Ketu in Anuradha Nakshatra (Ketu in अनुराधा)

Anuradha, the 17th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 213°20′ – 226°40′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Scorpio. Anuradha is ruled by Saturn, so Ketu in Anuradha stands in Saturn’s star.

Ketu’s row in the friendship lists counts Saturn a friend; Saturn’s row names no node, so the star lord of Anuradha has no entry for Ketu, and this page does not supply one. The other two nakshatras Saturn rules, Pushya and Uttara Bhadrapada, put Ketu under the same star lord.

Ketu in Anuradha, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Ketu is exalted on the commoner reckoning in all four padas of Anuradha, because the whole nakshatra lies in Scorpio. By navamsa the four padas fall in Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. Ketu’s strongest navamsa in Anuradha is pada 4 (Scorpio, exalted on the commoner reckoning), and its weakest is pada 1 (Leo, in an enemy's sign).

Anuradha pada 4 is vargottama — Scorpio in rashi and in navamsa — so Ketu there is exalted on the commoner reckoning on both counts. Of the 108 padas only twelve are vargottama, one for each sign.

The classical table of deepest exaltation and debilitation degrees covers the seven grahas and gives Ketu none, so for Ketu in Anuradha no degree of special dignity can be located; the sign-level verdicts above carry the hedge the planet pages use for Ketu.

When Ketu Is in Anuradha, 2026–2028

Ketu does not enter Anuradha at any point between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029. It stands in Purva Phalguni when the table opens and in Ardra when it closes, having visited 6 of the 27 nakshatras, and from Ardra Anuradha is 16 nakshatras further, counted backwards, the way the nodes move. So Ketu in Anuradha is, for these years, a birth-chart placement and not a transit anyone can wait for.

Anuradha as the Setting for Ketu

In the nakshatra tables Anuradha’s deity is listed as Mitra and its symbol as lotus; its gana is Deva, and the muhurta texts put it in the Mridu class (tender). Those belong to Anuradha whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Anuradha page. What changes with Ketu is everything above: the dignities in Scorpio, the relation to Saturn, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Ketu in Anuradha; the house it occupies and the dasha running decide what the placement does in a chart.

Related Placements

The sign-level reading is on Ketu in Scorpio; Ketu in all 27 nakshatras is on the Ketu nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Anuradha article.

The Other Grahas in Anuradha