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Deep apathy toward the karaka functions of Shani: duty and obligation. The native may lose interest in human law and its material consequences. Social structure and threats to survival will not contain the spiritual instinct to abandon material attachment.
One disregards the consequences and fails to respond to the natural human fears of failure, poverty and death. At the extreme end (when coordinated with matching Vimshottari periods and other harsh transits) the native might disregard such basic social-material responsibilities as paying the rent, tilling the fields, holding a job, or responding to government mandates. Lack of concern for time, ambivalence toward elders, disregard for rules and regulations, absence of fear in general.
In Mithuna, Shani's sense of social duty and safety for survival acquires Budha-like communicative characteristics. The native tends to carry a heavy load of responsibility for social communications. One takes a sober and practical approach to a long roster of information delivery tasks in this lifetime. Teamwork is difficult and team-mates may be intractable or unsupportive. The native works very hard to communicate a particular message to the public.
Shani's workload of message-delivery often involves translation, interpretation, transliteration, advertising, scheduling, and publication. During Ketu's transit across Mithuna rashi, the regular communications schedule is somewhat deranged and disordered. One feels uncertainty about the value and purpose of the task, and one tends to withdraw from the work.
Excellent period for working in dangerous conditions "as if there were no consequences"; for serving the extremely poor and ignorant; in death hospice; in dark and unclear conditions both physically and spiritually. Ketu's transit to Mithuna Shani results in a certain type of liberation through lowering one's social-communicative expectations.
Good for repeated practice in trying to articulate concepts that are difficult to explain in common language; also good for working off one's own karma by handling people who cannot comprehend much mentally. Total communication breakdown is to be expected and if it can be endured with compassion, the karmic debt will be repaid.
Not good for building any type of structure (real or conceptual). May be a period of complete liberation from this vale of suffering that is material life, if other factors point strongly to physical death. However it is mainly a time of liberation from fear.
It may be surprising how easy life becomes when fear of starvation, fear of death, fear of falling, fear of social rejection, and in particular the fear of not being understood can begin to fade into the background of consciousness. The native will not be a model of good citizenship. Indeed there may be trouble from government officials who are annoyed by one's lack of fearful response. Yet the benefit of this transit is that it gives a taste of death, as one feels a release from bondage to survival fears due to extreme apathy. One may experience the peace beyond despair.
For the contemplative-minded, a very quiet and austere period with minimal limitation but also minimal social support. One becomes socially marginalized, it is true - but for certain practices this is a blessing. For the less conscious, Ketu's effect of minimizing the social rules which create life structure can lead to lawlessness and its consequences.
