The opening period: detachment, loss, spiritual turn, and the cutting away of what the previous cycle left. Read as the years in which a life is stripped to what it actually rests on.
Meaning
In the Vimshottari cycle the Ketu period runs for 7 years and colours everything that happens in it, whatever the birth chart promises otherwise. Its fruit is taken from the graha's own condition: its house, its sign, its dignity, its aspects and the yogas it forms, so that the same period is kind in one chart and hard in another.