Karma Bhava — career, status, public reputation, action in the world
Ketu in the house of career gives detachment from worldly ambition, which reads as either integrity or drift depending on what else supports it. Work is often unconventional, service-oriented, or spiritually connected. Recognition, when it comes, matters less to this person than it does to almost anyone else in the chart.
The 10th house is what you are known for, governing career, status, public reputation, action in the world. Ketu (Ketu) is a shadow planet — subtracting, dissolving, revealing and signifies detachment, moksha, past karma, insight; its drive is to renounce, to see through, and to finish unfinished karma.
The 10th is a kendra (angle), one of the four pillars of the chart, where planets act visibly and strongly. Planets in kendras gain Dig Bala (directional strength) depending on which angle they occupy, and their effects are prominent in the life rather than hidden.
Three things modify this placement more than anything else: the sign Ketu occupies (see Ketu through the signs), the aspects it receives — Jupiter's aspect can rescue a difficult placement and Saturn's can sober an easy one — and the strength of the 10th house lord. Read this as one factor, not a verdict.
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