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Honestly, I don’t even know where to start. I have always been astrologically inclined as far as I remember. Every year I would go on my annual pilgrimage to my astrologer and he would share predictions for the year. He would advise me on how to navigate my life for the year, and I would happily come back very content with the knowledge gained. And that’s how it continued for as long as I remember. I’m 42 years old, I’m sort of married, I have a son who’s running 14, and I lost my father long back. So there’s just my mother, my son and me. My marital life is a big question mark right now. I don’t know where it stands. My marriage was anyway doomed from the very beginning. I have Ketu in 2nd house and Rahu in 8th. Lovely AXIS.
Even though I had been visiting my astrologer every year, I was never really a devout fan of astrology. I always had my questions. Cut to 2017, when I think I faced the biggest setback of my life. That year was particularly difficult for me. I turned to astrology to discover I was going through Rahu Antardasha. I had heard of Antardashas but I didn’t really understand or TBH care to know much about them.
Cut to 2020, the world gets hit by Covid and so do I. Life as we all knew it was pretty much over and we were all just surviving.
In March 2021, my Ketu Mahadasha started and I had no idea, not in my wildest dreams could I imagine WHAT was going to hit me.
Even before it started, A couple of months before my ketu mahadasha began, it started showing its colors or what was in store for me. I lost my beloved four legged, wet nosed, 11 yr old Lab. I was away when I lost her. Couldn’t even say a Bye or bury her. This was Jan 2021.
March 2021, Ketu arrived and a humiliating incident followed shattering my prestige and so called standing in the society. It didn’t matter that I was the victim, I was right. It was public and humiliating. Out of the blue, for no fault of mine. Anyway, By Oct 21 I shifted out of my old family house into a new house I myself had built.
New house, new beginning I thought and got myself a pup. The pup brought a lot of happiness in our lives even though I realised my business was declining month after month. Money was sort of becoming tighter and my sleep was worse than ever. Out of the blue that winters I developed Hives, a skin infection which people attributed to all the cleaning I undertook of the new house. Painful and stressful, it lasted a good 4 months and i was on medication for a month to completely get rid of it. Disturbed sleep, nightmares, another round of covid, anxiety settled in.
The pup was growing up and we were settling in the new house. Now this was a beautiful house, artistic, elegant, one of the finest in the city but I wasn’t thriving in it as I had imagined. I had everything materialistic a 42 year old woman would need, Everything and more (except a loyal husband). Brands, shoes, watches, skin care, makeup, jewellery, cars ( I had earned it). Like I said all materialistic items at my disposal, yet there was deep routed anxiety n fear for the future. Constant negativity 24×7. Fear of the future. Dwindling income. Still I thought if I worked harder it will improve.
It didn’t! The harder I worked, more the numbers would fall. My dedicated and old team started disintegrating. Employees left, my usual chirpy and happy temperament became angry and abusive.
Jan 2022 I lost my small 4 month old pup to a deadly dog virus. We were heart broken having lost two pets in a year. Nothing made sense anymore. My usually good and sharp business acumen started failing. I started doubting myself if it was ever ME who built this company or was it sheer Good Luck?
Nothing I did worked! May 2022, in Venus antardasha I lost my beloved Brother in law. A fit 48 yr old father of two bright kids gone due to cardiac arrest.
His death tormented me for days, weeks, months. My smoking increased. I had been smoking for 20 yrs now and drinking. Though honestly drinking wasn’t a concern, smoking was. I stopped going to my office, I would perhaps visit twice a month.
I stayed home, avoided social gatherings, I anyway didn’t have many friends. Most of them were fake anyway. Somehow staying home, eating my chips and watching Netflix was the high point of my life. Btw, finances were dwindling. Somewhere around this time I developed a weird knee pain. The pain was shooting and intense and i started limping. Weird part being, there was no apparent reason for it and it wasn’t visible in any scans. I limped for months. The doctor advised Yoga for recovery and I got myself a Yoga Teacher. This person turned out to be a superb human being who quietly helped me not just fix my knee but encouraged meditation and chanting too. But it was apparent that Ketu wouldn’t leave me alone, just yet. Almost on a monthly basis I would pull some nerve and would have go take a break from Yoga. Develop a cold and fever, take a break from Yoga. It was almost like the planet was conspiring against my will. Challenging me, “Do your Yoga as you please, I will still take you down”! (P.S- it is still the same).
I became a recluse. Cooking up a 100 excuses to not meet people. Just Netflixing or thinking of a million reasons as to how my life could go wrong. And basically manifesting that shit. So this is how 2022 progressed. Dwindling mental health, dwindling finances, romanticising the idea of death and suicide. Of how lovely it would be to simple die and get rid of my *Manhoos* (for the lack of a better word) existence. One fine morning, I decided to stop eating non veg and I turned a vegetarian.
Towards the end of Venus I started walking everyday, would plug in music and transport myself to my imaginary world, where one day I would be an Avenger saving the world, next, a mutant, so on and so forth.
Paralelly as I saved the world and man kind, my darling husband continued to cheat on me. And I aware of his actions, found refuge in my make shift world. Until one day I met a man who seemed perfect. I fell head over heels for him, it felt as though he was the one! That God sent him FOR ME. Only to swallow a bitter pill of truth and lose him a few months later. This spiralled me into depression. For the sake of my mother and son I pretended to be okay but I was dying on the inside. Literally dying. That phase, of waking up and wishing to be dead, waking up with anxiety and palpations, heartbroken, missing that person who seemed to be tailor made for me and yet who disappeared like he never existed. My God, those days became weeks then months. I was barely surviving. Alone.
In between I had Covid again followed by Typhoid and had to be hospitalised for it. I somehow didn’t kill myself. Though it seemed like a very attractive and doable solution. Strangely I took to painting. A childhood habit I enjoyed. I painted like there was no tomorrow for 3-4 months. Then one fine day I stopped just as I had started. Put away the brushes and the canvases.
Dwindling sales, a thriving business hitting rock bottom, eroded mental health, a body battered by covid thrice and a shaky marriage, I managed to reach 2024, health less, soul less, brainless, faithless and alone. One good thing, after a night of heavy drinking, I fell super sick, I think I was close to getting Alcohol Poisoning. Took me after 10 days to recover and I decided to quit drinking, completely (a decision I haven’t regretted).
Everyone was flourishing, only I wasn’t. But with every passing day I seemed to care less and less about it.
March 2024, brought in Rahu AD in Ketu MD. What can I say more?!
But that’s when I think a massive shift happened. One day in March I decided to visit Kashi to see Sankatmochan. I had been there before but this time it was almost like an urgent need to visit Sankatmochan. I went to Kashi, visited all my fav temples – Vishwanath dham, Kaal Bhairav, saving Sankatmochan for the last day. I had decided I would distribute 51Kgs of his fav laddoos amongst all his devotees that day. As I entered the temple complex and walked up to the central courtyard, my heart was in my chest. I looked up to see his idol, the very unique representation chosen by Tulsidas and I burst into tears. I wept and wept like there is no tomorrow. I didn’t just weep, I howled. I cried for a very long time till the time I had no tears left. Then I said my prayers and shared his prashad with all the devotees present in the temple complex. It was so peaceful. I felt complete, at peace, I felt almost human as I distributed his prashad with all the love in my heart. I Love Hanumanji, he is my brother, my protector. And then it hit me. Only him, can save me. Only the Gods can save me. That morning at Sakatmochan, gave me hope that I needed to get my act together through prayers and chanting. Bhaiya saved me that day.
I came back home and resumed chanting and meditation (something I did everyday from 2019-2020, stopping because of a fall out I had with the Gods). I restarted with faith and devotion. I finally used YOUTUBE and saw EVERY VIDEO EVER UPLOADED ON KETU MD. EVERY VIDEO and took notes.
That’s when I found You, read your article on Ketu MD, heard your suggestions on how to navigate one’s life during Ketu MD, what to do, upaays. My goodness I was a woman possessed by Ketu. I read everything ever written on Ketu. I compiled all upaays and started doing them religiously. With every passing month, I felt better. Situation didn’t improve. Business didn’t improve. I did. My mental mayhem lessened.
Remedies for Ketu Mahadasha that worked for me –
- Puja, Ganesh Aradhana, chanting, daily meditation.
- Yoga
- Temple visits
- Weekly food daan to underprivileged, blind people, sweets for kids
- Feeding strays everyday. I now have 10-12 strays who wait for me every evening at 5.
- Feeding birds and ants
- Avoiding blue, grey and black
I do all this religiously. Without fail. This is my routine. Apart from these I do several other upaays too for Shani ki Sadhe Saati which is ongoing. First dhaiya will end with Rahu MD.
In May I went to Bombay to visit Siddhivinayak and decided to do path of Ganesh Atharvshish everyday. Going to Siddhivinayak was surreal. Seeing a Ganesh idol with his trunk turned right was unique. I came back rejuvenated. For someone who didn’t understand Sanskrit reading Ganesh Atharvshish was quite a task but I managed to learn it by heart. I recite it twice a day. Or as many times as I feel like. I do Ganpati puja now, pray to him.
But the night I came back home, I suffered a major accident which resulted in 5 stitches in my knee. I couldn’t comprehend why God would do that to me especially when I practically spend my day praying. TBH I was quite taken a back. I was quite shaken. I felt unnecessarily punished. That’s when I remembered you saying, Ketu hits the knees. And I was much relieved. It was Ketu. The Gods possibly protected me from a very serious injury, by only giving me 5 stitches on my knee. I continued to pray and chant, continued to visit temples. It is October now and with Hanuman ji’s blessings I have just renovated an old but very charming temple in my city. It’s a lovely and peaceful temple. 50% of it is done and rest I have planned to renovate by Shivratri of 2025. My heart fills with joy when I see the shining new temple, new clothes for Maa and Bhaiya. I feel so privileged and blessed that they found me capable enough to do this for them. That they chose me. I write this teary eyed that’s how happy I am in my Ketu MD.
Vijay ji, you hardly seemed like an astrologer but i heard you. Not just one video but every video you have posted on You tube. I would like to thank you for making these videos as you know they became my lifeline. I may have seen your Ketu videos tens of times because they helped me breathe and LIVE. They told me I was not alone and crores of others going thru Ketu MD have similar experiences. The comments on your videos would help too. They all sounded like my situation. Every one of them. I may have seen a 100 different youtube channels talking of Ketu, NONE have the clarity that you do. None are as bang on, as You. So, Thank You from the bottom of my heart. You have helped me survive this most liberating of all dashas and I am just half way through.
Namaste.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS MADAM. I HOPE YOU HAVE A BETTER KETU FIRST HALF AND A GREAT VENUS MD.
God Bless,
GVK