Ketu Transit in Gemini
Ketu in Gemini (Mithuna). Times are Nepal Time (GMT +5:45).
- Now
- Ketu is in Gemini, since 18 Nov 1916, 05:32, until 17 Aug 2048, 16:17.
- Typical stay
- about 131 years 9 months
Ketu in Gemini: every entry and exit
8 stays between 1900 and 2100, to the minute.
| Enters | Leaves | Duration | Year page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Nov 1916, 05:32 | 7 Jun 1918, 08:28 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 1 year 7 months | 1916 |
| 25 Jun 1935, 16:34 | 11 Jan 1937, 19:30 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 1 year 7 months | 1935 |
| 30 Jan 1954, 03:51 | 19 Aug 1955, 06:47 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 1 year 7 months | 1954 |
| 5 Sep 1972, 15:10 | 25 Mar 1974, 18:07 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 1 year 7 months | 1972 |
| 13 Apr 1991, 02:49 | 30 Oct 1992, 05:46 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 1 year 7 months | 1991 |
| 17 Nov 2009, 14:15 | 6 Jun 2011, 17:13 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 1 year 7 months | 2009 |
| 24 Jun 2028, 01:45 | 11 Jan 2030, 04:43 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 1 year 7 months | 2028 |
| 29 Jan 2047, 13:19 | 17 Aug 2048, 16:17 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 1 year 7 months | 2047 |
What Ketu in Gemini means
Gemini belongs to Mercury, and a few texts give this sign as Ketu's fall. Ketu, the headless graha, is uncomfortable in the sign of the tongue. For about a year and a half speech, learning, trade, siblings and short travel lose their usual ease. What was held for cleverness is loosened.
Rahu stands in Sagittarius, hungry for grand beliefs and foreign teachers. Ketu in Gemini withdraws from small talk, detail and the daily traffic of information. The person may find words fail at the wrong moment or that they have nothing to say. Chosen silence is the gift of this axis.
The nakshatras are Mrigashira, Ardra and Punarvasu. Ketu moves backward and enters at Punarvasu, ruled by Jupiter, which opens the stay on sound speech. Ardra, ruled by Rahu, is the middle third and the most unsettling, with sudden severances in communication and plans. Mrigashira, ruled by Mars, closes the transit with a search that has turned inward.
Ketu's favourable transit houses, the third, sixth and eleventh from the Moon, fall to Aries, Capricorn and Leo Moon signs. Gemini Moons carry Ketu in the first house and feel scattered, forgetful and detached from their own opinions. Sagittarius Moons have Rahu in the first and Ketu in the seventh, where partnership loses conversation. Scorpio Moons meet Ketu in the eighth and Cancer Moons in the twelfth, and the lagna is read the same way.
The remedy is mauna and study. Keep a period of silence each day, worship Ganesha, and recite Om Kem Ketave Namah. Parashara's graha shanti gives Ketu dana, and a blanket or food for dogs is the traditional form. Write more than you speak during this transit.
Dependence on words is what comes into view. Ketu in Gemini reveals how much of one's confidence rested on being able to talk one's way through. Misunderstandings with siblings and neighbours, and nervous complaints, are the outer risks.