Hi all,

How does Ketu react in the 9th house? Ketu is a spiritual planet, but at the same time a malefic as well. How does it react in the 9th house? The 9th house is a dharma house and Ketu represents dharma.

I've read in some article that Ketu conjunct with any exalted / own house planted increases the strength of that planet and of itself as well. Is that true?

Thanks!

The significance of the 9th house in general:
From Manasagari: Inclination towards religion, intuitive understanding of things and events, good character and inclination, pilgrimage, respect, regard, affection and confidence.

From Sarvartha Chintamani:(The spiritual side) Guru, devotion, religious austerity, charity, yoga. General indications: Father (note that the 9th house is for father), luck, grandson, kindness and sympathy, gains, thigh, mind, pleasures and maternal uncles.

Parameters which must be applied

1. Research must be done on accurate horoscopes with divisional horoscopes properly prepared. A mere glance at the birth horoscope can give fairly good idea. But it is the divisional horoscopes that clarify the area affected favourably or adversely.

2. Since the 9th house is mainly concerned with father, luck, grandchildren apart from other events, Jupiter and the Sun must be examined invariably.

3. Such two-fold analysis of Ketu in the 9th house and Jupiter and Sun is very helpful in balancing astrological analysis.

Exaltation and debilitation: Exalted in Vrischika, Moolatrikona is Dhanu, own sign is Vrischika and is debilitated in Vrisha. (BPH) Results of debilitated Ketu : Bad behaviour wrong inclinations, defective eyes, separation from the spouse, unhappiness, rough physical features but victory over enemies. (MS) Ketu leads to fulfilment of desires while Rahu gives courage. (JB)
Some points for examination then will have to be:

1. Ketu's presence in the 9th house will need to be watched closely, if there is the aspect of a malefic on it. It can affect the longevity of one's father.

2. In such a case a close examination of the Sun and the 9th house from it should also be examined.

3. Then the examination of the 9th lord should also be done.

4. This should then be checked in the dwadashamsha.

Ketu in the 9th house as per Classics:

From Manasagari

1 No distress, calamity or trouble.(Do not take it literaly)

2 Promise of the birth of a son.(Most remarkable point)

3 Luck improves when one is in touch with people in lowly positions.

4 Distress due to brother or sister.

5 Some diseases in the arm.

6 His attempts to improve himself through pious acts is mocked at. Such attempts too may be fruitless. From

Jataka Bharanam

1 Destroyer of tormentors.

2 The desire to have a son.

3 Gain and loss and happiness and unhappiness from people in lowly positions.

4 Disease in the arms.

5 He will be mocked at for the charity he does.

From Phaladeepika

1 Wicked.

2 Does inauspicious acts.

3 Deprived of father.

4 Lacklessness

5 Poverty. 6 Degrades others.

H.N. KatweUnknown Sources

1 King or minister to a king.

2 Religious.

3 Kind

4 Intelligent

5 Fame and glory.

Chitrey

1 Irreligious.

2 Wicked.

3 Is opinionated.

4 Angry.

5 Criticizes others.

6 Quarrels with brothers.

7 Strong.

8 Proud.

My Observations for Ketu in the 9th house

1. It had observed that Ketu in the 9th afflicted give unorthodoxy either in marriage or due to foreign or due to as given in the ovservations.

2. Ketu in the 9th give domination of son.

3. Exalted Ketu in the 9th is not a saving factor.

4. Generally make self youngest or eldest among siblings or among sex. (Shri K.N. Rao's principle for Rahu in 3rd house).

Some common conclusions and observations are being given here for Ketu in 5th and in the 9th house.

1. An afflicted Ketu in the 9th house denotes unorthodoxy.

2. It is seen that if Ketu in the 9th house is in the birth horoscope or the navamsha in the following rashis: Mesha, Vrishchik or Mithuna and if Mercury, Moon and/or Mars are conjunct it leads to the following results: a) There is some streak of unorthodoxy visible in some area or activity of an individual's life as also mentioned below.

b) If it happens in the birth horoscope and repeats in the navamsha, then the manifestation of such a tendency is certain.

c) These results can be observed even if it occurs only in the birth horoscope, but with more planets among Mercury, Moon and Mars along with above rashi (Mesh, Vrischik or Mithuna).

Other tendencies which become prominent are: living together, extra-marital affairs, drug addiction, more than one marriage, marriage outside one's caste or community. Ketu in the 9th has been seen to give divorce even in orthodox families.

Shiv Raj Sharma
journalofastrology.com/

The discussion is amazing and useful

[quote="RoopaVenktesh"]The discussion is amazing and useful[/quote]

Also keep an eye on ketu's lordship of scorpio. In some charts ketu takes over the lordship of vrishchika rashi (hence the term kujawata ketu). The details of when this will happen are given in BPHS in the chapter that discusses chara dasha. When 'freed' from such a lordship, ketu (and rahu in case of aquarius) fully display the other attribute they are associated with in jyotish, nemely, serving as surrogates of the lord of the house they are posited in.

In the 9th. house Ketu does help to turn one towards spirituality......> due to next sentence.

Again Ketu ( natural malefic) in 9th house ( house of luck/father) helps to overturn luck off and on giving reversals in life. The reversals can be of material nature or otherwise depending on factors like its state like exaltation etc.

The native is generally courgeous and may have past bad karma due it.

the above are some feelers.

RishiRahul