Ketu-I

Ketu is a planet of mysterious functioning. It causes weird developments and growth. It gives rise to most unusual defects. It governs astral entities and is capable of causing trouble through them. It has the ability to confer supernatural powers, to induce development of extra-sensory perceptions and to promote appearance of psychic powers in an individual. Ketu is a prime principle of mysticism. It gives rise to saints and mystics.
When we study an aspect of life from a house from the ascendant, we should also, according to Brihat Parashar Hora Shastra examine the same number of house from the karaka for the aspect. Reference is invited to the Chapter entitled Karakatwas of Grahas. The principle is that if we study children in a birth chart, we should not only study the fifth house from the ascendant, we should also study the fifth house from the natal position of Jupiter.
The sixth house from the ascendant stands for defects. The sixth house from natal Ketu will stand for weird defects. The ascendant represents the physical form of a person. Sun governs this form. The first house from the natal position of the Sun will also therefore represent the human form. When the ascendant is related to the sixth house from it, the human form will have some defects. When the natal position of the Sun is related to the sixth house from natal Ketu the human form will have some weird defect. This is the birth chart of Simone Baker.
She was born with shortened arms, each with three-fingered hands beginning at the elbows. She was one of the last Thalidomide babies. The birth data is as follows:
27 Sept 1962, 0010 hour, Reading, England, 51n28, 0w59, Time zone 1hour East. The Sidereal ascendant is at 27°02’44” in Gemini.
The owner of the sixth house is Mars. It is placed in the ascendant and is in close sambandha with Mercury that owns the ascendant. The sixth house from Ketu is again the ascendant. The owner of the natal position of the Sun is Mercury which is in close relationship with Mars as we have seen.