Ketu seasons loosen knots you didn’t know you were holding. Careers, certainties and old identities may thin like morning mist — not as punishment, but as clearing. What remains at the end is smaller, truer, and entirely yours.
Are you in a Ketu mahadasha right now? Find out free.
Reveal my timeline ✦ Computed live from your birth detailsA mahadasha is the major planetary period ruling a chapter of your life. The Ketu one lasts 7 years — a long inward tide that keeps loosening whatever no longer fits.
| Length | 7 years of 120 |
| The arena | surrender and the inner life |
| What it gives | sudden clarity when you stop gripping |
| What to watch | drift and disconnection |
| Overall colour | a pull toward retreat, quiet endings, and letting go |
| Area | What tends to happen |
|---|---|
| Love | You'll care less about drama and more about something real. An old relationship may quietly fade, and that's okay — what is true will stay. |
| Career | The need for a big title fades. You might leave a safe job for work that means more — research, healing, spiritual work, or quiet behind-the-scenes work suits you now. |
| Money | Money comes and goes, but it bothers you less. You spend less, live simply, and savings build quietly. |
| Marriage | No need to rush a marriage decision in this stretch — taking your time is fine. If you're married, give each other space; closeness grows from freedom, not from holding on too tight. |
These describe the weather of the period, not fixed events. Where you are in life changes how a period lands — the same Ketu years read very differently at 8 than at 40, which is why your own timeline reads them against your actual age.
Every mahadasha divides into nine sub-periods — antardashas — one per planet, each proportional to its own dasha length. Across 7 years they run:
| Antardasha | Duration | The weather inside it |
|---|---|---|
| Ketu–Ketu | 0y 5m | a quiet clearing — loosen your grip and let go |
| Ketu–Shukra | 1y 2m | warmth, love, and ease return to your days |
| Ketu–Surya | 0y 4m | step into visibility, will, and authority |
| Ketu–Chandra | 0y 7m | feelings, home, and family come to the fore |
| Ketu–Mangal | 0y 5m | energy to push, to build, to finally begin |
| Ketu–Rahu | 1y 1m | ambition spikes — new doors, and fast |
| Ketu–Guru | 0y 11m | growth, luck, and good counsel widen the path |
| Ketu–Shani | 1y 1m | discipline and tests that quietly make you stronger |
| Ketu–Budh | 1y 0m | a sharp mind — deals, words, and learning flow |
The first is always Ketu–Ketu, the purest and most concentrated stretch of the chapter. How the full 120-year cycle works →
| Do | Don’t |
|---|---|
| Simplify — shed what you’ve outgrown | Force outcomes or cling to old identities |
| Deepen a spiritual or reflective practice | Mistake detachment for avoiding real duties |
| Trust the intuitive flashes that arrive in stillness | Isolate so far you lose your people |
| Make peace with an ending you’ve resisted | Start something huge just to fill the quiet |
Classical practice pacifies Ketu rather than strengthening it — the aim is to settle its intensity, not amplify it.
| Mantra | ॐ केतवे नमः |
| Gemstone | cat’s-eye (lehsunia) |
| Day | Tuesday |
| Colour | multicolour |
| Daan (charity) | sesame & a multicoloured cloth |
A gemstone should only be worn after consulting a qualified astrologer — the wrong stone can unsettle rather than steady. Gemstones are not advised for children.
See exactly when your Ketu chapter begins and ends.
Reveal my timeline ✦ Free · nothing leaves your device7 years. In the Vimshottari system the nine mahadashas run to 120 years in total, and Ketu holds 7 of them. Which one you start life in depends on the nakshatra your Moon occupied at birth.
Neither — it is demanding. Ketu periods ask something of you: drift and disconnection is the risk, sudden clarity when you stop gripping is what you get if you meet it honestly. Traditionally Ketu is pacified rather than strengthened.
Every mahadasha divides into nine antardashas, one per planet, each sized in proportion to its own dasha years. The Ketu–Ketu antardasha runs 0y 5m and is the most concentrated stretch of the whole period.