Examples: Ammachi -- Nelson Mandela
Deep apathy toward the karaka functions of Brihaspati: philosophy and religion, the bridges between human and divine. A temporary cessation in the growth of wisdom. Wise men don't seem so wise. Scriptures don't seem so reliable.
Karaka personages such as religious teachers, the father, professors, research directors, and spiritual guides may seem flat and uninterested in supporting one's philosophical progress. Ambivalence toward organized religion, ceremonial procedure, and ritual behaviors. Detachment from priesthood and dogma. Suspicion of fraud in the temple (often valid). Natural inclusiveness and generosity flowing from temples and holy places may seem to dry up. University culture seems less welcoming and traditional wisdom sources such as religious scripture may be viewed with a cynical eye.
For women, peculiar or annoying behaviors in the first husband. Abundance seems reduced. Frustrations with children and those trying to conceive a child may encounter one's own internal ambivalence toward children.
Guru-father figures may reveal eccentricities of character, which may range from significant moral errors to small peccadilloes. Ketu dissolves boundaries; one may be exposed to information about the wise men in one's life, from guru to father to husband, that one would have rather not known...
In Mithuna, Guru's abundant, generous, teacher roles acquire Budha-like communicative characteristics, and the native tends to have a persuasive style of modeling and explaining human capacity to apprehend great truths. During Ketu's transit across Mithuna rashi, one's wisdom-teaching and mentoring behaviors are blunted by uncertainty and disregard for the task of delivering religious knowledge in a pleasant and commonplace style. The native, who is normally gifted at putting large concepts into small digestible words, tends to lose interest in teaching and philosophical writing.
Excellent time to disengage from unreflective, ritualized religious practice and blind faith in human spiritual figures, in order to reflect on the essence of Truth. Ambivalence toward pomposity, ritual and ceremonial trappings, and even toward philosophy itself.
One may enjoy the company of odd or eccentric religious teachers, and find teachers in peculiar, non-traditional places: for example, in hospitals, prisons, and other sanctuary sites.
Ketu's transit of Brihaspati's natal place offers a potential for huge philosophical insight on a personal level. Yet the vehicle of Mithuna is conversation, so the experience is likely to happen in one-to-one communication with another person (or in one's internal conversation with oneself) rather than in a traditional one-to-many guru-teaching event.
