Sun, Venus and Ketu in the 4th house at a glance
When Surya + Shukra + Ketu (Sun + Venus + Ketu) share a sign, a yuti, the chart fuses Sun’s the soul, authority and vital life-force, Venus’s love, beauty and the pleasures of life and Ketu’s detachment, spirituality and liberation, and here all of it works through the 4th house (Bandhu / Sukha), the house of mother, home, comforts and inner happiness (Kendra (angular); natural sign Cancer).
Each graha in the 4th house
Surya (Sun) in the 4th houseMalefic
Genuine difficulty: the Sun scorches the house of the mother, home and inner peace, giving restlessness, some distance from the mother, and blood-pressure or heart tendencies.
Shukra (Venus) in the 4th houseBenefic
Venus on its throne (dig bala): comforts, vehicles, a beautiful home, property and a life of ease and taste.
Ketu (Ketu) in the 4th houseMalefic
Detachment or distance from the mother and home and inner restlessness, a seeker who never fully settles into comfort or property.
Where each is strong or weak by sign:
| Graha | Nature | Own sign | Exalted (uchcha) | Debilitated (neecha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surya (Sun) | Malefic | Leo | Aries | Libra |
| Shukra (Venus) | Benefic | Taurus, Libra | Pisces | Virgo |
| Ketu (Ketu) | Malefic | None (chhaya graha) | Scorpio | Taurus |
Sun, Venus and Ketu in the 4th house: the reading
Venus is well placed in the 4th house and the Sun and Ketu are strained there, so Venus leads the trio here. Inside the trio, Sun and Venus do best here: The Sun and Venus in the 4th house give a beautiful home, vehicles, luxury and an attractive, refined mother, with Venus strong in a watery kendra. Sun and Ketu are the pair to watch: Ketu with the Sun in the 4th house gives detachment from home and property, a mother who is absent, unwell or spiritually inclined, and a heart that finds peace only in inner work.
When it works
- A beautiful home, vehicles and domestic comfort
- An attractive, cultured mother
- Inner peace through spiritual practice
- Freedom from attachment to property
What needs care
- Domestic vanity and expense
- Ego that disturbs home peace
- Loss or renunciation of home and property
- A distant or absent mother
Sun, Venus and Ketu in the 4th house by lagna
Strongest for Simha, Dhanu and Mesh lagna; hardest for Mithun, Meen and Vrishchik lagna.
| Lagna | 4th house sign | Sun | Venus | Ketu | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesh (Aries) | Karkat | Friend, lord of 5th | Enemy, lord of 2nd & 7th | Neutral, no lordship | good |
| Vrishabh (Taurus) | Simha | Moolatrikona, lord of 4th | Enemy, lord of 1st & 6th | Neutral, no lordship | good |
| Mithun (Gemini) | Kanya | Neutral, lord of 3rd | Debilitated, lord of 5th & 12th | Neutral, no lordship | testing |
| Karkat (Cancer) | Tula | Debilitated, lord of 2nd | Moolatrikona, lord of 4th & 11th | Enemy, no lordship | mixed |
| Simha (Leo) | Vrishchik | Friend, lord of 1st | Neutral, lord of 3rd & 10th | Exalted, no lordship | strong |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Dhanu | Friend, lord of 12th | Neutral, lord of 2nd & 9th | Friend, no lordship | mixed |
| Tula (Libra) | Makar | Enemy, lord of 11th | Friend, lord of 1st & 8th | Enemy, no lordship | mixed |
| Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Kumbh | Enemy, lord of 10th | Friend, lord of 7th & 12th | Enemy, no lordship | mixed |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Meen | Friend, lord of 9th | Exalted, lord of 6th & 11th | Friend, no lordship | strong |
| Makar (Capricorn) | Mesh | Exalted, lord of 8th | Neutral, lord of 5th & 10th | Friend, no lordship | good |
| Kumbh (Aquarius) | Vrishabh | Enemy, lord of 7th | Own Sign, lord of 4th & 9th | Debilitated, no lordship | good |
| Meen (Pisces) | Mithun | Neutral, lord of 6th | Friend, lord of 3rd & 8th | Neutral, no lordship | mixed |
Sun, Venus and Ketu in the other houses
Aspects (drishti) this conjunction casts
When these results appear
Venus mahadasha with Ketu antardasha is the sharpest window (dasha years: Venus 20, Ketu 7, Sun 6).
A node beside a luminary is the chart’s own eclipse, a grahan yoga: how Rahu and Ketu swallow the light.
For the 2026 Shukra transit cycle, see when Venus retrograde ends and which houses it crosses.
See Surya + Shukra + Ketu (Sun, Venus and Ketu) in the 4th house in your own kundali
Your own chart shows which house Surya + Shukra + Ketu (Sun, Venus and Ketu) in the 4th house activates for you, how strong it is, and when your dasha brings it out.