In short
Ketu enters Cancer on 25 November 2026. It stays in Cancer until 24 May 2028. Ketu stays in a sign for about a year and a half and carries themes of letting go, simplifying and turning inward.
Leaves: 24 May 2028, 13:30 · Istanbul time
For Rahu and Ketu this site uses the true node. Some calendars use the mean node, so you may see dates that differ by a few days or weeks.
Effects on the 12 ascendants
A slow planet's sign change is read most clearly from your ascendant: the house it passes through comes into focus. If you do not know your ascendant, calculate it with your birth time in the app.
♈ Aries ascendant — 4th house
Ketu is passing through your 4th house — the house of home and inner peace. A sense of distance from your home or from where you live may arrive; the feeling of 'this place has got too small for me'. Before deciding, it helps to tell apart whether it is your feeling or your need that is speaking.
♉ Taurus ascendant — 3rd house
Ketu is passing through your 3rd house. In the classics one of the houses where Ketu gives good results: courage goes quiet but gets sharper. A noiseless style of pushing ahead on your own suits you in this period.
♊ Gemini ascendant — 2nd house
Ketu is passing through your 2nd house — the house of savings, family and speech. Your interest in possessions and display may lessen; a wish to simplify arrives. It can be a stretch where you speak little and listen a lot — in this period staying silent is also an answer.
♋ Cancer ascendant — 1st house
Ketu is passing over your rising sign. You may feel somewhat withdrawn, at a distance from worldly calculations. This isn't a collapse but a simplification: a tendency to let go of what you no longer carry in your identity. A period that clarifies not what you are, but what you are not.
♌ Leo ascendant — 12th house
Ketu is passing through your 12th house — the house of the inner world and withdrawal. In the classics this is the house that overlaps most with Ketu's moksha (liberation) side: silence, meditation and time spent alone feel nourishing in this period. It is natural for crowds to tire you.
♍ Virgo ascendant — 11th house
Ketu is passing through your 11th house — the house of gains, friends and goals. Your circle may naturally thin out, and that is usually good news: as the crowd shrinks, what is genuine remains. You may notice that an old goal no longer excites you.
♎ Libra ascendant — 10th house
Ketu is passing through your 10th house — the house of career and reputation. Your interest in titles and visibility may lessen; the question 'what does this work add to me' comes forward. The classics see here not a break but a simplification of direction — the display drops, the work stays.
♏ Scorpio ascendant — 9th house
Ketu is passing through your 9th house — the house of belief, teachers and long journeys. A tendency to go over the beliefs you inherited; what stays is not what came by rote but what you tested yourself. A spiritual search in this period comes from a genuine place, not a superficial one.
♐ Sagittarius ascendant — 8th house
Ketu is passing through your 8th house — the house of depth and transformation. In tradition one of the houses most Ketu's own: research, looking inward and spiritual interest naturally increase. There may be stretches where an unclosed chapter closes by itself.
♑ Capricorn ascendant — 7th house
Ketu is passing through your 7th house — the house of relationships and partnership. A distance in your bonds, or the question 'what do I actually need', may come up. The classics read this not as a break but as a clearing-out of expectation: the expectation never spoken shows itself in this period.
♒ Aquarius ascendant — 6th house
Ketu is passing through your 6th house — the house of struggle, service and rivals. In the classics one of the favourable houses for Ketu: you drift away from needless friction of your own accord, rivals drop off your agenda. Simplifying your daily order comes easily in this period.
♓ Pisces ascendant — 5th house
Ketu is passing through your 5th house — the house of creativity, children and pleasure. An occupation that used to give you joy may seem to have lost its taste. This isn't the loss of a talent but a shift of interest; in this period what you produce comes from a more inward place.