Shukra (Venus)
Venus is the karaka of love, beauty and pleasure among the nine grahas. He is regarded as the lord of the arts and refinement. He fills your life with charm, affection and a sense of beauty.
What Venus signifies
Venus is the karaka of everything tied to love, beauty and enjoyment in life. He governs love and marriage, beauty and adornment, art and music, comfort and ease, and vehicles and material luxury. Venus awakens taste, sweetness and tenderness in your relationships. Where you hold both affection and restraint, he gives both pleasure and companionship.
Venus strong vs afflicted
When Venus is strong
- Love, charm and a happy married life
- A feel for art, music and beauty
- Comfort, ease and material prosperity
- Sweet conduct and being liked by people
When Venus is afflicted
- Friction and distance in love and marriage
- Getting carried away by indulgence and luxury
- Lack of comfort and dissatisfaction
- Trouble linked to reproductive or hidden ailments
Signs and nakshatras Venus rules
Nakshatras
Venus remedies and mantra
To settle and strengthen Venus, mantra chanting and acts of service are used.
Om Shukraya Namah
Chant 108 times · most auspicious on Friday
- Worship Maa Lakshmi and fast on Fridays
- Donate rice, sugar, ghee and white cloth
- Respect women and honour art and artists
- Stay clean, speak sweetly and keep restraint
Venus, frequently asked questions
Venus rules Taurus and Libra. It is exalted in Pisces and debilitated in Virgo.
Venus is the karaka of everything tied to love, beauty and enjoyment in life. He governs love and marriage, beauty and adornment, art and music, comfort and ease, and vehicles and material luxury. Venus awakens taste, sweetness and tenderness in your relationships. Where you hold both affection and restraint, he gives both pleasure and companionship.
Venus's friends are Mercury and Saturn, and its enemies are Sun, Moon.
The mantra for Venus is "Om Shukraya Namah", chanted as a remedy.
In the Vimshottari system, Venus's mahadasha runs for 20 years.
Where is Venus in your chart?
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