Ketu in the 1st house puts a headless graha in the house of the head. The body works, the personality functions, and the identity underneath never quite sets. It is one of the most spiritually capable placements in the chart and one of the least comfortable.

Ketu in the 2nd house does two things at once that look unrelated: it makes money arrive and leave without ever feeling owned, and it gives speech an odd force. The second is the part almost nobody tells you about.

The third house is an upachaya, and Ketu is one of the grahas that genuinely improves there. It gives real skill with almost no appetite for recognition, which is a strange combination to live with and an effective one to have.

Ketu in the 4th house takes the sense of belonging out of the place you live. The house may be perfectly good. Something in it never registers as home, and the same mechanism produces an unusual aptitude for stillness.

The fifth house is purva punya, the merit carried forward, and Ketu is the graha of what has already been completed. Put them together and you get a chart with credit in it and a complicated relationship to the thing the house is most asked about.

Among the twelve, the sixth is where Ketu is at its most effective. It is an upachaya house, Ketu behaves like Mars, and the graha's habit of removing things becomes an advantage in the house of enemies, debt and disease.

Almost every source treats a seventh-house Ketu as a threat to the marriage. What it actually does is take the attachment out, which is a different and more manageable problem, and one most couples never get told about.

This is the placement the tradition names when it talks about occult ability, and it has the reputation to match. The classical position on longevity is more divided than the scare readings suggest, and the research capacity is the part worth using.

At some point the religion you were handed stops being persuasive, and with Ketu in the 9th house that point comes early and does not reverse. What follows is either twenty years of nothing or a faith the person built from the ground up.

The work is good. The wish to get anywhere with it is missing. Ketu in the 10th house produces the person who performs well for years and then leaves at the point their colleagues would call the peak, which reads as self-sabotage and is not.

Ketu is the moksha karaka and the twelfth is the moksha house, which makes this the one placement in the cluster where graha and house are asking for the same thing. The loss the house is famous for reads very differently as a result.

The thing arrives about six months after you stopped caring whether it did. People with Ketu in the 11th house report this pattern with a consistency that is difficult to dismiss, and the house explains exactly why.