Venus is not an easy planet to understand. Venus is water and fire both, this contradictory nature of Venus makes is very hard to understand and remedy. Venus is every thing we want in material life and for a Sanyasi it is the path of Bhakti. Venus gives bhoga or can make one tapasvi. Venus is pure water that sustains life and its also the Agni which can guide our mind. Venus is also a Guru and can give tremendous knowledge. It can cause love and war both.
Venus as Lord of Taurus
The home for Venus is Taurus the natural 2nd house of wealth, food and family. Venus is the Guru of the Night Sky , she exalts the Moon in her sign. Manas is very comfortable in wealth and comfort and Venus is significator for both. Venus is an essential planet for wealth and luxury as it is the planet that forms Shri Manta Yoga1. Venus denotes wealth and without Venus the blessing of Shri Lakshmi can’t come.
The house where Venus is placed is the source of wealth, if strong and activated all kinds of wealth will flow and the native will enjoy all comforts life has to offer. Financial hardships occur if Venus is afflicted. Life without any luxury or comfort is also experienced if the house where Venus is placed is weak. Some argue that even Venus is afflicted than also the person is wealthy? This happens in many chart. But, the mental satisfaction gained from that wealth will be missing and there will not any comfort from that wealth to the person. They will live in a stressful environment.
Venus as Lord of Libra
The natural 7th house signifies spouse, marketplace, partners and going away as it the opposite house of the Lagna. Libra is the mulatrikona (office) of Venus. This is main the function of Venus as significator of marriage. Venus gets us married, find love and procreate children. Venus signifies females and denotes all females younger to us like wife, daughter, younger sister, etc. If Venus is badly hit, then our marriage will suffer greatly. We also witness the suffering of our wife and daughters.
Venus represents sexuality as the 7th house is also the house of sexual parts. Afflicted Venus may cause sexual abuse in females and one must be very careful when dealing with such charts
The 7th house is also the house of business, and Venus rules management and advertising. A person with strong Venus can do good business and make it run successfully. Venus is key planet of wealth and business as real wealth come from big businesses2 and not from service.
Venus as a Protector of Life
Venus rules Ojas and immunity. Conception and reproduction all comes under Venus. Moon is significator for pregnancy but Venus is the one that causes conception. The Special Dristi called Acchadana Dristi3 of Venus is the one that causes conception which is in the 5th house of Venus. Thus a horoscope drawn as Venus is ascendant can tell us about the marriage, emotions, luxury, vehicles, conception and autoimmune diseases. Venus in Jaimini Astrology may also function as significator of the father instead of the Sun. Sun and Venus both can become Sthira Pitri Karaka just like Moon and Mars can become Sthira Matri Karaka.
Venus rules the natural 2nd and 7th Houses which are maraka houses in Astrology. It is the rejuvenation power of Venus that keep us alive and well. Mrityunjaya Mantra of Lord Shiva is used to protect life in times of danger, is a mantra of Venus. It was Guru Shukracharya who gave this mantra to mankind for their benefit. Till the time Venus is strong we recover and live. Afflicted Venus causes many diseases like Diabetes, Cancer, Autoimmune Diseases, Blindness, etc.
Venus As Agni: Ruler of the South East
The digpala devata for Venus is Agni who rules the south east direction. Venus in the 4th house is said to be in Dig Bala and blessing of Agni devata are on the native. Agni represents a clear direction and sight for future. It creates visionaries and people with good management skills. Agni is also used for homa i.e fire sacrifice and this creates selfless love and duty for the welfare of the people at large. The emotions like love for one’s country and martyrdom comes from Venus and the power of Agni.
Venus As A Guru
Venus is the Guru of the night sky i.e. Shukracharya. He gives knowledge of material comforts and life to everyone. He is the Asura Guru that is the reason why Saturn in Libra and Rahu in Taurus4 gets exaltation. This is the reason Saturn Venus dasa combinations are always bad, because the Asuras have support of their Guru.
Venus also protects young females from abuse and gives all kinds of luxury. Venus is also the protector of Moon and the minster for the Queen represents ties to royalty.
Venus In Exaltation
Venus exalts in Pisces which is the natural 12th house of marriage, expenses, losses or donations, doctors, etc. Venus is Pisces is extremely pure Venus and it rises above material desires to reach new heights of Bhakti. Venus is always giving others for the sake of love and compassion. This is reason Venus exalts in the natural 12th house. Venus which the house of Guru and Mulatrikona of Ketu. Venus in Pisces is not good for marriage as his objective is much higher to reach the level of Vishnu.
Venus In Debility
Venus debilitates in the sign of Virgo, which is the natural 6th house of the zodiac. Here Venus is like Goddess Radha trying to remove sadripus and sins and attaining purity. That is the reason Vrindavan is said to give mukti as Radha removes all the sins of the native and prepare them for the path of Moksa. Venus in Virgo will always have a Kama Dristi (7th Dristi) on Pisces the sign denoting moksha.
Venus As The Divine Mother
Venus is also called as Sita. The Devata for Venus is Lakshmi and Venus denotes the blessing of the Divine mother Durga, when well placed in the Kendra houses. If Venus is ill placed then the blessing the Devi will not come not unless we do serious sadhanas. Venus in Satva signs denotes a saumya Devi and in Krura or Tamas signs shows warrior goddess form. Venus has the power of love and war both. If afflicted or in curse it can destroy everything and create huge wars.
Venus As Jala Tattva
Venus is ruler for Jala Tattva. Moon creates Jala and Venus rules over it. The Devata for Jala Tattva is Durga and Venus is divine mother itself. This jala tattva is responsible for emotions and progeny that we already discussed above. Affliction to the Venus will also disturb the Jala Tattva in body leading to many problems. The creator of Jala Tattva is Vamadeva and the ruler is Devi Durga
Shukra Lagna
Shukra Lagna is the chart that shows houses from Venus. Make the house where Venus is placed as the Lagna and we can check specific results based on this. Just like we make Chandra Kundalini we can make Shukra Kundali for Venus related aspects and results.
Venus Conjunctions
Venus is pure water which can be contaminated very easily. It is best to have Venus alone as all other planets can afflict Venus or change the results.
| Planet | Conjunction | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Venus | Sun | Gandhanta Yoga |
| Venus | Moon | Annapurna Yoga or Rudra Yoga |
| Venus | Mars | Gandhanta Yoga / Rudra Yoga |
| Venus | Mercury | Asura Yoga, Venus becomes weak |
| Venus | Jupiter | Dwi Guru Yoga |
| Venus | Saturn | Asura Yoga |
| Venus | Rahu | Devi Sthambana |
| Venus | Ketu | Rakta Dosha |
Venus Remedies
The remedies to make Venus strong will depend on the horoscope but these remedies will help everyone greatly if followed regularly.
- The Rasa of Venus is Dadhi. Eating curd and citrus fruits like lemon, alma (India Gooseberry), tamarind, etc will help to remove damage from the Venus at body level. This is great cure for diseases like diabetes and any autoimmune diseases. Eating fresh curd in the morning empty stomach gives extremely good results and must be done by people who are prone to cancer or battling cancer.
- All females are denoted by Venus. Respecting females and providing help or services to women in need and doing charity for the girl chid are extremely good. Any abuse to females creates a very negative Venus. In present times when women abuse and other crimes against females are very high we are seeing a high rise in cancer rates.
- South east is the Agni Kona and one must keep it free from water. Don’t keep washrooms or water storages in South East. This will keep the home energy of Venus good.
- Worshiping of Goddess Lakshmi or Durga depending up on the placement of the Venus in Horoscope. Anyone can do Lakshmi Pooja or Mantra. She is the Pratyadi Devata for Venus who will always cure Venus.
- Chanting Mrityunjaya Mantra also improves Venus and gives many benefits. This mantra also protects life and cures diseases easily.
- Shri Mantra Yoga is when the 2nd and the 7th lords are connected. This can also mean connection between A2 & A7. ↩︎
- The 6th house is house of service where Venus is in Marana Karaka Sthana. A person with strong Venus will always like to manage his own business. ↩︎
- Acchadana Dristi is special aspect of planets where they do good. Only six planets has acchadana dristi. Saturn, Rahu and Ketu cannot have Acchadana as nothing good comes from their aspect. ↩︎
- Rahu has Ayus exaltation in Taurus which protects life and gives very good longitivtiy. ↩︎
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