Moon neutral as 10th lord, Ketu neutral as shadow lord — a career focus meets karmic dissolution in the house of the other. The 10th lord’s placement here creates a professional-facing marriage, but Ketu’s presence introduces a psychic surgical strike on the emotional expectations of the union. For a Libra (Tula) ascendant, this occurs in the martial sign of Aries (Mesha), forcing the gentle Moon into a battlefield of detachment.
The Conjunction
Libra (Tula) ascendant sees the tenth lord Moon (Chandra) placed in the seventh house (Kalatra Bhava), which is an angular house (kendra) and a death-inflicting house (maraka). The Moon rules career and public status (Karma Bhava), positioning these themes within the arena of marriage and partnerships. Ketu, the shadow planet of liberation (moksha) and past-life residuals, joins the Moon in Aries (Mesha), a sign ruled by Mars (Mangala). This Ketu-Chandra yoga creates a complex psychic field where the mind (Manas) is continuously severed by the south node’s disintegrating influence. While the Moon seeks social validation and professional alignment through the spouse, Ketu demands isolation and spiritual detachment. Because the Moon and Ketu are natural enemies, the native experiences a fractured emotional reality where the desire for partnership is constantly undermined by an instinctive need to withdraw.
The Experience
Living with Ketu and the Moon in the house of partners feels like reaching for a reflection that disappears upon contact. The native possesses an intuitive void, where the emotional needs of the self are projected onto the spouse, only to be met with a sense of hollowness or spiritual indifference. The Brihat Parashara Hora SHastra suggests that such placements challenge the material stability of unions by introducing a non-material, often psychic, urgency. The mind is headless here; it feels everything yet attaches to nothing. This creates a person who is hyper-aware of the partner’s moods but remains fundamentally unreachable themselves. There is a profound sense that the "other" is merely a temporary visitor from a previous incarnation, leading to a marriage that feels more like a karmic debt-clearing station than a romantic sanctuary.
The nakshatras within Aries color this psychic severance with distinct shades. In Ashwini, the conjunction grants a healing but restless energy, often manifesting as a spouse who enters the life suddenly like a medical emergency and departs or detaches just as quickly. In Bharani, the weight of the underworld and restrictive duty defines the partnership, demanding a sacrificial approach to emotional satisfaction where the native must surrender their lunar needs to the partner's heavy karma. In Krittika, the sharpness of the Sun (Surya) burns away the lunar moisture, leaving a relationship defined by high-voltage intellectual clarity and a total lack of sentimental fluff. The Voidmirror native navigates a world where every public interaction serves as a portal to internal emptiness. This is not a lack of feeling, but a feeling of the "lack" itself. Mastery arrives when the individual stops seeking emotional satiety from the environment and accepts the meditative stillness that Ketu provides. The struggle is the constant oscillation between the Moon’s need to be seen in the public eye and Ketu’s drive to hide in the spiritual cave of the seventh house.
Practical Effects
The spouse attracted by this placement is often spiritually inclined, eccentric, or emotionally inaccessible. They likely have a career tied to the public, management, or government because the tenth lord resides in the seventh house, yet they remain an enigma in private. This partner may possess intuitive or psychic abilities, or they may struggle with a sense of purposelessness that the native is forced to manage. Both planets aspect the first house (Tanus Bhava), projecting an aura of mystery and emotional inconsistency onto the native’s own personality, often making the native appear disinterested in social norms. The spouse may have a background in foreign lands or unconventional fields that involve research or isolation. Partner consciously with individuals who value spiritual autonomy over emotional enmeshment to ensure the counterpart represents a specialized match designed to mirror the silence of a mind finally cut off from worldly attachment.