Shukra - Bhrigu

Zucra - Zaukra - zukrAcArya - Zuci (shining, glowing, radiant) - Daityaguru - Asuraguru - Amaraari - Asphujit - Surazatru - Bha - Bharga - Bhrigu - Bhriguja - Bhriguputra - Bhaargavapriya - Bhrigunandana - Ekanayana - Ekekshana - Dhishnya - Ditisuta - Kavi - Maghabhava (offspring of Magha) - Sita (white sugar) - Sodhazaamzu (16-rayed) - Sodhazarcis (16-rayed) - Sveta (dressed in white) - zvetaratha (having a white chariot) - vedAdhipati (one who presides over the Veda) -

Pasang (Tib.)

zataparva = wife of Zukra

Venus

The morning star and the evening star = morgensteorra - æfensteorra (Old English)


"Guru of the Demons" - Attraction / Distraction

Appreciation, Pricing, Preciousness, Appraisal, Prized

Deliciousness and Delights

wealth, natural resources, beauty, and harmonious relationships; gathering , hoarding, collecting, accumulating


"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."
(Isaiah 14:12-14)

VENUS:

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 morgensteorra and æfensteorra).

~~ www.etymonline.com


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


Zukra

  • bright , resplendent

  • clear , pure, spotless

  • light-colored , white

  • brightness , clearness , light

  • Name of Agni or fire

  • Name of a month (Jyestha = May-June , personified as the guardian of Kubera's treasure)

  • clear or pure Soma ; receptacle for Soma

  • Any clear liquid (as water , Soma etc.)

  • juice , the essence of anything

  • semen virile , seed of animals (male and female) , sperm

  • a morbid affection of the iris (change of color etc. accompanied by imperfect vision

  • A good action

  • gold , wealth

A marAri

  • A n enemy of the gods; an Asura

  • Name of Shukra , the planet Venus

A suraguru

  • Teacher of the Asuras

bha

  • semblance , delusion , error

  • A ppearance , resemblance , likeness

  • A star , planet , asterism , lunar asterism or mansion (and so also the number 27 nakshatra)

  • light or a beam of light , luster , splendor

bhRgu

  • name of a mythical race of beings (closely connected with fire); they are also said to fabricate chariots

  • Shukra or the planet Venus (called either Bhrigu or the son of Bhrigu [bhriguputra] ; his day is Friday)

  • Of Krishna or of Rudra

  • a declivity , slope , precipice

bhArgava

  • relating to or coming from Bhrigu

  • descendants of Bhrigu

bhArgavapriya

  • A diamond

ekekSaNa

  • "one-eyed"; name of Shukra or Venus (the teacher of the Asuras)

maghAbhava

  • Offspring of Magha

  • The planet Venus

~~ Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon


Amusements, arts, beauty, pleasures, dance, attachments to things, attraction to the opposite sex, capacity to enjoy life, care for ones body, charm, feminine graces, clothes, comforts, enjoyments, conveyances, cultured, delightful, sociable, fortune, fame, generative system, happiness, harmony, health illusion, infatuation, passions, immortality, secret of intoxicating drinks, kidneys, love, lust, affairs, romance, making others happier, marriage, musicians, refined, polished, sex in all aspects, sexual and love happiness, wealth, prosperity, gems, wife, women, pink or rainbow, worldliness, not renunciation. (this list adapted from Das)


BPL:
Money, Capital,
Finance, Wealth Management, "investments", Luxury, Fashion, Jewelry and Ornamentation, delicious Food and Drink, sweets, wines, alcohol, partnerships and alliances, contracts, perfumes, Decorations, Art and Design , Beauty, Dance, Music and Harmony, deal-making, match-making, brokerage, women's products, feminine magnetic attraction, mouth-teeth-jaw-smile, sensual delights, pleasures, jewel-toned rainbow-sparkle things, Agreements, legal resolution of conflict, equity and equality, bargains, trade


"Venus secures sexual delight and the society of fine women;

the pleasures of pictorial art, fine apparel, wealth, cattle, vehicles,

gems and precious stones, musical concerts, dancing parties,

lordly magnificence, good fame, great liberality and association with the virtuous."

~~ Jataka Parijata, Ch. 17, Sloka 43


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

~~ Devi Mahatmyam 11.6


"All the gods reside where women are worshipped. "

~~ Manu Smriti 3.56


Venus rules diamonds, ornaments, marriage, scents, friends, wreaths, females, cow dung, diagnosis.

(Apart from meaning diagnosis also indicates end, purity, rope to tying up a calf etc.)

Education, sexual enjoyment, and gold.

~~ Saravali, Ch. 7-13


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 much is always a curse, most of all in wealth. ~~ Lao-Tse


"Too much is already enough --- except in Texas." ~~ American saying


"To live consciously, you must have the courage to go inside yourself to find out who you really are, to understand that behind all of the masks of individual differences, you are a being of beauty, of love, of awareness.

Christ said, " he kingdom of heaven is within ." Buddha said, " each person is the Buddha." Until you can allow your own beauty, your own dignity, your own being, you cannot free another.


Have compassion for yourself. Allow yourself to be beautiful and all the rest will follow." -- Ram Dass


Venus isn't really the *Love* planet; Shukra is the Pleasure Planet

All benefic graha provide positive loving support to human life, but Shukra's "love" is not divine - it's inter-human:

  • Venus rules attraction to pleasures and distraction by pleasures. Shukra provides human sensual experience that claims our profound devotion and attention. Shukra rules human-to-human contracts, love-making in the pursuit of mutual pleasure, and all forms of alliance for the purpose of enhancement of mutual interests (particularly mutual financial interests.)

  • Moon rules pure and unconditional mother-love, shelter and protection. Chandra has profound needs and expectations, but the parent-child relationship is not equal-to-equal. Soma has no contracts.

  • Surya rules truth, which is the purest form of the supreme love of the divine. It is not possible to negotiate with the truth.

  • Guru is all-embracing, all-encompassing, and utterly non-discriminating; Guru has no contracts. The dharma includes all. Guru accepts all.

Venus= the karaka for marriage, sexual relationships, promises and agreements, exchanges of equal value, and understandings toward mutual benefit.

Marriage = the "ultimate contract".

  • Marriage = attraction between two parties who expect each other to provide interactive interpersonal benefit. Marriage alliance is also a social contract.

  • Affection in marriage is contractual, depending on multiple levels of agreement (private services provided in exchange for protection, fulfillment of public expectation, etc.)

The "love" of Shukra is not unconditional like mother-child love, nor transcendent like devotee-deity (sometimes, guru-sisya) love. Shukra's marital love is the result of attraction to sensual pleasures. As a result, Shukra is not really the "love" planet at all, but a rather misleading and even fraudulent substitute for pure love.

Sensual experience isn't really love. That is why Shukra is called A suraguru = "Guru of the Demons".


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.

-- BPHS Ch. 3 [Planetary Characters and Description], Shloka 28


Shukra = the natural lord of yuvati bhava

Shukra = the kalatra-karaka = the main karaka for marriage

Ficus_Glomerata_2.jpg from www.payer.de/ mahavamsa/chronik15.htm Venus is the planet responsible for much of our sexual and contractual interaction in this life. (Of course, Rahu plays His own part!)

Venus = women in general, with their unique culture of beauty and fashion. Shukra = art and music - the exalted feminine values of high civilization.

Venus always works in tandem with His worthy adversary, the planet Mars. In sexual communication, Venus represents the feminine, attractive, incoming energy. Mars shows the masculine, pursuing, outgoing energy.

Do not confuse the the Shukra-Mangala energies with anatomical male and female bodies! Within any person and within any relationship, there is a mix and balance of male and female energy. Women can pursue, and men can attract. Women can dominate, and men can accommodate. But in general, within a sexual partnership, Venus will tell us what love energy each partner is magnetically pulling in, whereas Mars describes what love energy one is athletically putting out.


Shukra = a benefic (Shubha) = positive planet

  • Shukra creates life experience of physical pleasure, luxury, and sensual indulgence.

  • Yet, spiritually, Venus has a bad reputation as "guru of the demons." The only spiritually useful fruits of Venusian desire are the tantric realizations...

  • What we call love, especially in its more base expressions, can be very distracting and even harmful to the spiritual life. Unless consciously managed -- ideally through proven tantric practice under supervision of a reputable guide -- sensual desires can totally enslave the person's consciousness.


An endless quest for greater and greater five-senses pleasure can form an infinite loop, that becomes a trap for consciousness. The sad reality for many is that Shukra's desires do not bring satisfaction or long-term happiness - but rather devastation, disappointment, fear of loss of pleasure, and chemical addictions.

The higher Love of cosmic-connectedness bliss or Ananda is represented by Guru (Jupiter). Guru is not concerned with the physical and emotional senses, but rather with the social and spiritual senses.

However it is important to remember that Guru is absolutely inclusive. Guru does not judge, criticize, or punish any desire. Guru does not find anything "wrong" with the natural desires of Shukra!

Brihaspati simply waits, like a doting parent; His wisdom always available; until the student is ready for more satisfying fare...


The two benefic planets Venus and Jupiter give two different kinds of pleasure.

  • If Venus is stronger there is more pleasure through sensation and the arts, but also the danger of becoming so addicted to these feelings that one aspires to nothing further.

  • If Guru is stronger there is more pleasure through knowledge and religion, and the huge benefit of knowing that knowledge gained through Guru is portable across incarnations (while physical-body sensations acquired through Venus are quick forgot!)

There is a reason that spiritual aspirants have traditional ly sought celibacy. Seeking to shorten the cycle of repeating birth and death, and to reduce the body's craving for constant pleasure sensations, they maximize Guru by minimizing Venus.


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. Female Nativity: Shukra = Wives, Sisters, Female Colleagues

  • Women form many essential alliances with other women. Not only aesthetic and financial but the all-important trust which permits one woman to care for another woman's children. Naturally these trusted women are normally the sisters and sisters-in-law, however close friends from childhood who are like sisters, college friends whose values imitate one's own, and other sister-like relationships between women are indicated by Shukra.

  • The position of Shukra in a woman's nativity is an essential indicator of her social and professional relationships with other women, particularly her sisters and female cousins; but also importantly her female superiors in the workplace.

  • Chandra rules her mother, and 8th-from-Chandra can be a woman's step-mother. However nearly all other women = Shukra, in a woman's kundali.

  • Exception: the Mother in Law

  • Husband's family overall = domain-8; husband's mother in particular = 4th-from-Guru or (less often) L-7. To see the overall effect of the husband's mother upon a woman's own marital harmony, find the angle between Shukra (karaka for marriage) and 4th-from-Guru.

  • For second marriage the baseline (lagna) for marriage remains domain-7 and Shukra, but the particularities of second husband = Shani, and conditions of his childhood home esp his mother's behavior should be assessed from 4th-from-Shani.

  • Ketu in 8 or Ketu in 4th-from-Guru indicates complete non-interference from mother-in-law.

  • Husband's relationship to his own mother = location of Chandra measured from the woman's yuvati bhava, and also location of Chandra measured from Guru.

  • Maximum Pleasure from Female Companions

  • The woman with maximum Shukra benefit from feminine influence in her life might have an uchcha Shukra with Chandra. Such a woman is slightly (or more than slightly) spoiled (by her indulgent mother); she enjoys luxurious pleasures perhaps quite to excess; and best of all she finds an endless stream of female companionship amongst artists and musicians, woman who are pleasant to socialize with and beautiful to behold.

  • Minimum Pleasure from Female Companions

  • The opposite end of the spectrum for a female is Shukra in neechcha (Kanya) and the Moon in a rashi of Mangala or rashi of Shani. Such a woman is surrounded by criticizing and deceitful females.

    If Chandra is severely damaged she may fall prey to self-destructive (esp Vrischika) emotional practice. She is unable to establish harmonious relationships with just about anyone (except possibly her own children, whose karaka is Guru). The other women in her life are 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.

    Trouble from Shukra

    As the daitya-guru, asura-guru, Shukra is a known deceiver. However certain combinations of radix lagna and Chandra lagna have a particuarly hard time dealing with the effects of Shukra.

    These combinations suffer difficulties and disagreements (6) unforeseen consequences (8) and losses or drain of vitality (12) from Shukra-related experience such as women (in general), marriage, quest for harmonious alliance, beauty, art and design, sugars esp alcohol, sensual pleasure, music, love-making, delicious foods and fine wines, perfume and ornaments, and every form of accumulated wealth even acquisitions of knowledge, book collections, and skill in languages.

    • Shukra = L=6 for Vrishabha and Dhanusha lagna

    • Shukra = L-8 for Thulaand 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.

    Combinations of Radix Lagna and Chandra lagna = subject to difficulties during Shukra periods

    Lagna + Chandra in Vrishabha, Dhanusha, Thula, Meena, Mithuna, or Vrischika

    Result of the Shukra period

    Example Nativity

    6 Vrishabha lagna +

    • with unhealthy and argumentative behaviors
      most pronounced for the

    • Dhanusha and Vrishabha Moon

    • Very commonly diabetes.

    OSHO Rajneesh (Vrishabha lagna + Dhanusha Chandra).

    6 Dhanusha lagna +

    • unhealthy and argumentative behaviors

    • most pronounced for the Dhanusha and Vrishabha Moon.

    Rupert Murdoch (media mogul) (Dhanusha lagna + Dhanusha Chandra).

    8 Thulalagna +

    • catastrophic death-and-rebirth experience

    • most pronounced for the Thulaand Meena Moon

    Elizabeth Taylor (Thulalagna + ThulaChandra). These people seem to have nine lives, surviving one near-death after the next, and living with recurring, hidden sorrow.

    Charles de Gaulle (Thulalagna + Meena Chandra). These people seem to have nine lives, surviving one near-death after the next, and living with recurring, hidden sorrow. Intensely conflicted re: money and material wealth , hiding (8) of great art collections (Shukra), threats of world destruction (8). Shukra periods are very stressful for this native.

    Mohamed Reza Pahlavi (Thulalagna + Vrischika Chandra) Shukra = catastrophic L-8 from lagna and dissipating L-12 from Chandra. Exhaustion and upheaval due to excessive indulgence in women, money, and art .

    Adolph Hitler (Thulalagna + Dhanusha Chandra) Shukra = L-8 from lagna and L-6 from Chandra. Hitler had a great deal of trouble with women, ancedotally also a famous dysfunction of love-making, a failed career in art, and a general inability to accumulate wealth.

    8 Meena lagna +

    • catastrophic death-and-rebirth experience

    • most pronounced for the Thulaand Meena Moon

    12 Mithuna lagna +

    • loss of vitality and dissolution of body-based identity

    • most pronounced for the Mithuna and Vrischika Moon

    Theodore Roosevelt (Mithuna lagna + Mithuna Chandra) Dissipating illnesses often brought on by travel to remote foreign lands (12). Teddy Roosevelt was a lifelong adventurer to tropical climes and he eventually died, rather young, from debilitation of Amazon malaria.

    Baba Ram Dass (Mithuna lagna + Vrischika Chandra) Shukra = lord of 12th from lagna and 12th Moon. Private "bedroom" (12) sexual encounters with hundreds of men caused a debilitation of the life force.

    Albert Einstein (Mithuna lagna + Vrischika Chandra) Shukra = lord of 12th from lagna and 12th Moon. Dissolution of vitality through women. (although Shukra = uchcha in the high-reputation 10th house in this nativity, so the consequences are less well known.)

    12 Vrischika lagna +

    • loss of vitality and dissolution of body-based identity

    • most pronounced for the Mithuna and Vrischika Moon

    Ivana Trump (Vrischika lagna + Vrischika Chandra) - loss of vitality and degradation of the physical appearance through overindulgence in fashion, ornament, money.


    Shukra and Foreign Residence

    • Shukra drishti upon 12th-from- Lagnesha called "Vyaayapa" shows foreign residence, generally pleasant.

    Vyaayapa itself shows type of lands you will visit.

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

    • When Vyaayapa is ruled or occupied by a paapa (malefic) planet, the lands to which you travel will be poor and the journeying is stressful.


    Shukra and Career


    from B. V. Raman, ACatechism 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, his 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."

    [BP Lama notes: Shukra rules buildings and artistic or structural design, whilst Mars rules the Land]


    "... the 7th from Shukra... stand for consideration respectively in respect of ... spouse...."

    ~~ BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43]


    If Venus be posited in his own Rashi or in Mithuna, the native will be infatuated by love.

    ~~ Jatakalankara, Ch3 Shloka 20


    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.

    ~~ Jataka Parijata Ch 2 Shloka 79


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

    They're very deep necessities which people cannot live without.
    ~~ Pablo Picasso


    Pleasure Karma - Internal Pleasure in Meditation

    • 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.

    Neutrality Karmas

    Then, karmas that are accumulated upon having turned away even from such pleasure of internal meditative stabilization and within seeking just neutral feeling are unfluctuating karmas associated with the fourth concentration and the four formless absorptions.

    • However, if, through understanding this presentation, you develop renunciation of all types of such cyclic existence, and accumulate karmas for the sake of permanent bliss, These karmas will bring about liberation from cyclic existence.


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


    Literary Author Audrey Lord: Erotic Power ~~ by Audre Lord

    "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."


    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.


    ~~ H.H. Dalai Lama And Renuka Singh. (2002). . www.snowlionpub.com

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