Om Shum Shukraya Namah

Shukra * Bhrigu * Amaraari

Laxmi * Saraswati * Parvati

Luxury - Learning - Liaison

Shukra Mahadasha

Bayad plays the oud to The Lady.

from the Riyad & Bayad, c. 1300

~~ Devi Mahatmyam 11.6

"All women in this world are forms of the goddess. "

~~ Manu Smriti, 3.56

"All the gods reside where women are worshipped. "

TOPICS of SHUKRA:

1. Shukra in Mesha
2. Shukra in Vrishabha * swakshetra
3. Shukra in Mithuna
4. Shukra in Karkata
5. Shukra in Simha
6. Shukra in Kanya * neechchamsha
7. Shukra in Thula * swakshetra
8. Shukra in Vrischika
9. Shukra in Dhanushya
10. Shukra in Makara
11. Shukra in Kumbha
12. Shukra in Meena * uchchamsha

1. Shukra-1

2. Shukra-2

3. Shukra-3

4. Shukra-4

5. Shukra-5

6. Shukra-6

7. Shukra-7

8. Shukra-8

9. Shukra-9

10. Shukra-10

11. Shukra -11

12. Shukra-12

~~ Isaiah 14:12-14

"How you have fallen from heaven, O MORNING STAR, son of the dawn!

You have been cast down to the Earth, you who once laid low the nations!

You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven;

I will raise my throne above the stars of God;

I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High."

Om Aswadhwajaaya Vidmahe

Dhanur hastaaya dheemahi

Tanno shukra prachodayaat

Himkundmrinaalaabham Daityaanam Paramam Gurum

Sarvashastrapravaktaram Bhargavam Pranmaamyaham

Conditions which greatly affect Lord Shukra

• Uchchamsha Shukra, in any bhava, grants a lovely appearance. Often one is a talented artist or musician (unless talent is blocked by drishti). the native enjoys good fortune through women.

• Neechchamsha Shukra, in any bhava, reduces the natural grace . Shukra's naturally smooth, integrated balance is overwhelmed by Kanya's computational logic, criticism, and a feeling of inferiority or servitude.

• Shukra + Shani = elegant simplicity, talent in architecture, diplomacy, structural design, wealth after a long step-wise process.

• Shukra = dhanakaraka = treasuries of wealth and knowledge; sensual pleasures of the body esp food, drink, and love-making; luxury (Laxmi)

• Shukra gains more power as Lagnesha, lord of the Chandra-nakshatra, Atmakaraka, lord of Arudha Lagna

Environments of Shukra

• treasuries and collections = 2nd-from

• speculative fortune = 5th-from

• relationships and contracts = 7th-from

• wisdom to have the right resources at the right time = 9th from

• profits, material achievement, gains of income = 11th- from

Vocation:

• Brokerage, Bargaining, and Negotiation

• Balanced Design, Ornamentation, Beauty

• Pleasures and Enjoyments

• Counseling and Advising

• Promises, Agreements, Trusts, Betrothal

• Matching-making and Deals

• Contracts and Alliances

~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Beauty is complete order.

• But most of us have not that sense of beauty in our lives.

We may be great artists, great painters, expert in various things, but in our own daily life, with all the anxieties and miseries, we live, unfortunately, a very disordered life.

• It is a fact.

You may be a great scientist, you may be a great expert in a subject, but you have your own problems, struggles, pain, anxieties and the rest of it.

We are asking, is it possible to live in complete order within, not impose discipline, control, but to inquire into the nature of this disorder, what are the causes, and to dispel, move away, wash away the cause.

Then there is a living order in the universe. "

Direction

Southeast = dakSiNatas

movement in a southeasterly pattern or direction is forecast during many periods of Shukra

Vaidik Names

Zucra (light-colored , white) - Zaukra (sperm) - zukrAcArya - Shukracharya

Zuci (shining, glowing, radiant)

Daityaguru - Asuraguru - Asphujit -

Surazatru - Sita (white sugar) - Sodhazaamzu (16-rayed) - Sodhazarcis (16-rayed) - Sveta (dressed in white) - zvetaratha (having a white chariot) -

Bha (semblance , delusion , error) - Bharga - Bhrigu - Bhriguja - Bhriguputra - Bhaargavapriya (dear to Shukra, diamond) - Bhrigunandana -

Ekanayana - Ekekshana -

Dhishnya - Ditisuta - Kavi -

Maghabhava (offspring of Magha) -

vedAdhipati (one who presides over the Veda)

Tibetan Names

Pasang

~~ Pablo Picasso

"You know, music, art - these are not just little decorations to make life prettier.

They're very deep necessities which people cannot live without."

-- BPHS Ch. 3, Shloka 28

" Venus is charming,

has a splendorous physique,

is excellent or great in disposition,

has charming eyes, is a poet,

is phlegmatic and windy,

and has curly hair. "

Vocabulary for Shukra-Venus:

Koeln Digital Sanskrit Lexicon :

www.etymonline.com:

O.E., from L. Venus (pl. veneres ), in ancient Roman mythology, the goddess of beauty and love, especially sensual love,

• from venus "love, sexual desire, loveliness, beauty, charm,"

• from PIE base *wen-"to strive after, wish, desire, be satisfied"

  • cf. Skt. vanas- "desire," vanati "desires, loves, wins;"

  • cf. Avestan vanaiti "The wishes, is victorious"

  • cf. O.E. wynn "joy," wunian "to dwell," wenian "to accustom, train wean," wyscan (ween) "to wish"

  Applied by the Romans to Gk. Aphrodite, Egyptian Hathor, etc.

• Meaning "second planet from the sun" is attested from c.1290 (O.E. had morgensteorraand æfensteorra).

Karaka significations and Meanings

pleasure + treasure = satisfaction = possessiveness = sweets

"Guru of the Demons" - Attraction / Distraction

Appreciation, Pricing, Preciousness, Appraisal, Prized

Deliciousness and Delights, pleasures and pleasantries

wealth, natural resources, beauty, and harmonious relationships;

gathering , hoarding, collecting, accumulating, enjoyment

kalatrakaraka = significator of Marriage and Alliances

zataparva = wife of Zukra

Vahanakaraka (significator of vehicles)

Dhanakaraka (significator of wealth) =

Kalatrakaraka (significator of wife for male and marriage-relationship for female)

Venus = The morning star and the evening star

= morgensteorra - æfensteorra (Old English)

~~ W. C. Fields

;

~~ Lao-Tse:

Continuing to fill a pail after it is full, the water will be wasted.

Continuing to grind an axe after it is sharp, will wear it away.

Excess of light blinds the eye.

Excess of sound deafens the ear.

Excess of condiments deadens the taste.

He who possesses moderation is lasting and enduring.

Too muchis always a curse, most of all in wealth.

Shukra isn't really the *Love* planet;

Shukra is the Pleasure Planet

H.H. Dalai Lama and Renuka Singh. (2002). The Path to Tranquility.

"Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice.

One can be deceived by three types of laziness:

• the laziness of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate

• the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities

• the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue. "

"Shukra Lagna"

= pleasure entitlements - or not

• Graha in the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th from Shukra will generally increase the sense pleasures during their respective Vimshottari dasha periods.

  • Of these fortunate angles, the best for pleasures = 7th-from-Shukra. According to BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43, "... the 7th from Shukra... stand for consideration respectively in respect of ... spouse...."

• Graha in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 12th from Shukra generally signify reduced harmony and less luxury, due to their adversarial angle from the Shukra-lagna.

• 4th-from-Shukra is considered to be an unfortunate angle. Graha in 4th from Shukra may give good results regarding other matters, but in their measure of marital harmony, wealth acquisition , balanced designs, and nerve pleasures -- 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 12thpan> angles are unproductive.

  • Graha in 4th-from-Shukra take away spousal pleasuring and replace it with parental protective emotions.

  • The "4th" angle is controlled by Chandra, and peer-balance Shukra chronically dislikes parent-child protector Chandra.

  • Graha in 4th-from-Shukra take away spousal pleasuring and replace it with parental caretaking emotions. In a marriage, this era emphasizes parent-child duties or matters of personal emotional security. Interpersonal intimacy is much diminished.

Shukra =

• kalatra-karaka

• natural lord of yuvati bhava

stands for all things,

even those things that don't flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;

as St. Francis

put his hand on the creased forehead

of the sow, and told her in words and in touch

blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow

began remembering all down her thick length,

from the earthen snout all the way

through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of

the tail,

from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine

down through the great broken heart

to the blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering

from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking

and blowing beneath them:

the long, perfect loveliness of sow.

~~ Jatakalankara,

Ch-3, Shloka 20

If Venus be posited in his own Rashi or in Mithuna,

the native will be infatuated by love.

Infinite Loop

Shukra-Guru

Two Subha-graha with often incompatible Styles

~~ Jataka Parijata

Ch 2 Shloka 79

Venus produces peril through such causes as

• drink and diabetes,

• arising from the diseases of the beloved women,

• associated with a result induced by addiction to females,

• endeared by excessive gallantry.

Male Nativity: Shukra = Wives, Sisters, Female Colleagues

• In the present lifetime, Shukra regenerates past-life imagery regarding harmonious alliances and sense pleasures; therefore additional wives are related to the sense-pleasure-harmony karaka Shukra.

• If other factors point in the direction of second marriage, a man with numerous graha yuti Shukra is likely to have a complex of women in his life: several wives, wealthy or harmoniously related sisters, female professional colleagues, etc.

• Shukra is not inherently sexual therefore pleasant, harmonious, wealth-enhancing relationships with female peers of all social categories are included in the portfolio of Shukra.

• Shukra-1 - partner is vital, muscular, moving, and the native is very attractive physically

• Shukra-2 = second wife has a strong pleasure factor. There can be more sensuality in the 2nd marriage than in the 1st.

• Shukra-3 = partner is talkative, good at planning events, likes to travel

• Shukra = partner enjoys school, parenting, homes, vehicles/ bhava-4 = dik=bala for Shukra, a grounded and house-loving sweetheart

• Shukra-5 = partner loves the limelight. Good for politics, creative arts, theatre. Loves children but loves the stage as well. Romantic.

• Shukra-6 = problematic. Spouse argumentative, conflicted, often ill or addicted; partnership unbalanced, concern for exploitation and toxicity.

• Shukra-7 = karako bhavo nashto, esp when Shukra is strong by rashi. Too much partner, too much pleasure, partner's materialism while successful in public tends to block higher perceptions within the union.

• Shukra-8 = partner secretive, and the native prefers masked or occluded love relationships. A female partner will have been previously married. Shukra afflicted combust or harmed by hostile drishti may maintain secret liaisons. Often the partner has inherited money and is skilled in tax matters.

• Shukra-9 = partner loves wisdom, world-travel, higher education; appreciates liturgies and sacred scripture. Not sanctimonious; enjoys pure truth.

• Shukra-10 - partner engaged in public leadership roles. Often partner is a careerist and the native enjoys a career in the arts or music as well. A highly visible marriage.

• Shukra-11 - partner is gainful, likes networking, is pragmatic and typically able to raise funds for causes. The spouse is also a friend and mentor.

• Shukra-12 = much of the partner's life is invisible to the native. Bhava-12 = 6th from 7th = enemies of the marriage. Challenging placement. Spouse may hail from a foreign land or be otherwise difficult to interpret. May be some animosity as the native can perceive the spouse to be draining one's energies into enervating pleasures. However, the pleasures are pleasurable.

Female Nativity: Shukra = Wives, Sisters, Female Colleagues

Erotic Power

~~ by Audre Lorde

"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling . . .

As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and non-rational knowledge.

We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feeling enough to keep women around in order to exercise it in service of men, but which fears this same depth too much to examine the possibilities of it within themselves . .

But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough . . .

When we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to take responsibility to ourselves in the deepest sense.

For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation, and the numbness which so often seems like the only alternative in our society. Our acts against oppression become integral with self, motivated and empowered from within."

Minimum Pleasure from Female Companions

The opposite end of the spectrum for a female = neechchamsha Shukra(Kanya) while Chandra resides in a rashi of Mangala or rashi of Shani. Such a woman is surrounded by criticizing and deceitful females.

• If Chandra is severely damaged such a woman may fall prey to self-destructive (esp Vrischika) emotional practice.

• She may be unable to establish harmonious relationships with just about anyone (except possibly her own children, whose karaka is Guru).

• The other women in her life may be experienced as argumentative, disharmonious, scheming, and generally unattractive.

the native does not trust other females and very often she is the victim of her husband's adultery. Worst of all, this female does not feel beautiful; she takes no pleasure in her own sensuality; she has no fashion sense.

Shukra and Foreign Residence

Vyaayapa = 12th-from- Lagnesha . Vyaayapa shows the type of lands-and-peoples that one will visit, and the quality of one's experiences there.

• When Vyaayapais ruled or occupied by a shubha(benefic) graha, these lands are lovely and prosperous.

• When Shukra owns the Vyaayapa = likelihood of obtaining a spouse from a distant land.

• Shukra drishti upon Vyaayapa =assignment to aforeign residence, generally pleasant. Presuming that Shukra is well-disposed, the prediction for Shukra drishti upon Vyaayapa = foods are tasty (Shukra = mouth); relationships are pleasant, diplomatic, and mutually beneficial (Shukra = peerage);

• When Vyaayapa is ruled or occupied by a papagraha(malefic) planet, the lands to which one travels may be inhospitable, rough or impoverished and the journeying is stressful. Regardless of difficulties, there may nevertheless be deeply important lessons embedded in distant travel experiences during periods of the lord of Vyaayapa or periods of graha residing in the Vyaayapa.

Shukra and Career

from B.V. Raman's A Catechism of Astrology, p. 9 - part II page 2:

"Q. What makes one an actor or a singer?

A. Generally Venus will have to be strong in the horoscope before one can be a good actor or singer.

• If this is to be adopted as profession, Venus must be intimately connected with the 10th bhava in some way or other.

  • E.g., if Venus occupies 4th or 10th Bhava or if Venus aspects the 10th house or if Venus is conjoined with the lord of the 10th,

  • the means of livelihood will be singer and acting.

  ---

  Q. What makes one an engineer?

  A. If in a nativity, Venus becomes the strongest planet with reference to the 10th Bhava,

  • And occupies powerful places from Lagna and the Moon, and joins Mercury,

  the native becomes an engineer."

Trouble from Shukra

As the asura-guru, teacher of the demons, Shukra is a known deceiver.

Certain combinations of radix lagna and Chandra lagna have a particularly hard time dealing with the deceptive, potentially addictive effects of pleasure-mongering Shukra.

These combinations suffer inordinate challenge from marital difficulties and disagreements arising from pleasuring activities (6) unforeseen consequences of indulgence or sensual excess (8) and losses or drain of vitality via pleasuring behaviors (12).

• Shukra = L=6 for Vrishabha and Dhanusha lagna

• Shukra = L-8 for Thula and Meena lagna

• Shukra = L-12 for Mithuna and Vrischika lagna.

Therefore for these nativities, sensual pleasures of wine, women, and song - not to mention gold, lucre, and jewels - will have an unpleasant undertow. As always, much depends on the bhava, rashi, and incoming drishti to Shukra.

Pleasure Karma

H.H. Dalai Lama. (1989). The Dalai Lama at Harvard: Lectures on the Buddhist Path to Peace. Jeffrey Hopkins (Trans). (Ed).

"Karmas that are accumulated for the sake of internal pleasure , upon having overcome attraction for external pleasure and having become attached to the pleasure that arises with internal meditative stabilization [which is meritorious], are involved with the first three concentrations.

• These are called unfluctuating karmas in that They bear their fruit only in those concentrations.

whatever is excellent and admirable -

fill all your thoughts with these things."

~~ Epistle to the Philippians 4:8

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