WHY KETU IS NOT SATTVIC PLANET
Its, really a good question as Ketu promotes detachment from worldly comforts unlike rahu which believes materialist pleasures.
One need to understand the answer in step-by-step process.
Firstly, one need to know that ketu is from demon / Asura family and since Swarbhanu disguised himself as Devtas and switched to the line of Devatas and drank Amrita (after the churning of milk ocean). Vishnu, in the form of Mohini, was distributing it. Surya and Chandra shouted out and took it to the attention of Vishnu (that Rahu was drinking Amirta) and Vishnu with his Chakra cut off the head of his head.
And so, Rahu and Ketu are the two halves of Swarbhanu and the head is known as Rahu and the headless body as Ketu.
Since asura / demon have their nature of deceiving and so is it with rahu and ketu which is one of the big negatives in them.
Ketu promotes detachment from worldly comforts because it doesn’t have head to realize / experience it and so it let go all kinds of materialist pleasures as it can not feel it.
Since ketu did not have first-hand experience on materialistic pleasures so he starts to analyze the experiences to better understand it thru his knowledge.
After analysis Ketu found that these materialistic pleasures are temporary and doesn’t last for very long time and also not much useful in attending towards moksha / salvation and so never felt attachment for such kinds.
领英推荐
STEP TWO
We live domestic life in this world.
A person lives well balanced domestic life when the influence of all the 9 planets of our horoscope is well balanced. Over influences of tamashik planet is very bad for a native
The detachment qualities of ketu in domestic life is not much encouraging as if all becomes monks, sadhus then this world will come to an end as the growth in all forms of live will freeze and that’s a disaster.
The whole ecosystem of the human life will collapse and human life / race on earth will vanish / disappear.
So, one should understand that the detachment qualities of ketu should be like small piece of pickle in our food dish. Too much will spoil the whole food as well as our life as not everyone is expected to be saints, monks and sadhus.
This is my understanding and expression.