Monday, March 3, 2014

Ketu (South node) Life Lesson (Karmic Backlog) in Astrology



Each life has a life lesson that encompasses the following three types of lessons. 

1) Those related to a karmic debt (if one exists).
2) Those necessary for human evolution.
3) Those needed to balance negative patterns established in former lifetimes.

Ketu/South Node portray negative patterns from the past, usually related with past life. The Ketu/South Node depicts characteristics or tendencies developed in former lifetimes that may interfere with growth or with accomplishing in this life task.

Generally, the Ketu/South Node's sign indicates problems with that sign and its house, the aspects to it from any planet.

Although both Saturn's and the Ketu/South Node sign's are likely to be problematic. This will be true in different ways and for different reasons. The Ketu/South Node's sign is often a we had a much experience that we may have neglected its opposite sign where Rahu (North Node) is placed. .  

The North Node's sign may be relatively undeveloped.  Regardless of the individual's level of development, the Ketu/South Node's sign represents qualities we must learn to express positively and integrate with the North Node's positive qualities. The Ketu/South Node's house and its sign, represents an area of life in which we may have been overly focused in our past life or in early childhood and it detrimental to other areas and now it is necessary to focus on the area of life where the North Node is placed. Here again, depending on the individual's development and experiences, and the degree of South Nodes is the area of life where the problem lies. But the message is to focus on the North Node's sign, house and integrate the area of life represented by the Ketu/South Node. 


The Ketu/South Node in Aries: Selfishness, self-absorption, self-contentedness, lack of awareness of other people’s needs, lack of cooperation, contentiousness, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, and impatience.

The Ketu/South Node in Taurus: Hedonism, attachment to pleasures and comforts, materialistic, greedy or miserly, lacking vision and a spiritual outlook, possessiveness, stubbornness, Resistance to change, and inability to let go of things. 

The Ketu/South Node in Gemini: Lack of focus, indecisiveness, superficiality, lack of philosophical approach, changing too easily and not following through.

The Ketu/South Node in Cancer: Dependency, lack of an independent identity, lack of objectivity, Moodiness, depression, emotionality and insecurity

The Ketu/South Node in Leo: Egotism, pride, self-absorption, domination of others, willfulness, need to have one’s own way, stubbornness, blind passion and overly dramatic.

The Ketu/South Node in Virgo: Overly analytical, critical, judgmental, workaholic, immersion in work and mundane activities, perfectionism, overemphasis on detail, anxiety, and worrisome.

The Ketu/South Node in Libra: Dependency on relationships for fulfillment, indecisiveness, lack of an Independent identity, overly compromising and compliant.

The Ketu/South Node in Scorpio: Losing oneself in others, dependency, going to extremes, creating crises and dramas.

The Ketu/South Node in Sagittarius: Losing oneself in impractical abstractions, wandering from place to place or from idea to idea, accepting ideas without sufficient logical analysis, narrow-mindedness, dogmatism, self-righteousness.

The Ketu/South Node in Capricorn: Ruled by ambition, greedy, power-seeking, social-climbing, emotionally repressed, coldness, harshness, selfishness, controlling and dominating.

The Ketu/South Node in Aquarius: Being a follower, lack of passion and emotion, emotional detachment and impractical idealism.