Chandra Ketu Yoga

Chandra-Ketu yoga is the Moon conjunct Ketu in one rashi. The Moon is the mind, the mother, and the public mood. Ketu is severance and a pull away from ordinary appetite. Together they often describe a mind that sees through a room and does not fully join it, with a private or spiritual streak, and with moods that cut off rather than argue. Rahu occupies the opposite sign, so the hunger of the north node is always across the chart, not in the Moon's sign.

This is not the same fact as a Moon in Ashwini, Magha, or Mula. Those are Ketu's nakshatras and they start a Ketu dasha balance. Ketu can conjunct the Moon in other stars if Ketu is simply sitting there.

In the 4th, the conjunction touches home and the mother, because both the Moon and the 4th carry the mother. In the 10th, it touches public work with a detached or unusual style. In the 7th, it touches marriage with Ketu's distance. In the 1st, the personality itself wears the severance.

Scorpio is the Moon's debilitation. Moon-Ketu in Scorpio is the yoga in the Moon's weakest sign, which happens to be Ketu's favorite kind of intensity in popular reading. Capricorn is not a lunar debilitation. Do not treat every Chandra-Ketu as a Scorpio story.

Ketu mahadasha lasts 7 years. The Moon's mahadasha lasts 10. Either activates the conjunction, and the Moon-Ketu antardasha inside the Moon period is the tightest overlap. If the Moon is also in a Ketu nakshatra, the opening balance of life is Ketu's, and the person meets this yoga's lord before they meet a benefic's long period.

Jupiter's aspect on the Moon is the softener, and Jupiter must be in the 5th, 7th, or 9th from the Moon to cast it. A remedy does not separate the Moon from Ketu. The conjunction is part of the birth.