--- title: Ketu in the Birth Chart description: Shows Ketu’s sign, house, nakshatra, and conjunctions from birth date, time, and place, and how the south node is read opposite Rahu. type: tool category: planets topic: ketu canonical_url: "https://www.trustastrology.ai/kundli/planet/ketu" lang: en updated: 2026-08-31 keywords: - ketu - south-node - d1 - lahiri - axis inputs: - name - birth_date - birth_time - birth_place output: on_screen requires_auth: true related: - /kaalsarp-yog - /kundli/planet/rahu - /reports/rahu-ketu-transit-report --- This page is a Vedic D1 calculator for Ketu (Ketu) from birth date, time, and place. It is not a tropical planet blurb and it is not a prediction of events. ## When to use Use this when you want Ketu’s D1 sign, house, nakshatra, aspects, and conjunctions as the south node. Do not use it as Kaalsarp Yog, a Rahu-only page, or a substitute for the Rahu Ketu Transit PDF. Use this when you want the south node’s D1 card, opposite Rahu. This page does not compute Kaalsarp. The related report is a transit PDF. Insights is a placeholder, not a moksha essay. This URL is `/kundli/planet/ketu`. Other grahas are sibling tools under `/kundli/planet/{graha}` (sun, moon, mars, mercury, jupiter, venus, saturn, rahu, ketu). The D1 Lagna Chart draws the full wheel; this page is one graha’s card. ## What you need - Required: Full Name, Date of Birth, Time of Birth (hour, minute, AM/PM), and Place of Birth. Pick a place suggestion from the autocomplete, then India or Outside India. - Form title: Enter Birth Details. Helper line: we calculate the planet position from your chart. - Optional: a saved family or community kundli via KundliSelector instead of retyping. Don't know time? if the clock time is unknown. - Sign-in: required. PlanetForm wraps PageGateAuthSection. Guests see a gate and cannot run a useful query. After sign-in, if no astro record exists, the inline astro profile panel collects one before the calculator runs. - Unknown time: Don't know time? offers preset windows (Early Morning around 04:00 through Night around 22:30). House and house-nature are then approximate. Dignity flags that depend on house are a sketch. - Place: latitude, longitude, and timezone come from the selected place id. A free-typed string that is not chosen from suggestions does not submit. - Submit control: Calculate Planet Position. - Not on the visible form: you do not type coordinates. Gender is not a required visible field. ## What you get On-screen one-graha D1 result. Nothing is exported as a PDF from this URL. A related report product is linked after the result (Get Full Report) when you want a longer write-up. While the query runs, the page shows “We're getting your results” and “Computing Ketu placement, houses, and aspects from your birth chart. This usually takes a few seconds.” Then: - Birth Summary: Name, Date, Time, Place (em dash if a field is empty). - Planet card header: graha name and optional symbol in parentheses, plus status badges that appear only when active: Exalted, Debilitated, Retrograde, Combust, Vargottama, Benefic, Malefic, Afflicted. If no badge is active, the flag row is omitted. - Sign / Rashi: English sign name and Sanskrit rashi in parentheses. - House: House n · houseNature. House needs a usable birth time. - Nakshatra: nakshatra name · Pada n. - Nakshatra Ruler / Deity: ruler and deity as labeled on screen. - Position: degrees, minutes, seconds, and decimal degrees to two places. - Dispositor: the sign lord as returned. - Nature / Tattva: planetNature · tattva. - Sub Lord · Sub Sub Lord: shown as a pair. These labels are not a full KP cusp/significator table (use KP Horoscope for that). - Planetary Relations: Friends, Neutral, Enemies. Empty lists show an em dash. - Aspects & Conjunctions: the whole card is omitted if all four lists are empty. Otherwise chips for Aspects Planets, Aspects Houses (House n), Aspected By, and Conjunct With — each block omitted if that list is empty. - Insights: dashed card. Live copy: “Personalised Ketu reading coming soon.” Do not invent a prose reading for this graha. - After the result: Get Full Report (separate PDF product) and an AI-astrologer chat CTA. Those are not this calculator’s output. - Not included: event prediction, medical-legal-financial advice, or a saved file. If a row or badge is missing, omit it. Do not invent aspects, friends lists, or dignity flags. ## Method Parashari D1 placement of Ketu on the natal moment. Planetary longitudes are sidereal (Swiss Ephemeris with Lahiri ayanamsa). Wheels are not the main output; the planet card and relation/aspect lists are. Sub Lord · Sub Sub Lord are extra labels on this card, not KP Horoscope cusps or significator levels 1–4. This page is not a dasha tree and not Ashtakoot matching. Ketu is the south node of the Moon in this D1 view, opposite Rahu. This page does not compute Kaalsarp. Result cards are the same shape as the other graha pages. The related PDF is Rahu Ketu Transit Report, a transit product, not this natal card. Classical detachment and release themes are not printed as Insights. The PDF CTA lists those as report copy. Get Full Report opens Rahu Ketu Transit Report. Chat copy asks how Ketu placement is affecting life. ## How to start 1. Sign in (or complete the guest gate). If KundliSelector appears, pick a stored chart or create a new one. 2. Enter Full Name, Date of Birth, Time of Birth (HH, MM, AM/PM), and Place of Birth (pick a suggestion). A precise time is required for House. Submit with Calculate Planet Position. 3. Confirm Birth Summary, then the planet card (sign, house, nakshatra, position, flags), then Planetary Relations, then Aspects & Conjunctions if present. Treat Insights as a placeholder until it is more than “coming soon.” ## Limits A precise birth time is required for House and house-nature. Don't know time? presets keep the form valid but make those rows a sketch. Status badges and Insights are not a verdict that an event, illness, marriage, or payment will occur. Insights on the live page is still a placeholder. This page does not save a PDF. Reading order: Birth Summary, then Sign / Rashi and House, then Nakshatra and Position, then flags, then Relations, then Aspects & Conjunctions. Dignity badges are calculated flags for this D1 placement, not a life verdict. Vargottama here means the engine set that flag for this graha; it is not a full sixteen-varga table. Sign-in and session: guests cannot complete PlanetForm through the gate. After login, KundliSelector appears when more than one stored chart exists. Choosing a stored chart sends the same name, date, time, and place as the form. A new submit replaces the previous panels; this URL does not email a file. Place and time: pick a suggestion so a place id is sent. Don't know time? keeps the form valid. Quote House and house-nature only when the user gave a clock time they trust. Calculated vs interpreted: longitudes, house number, nakshatra, pada, position, retrograde, combust, and the relation lists are calculated. Benefic/Malefic/Afflicted labels and Insights copy are interpretive overlay. Neither is medical, legal, or financial advice. Neither is a promise that an event will occur. Wheels are not the main output. Open D1 Lagna Chart when you need South/North/East drawings of the full natal chart. ## Related - [Kaalsarp Yog](/kaalsarp-yog.md) - [Rahu in the Birth Chart](/kundli/planet/rahu.md) - [Rahu Ketu Transit Report](/reports/rahu-ketu-transit-report.md)