Crossing Ketu Mahadasha Antardasha by Antardasha

After the short Ketu-Ketu slice, Venus runs for 1 year and 2 months, then the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury, in the Vimshottari order starting from Ketu. A Venus slice can be marriage or comfort inside a severance mahadasha. A Saturn slice can be the heavy year. Calling all seven years destruction averages nine lords into a scare. Write down the lord you are actually in. Then write the houses that lord rules from your lagna. That is the season's homework. The mahadasha lord, Ketu, remains the climate: detached, specialized, sometimes spiritually worded, always dependent on its dispositor.

Ketu in Kanya is carried by Mercury for the whole 7 years, even during a Saturn antardasha. If Mercury is strong, you have a bridge. If Mercury is in the 8th, the bridge is a crisis house and the seasons feel sharper. You do not cross Ketu by fighting the node. You cross it by doing the dispositor's clean job: Mercury's craft and accounts, Jupiter's study if Jupiter rules the sign, Saturn's long work if Ketu is in Makara or Kumbha. Cat's eye feeds Ketu. It does not shorten 7 years, and it is the wrong feed if you meant to support the dispositor instead.

The mahadasha ends when the 7 years end, on the date fixed by the Moon's nakshatra balance at birth. Nothing moves that date. Crossed means you knew which antardasha was running and you did not treat a Venus year as a Saturn year. Ketu in the 12th is a different crossing from Ketu in the 7th. The 12th asks for privacy or a far place. The 7th asks for a spare kind of partnership. Jupiter's aspect on the dispositor is the chart's help. A Tuesday or Saturday custom is attention, not an exit. When the 7 years finish, the next mahadasha in the sequence begins. If Ketu was not your birth mahadasha, you already know it arrives in its turn and leaves.