Graha
Shukra + Surya
Venus + Sun
Sensual Pleasures +
Center-Stage Romance
Sexual Delights + the
Father-Figure
Enchantment + Politics
Attraction to
Ideal Qualities
and Perceived Genius
"If Venus is combust, the native will be extravagant,
and an attachment with persons whose affairs are always in a deranged or ruinous state,
and his property will be continually wasted in retrieving them."
~~ Behari
Shukra gains Moudhya
status (combust)within 9 degrees proximity to Surya, or
if
retrograde:within 14 degrees of Surya
When Surya and Shukra are together in
one rashi, the Father (Surya), politics (Surya) and the native 's
philosophical viewpoint (Surya) typically have a very strong effect on
matters represented by Shukra.
Das comments = The Sun conjoins Venus
"Earns money by dealing in things having to do with the eyes,
colors, paints, or from the stage, theater, cinema, public
amusements, weapons, arms and ammunition. Will be intelligent.
There may be gain through the spouse or their relations, or from
other contacts due to the opposite sex. Skillful in the use of
weapons, mighty, weak sighted in old age, able to amuse the
public, libidinous, interested in music, happy in regard to
spouse and friends."
In
the case of a female,
her ability to attract sexual attention
and feel sensually beautiful in her self is much dominated by her idealistic
views. Such a female may suffer from
perfectionismin her appreciation of her own beauty.
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She enjoys the company of
philosophers and politicians.
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If Shukra + Surya occupies the lagna, she
may enter political competitions herself ( Hillary
Clinton).
If Shukra is combust, her natural
feminine sensuality may be Overpowered by her ethical ideals.Her love can be evoked only through romance with a philosophically
oriented man of great speculative intelligence: Plato's true
philosopher-king.
For
a male nativity,
the man is attracted toward woman who
are strongly influenced by the will and beliefs their own fathers.
Such a wife is typically interested in politics(Surya) and has
her own strongly independent willpower.
As Shukra approaches greater
degrees of moudhya, the will and beliefs of the wife's father gains
more and more influence over her.
At the point of absolute
combustion, where Surya and Shukra share the same degree of their
rashi ( Oprah
Winfrey) the father may exercise extraordinarily willful control over
his daughter.
Both male and female nativity with
Shukra + Surya are typically handsome in appearance. Exception to this
rule is when the daityaguru occurs with Ravi in Simha,
particularly when moudhya - then Shukra's cool attractive beauty is
overwhelmed by Surya's hot, masculine, idealistic self-assertion.
The bhava, rashi, and drishti will
indicate nature of the dominance of Surya's paternal, political, and
philosophical influence upon the behavior of the wife (for a man) and
upon the experience of sexual and sensual pleasures in the lifestyle.
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Bhava-1
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Hillary
Clinton's political-philosophical And Theological
intelligencedominates her public personality. She has spoken
publicly about the great importance of her father, and her male
religious advisers, in her character development.
She is an political-philosophical-ideological
powerBhava-(neechcha bhanga L-11 Surya, where Surya = L-7 from Chandra), and she is
physically attractive due to swakshetra Shukra in lagna, but she has a
longstanding reputation for stubborn willfulness Andinability
to compromise her ideals. The sensual troubles in her marriage (and
her husband's notorious infidelities) are well known.
Yet she has often said that she is consistently
delighted in the intellectual company of her husband, whom she finds
highly intelligent and possessed of a tremendous idealismhimself
(Shukra + Surya = love of politics, and love of genius.)
It is quite likely that she admires her husband
and appreciates his contribution to the quality of her philosophical and
political life, without perhaps having access herself to the deeper
levels of animal sensuality which her husband needs in his own intimate
life.
Hillary Clinton's Shukra in Vishaka
occupies 14 degrees distance from Surya in Swati,
and Shukra is not retrograde, therefore Shukra does not gain moudhya.Nevertheless the willpower, intellectualization and love of politicswhich characterize Surya + Shukra are present in the very strong form,
by swakshetra Shukra and a neechcha bhanga Surya within her Thula lagna .
Every woman marries her father, in some sense.
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Surya = L-7 from Chandra suggesting that Mrs. Clinton detects her
father's political will (for good or not!) in her husband, and this
matches her own political intelligence, and this similarity is a
foundation of the marital bond.
As a male, Ted Turnerdisplays behavior associated with Shukra + Surya as it
applies to a man's taste in women. He is attracted to women who are
dominated by their fathers' willful character and philosophical ideals.
With the Surya + Shukra yoga in lagna, these women have much ability to define
his ideals and his and social identity.
Turner's Shukra at 5 degrees of Scorpio in
"deal-maker" Anuradha
is quite combustdue to proximity of Surya at 3 degrees also in
Anuradha.
Turner has been married and divorced several
times. He has a lifelong reputation for promiscuity, along with deep
philosophical idealism and a love of the Earth that has manifested in
ecological political activismand bankrolling of large-scale
environmental protections.
Turner's 4th wife, the actress, businesswoman, and
author Jane Fonda, is certainly a talented beauty in her own
right, but her life has also been very strongly and publicly influenced
by her famous father, the dramatist Henry
Fonda.
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Bhava-2
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Fidel Castro
(dictator of Cuba).
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There is a 25-degree gap between Castro's
Surya at 27 degrees of Karkata in
Azlesa,
versus his Shukra at 2 degrees of Karka, in
Punarvasu Nakshatra . The effects are weakened, but Castro's first wife was
likely much beholden to the will and beliefs of her father.
Oprah
Winfrey 's Shukra is absolutely and completely combust, at 15
degrees of Makara, in the Nakshatra of Shravana
"the listener".
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Her extraordinary romantic idealism and
dominant personal willfulness (Ravi) would appear to make the day-to-day petty negotiations of mundane marriage rather uninteresting.
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She may yearn for the ineffable ideal husband
who is the successful business leader (Makara) and also the philosopher-king.
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But such a man does not exist in the flesh - and so one's work at the
highest levels of social leadership (Makara) becomes one's more
intimate companion.
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Sahaja Bhava-3
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Shri
Aurobindo
Winston
Churchill's troubles with willful, idealistic and powerful
women are chronicled in the literature written by him and about him.
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His wife was a powerfully independent and controlling ( Jyestha)
woman, prone to assert controversialpositions in
politics.
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It is reasonable to assert that she was indeed
driven by the character of her own father; yet Shukra + Surya being in
Vrischika her own paternity was uncertain. But her wealth and social
position were firmly anchored, and she did what she wanted, when she
wanted.
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However, Surya in
Anuradha
and Shukra in Jyestha are
far enough apart that Shukra does not enter the moudhya zone. Shukra's
lord is in lagna, suggesting that Churchill's personality
identification with his wife was strong and character defining.
Despite infidelities on both sides, Churchill was married only once,
and his elderly wife did not remarry when he died.
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Bhava-4
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Thomas
Jefferson's first wife was strong-willed and idealistic, and so was
he.
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However Shukra in
Bharani (the worker who bears and carries) is well out of the range of
combustion from the self-centered, heroic Surya in the first degree of
Azwini.
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Notoriously, Jefferson with Shukra in
Bharani was believed to have conducted a long common-law marriage and fathered
several children
with his African slave house-servant.
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Bhava-5
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Bill
Gateshas Surya at 12 degrees of Thulain Swati,
while Shukra is at 25 Thulain Vishaka,
and Shani nearby at 27 Vishaka.
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Shukra is not in moudhya, and Shukra +
Shani is a exceptionally auspicious combination.
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The wife is a woman of extraordinary grace of
movement ( Swati is graceful
but often a small limp or irregularity in the gait) and excellent
diplomatic capabilities. She has a dominant and perhaps less ethical father herself (Surya is
neechcha
and not neechcha bhanga). She may
have bent her own ideals to accommodate her father's will and beliefs
somewhat.
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However Shani provides a tremendous bulwark to
the wife's personality, and she earns her own achievements. Excellent
character. (Which is certainly an asset in marriage to a guy with a
major Kuja dosha.)
With Surya at 19 Shravana and Shukra at 15
Shravana, Franklin D. Roosevelt
had the expected difficulties and rewards in the character of his
wife Eleanor
Roosevelt.
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Shukra is highly
combust. The wife's natural
sensuality was annihilated by her own father's willfully low morality
Her father died in a sanatorium for alcoholics, after producing a
child with his house-servant, when Eleanor was eight. Her trust in men was destroyed but
it was replaced with a tremendous social idealism which became a
gifted to the depression-and-war shocked world.
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Within his own
personal life, FDR turned to other women for romantic engagement and
sensual comfort, including
Lucy
Mercer who was with FDR when he died.
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In the 5th Bhava-of politics, Shukra = FDR's own
love of politics and his ability to bend his ego in the
organization-man sign of Makara.
Behari says of L-12 Surya/Makara/5:
And of L-2+L-9 Shukra/Makara/5,
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"This position energizes your sensual nature so much that the central pivot of your life is the satisfaction of carnal passions. You immerse yourself in it whole-heartedly and thus bring considerable disrepute to your parents.
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Your artistic talents are much stifled due to your indulgences. However, you manage to obtain money from your nefarious activities."
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Bhava-6
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Carl Sagan has Surya + Shukra within two
degrees in Thula and Vishaka,
and in bhava-6 for the Vrishabha/Krittika lagna as well.
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Bhava-7
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Adolph
Hitler (genocidal murderer, political dictator)
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Sigmund Freud(psychoanalyst)
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Bob Dylan(songwriter, poet)
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Adolph
Hitler :
Shukra = retrograde = moudhya within 14 degrees
of Surya. Extraordinarily complex and problematic involvement with
women.
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Love of politics, tremendous idealism,
sensual/sexual love and artistic appreciation of beauty (Shukra) are
inseparable from competition, hunting, and fatal blood war
(Mangala/7).
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Violence toward women, sex involves threats and
bodily harm. Marriage occurs only minutes before death.
Sigmund
Freud, Shukra + Rahu in Azwini
and Surya in Bharani , Shukra
not combust.
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Great theoretical and philosophical idealism, driven by a
scientific ego.
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His theories on sexual attraction as the basis of all
human motivation, while certainly taboo-breaking (Shukra + Rahu) have
turned out to be rather weak in clinical practice, suggesting that
Freud's intellectual ego(Surya) may have dominated his more
delicate understanding of human love.
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The Shukra + Surya + Rahu combination in
bhava-7 of partnership suggests a wife who is very much dominated by
her own father's will, a highly self-concerned and idealistic woman,
who would also have her own independent sexual behavior.
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Even Freud's
six children could not have kept such a wife constrained.
ForBob Dylan, Surya + Shukra in Rohini
Nakshatra did create a great love poet whose central theme is the
need for adoring attention in relationships.
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But karako
bhavo nashtoapplies when swakshetra Shukra occupies yuvati
bhava; the wife no matter how beautiful or idealized by her husband is
sensually willful and dominated by her father's beliefs for her and
about her.
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Despite producing a prodigious number of
children, marriage becomes difficult due to the wife's strong sensual
entitlement.
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Bhava-8
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Bhava-9
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USA Pres-35, John
F Kennedy
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Demi Moore (dramatist, model)
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Virginia Woolf (author)
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John
F Kennedy'sfirst wife Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis was famously independent minded.
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JFK's Surya = 15
Rohini
while Shukra at 24 degrees =
Mrigashirsha.
Shukra is just hovering on the border of moudhya.
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Clearly JFK had a great love of politics. He
entered politics extremely early in life, and practiced no other
profession until his tragic death.
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Shukra in a man's chart represents his feminine,
receptive, attractive sensuality - his own magnetic beauty, and his
ability to attract attention. Normally for a man these are passive or
dormant traits which he must manifest materially through the
appearance and behaviors of his wife. Thus the wife should be well
described through the characteristics of a man's position of Shukra.
Das says
of Shukra/Vrishabha/9,
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"You will lose the desire for physical giftsand become highly sensitive to non-physical vibrations. Ordinarily, however, this position is characteristic of someone
who still needs a few more lifetimes before he can truly appreciate the need for spiritual
regeneration."
(Mrs. Kennedy, after two spectacularly wealthy
and famous marriages, may indeed have lost the desire for physical
gifts toward the end of her life. However when she was married to Mr.
Kennedy she was very young and acquisitive.)
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When Shukra shares a rashi with Surya in a male
nativity, Ravi will represent not only the man's ego and idealism, but
also in the life of this man's wife, Ravi will show the influence of
her father.
Thus what Das
says
of Surya/Vrishabha/9 should apply to Ms. Bouvier Kennedy's father,
which effects Mr. Kennedy would have experienced during his marriage:
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"You may espouse a beautiful philosophyin impressive melodious language and speak movingly of
charitable actionand patriotic aspirations.
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You may assure people of your help in supporting their betterment.
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But behind all these utterances and assurances will be your strongly felt
passion for attaining sensual gratification-which may be political, social, or financial."
Women do marry their fathers, and when Surya +
Shukra occurs in bhava-9, the husband is a very close match to her
father indeed. She may feel a need to resist both of these men in
order to establish her own identity.
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Bhava-10
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Bhava-11
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Rudi Giuliani - combust with Surya in
"desire me" Rohini
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Bhava-12
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Madonna's
extraordinary independent will, her love of the stage, of
exhibitionism, of glamour and literature, and her attraction to men of
genius (as she perceives it) are well known. |
"And
now my friends, all that is true, all that is noble, all that is just and
pure, all that is loveable and gracious,
whatever is excellent and admirable -
fill all your thoughts with these things."
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Philippians 4:8
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