Vrishchika lagna · vimshottari
The Ketu Mahadasha for Scorpio Ascendant
7 years · Ketu rules no house
The Parashari way to read a mahadasha for a given ascendant starts with the houses its lord holds. For Scorpio ascendant Ketu holds none: the nodes rule no sign in whole-sign lordship, so the 7-year Ketu mahadasha for Scorpio is read through the lord of the sign Ketu occupies at birth, and through that sign’s house from Scorpio, which no table can supply without the chart.
Ketu is exalted on the commoner reckoning in Scorpio, the 1st from Scorpio, and debilitated by the same reckoning in Taurus, the 7th; planets.js records other signs as well. Ketu counts Mars, Scorpio’s lagna lord, a friend; Mars’s own row names no node, so the reverse has no entry. Ketu’s own nakshatras fall in Ashwini (the 6th), Magha (the 10th) and Mula (the 2nd) for Scorpio ascendant, which is where a birth that opens in the Ketu mahadasha has its Moon.
The Nine Sub-Periods, by Lordship for Scorpio
| # | Antardasha | Length (classical) | Its lord rules, for Scorpio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ketu–Ketu | 4 months 27 days | no house |
| 2 | Ketu–Venus | 1 year 2 months | the 7th and the 12th |
| 3 | Ketu–Sun | 4 months 6 days | the 10th |
| 4 | Ketu–Moon | 7 months | the 9th |
| 5 | Ketu–Mars | 4 months 27 days | the 1st and the 6th |
| 6 | Ketu–Rahu | 1 year 18 days | no house |
| 7 | Ketu–Jupiter | 11 months 6 days | the 2nd and the 5th |
| 8 | Ketu–Saturn | 1 year 1 month 9 days | the 3rd and the 4th |
| 9 | Ketu–Mercury | 11 months 27 days | the 8th and the 11th |
For Scorpio ascendant, three of the Ketu mahadasha’s sub-periods belong to lords of a dusthana (the 6th, 8th or 12th): Ketu–Venus, Ketu–Mars and Ketu–Mercury, and two to lords of a trikona other than the 1st: Ketu–Moon and Ketu–Jupiter. The sub-period of Mars, Scorpio’s lagna lord, is Ketu–Mars, the fifth of nine, 4 months 27 days long. Counted in time, sub-periods whose lords hold a dusthana for Scorpio take 2 years 6 months 24 days (37%) of the Ketu mahadasha’s 7 years, and those whose lords hold a trikona other than the 1st take 1 year 6 months 6 days (22%); a lord holding both is counted in both. In the Ketu mahadasha for Scorpio, the Rahu and Ketu sub-periods are read through their dispositors in the chart, since neither node rules a house.
For a Scorpio-rising chart this is the frame of the Ketu mahadasha, not a forecast: where Ketu and each sub-period lord actually sit, and their dignity there, decide what it comes to, and this page cannot know either.
Related
For Scorpio or any other ascendant, the Ketu mahadasha’s sub-period arithmetic, with the nine pratyantars of each, is on the Ketu mahadasha table; the Scorpio chart house by house on the Scorpio ascendant page. How the Ketu mahadasha is read in general is in our Ketu mahadasha article, and the system in Vimshottari dasha explained.