केतु · Ripu Bhava · Apoklima · Dusthana · Upachaya
Ketu in the 6th house
Ketu in the sixth is one of his best placements: the planet of dissolution in the house of enemies dissolves them. Opponents lose interest or disappear, debts resolve, and the person has a real gift for healing and diagnosis. Health issues, when they come, are obscure.
What it gives
- •Enemies dissolve rather than being fought
- •Healing and diagnostic ability
- •Debts clear unexpectedly
What to watch
- •Obscure, hard-to-diagnose ailments
- •Indifference to daily routine
- •Conflict avoided rather than resolved
Where Ketu actually is today
Computed at sunrise for the reference place. A planet sits in a given house for exactly one ascendant at a time — the sign it occupies is the 6th house of only one lagna.
Ketu right now
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Who has Ketu in the 6th today
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It depends on your ascendant
The same placement reads differently from each of the twelve ascendants, because the 6th house is a different sign for each — and Ketu is exalted in one sign and debilitated in another. This table is computed from the classical rulership and dignity tables, not written by hand.
| Ascendant | 6th house sign | Sign lord | Ketu’s dignity | Ketu rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | Virgo | Mercury | Neutral | — |
| Taurus | Libra | Venus | Neutral | — |
| Gemini | Scorpio | Mars | Exalted | — |
| Cancer | Sagittarius | Jupiter | Neutral | — |
| Leo | Capricorn | Saturn | Neutral | — |
| Virgo | Aquarius | Saturn | Neutral | — |
| Libra | Pisces | Jupiter | Neutral | — |
| Scorpio | Aries | Mars | Neutral | — |
| Sagittarius | Taurus | Venus | Debilitated | — |
| Capricorn | Gemini | Mercury | Neutral | — |
| Aquarius | Cancer | Moon | Neutral | — |
| Pisces | Leo | Sun | Neutral | — |
Strongest from Gemini — Ketu is exalted in Scorpio. Weakest from Sagittarius, where it falls in Taurus.
What it aspects from here
From the 6th house, Ketu aspects the 10th, 12th, 2nd houses. Ketu is a shadow body; many schools give it the 5th, 7th and 9th aspects, and some give none. Shown here as the widely used set. An aspect carries the planet's nature into those houses, so a placement is never confined to the house it sits in.
The 6th house
The sixth is a dusthana and an upachaya at once — a house of difficulty that rewards those who work at it. It rules enemies, debts, disease and daily service. Malefics here often help: they fight what the house signifies. Benefics can suffer, because there is little for them to protect.
Karaka: Mars, Saturn · Signifies: enemies, competition and litigation; debt and obligations; disease and daily health; service, employees and routine work
Ketu as a planet
Ketu is the south node, Rahu’s opposite: where Rahu grasps, Ketu lets go. The house he occupies is one a person is already skilled in and therefore bored by — mastery without interest. He rules spirituality, moksha, sudden loss and the kind of insight that arrives without being sought.
Nature: Malefic · Karaka of: detachment, moksha and past-life skill
Related placements
FAQ
Ketu in the 6th house — common questions
What does Ketu in the 6th house mean?
Ketu in the sixth is one of his best placements: the planet of dissolution in the house of enemies dissolves them. Opponents lose interest or disappear, debts resolve, and the person has a real gift for healing and diagnosis. Health issues, when they come, are obscure. The 6th house (Ripu Bhava) rules enemies, competition and litigation, debt and obligations, disease and daily health, and Ketu is the karaka of detachment, moksha and past-life skill. Classically it is a apoklima, dusthana, upachaya house, which shapes how a malefic planet behaves there.
Is Ketu in the 6th house good or bad?
It depends on the ascendant, and this is where most articles stop. From an Gemini ascendant the 6th house is Scorpio, where Ketu is exalted. From Sagittarius it is Taurus, where Ketu is debilitated. The table on this page gives the dignity and rulership for all twelve ascendants.
Which houses does Ketu aspect from the 6th house?
The 10th, the 12th, the 2nd houses. Ketu is a shadow body; many schools give it the 5th, 7th and 9th aspects, and some give none. Shown here as the widely used set.
Which ascendant has Ketu in the 6th house right now?
Exactly one at any moment: the sign Ketu currently occupies is the 6th house of a single ascendant. The card on this page computes it from today's ephemeris and says when Ketu moves on. In a birth chart, though, what matters is where Ketu stood at your birth — the free kundli calculator gives that.
Does Ketu in the 6th house affect marriage?
Not directly. Marriage is read from the 7th house, its lord, Venus and the Navamsa. A 6th-house placement matters only through the houses Ketu rules and aspects from there — which this page's table sets out per ascendant.