Ketu Transit in Taurus

Taurus is the sign most texts give as Ketu's fall, and its lord Venus does not favour Ketu's austerity. Ketu's weakness here shows as a loss of appetite for the things Taurus loves. For about a year and a half comfort, food, wealth, speech and possessions lose their savour.

Rahu stands in Scorpio, its own sign of fall, so both nodes are debilitated together. Rahu drives the mind into secrets and fears, and Ketu withdraws from the comforts that would steady it. The person may feel that nothing tastes right. That feeling passes as the mind finds steadiness within.

The nakshatras are Krittika, Rohini and Mrigashira. Ketu moves backward, so Mrigashira, ruled by Mars, opens the stay with a search that turns inward. Rohini, ruled by the Moon, is the middle third and the hardest for Ketu, since Rohini wants growth and Ketu wants release. Krittika, the Sun's nakshatra, closes the transit with a plain cut.

Ketu's favourable transit houses, the third, sixth and eleventh from the Moon, fall to Pisces, Sagittarius and Cancer Moon signs. Taurus Moons carry a debilitated Ketu in the first house and feel detached, thin and uncertain about what they want. Scorpio Moons have Rahu in the first and Ketu in the seventh, where a partner turns distant or absent. Libra Moons meet Ketu in the eighth and Gemini Moons in the twelfth, and the lagna is counted the same way.

Ketu in Taurus tests attachment to comfort. Money lost through neglect and throat or dental trouble are the outer risks.

• Worship Ganesha and recite Om Kem Ketave Namah, the direct remedies for Ketu.
• Give a blanket or food to dogs, the dana Parashara's remedy chapter allows.
• Eat simply and at fixed hours, and keep accounts.

Ketu in Taurus 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.