Aum Shum Shukraya Namah

Addiction

• Shukra = sugars, sweets

• 6th-from = slavery, poverty, rationalization

• Rahu-Ketu = obsession, passion-apathy

Some indications of Addictive behaviors

Rahu-Ketu = no-boundaries, 6 = imbalance, and the Daityaguru = sweets

" Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

Almost any behavior can become addictive.

• Any behavior can become compulsive, repetitive, and insatiable.

• Any behavior has the potential to force the native to abandon one's normal, culturally-approved life task routines (marriage, family, profession, etc.) in pursuit of an obsessive pleasure.

• he most obvious addictions involve amplified sense-pleasures such as sexual gratification, oral pleasures of food and drink, and nerve pleasures such as numbing drugs and other brain-chemistry alterations. However one may also become addicted to gambling, to extracting bribes and illegal payments, to shop-lifting, to marital argument, to criticizing and belittling others, and a hundred other dysfunctional attempts to make oneself feel better by

• Unfortunately, addictions are insatiable; therefore Shukra's ultimate pleasures of satisfaction , harmony, balance, completion through union etc are never realized when the native suffers from addiction. In addition one falls victim to social criticism for the crime of exiting normalcy.

Shukra is the karaka for all pleasuresincluding addictive pleasures, and Shukra is the lord of Sugar.

Shukra rules sex, drugs and alcohol. If Shukra is disturbed, He can over-do the natural pleasures which can result in sex addictions, drug addictions, and alcoholism

• In any bhava, Shukra with Rahu/Ketu gives some attraction to obsessive/compulsive sensual behavior. Addictive tendencies are enhanced but not assured.

• uchchamshaShukra, swakshetra Shukra in kendra, or any planetary situation in which Shukra gains power = a long-term tendency to prefer sensual ease and pleasure, to the exclusion of the business of the weaker graha

• Shukra + Rahu-Ketu= addictive tendencies. Native has a powerful sense of entitlement to pleasure and a love of extremes. Addictive substances include beautiful women, precious wines, magnificent diamonds etc.

Shukra in house-6 or house-12 particularly indicates imbalance regarding sugars and pleasures.

• Shukra in house-6: drug addiction and sexual exploitation can involve the native in underworld culture of decadence, poverty and crime. If Budha is also involved in house-6, expect lying and involvement with criminal monies.

An otherwise wonderful uchchamshaShukra in house-6 may give all the wealth, external beauty, and artistic talent expected; but in addition a profound underlying alcoholism or other pleasure addiction. ( the native so blessed will be addicted to only the most delicious wines! E.g., beautiful, alcoholic film actress, Elizabeth Taylor.)

• Shukra in house-12,there is a craving for the sweet comfort of escape into the personal imagination, and detachment from reality.

• Unlike house-6, matters of vyaya bhava are not always criminal, rough, or enslaved to the 'chandala' classes.

There can be addiction to private sensuality such as extramarital affairs, a lifelong unrequited love, self-pleasuring fantasies. House-6 involves the exploitation of commercial trafficking, but house-12 is by nature private, personal, and enclosed House-12 connotes the gracious alcoholic housewife, the artist or meditation student who needs alcohol or marijuana to achieve their intuitive state, or the otherwise pleasant person who increasingly needs a fuzzy, numbing chemical shield around them in order to keep things "sweet" in their inner terrain.

Unlike the unsavory implications of a Shukra accepting malefic drishti in bhava-6, drug planets in house-12 usually indicate nice people with no connection to crime.

Shukra can cause addictions in any house.

The stronger Shukra's influence in radix or navamsha, the stronger potential for compulsive sensual behaviors.

See this beautiful young female alcoholic, destroyed by party drugs and red-wine Venus.

Perhaps not surprisingly, uchchamsha Shukra in almost any location may become a karaka for pleasure addiction. uchchamsha Shukra gains even more strength in kendra, in particular the first and 10th angles from radix lagna or from the Moon.

The super-strong Shukra may yield remarkable artistic talent and constructive output. Yet when associated with "indulgent" graha such as "rationalizing" (in the negative sense) neechcha Budhaor the dreamlike Meena Chandra, uchchamsha Shukra can easily produce a very gifted alcoholic who follows a long downward path toward addiction and decline.

As the notorious daityaguru, Shukra is capable of diverting the native 's artistic genius from creative production into a deadening, sugary entropy. There may be a clinical addiction to sweet foods (including most carbohydrate foods) which matures into an alcohol problem.

uchchamsha Shukra + Chandra, when either = lord of a dushthamsha, can produce obesity and alcoholism. the native pursues excessive, emotionally-driven self-nourishment and addictive eating in search of sensual satiation through foods. (Typically accompanied by problems with a beautiful and artistic but materialistic and malnourishingmother.)

uchchamsha Shukra + neechcha Budha, can result in neechcha bhanga for Budha if this yoga occurs in bhava-10 (Albert Einstein) but if this yoga occurs in a dushthamsha, the native suffers addiction masked by psychological denial of personal agency. (I.e., one blames the problem on others, as is typical of the neechcha Budha mind.)

Karaka for the "office romance".

Shukra (pleasure) in bhava-6 (unbalance, illness) in any rashi = addiction to drugs and toxins.

Shukra/6 can produce Aphysical level of sensual addictionthat causes or is associated with with workplace, exploitation, servitude, loss of equality, disease, debt, and arguments. The addictions will be associated with criminal law, Abuse of medical services, police action, warfare, and the inner argumentation of the victim script mentality.

Shukra's rashi will describe the nature of the addictive substances or behaviors.

More at Shukra in 12 Bhava .

Mesha 6

• Dennis Hopper (actor-director)

Addiction to the mix of animal sexuality and either the middle-class workplace, or dens of iniquity. Actually the workplace (6) tends to become a den of iniquity, under this native's direction.

Native requires immediate fleshly satisfaction , constant novelty , and competitive excitement .

Adolescent selfishness , gets one into exploitive situations, and when the pleasure wears off, one is stuck in the servitude of debt.

Das says,

• "Any upsurge of carnal passion or the slightest temptation towards profligacy may drive you headlong into trouble.

• At worst you may suffer from venereal ailments and end up heavily in debt.

• You will not always be well spoken of.

• Such experiences teach, though very slowly, the desirability of basic honesty in human relationships."

Vrishabha 6

Shukra in Vrishabha is the karaka for the family history, banking, and stored values. When a strong benefic falls into the mahadusthamsha, the result can only be profligacy, degeneration, and poverty caused by overspending on sensual addictions.

Addiction to wine, women, and song. Or at least, wine. Luxurious sensual experiences of all kind are sought in unsavory environments full of fighting, exploitation, and disease. the native overspends on luxuries, leaving the pocketbook empty when time comes to pay the rent.

Delights in massages, sexual entertainments, seductive music and scents, the company of docile ladies. Associated with prostitution and alcohol addiction, although on one's downward spiral one will be high bred, gentle, and kind.. One will spend the family accounts, down to the last drop.

Das says,

• "You may be a debauch who, under affliction, incurs debt on account of profligacy and degrade the status of your family."

Mithuna 6

• USA Pres-44 Barack Obama

• Jiddu Krishnamurti

Native may have an a sensual addiction to touching, talking, and sexual encounters in the workplace. Tends to get involved with employees, office staff, house servants, service workers.

Pleasuring behavior is spliced into the schedule of work tasks. the native appears to be extremely busy. Much of the sexuality is conversational (by letter, by phone, by text-message, etc.)

Shukra-Mithuna may derive as much pleasure from a sensual telephone conversation or a pleasuring-language email message as from a physical encounter. Thus in the proclivity toward workplace affairs under cover of volunteer service or other business communication. Sensual pleasure from a multiplicity or simultaneity of partners.

Das says,

• "Venus increases sexuality .

• You tell lies, meet people surreptitiously, and get involved in scandals.

• The possibility of divorce, litigation, or loss of job is high."

Karkata 6

Addiction to mothering the underclass. Takes care of homely criminals, ailing servants, and the chronically bickering and sick. One's own family home may become a hostel for the unwell. Women in the family tend to be sickly and require one's nourishment and nursing care.

Das says,

• "You support many family members and are very religious.

• In spite of all this, you are accused of miserliness, and are short of money, get into serious fits of depression due to problems caused by female relatives,

• And may often dispose unwillingly of some of the family assets."

Simha 6

Addiction to glamour in the world of exploitation and crime. Gets flattery and praise from the animals and servants.

Das says,

• With Venus, your adversaries increase.

• Many secret schemes are worked out against you.

• You suffer from diseases pertaining to the urinary tract and are also susceptible to venereal diseases."

Kanya 6

neechcha

Addiction to humiliation and rejection.

Das says,

• "You must be careful, you may not expect comfortable living.

• Divorce, loss of money, venereal diseases and heavy debt are some of the factors which are likely to disturb your mind."

Thula 6

Benefic graha in a malefic house gives serious trouble, usually through lack of common sense about the evil side of human nature. Shukra is strong and relationship-oriented in Thula. In bhava-6, the love of sweet, easy balance in the house of servitude spells addiction to sentimentality, sweet deals, "being nice", and superficial solutions to deep problems like making a living and paying back debts.

the native is persistently foolhardy in trusting the wrong people with one's affections. One is comfortable with and attracted to the underclass "victimology". One spends a lifetime trying to "sweeten" this bitter house with promises of love to those who only intend to exploit.

For example, the prostitute who falls in love with her clients, or the client who falls in love with the prostitute. Or the nurse who falls in love with the junkie, or the junkie who falls in love with the drug dealer. Usually fair-complected, and quite attractive in countenance. Yet, found loitering in unsavory venues due to one's attraction to the victim class.

It's always a mess, usually involving some serious STD's. Yet, the native never gives up believing that sentimental love is the best medicine.

Das says,

• "You may be a debauch with all the associated vices and diseases."

Vrischika 6

• USA Pres-26, USA Pres. 26 Theodore Roosevelt

Addiction to yang tantrik sexuality, intense psychological penetration, and relationships of psychic dominance.

One is seduced by the lowest of the low, the most aggressively manipulative and overtly exploitive.

Loves the life of secrecy.

If with Rahu, a fascination with crime.

Attraction to the criminal element, to animals and servants, to the psychology of out castes and those who live in dark places. In particular a love of lethal poisons and dark, dangerous, hot, rushing waters ( USA Pres. 26 Theodore Roosevelt, many trips to dark jungle Amazon river in early 20th cen.)

the native apprehends oneself as a healer of the fallen. Falls in love with criminals, master-slaves, and military-police.

Very deceptive placement which leaves the native exposed to venereal diseases. May be a good position for undercover work on the vice squad, but one tends to be seduced into the evil world rather than helping to clean it up.

Das says,

• "Your voluptuous nature and extreme indulgences combined with a lack of any sense of family obligation may lead to problems with venereal disease.

• You also suffer from financial difficulties and may be greatly dishonored in society."

Dhanushya 6

• UK-PM Indira Gandhi

• Lisa Marie Presley (singer)

Repeating addictive behavior of preaching , teaching, priesthood, conducting rituals. Dysfunctional religious beliefs. Loves to argue about philosophical principle. Love of holy scripture finds an adversarial expression.

• Pleasure derived from religious belief may may result in marital disagreement, even divorce.

Addiction to belief systems (Dhanusha). Ideology replaces religion, and religion replaces common sense.

One believes in the great upliftment (Dhanushya) of the underclass, only to be seduced into its negative argumentation and the science of "victimology".

Although one may love a partner who hails from a different cultural belief system, conflict of belief disturbs one's inner harmony and may degrade the unity of the partnership.

Das says,

• "Venus causes disharmony with the mother's side of the family. [ Indira Gandhi]

• Adverse slandering comments are inflicted on you by associates, and you may even be accused of adultery."

Makara 6

• Britney Spears (entertainer)

• Rue McClanahan (Golden Girls "Blanche")

Repeating addictive behavior of ordering, regulating , structuring, legislating, imposing limitations .

Addiction to sweets can generate candidiasis. Often a karaka for recurring bladder infections, esp. if Shukra receives drishti of Shani.

• Pleasure derived from imposing law and order may may result in marital disagreement, even divorce.

he infections disturb the sexual pleasure function, and the native is irritable .

Does not much enjoy sex due to the tissue inflammation, and constant irritation breeds hostility in the marriage.

Otherwise a handsome person with Attractive bone structure.

Das says,

• "Venus has a restrictive effect on sociability, and you will not be successful in establishing a happy conjugal relationship.

• You will incur hostile feelings from the opposite sex, some of whom will scandalize you And damage your career.

• Diseases related to the genito-urinary tractare possible.."

Kumbha 6

Repeating addictive behavior of networking, Acting communally , socializing with friends.

Addiction to "freedom". One may prefer the open relations between friends to the restrictive exclusivity contract of marriage.

• Pleasure derived from free movement within the distributed web of the marketplace may may result in marital disagreement, even divorce.

Visionary social-philosophical thinking and highly abstract conceptual beliefs give permission for toxic excess of indulgence.

Wants to express affections in an Open, egalitarian societyliberated from restrictive, elitist ethics.

Loves to explore the sensuality of the skin, brain, and nervous system.

Das says,

• "Venus produces extreme sensuality.

• Under its influence, you often flaunt all religious injunctions and moral tradition with promiscuity, drunkenness and gambling."

Meena 6

• Katharine Hepburn

• Beatle George Harrison

• Elizabeth Taylor

Repeating addictive behavior of dreaming, fantasy, private bedroom relationships, meditation, and prayer.

Physical beauty and musical talent are entrapped in the world of exploitation, disease, and fighting.

• Shukra-Meena-6 indicates relationships with women of extraordinary beauty who are nevertheless envious (6)and who undermine one's marital balance.

• Pleasure derived from clandestine relationships and activities in sanctuary may may result in marital disagreement, even divorce.

One may succumb to temptation to sell one's talent or beauty in trade for addictive substances.

For a man, indicates that the wife however beautiful is also one's enemy. Betrayal through her beauty. For a woman, beware of female friends and relatives who are as lovely as oneself, yet through jealousy may cause disruption of one's marital harmony.

Das says,

• "You are extremely sensitive to the feelings of others, a highly evolved person who will be subjected to much misunderstanding.

• Your equanimity of mind will raise you above the pain and sorrow of debt, disease and humiliation.

• You will be well off as far as money is concerned, comprehension of situations will be very sharp, and power to tackle opponents will be adequate.

• You will move in the higher echelons of society."

Shukra in bhava-12 suggests An astral or imaginative level of sensual addictionthat functions as an 'escape' mode.

Loves sensual relationships that are conducted in private, in spaces such as sanctuaries, caves, foreign lands, or the bed-chamber. Vyaya bhava's addictions originate in the private imagination, and usually do not involve a breakdown of the social contract. However these addictions do eventually erode the social identity, so that the native fades into obscurity through the entropy of the addiction.

bhava-12 being 6th-from-7th, a husband may be addicted to private, hidden relationships with women who are the enemies of his wife.

• Famous examples: Charleton Heston, Sen. John Forbes Kerry (2004 US Pres. race), Gen. and US Pres. Ulysses S. Grant

A woman may be addicted to sensual pleasures (persons, hobbies, or behaviors) which cause animosity within her marriage.

• Famous examples: Nicole Kidman, Barbara Walters, Meryl Streep, Madonna, Jodie Foster, Queen Victoria (UK), Camilla Parker-Bowles, Barbra Streisand, Mia Farrow (actor, social activist)

Mesha

• Queen Victoria (UK)

Escape into simple excitements, such as hunting and fighting. Likes the world of imaginative imagery involving foreign lands, conquests, winning competitions, and fighting for dominance. Sensuality of blood sport and wars in foreign lands. Dreamy love of horses esp. in Azwini.

Das says

• "... does not help in the immediate development of spirituality:

• it leaves you deeply asleep,enjoying the pleasures of a luxurious bed, incurring debts and enjoying "horses, elephants, and paternal wealth."

Vrishabha 12

Escape into sensual fantasies, oral fixations, extraordinary visual, auditory, and tactile pleasures; addiction to fine wines, food, music, textiles, oils, and all other vehicles of five-senses sensual pleasure.

A love of luxury 'escapes' such as the 'getaway weekend' or 'spa weekend'. (Also may 'escape' into fine music, although this is more a behavior of uchchamshaShukra in Meena.) in 12, enjoys the deepest sensual pleasuring in foreign lands, and in the private imagination. Sexually, often an interest in artistic styles of pornography.

Drugs used in pursuit of the illusion of a more dream-like beauty may lead to serious disease.

Das says

• "... you will spend much on your childrenand your indulgence may well spoil them."

Mithuna 12

• Camilla Parker-Bowles-Windsor

• Meryl Streep

Escape into sexualized conversations and a private sanctuary of encoded communication. Private signals and a "two-faced" public-private arrangement permits long-term management of extra-marital affairs.

Das says

• "Venus produces sensuous cravings.

• As a result, you will be made to suffer from your excesses."

Karkata 12

• Nicole Kidman

• Madonna

Escape into parental security and protection. One wishes to feel the safe enclosure of the childhood home.

Das says

• "Venus will induce you to exert your might for some philanthropic cause.

• It will not be entirely a labor of love; you may have to work under such programs as a part of your official duty.

• In discharging such responsibilities, you will try to gain some personal gratification but will pay for it heavily."

Simha 12

• Barbara Walters (TV journalist)

Escape into royal privilege and glamour. In the private imagination, one is the radiant center of attention. Like most royalty, you have competition for your throne.

Das says

• "You will not be attracted to ultimate spiritual goals; you will be interested only in living here and now.

• Such a strong urge to dwell among the material world, its pleasure and pain, gratification and sorrow will make you uniquely important in society;

• you will enjoy life.

• You will have Adversariesand will sometimes be seriously troubled by them."

Kanya 12

• Charleton Heston

• Claudia Schiffer (model)

• Anna Nicole Smith (model, actress)

Escape into humiliation, rejection of one's own beauty, and argumentation regarding failure of one's ability to give or receive affection.

rouble from fallen women. Drugs to ease digestion.

Das says

• "... produces a person who is singularly gifted in transmuting failures and carnal passions into sublime poetry, and in exploration of the deeper layers of the human psyche.

• You may bea failure as a lover, but you will be a success in exploring the immeasurable depths of human relationships.

• You will suffer from unknown maladiesand personally feel disappointed in life, but while waiting for the final dissolution you will be able to enjoy yourself fully."

Thula 12

• Jodie Foster (actor, movie producer)

• USA Sen. John Forbes Kerry (2004 US Pres. race)

Escape into a sanctuary of private, perhaps completely imaginary, relationships. the native may be better suited to avoid material marriage. Excellent imagination which can produce splendid designs, including deep psychological understanding of relationship negotiation and balance. Yet in the physical world, such a balanced relationship seems quite ephemeral.

Das says,

• "... you become very luxury loving.

• You marry into a good family but are unable to maintain a cordial relation with your spouse."

Vrischika 12

Escape into imaginary tantrik quests for secret knowledge. A delusion of tantra, involving psychic exposure, which can make the native vulnerable to penetration by invisible agents of disease. Self-destructive sexual indulgence.

Das says

• "... you spend extravagantly and do not care to preserve your vital force.

• Your extramarital relationships will become a drain on your financial resources, and at worst you may die of venereal disease."

Dhanau 12

Escape into imaginary religious ceremonies, contrived priesthoods, and moral soliloquies.

Inflated beliefs regarding one's own power and attractiveness.

One wishes to be sensually worshipped.

Das says,

• "... you lose many valuable opportunities in life.

• You have a clever mind and your sensitivity is extraordinary.

• Many people are willing to help you, but your personal sloth, sensual inclinations, clandestine affairs And rebellious temperament destroy your chances of phenomenal progress."

Makara 12

Escape into imaginary proofs of elegant living, prestige, respect, and social status.

Das says,

• "You are deprived of a harmonious family life.

• Youlive extravagantlyand dissipate your energy in useless activities, but emotional and sensual satisfaction elude you."

Kumbha 12

• Barbra Streisand (entertainer)

L-8+L-3 Shukra is an inauspicious graha for the Meena lagna. Harmonious relationships are hard to come by.

Escape into conceptual and social-philosophical imagination, envisioning social progress through movement toward future goals.

Loves to reflect upon - but not necessarily participate in -- mass gatherings, assemblies of like-minded, and visionary futuristic networks.

One dreams for a better future, but the present reality is rather uncomfortable.

Conditions of life prevent one from living out most of one's egalitarian social ideals. However the native is immensely charitable.

Das says

• "Venus in this sign will deny all personal comfortand pleasure,

• And you will be subjected to unexpected misfortunes in life."

Meena 12

• Mia Farrow (actor, social activist)

• USA Pres-18, Ulysses S. Grant

Escape into imaginary musical and artistic harmony, a world of memories, full of brilliant signaling and path-finding, that use gorgeous dreamlike colors and designs.

Das says"

• You will live luxuriously and in dignity, towards which you will spend lavishly.

• Your mind will be both poetic and musical, and in these pursuits you will spend much of your time.

• Your spouse will be a real help."

Rahu-Ketu with Shukra in bhava-6 could be the kiss of death. Rahu amplifies the desire and Ketu dissolves the boundaries. With Shukra in bhava-12, the imagination gains tremendous power.

Shukra + Rahu = love relationships which challenge social taboo.

Shukra in Vrishabha, Thula, or Meena

• When Shukra enjoys strength by rashi, and Shukra is either amplified or boundary-dissolved by Rahu-Ketu,effects may be dramatic.

Shukra + Ketu

• depletion of vital energies and invasion by predatory spirits.

Neechcha Shukra + Rahu

• every possible kind of trouble with women ( Warren G. Harding, Eleanor Roosevelt)