the Nefertiti bust in Neues Museum,

Berlin Germany

Sweet Pleasures of dignity and respect

Appreciation of:

• law and order,
• conservative and traditional styles and designs,
• pomp and rigamarole
• status symbols, uniforms

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  Regulator of pleasures. Aesthetic of seniority, public dignity and respect.

  Makara = a supportive and friendly rashi for Venus.

  Shukra will be able to pursue His agenda of diplomacy, equity, beauty, elite ornamentation, and socially respectable amounts of wealth accumulation.

  In Makara, Shukra encounters almost no obstructions to material pursuits.

  • Likes law-and-order in social relationships, and predictable behaviors in sexual union. Makara favors "common law".

  • Makara likes to climb steadily and gradually to visible, high places. The partner should have the proper appreciation of social status achievement behaviors to be able to enjoy this climb.

  • Prefers a routinized relationship, based on regular habits and grounded in a predictable work schedule.

  • Prefers a partnership oriented toward rank and position, public visibility, respect, and dignified reputation.

  • The lover-partner should have a conventional, socially established appearance along with some variety of material elite status attributes such as professional seniority, prestigious curriculum vitae, high-rank career, or social-network assets.

  • Males particularly appreciate a partner whose career involves senior standing in government or law.

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  the native values the dignity and material pragmatic behaviors of age and experience much more than the superficial beauties of youth.

  Prefers an older or more experienced partner

  • J.R.R. Tolkien's wife Edith was 19 when he was 16)

  Shukra-Makara seeks partners =

  • materialistic and realistic

  • involved in government, institutional, or large hierarchical social organizations

  • deal in matters of Law and Policy; professionally engaged in social regulation

  • orderly and conventional expectations in relationships, including a socially normal division of labor (will vary by culture)

  • capable of obtaining and sustaining governance roles

  • elder in age or senior in experience

  •  conventional and socially accepted public reputation

  • dislike attention (Makara = 6th-from-Simha)

  • prefers a respectable and dignified lifestyle with leadership capability

  Shukra-Makara enjoys working with large, structured social organizations and with matters of social policy and law. And, in a rashi of Shani the Worker, the native just plain enjoys working.

  • Should Shukra-Makara, who is already in a rashi of Shani, also receive drishti of Shani, the marriage may occur later in life (not in the teenage years; and for moderns, typically after completion of the professional education, i.e., in the third decade or later.)

  For the male nativity, Shukra-Makara + accepting drishti of Shani indicates a wife who is elder or otherwise senior to the native .

  • Such a wife is more experienced and serves as a mentor to the native . Should Shani in addition be the lord of navamsha-1st house or navamsha-7th house, the wife may be considerably elder. Such a wife often has her own money.

    Provides beautiful (Shukra) bone structure (Shani), giving the sculpted face and body of a fashion model. (If in Dhanishtha, a superb dancer.)

    Sensual pleasures through the skeleton, bones, knees, cartilage, social status, achieving higher rank, orderly and lawful environments.

    Shukra-Makara prefers a strong, lawful government, firm cultural agreements/homogeny, hierarchies and traditions, and the Rule of Law.

    • favors conventional marriage and family lifestyle (although if Shukra occupies a dushtamsha this prefered arrangement may be unavailable)

    • Desires a handsome, stable and predictable spouse who conducts a law-abiding lifestyle guided by conventional, hierarchical values.

    • enjoys luxury; craves respect

    Often found enjoying themselves while passing down or enforcing social traditions, in elementary classroom teaching, police administration or other basic socialization professions.

    Attracted to conservative, securely employed partners who can make long-term commitments, fulfill conventional expectations, and keep their promises.

Brad Pitt = bhava-3 commerce, mercurial relationships

• the male is attracted to businesswomen who have a good solid understanding of media production, financing, licensing, legal environment, and a partner who is a high-ranked commercial agents bringing in more abundance via one's own productive work. In 3, Shukra gives the aesthetic of commercial transactions. Pitt co-owns successful movie production companies with both of his high-cheekbone spouses.

Virginia Woolf = bhava-8 discovery, mysterious relationships

• Shukra = combust in Woolf's case therefore the effects are less pronounced. However overall the impact of literary-imaginative L-5+L-12 Makara Shukra in 8 will be that one prefers the alliances made with partners of senior standing in one's own profession. Her husband Leonard Bloom was a professionally respected writer and publisher with whom she co-owned a publically recognized literary press. In 8, Shukra gives the aesthetic of hidden liaisons. One prefers to maintain a public reputation as a person who reveals the unknown, exposes secrets, yet conducts oneself with dignity despite the catastrophic changes enforced by traumatic upheaval.

• asana of interior sexual-reproductive glands-organs
• asana of sahasrara chakra
  
• postures for cleansing and balancing of blood, liver
  
• postures for military strength and singularity of focus

• from regulated and status-maintenance behaviors,

• seeing the colors dark blue and dark purple

• relationships that enhance the social rank and provide public dignity

• loving actions involving the knees, bones, cartilage

• dryness, boniness, antiquity, seniority, conformity, orderliness

• walking amongst stones , sand, old wood, any kind of beautiful geological structure

Gift the Shukra-Makara native with solidly constructed, elite-status material goods: family homes in respectable neighborhoods, reliable vehicles, staunchly middle-class furnishings. provide a personal and professional environment that prioritizes respect and dignity. Conventional design and public respect (Shani) are much more attractive to these folk than fleeting celebrity fashion or political glamour.

Solid, middle-of-the-road, and reliable = the aesthetic key for Makara-Shukra preferred environment. Diamonds are nice, but if you really want to make them happy, give them a savings bond or a home in a 'gated community'. Praise their common sense, Ben Franklin values, and their ability to save now for a more comfortable future. And, be sensible yourself!

• lawful, conservative, and respectable

• conventional lifestyle and appearance, regulated behaviors, social propriety

• capable of executive leadership

• likes elder partners Or those holding leadership rank in a hierarchical organization

• has beautiful bone structure , esp the legs (Brad Pitt's wives look boney with lovely legs )

• elder to the native in age, or senior in social standing

• professionally established

• dignified appearance

• management skills, policy skills, all-around corporate savvy

• favoring colors of dark blue, grey, and black (often, a business suit)

• neutral and mainstream personality

• modest but not self-effacing; quite aware of her ability and hierarchical position ( Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife Eleanor = social elite family)

For example, the male native with Makara Shukra in context of a Mithuna lagna and Mesha Chandra.

• He will enjoy the company of women with Makara traits, and in particular the female companion will exemplify the two domains, 5 and 12, which Shukra commands from Mithuna lagna. Her gracious presence will contribute to the native 's material enjoyment of children, and some type of sanctuary space or retreat; likely she will have bedroom skills and some measure of theatrical talent.

• From the Mesha Chandra+ L-2 and L-7 Shukra is good for wealth, nice food, and straightforward agreements ; emotionally such a male native can be predicted to enjoy accumulated wealth and frequent negotiation of agreements in his relationship to women; particularly in the first marriage.

Dislikes

• quick banter, pointless meetings, and superficial conversations

• any hint of lawlessness or disregard for established procedures

• temporary arrangements - prefers permanent settings

• small commercial business - prefers government and large corporations

• multiculturalism - prefers mono-cultural conformity to a single standard

• fast, mercurial movements - prefers slow, saturnian process with minimal movement

• wasting time with meaningless chatter

• pleased and satisfied by events of transformative emergence

• graceful management of sudden, forced changes

• great enjoyment in eruptions of surprise, unexpected identities

• beauty in acts of discovery, exploration, secrecy and intrigue

• harmonious attitude toward hidden, occult, dangerous situations

• aesthetic development of a deep sense of mystery

• artistic elegance in tantrik skills, exquisitry of the forbidden

• treasuries and collections (2)

  • from teaching and preaching, from the patriarchal cultures, world travel, religious education, sacred scripture, university, temple, ritual priesthood (Dhanushya)

• speculative fortune (5)

  • from ministries of service, pharmaceuticals and medicines, drugs legal and illegal, servants and slaves, conflicts and litigation, physicians and divorce, mother's relatives (Kanya)

• wisdom to have the right resources at the right time (9)

  • from banking and food storage, herds and hoards, face and voice, moveable records, lineage collections, treasury chests, knowledge of history and languages

• profits, material achievement, gains of income (11)

  • from imagination, dreams, clairsentience, ancestors, meditation, spiritual guidance, bedrooms, sanctuary, hotels, sanctuary space, cloister, father's relatives (Meena)