Ketu, the south or descending node, is where it crosses it to the south. The south node is descending, contracting and internalizing.

Как факторы, управляющие затмениями, лунные узлы — это «тени» Солнца и Луны (конечно, не в астрономическом, а в символическом смысле). Южный узел — Кету — это тень Солнца, «негативное Солнце». Он затуманивает Солнце («я»).

Ketu creates doubt, disturbance, anger, ambition, willfulness, and a critical and often narrow vision in life which may lead to conflict and argument. While Rahu shows an individual carried away by mass trends, collective, unconscious, or astral influences, Ketu shows the individual caught in his own contracted energies, negative, critical, doubting, isolated, alienated, and obstinately separate.

Ketu means a flag. It has the power to boost up the effects of strong planets with which it is conjoined. A planet in its own sign or exalted, conjoined with Ketu gains considerable power. Venus in the Second house in Libra, conjoined with Ketu, for example, will give wealth. With Mars in Scorpio in the Third house, Ketu can give great military prowess.

Ketu gives sudden and unexpected results for good or ill, depending upon its placement. Well-placed, it makes the individual strong but not necessarily sensitive to others.

Ketu gives perception, liberation, wisdom, and psychic sensitivity in a more genuine way, but can give a too limiting, critical view of things that gets us stuck in some comer of our minds.