Ketu

Ketu rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras — Ashwini, Magha, and Mula. Ketu mansions carry the signature of Ketu itself: detachment, release, mysticism, intuition, and the deep inheritance of past skill. The Vedic Ketu is the *south lunar node* — the opposite point to Rahu, and treated in classical astrology as a *moksha-karaka*, a significator of spiritual liberation.

Ketu-ruled placements lean toward distillation. They arrive with skill they cannot quite explain — an instinct, a knowing, a craft that the formal teaching could not have given them. Their gift is depth — Ketu rules what is left after everything inessential has been burned off, the diamond at the bottom of the fire. Their shadow is the same energy turned away: dissociation, world-weariness, an instinct to leave (a room, a marriage, a body) before the work is done.

A note on reading planetary rulership: Ketu and Rahu are always opposite each other in the chart (the lunar nodes by definition). Where Rahu hungers for the *new*, Ketu releases the *old*. A Ketu-ruled Janma Nakshatra (Ashwini, Magha, or Mula) often points to a life with strong mystical or renunciate themes, and to a built-in tendency to let go before others do. One lens, not a forecast.