yuti · Budh–Ketu
Mercury–Ketu Conjunction: Every Meeting, 2026 to 2028
3 meetings · Leo, Cancer and Gemini
Between 2026 and 2028 the site’s DE421 table records three conjunctions of Mercury and Ketu — days on which the two share a sidereal longitude — in Leo, Cancer and Gemini. Successive meetings come 347 to 348 days apart. Ketu here is the mean node, which can stand up to 1.7° from the true node, so for Mercury–Ketu even the day is approximate.
Ketu counts Mercury neutral; Mercury’s row names no node, so Mercury’s view of Ketu has no entry. In one of the three meetings the sign belongs to one of the pair itself (Gemini, 20 July 2028).
The Three Meetings
| Day | Sign, degree | Nakshatra | Mercury | Ketu |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2026 | Leo 5° | Magha 2 | in a friend's sign | in an enemy's sign |
| 8 August 2027 | Cancer 17° | Ashlesha 1 | in an enemy's sign | in an enemy's sign |
| 20 July 2028 | Gemini 28° | Punarvasu 3 | in its own sign | in a neutral sign |
The dignity columns are each graha’s standing in the sign of the meeting, as the planet-in-sign pages give it; the nakshatra is the one the shared longitude falls in. For Mercury–Ketu every date is a day, not a time: the table does carry a minute, but the site publishes a conjunction to the day, the resolution independent tables agree on.
A conjunction in the sky touches every chart at once, in whichever house that sign falls for it; it is not a reading of anyone’s chart. For Mercury and Ketu in a birth chart, see the Mercury and Ketu pages, and for how grahas are read together, astrology for beginners and what Vedic astrology is.