Ketu in the 7th House
Ketu in the 7th house, by Phaladeepika and Lal Kitab
What Ketu gives in the 7th house by Lal Kitab and by Phaladeepika, its upay, the houses it looks at from there, and what it means for each lagna.
Ketu in the 7th house causes mysterious problems in marriage; the spouse may be spiritual or detached.
Lal Kitab reads Ketu in the 7th house by the house, not by your lagna; Parashara’s view for your own lagna is further down, and Phaladeepika may differ. How Lal Kitab and Parashara differ · Lal Kitab: pakka ghar, rin and upay
Lal Kitab upay
Feed dogs. Donate grey blankets. Keep a brown cloth in the bedroom.
This is Lal Kitab’s one upay for Ketu in the 7th house, offered to ease its harder side; it is a suggestion, and your whole kundli may call for another. All upay for Ketu
What Phaladeepika says
Mantreswara, Adhyaya 8, sloka 31Phaladeepika 8.31 reads Ketu in the 7th house (the house of marriage and partnership) as difficult for married life. The text warns of disrespect, bad company outside marriage, ailments of the bowels, and loss of the spouse and of vitality.
How much of this holds turns on the rest of the chart: the rashi Ketu sits in, the 7th house’s lord and the grahas with it or looking at it. The old texts speak of a man; their readings apply to anyone.
Brihat Jataka gives no reading for Rahu or Ketu in a house: Varahamihira reads the seven grahas, the Sun to Saturn.
When Ketu in the 7th house shows, and where it looks
Its results show most in Ketu’s own mahadasha (7 years) and in its antardashas inside the others. The 7th house’s matters also come forward in the periods of the house’s lord, which depends on your lagna.
Its drishti (a graha’s glance: the houses it looks at feel its influence) from the 7th, by the rules our kundli reading weighs houses with:
- on your 11th house (income): is not counted against it there, an upachaya (the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th houses, which grow better with time and effort)
- on your 1st house (self): weighs on it
- on your 3rd house (younger siblings): is not counted against it there, an upachaya
The 7th house, Kalatra bhava, rules marriage, spouse, partnerships and business deals; it is a kendra (one of the four angles of the chart, the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses, where a graha acts with most force) and a maraka house (literally “killer”: a graha or house watched in matters of health and longevity); its karaka (the graha that naturally signifies a house’s matters, whatever the lagna) is Shukra. The 7th house, and every graha in it
Ketu in the 7th house, for each lagna
the rashi it sits in, and that rashi’s lord| Lagna | Ketu sits in | That rashi’s lord | Which is, for this lagna |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesh (Aries) | Tula (Libra) | Shukra | Malefic · Maraka |
| Vrishabh (Taurus) | Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Mangal | Maraka |
| Mithun (Gemini) | Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Guru | Malefic— lord of the 7th, but the killer the verse names for this lagna is Chandra (34.25–26) |
| Kark (Cancer) | Makar (Capricorn) | Shani | Maraka |
| Singh (Leo) | Kumbh (Aquarius) | Shani | Malefic · Maraka |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Meen (Pisces) | Guru | Malefic— lord of the 7th, but the killer the verse names for this lagna is Shukra (34.31–32) |
| Tula (Libra) | Mesh (Aries) | Mangal | Malefic · Maraka |
| Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Vrishabh (Taurus) | Shukra | Malefic · Maraka |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Mithun (Gemini) | Budh | Benefic · Yoga— gives yoga together with Surya (34.38)— lord of the 7th, but the killers the verse names for this lagna are Shani and Shukra (34.37–38) |
| Makar (Capricorn) | Kark (Cancer) | Chandra | Malefic— lord of the 7th, but the killer the verse names for this lagna is Mangal (34.39–40) |
| Kumbh (Aquarius) | Singh (Leo) | Surya | Maraka |
| Meen (Pisces) | Kanya (Virgo) | Budh | Malefic · Maraka |
Ketu is counted the lord of no house, so it gives the results of the rashi it sits in and of that rashi’s lord. Where that lord is good for your lagna, Ketu here leans good. Parashara says the same: Ketu gives mostly the results of the bhava it sits in and of the bhava lord it joins (BPHS 34.16), and in a kendra, joined or seen by the lord of a kendra or a trikona (the 1st, 5th and 9th houses, the houses of fortune), it becomes a yogakaraka, a graha that lifts the chart (34.17). The tradition’s “Kujavat Ketu” adds that Ketu acts like Mangal; Phaladeepika says so too (8.34). With all seven other grahas between Rahu and Ketu, a kundli is read for Kaal Sarp dosha.
The labels, from Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 34:
- Yogakaraka: the strongest graha a lagna can have: the one Parashara names as bringing yoga, or the one lord of both a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) and a trikona (1st, 5th, 9th) (34.13)
- Benefic, Malefic, Neutral: works for the lagna; brings its harder matters; neither
- Lagna lord: the lagna’s own graha, where the verse calls it neither good nor hard
- Maraka: a killer Parashara names for the lagna, watched for health and longevity; printed alone, or after another label. It is not always the lord of the 2nd or 7th: where it differs, the line under it gives the verse
- · Yoga: one of two grahas he says give yoga together for this lagna
Ketu in the 7th house: where it leans good, and where hard
by the rashi’s lord, from the table aboveKetu passing through the 7th from your Moon
the gochar of Ketu, not the birth chartNot the birth placement above: here Ketu is moving through the 7th counted from your Moon rashi. Phaladeepika does not count the 7th among Ketu’s good transit houses (all twelve, on the Ketu page). Our Monthly Prediction reads it as mixed: karmic relationships, spiritual partnerships, old bonds.
Common questions
3 questionsIs Ketu in the 7th house good?
Lal Kitab counts it a hard placement; Ketu does well in the 9th, 11th and 12th. How it works out depends on the rashi it sits in and on your lagna.
What is the Lal Kitab upay for Ketu in the 7th house?
Lal Kitab’s upay for it: Feed dogs; donate grey blankets; keep a brown cloth in the bedroom.
Which houses does Ketu look at from the 7th?
The 11th (income), 1st (self) and 3rd (younger siblings).
A graha reads the same for everybody. Your chart does not.
Where each graha sits in your kundli, which bhavas it rules for your lagna and which dasha is running decide what it does for you. Make your free kundli to see all nine.
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