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Ketu degree calculator

What is the degree of your Ketu? Enter your birth details to see it to the arc-minute, with its sign, house and nakshatra.

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Your answer will appear here the moment you press the button, with what it means for you.

How this calculator works

Ketu’s degree fixes everything else about it: its sign (30° each), its nakshatra (13°20′) and pada (3°20′), its Navamsa sign, and its rank among the chara karakas (Ketu is not ranked).

Rahu and Ketu are the Moon’s nodes, always exactly 180° apart. We use the mean node, as most Vedic software does; the true node can differ by up to about 1.5°.

Calculated in your browser from the same chart as our free Kundli: sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsa, whole-sign houses, mean node. The numbers match our free Kundli exactly.

Background

Ketu is the Moon's descending node, the point exactly opposite Rahu. In the myth it is the body without a head; in astrology it is what we already know so well that we no longer need to think about it — instinct, inherited skill, detachment and the pull toward what lies beyond the world. Ketu in Astrology: The South Node's Myth, Meaning and Dasha →

Questions

What is Ketu’s degree used for?

It places Ketu in a sign, nakshatra and pada, decides its Navamsa sign.

Why does another site show a slightly different degree?

A different ayanamsa (we use Lahiri), true versus mean nodes for Rahu and Ketu, or a different birth time or time zone. A few arc-minutes rarely change the sign.

Is a planet weak at 0° or 29°?

Many astrologers treat the first and last degree of a sign with care, but strength is read from dignity, house, aspects and the whole chart, not from one number.