Ketu in Rohini Nakshatra (Ketu in रोहिणी)

Rohini, the 4th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 40°00′ – 53°20′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Taurus. Rohini is ruled by the Moon, so Ketu in Rohini stands in the Moon’s star.

Ketu’s row in the friendship lists counts the Moon an enemy; the Moon’s row names no node, so the star lord of Rohini has no entry for Ketu, and this page does not supply one. The other two nakshatras the Moon rules, Hasta and Shravana, put Ketu under the same star lord.

Ketu in Rohini, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Ketu is debilitated on the commoner reckoning in all four padas of Rohini, because the whole nakshatra lies in Taurus. By navamsa the four padas fall in Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. Ketu’s strongest navamsa in Rohini is pada 1 (Aries, in a friend's sign), and its weakest is pada 2 (Taurus, debilitated on the commoner reckoning).

Rohini pada 2 is vargottama — Taurus in rashi and in navamsa — so Ketu there is debilitated 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 Rohini 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 Rohini, 2026–2028

Ketu does not enter Rohini 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 Rohini is 2 nakshatras further, counted backwards, the way the nodes move. So Ketu in Rohini is, for these years, a birth-chart placement and not a transit anyone can wait for.

Rohini as the Setting for Ketu

In the nakshatra tables Rohini’s deity is listed as Brahma and its symbol as cart; its gana is Manushya, and the muhurta texts put it in the Dhruva class (fixed). Those belong to Rohini whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Rohini page. What changes with Ketu is everything above: the dignities in Taurus, the relation to the Moon, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Ketu in Rohini; 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 Taurus; Ketu in all 27 nakshatras is on the Ketu nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Rohini article.

The Other Grahas in Rohini