Deep apathy toward the karaka functions of Budha: administrative communications and service work. Day-to-day mentality may become flat or disengaged. Less interested in the "news". Learning continues for students, but the method is more by osmosis and less by logical analysis.
Limited ability to make plans and carry out agendas.
One may experience disrespect of others toward one's narrative communication style or the content of one's ideas. If this happens, it is a projection of the inner ambivalence toward mental traffic and an attempt to separate oneself from excess attachment to language as a device for interpreting experience. Siblings and co-workers may act detached or unresponsive.
In Mithuna, Budha's communicative characteristics are exceptionally well-developed. The native tends to have vividly articulate conversational style which quickly engages in one-to-one talk and one-to-many publication. During Ketu's transit across Mithuna rashi, the mercurial faculties are blunted by uncertainty and disregard for administrative media tasks, and the native may produce surprisingly unclear or unspecific speech, writing, gesture, image packaging, etc. Apathy returns to engagement when the transit is completed.
Excellent time to assume the "witness" position in mental practice; also a good time to integrate intuition and holistic apprehension ("gestalt") into the perceptual process. Connotation-denotation issues with words or hand gestures may be problematic as one is not inclined to be overly attentive to semantic boundaries. Communications professionals such a marketing and advertising experts may function better when using the diffused, intuitive, visceral imagery of photo and symbolic icons rather than specific words.
Gochara Ketu in Mithuna gives a much stronger effect for those in a Vimshottari bhukti of Budha. Ketu + Budha is in general good for ministries of service which involve disconnected, ambivalent, unreasonable people who repeat the same mistakes continuously. Thus, an excellent position for social workers and charitable missions to the underclass.
Gives a tolerance for mental imprecision and even illogical argumentation. Mental inclination toward the weird and the absurd.
