Ketu Mahadasha: Meaning, Life Lessons & Spiritual Rewards

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Remember what your earliest vision about your life was when you were young? Remember how hopeful and happy it made you feel to imagine your future along those lines of possibilites?

(Depicted headless to represent separation, ‘Ketu’ corresponds to Vishnu’s ‘Matsya avatar’)

• We all start our lives with some dream we had. A dream that was unclear but still clear enough that we could dream it, see it and feel it.
• Then comes life and all its challenges and you become more and more estranged from your heart’s calling.
• See deep down we all know what we came here to do it’s just our security constructs of what is ‘safe’ and what isn’t, what is ‘logical’ to aim for and what isn’t, that takes away our power bit by bit.
• Anyone who is 47 or 48 will be able to tell you a lot about what the realization of this feeling is that you could have got what you wanted all along, if you had only learnt to take action despite the fear of failing.
• You could have got everything you wanted exactly how you wanted if you had trusted your heart more and not gotten caught up in the idea of what you are ‘supposed to do’.

Why will people this age be able to tell you this?

1. Because of the age factor itself
2. Because this is the age ‘Ketu’ matures.

Some people say there is nothing more powerful than a strong ‘Ketu mahadasha’.

It was in this period that the legendary Amitabh Bachchan, after getting into tons of debt, returned with a bang but on the small screen.

He then made the world of Tv his own by following his purpose. He had wanted to retire from acting and take the more logical next step after enjoying stellar success as an actor, by getting into politics and business.

That failed.

You know why?

Because ‘Ketu’ will just take away what is obstructing your purpose. (AB has ‘Ketu’ in his ascendant)

Just like that.

Saturn delays, ‘Rahu’ confuses, ‘Ketu’ simply takes away. Bam! Gone.

Now what are you going to do?

Will you still find the courage to follow your heart or are you still going to keep holding yourself back justifying your lack of action, your lack of ‘karma’ by sticking to your ideas of security and logic?

‘Ketu’ calls upon you to take the leap into the unknown, as long as it is in the pursuit of your highest ‘dharma’.

When you do that, a magical thing happens.

‘Ketu’ suddenly rewards you.

Suddenly.

Out of the blue.

You find gold lying on the street and no one for miles coming back to look for it, claim it or anything. You might even ask someone if it is theirs and they will unnaturally say no and move on.

That’s the power of ‘Ketu’.

So when you are in your ‘Ketu mahadasha’, irrespective of wherever ‘Ketu’ is in your chart, here are the general themes of what you are going to encounter:

1. Past ‘karma’:
   1. Do you want to treat your life patterns in the same way or do you want to change how you react?
   2. Do you want to remain a victim of your mentality or do you want to accept fate and keep following your ‘dharma’?
2. Spiritual development:
   1. You would be foolish to think that spiritual progress cannot come from material accomplishments.
   2. If it is your purpose to create a multi billion dollar company, that is what will give you spiritual progress.
   3. If your highest ‘karma’ is to weave the best baskets in the world and this what your soul came here to do, nothing except that will give you peace or grant you self knowledge and liberation.
      1. You will continue to wander through the time space continuum, incarnating, reincarnating and never fully merging with the divine consciousness. Never fully discovering your own divine essence.
      2. ‘Ketu’ can’t let you do that. ‘Ketu’s’ job is to guide you to ‘moksha’. That will only come when you complete your journey for which you received this flesh body.
   4. As ‘Krishna’ says in the ‘Bhagwada Gita’, the power of ‘karma’ and execution of duty in itself is the path to ‘moksha’.
3. Letting go:
   1. Like it or not, to become the best version of yourself and to achieve the progress that your soul had targeted before receiving this body, you have to let everything go that is in the way of your purpose.
   2. The purpose of life is ‘moksha’.
      1. To achieve ‘moksha’ you must perform ‘karma’.
      2. Right ‘karma’ is completely consistent with your ‘dharma’.
      3. To execute your ‘dharma’ you need to let some things go.
      4. If you do not let them go consciously, ‘Ketu’ will simply take them away.

A deeper analysis in these areas can only be done after studying the chart in detail.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!