capricorn Moons have Rahu in the first and Ketu in the seventh, where a partner withdraws. Sagittarius Moons meet Ketu in the eighth and Leo Moons in the twelfth, and the same count runs from the lagna.

Ketu in Cancer shows how much security a person sought from home and mother, and it turns the search inward. The mother's health and the condition of the house need practical attention.

The remedy is care without possession. Serve the mother, keep the home in order, worship Ganesha and recite Om Kem Ketave Namah. A blanket or food given to the needy on Tuesday is Ketu's dana in Parashara's graha shanti. Sit by water and let the mind settle.

Ketu in Cancer 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.