Shukra: in Twelve Rashi
Venus in the 12 Signs
Loved qualities & environments
What makes this native happy
Mesha [Aries]
Marilyn Monroe
Eric Clapton (musician)
Paul McCartney (musician)
Pope John Paul II
The hunter. Beautiful head. Loves fast action, military conquest, sudden movement of all kinds. Not averse to violence in pursuit of its quarry. Enjoys competitive sport - not watching, but rather playing. A "player", flirty style. Mesha-Shukra likes to push their edge, in life & romance. Attracted to muscular, well-toned, body-loving partners & sporting, active, innovative environments. Likes the thrill of the chase. Can be prone to drug use due to a taste for very fast physical body response.
Competitive marriage practices.
Desires an athletic, trim & fit spouse with innovative lifestyle & self-promoting values.
To make this one happy, help them cultivate physical body strength & vitality. Make them more attractive & competitive. Give a new hairstyle, personal trainer or the newest sports equipment. Invite them to a vigorous yoga class or an outdoor sporting holiday, where they can enjoy friendly skillful competition in good company. Praise their astounding, heroic wins and the extraordinary novelty of their ideas. And keep yourself sleekly toned & handsome too!
Vrishabha [Taurus]
love of: sensual experience of texture & scent; material wealth
John F. Kennedy, Sr. (U.S. Pres.)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Princess Diana (Britain)
Nancy Davis Reagan
Coretta Scott King
Leonardo da Vinci
Swakshetra - Shukra's desires flourish in Tauri. Beautiful face, neck & jaw. Deeply in love with Earth's bounty. These natives are "foodies" whose greatest pleasures in life are fine food & wine, fine art objects, and rich environments. They indulge in beautiful, sensuous fabrics; exquisitely made furniture; real property in lovely natural settings; healing essential oil massage, & a prosperous bank account.
Materialistic marriage practices.
Desires a sensual, luxury-loving spouse with acquisitive lifestyle & wealth-building values.
To make them happy, share a delicious romantic meal. Better yet, buy them a valuable painting or fine work of art. Give a gift of exquisite wine, gourmet food, a deep-healing oil massage, or your sensual, well-groomed company on a pleasant day hike in lovely natural settings. Praise their delicious picnic-basket, their beautiful eyes, and their handsome taste in companions!
Mithuna [Gemini]
love of: quick thought, conversation & information
George H.W. Bush ("Sr.")
Barbara Bush
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Barack Obama (US Sen.)
Favorable placement for Shukra, in the sign of His planetary friend Budha. (Sexual communication is essentially a conversation.) Loves sexual interaction: not only physical, but also the non-physical bonding levels of intimate exchange. Beautiful hands, arms, and shoulders.
Loves language, detailed explanations, a good plot, cultural diversity, all varieties of literature, philosophical arguments, compare-&-contrast discussion. Enjoys reading & writing, hearing lectures, interactive traveling with local flavor, & lifelong learning in all branches of knowledge.
Mirroring marriage practices.
Desires a literate & chatty spouse with bicultural lifestyle & self-reflective values.
To make this native happy, invite one to join an interesting trip, where they can learn, absorb, & converse in several languages & codes of custom. Introduce them to interesting, literate people. Praise their sophisticated & discriminating perceptiveness. And above all keep them engaged in conversation!
If Venus be posited in his own Rashi or in Mithuna, the native will be infatuated by love.
~~ Jatakalankara, Ch3 Shloka 20
Karkata [Cancer]
love of: emotional security, home and family, roots
George W. Bush ("Jr.")
Madonna (entertainer)
Nicole Kidman (actress)
Michael Jackson (entertainer)
Angelina Jolie (actress, ambassador)
Arnold Swartzenegger
Rashi of Shukra's planetary enemy Chandra. Beautiful chest & breasts.
Often malcontent, because it's difficult to get what they really have a taste for: return to the total embrace of mother's womb. Attracted to immersion experiences, intensely maternal & protective partners, and tightly sheltered home life.
One likes parenting & being parented; seeks emotionally needy and/or exceptionally nurturing partners. This aesthetic attracts them into codependent relationships. Both males & females seek a parent-partner who promises to absolutely protect.
Sheltering marriage practices.
Desires a devoted & parental spouse with home-based lifestyle & protective, patriotic values.
To make them happy, provide a safe, well-stocked, well-defended home. Enter into therapeutically deep, emotional healing exchange. Appreciate their intensive parenting style. Be physically present, or reliably reachable. Give them relationship-immersion weekends - and as much full-time, utterly private attention as you can. Praise their deep, enclosing ways of caring, nurturing, parental-style love.
Simha [Leo]
love of: politics, recognition, ceremony, and power
Julia Roberts (actress)
Luciano Pavarotti (entertainer)
John Lennon (Beatle)
Jerry Falwell (preacher, politician)
Martha Stewart (entertainer, businesswoman)
Difficult place for Shukra's desire nature to flourish, in the rashi of Shukra's planetary enemy Surya.
Unless the native is born into royalty, one may feel discontent and always craving of attention. However, if the native is truly born into elite corps of solar celebrity, a loving bright heart & great enjoyment of pomp & ceremony.
Beautiful torso, heart, spine.
Loves glamour, costume, prestige, getting attention, being in the limelight, being a celebrity, being seen & heard. Desires elite recognition & romance. Wants to be in the center of political theatre and public attention.
Ceremonial, theatrical marriage practices.
Desires a famous, creative spouse with regal lifestyle & romantic, expressive values.
To make Simha-Shukra happy, buy them fashionable clothes. (What they consider "fashionable" and "the center" depends on the actual condition of Surya in the radix.) Take them out to entertainment events: parties, gallery & theatrical openings, huge religious ceremonies, dances, any brightly lit venue.
Often one prefers the powerful prestige of a showcase home in an exclusive location. Avoid darkened movie theatres or intimate dinners for two. Best to dine in a crystal-hung, tapestry-draped grand hall with 100 other people.
Praise their stylish, glowing beauty; their fashion sense; their social intelligence (they show what the people want to see), and their charismatic charm. And look elegantly, brilliantly regal yourself!
Kanya [Virgo]
friendly rashi
love of: organized categorical systems of knowledge; social service; medicines
Amitabh Bachchan (actor)
Prince Charles (Britain)
William Jefferson Clinton (U.S.)
Herbert Hoover (F.B.I.)
Pablo Picasso (artist)
Michel Foucault
Guy Ritchie (husband of Madonna)
Neechha: an unfortunate place for Shukra, (despite being in the sign of planetary friend Budha.)
Beautiful digestive system, which gives a glow of bodily vigor.
Virgo is the natural rules of domain-6 = loss of balance & social conflict. In particular Kanya as natural 12th-from-7th signifies loss of agreement in marriage. Shukra-Kanya love style can manifest one of two ways. Either (1) complete displacement of the sexual love instincts out of the body, into social service charity work (benefitting underclass & animals) or (2) displacement of spousal love into the sexual love of servants and the underclass.
Native likes the feeling of being in illicit company. Trouble through unbalanced women, & intoxication. Often disgraced though partner's indiscretions. If the native chooses the non-sexual charitable service style, their spouse will exhibit their own deflected attraction to prostitutes, drug addicts, or servants.
Marries a highly intelligent but sensually unavailable/distracted/mentalized spouse. The spouse is an intellectual or project partner, not an easy sexual love partner, due to conflict between social view of partner as an equal versus native's psychology that lovemaking is a debasement. Sexual love needs are typically met via extramarital relationships, or not at all.
Desires direct sensual contact with entities who are performing service tasks (Kanya) for the native. As a result, the native can be caught in exploitive, extramarital sexual relationships. Kanya-Shukra style of love favors calendar-management planning of trysts and detail-intensive time scheduling, with imbalance of class status or privilege driving the attraction.
Prefers clean & well-organized environments, tidy ledgers, organizing large projects at the detail level. Often very busy with mental calculations from the large-scale mental projects they love to accomplish, and can remain superficially married to and appreciative of their public partner for the duration.
However at some point the native's needs will resurface, and the attractive to partners from the service class will re-emerge.
Planned marriage practices.
Desires an organized, intelligent spouse with detail-oriented lifestyle & informed, articulate values.
It is important to note that neechha Shukra does not lack sweetness of character! These are some of the gentlest, most sincere, & humble folk around. They are often very well liked by a public that is charmed by their humbling predicament.
Shukra in Kanya is not able to naturally perceive one's own beauty, or access one's own natural sensuality very comfortably. One has the karma of excess mentalizing & calculating beauty (measuring pounds, inches, color, size); when indeed this mental habit misses the lover's instinctive & sensual whole.
Every person is inherently beautiful, taken as a whole. Unfortunately Shukra in analytical Kanya divides the whole into many small parts; so that the total pleasure of beauty is broken into complex assessments and rules.
However, as human beings these folks are usually very nice & nurturing. They sincerely love service, and they feel good when they can help others by providing information or care to the most needy. Wonderful service-providers in clinical charity settings.
To make Kanya-Shukra happy, provide servants to perform their household & spousal duties, so that they can enjoy a respectable life while pursuing intensive service to those less fortunate.
Only through providing dedicated, comprehensive service to the disempowered/dysfunctional classes (including animals) can Kanya-Shukra feel truly loved & appreciated.
Thula [Libra]
love of: balance & harmony in all things, good design
Swakshetra -Shukra flourishes in Thula. Beautiful buttocks & belly.
Loves good design in all things: architecture, musical composition, food presentation, philosophical structures. Enjoys decorating & planning social gatherings where their grand designs can be appreciated and admired.
Prefers the company of cultivated, pleasant persons. Likes to be in a couple; dislikes being alone. Attracted to partners of grace & diplomacy, often executives in the arts, humanities, politics, or design industries.
Desires a balanced social environment at all times. Masters of the negotiating table, the restaurant table, or the warmly welcoming kitchen table. Cannot abide vulgar behavior or color imbalance.
Gracious marriage practices.
Desires a refined, polite spouse with harmonious lifestyle & design-intensive, aesthetic values.
To make Thula-Shukra happy, take great care with your coordinated, balanced appearance. Know your color palettes! Provide them a home decorating budget, and admire their designs.
Invite them to an art gallery, dinner party, yacht launching, or a tour of fine homes. Entertain with them, in elegant couples gatherings, après theatre. Above all, be well groomed, and praise their gracious taste.
Vrischika [Scorpio]
love of: deep exploration, mysteries, intense transformation
Tiger Woods
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Margaret Thatcher (P.M.)
Susan Sarandon (actress)
Laura Welch Bush
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Loves the mysterious, occult, transformative, therapeutic, & bizarre.
Beautiful low belly & genitalia. Enjoys physical prowess, secret or forbidden undertakings, any type of puzzle-solving or detective sleuthing to reach the competitive prize.
Favors black or very dark, saturated tones in clothing & decor. Think huntsman, explorer, shaman, the occult spaces where they dwell... Attracted to exotic, even dangerous partners & practices (depends on condition of Kuja) & rigorous initiations.
Loves rivers & flows, hot springs, spa tubs, healing waters, even hot lava. Wants the feeling of discovering a great secret, of being phoenix-reborn.
Tantric marriage practices.
Desires a psychologically penetrating, profoundly sexual spouse with exotic lifestyle & healing, transformative values.
To make Vrischika-Shukra happy, indulge them in psychological challenge & intensive tantric healing. Explore the mysterious world of subconscious imagery & emotion with them. Learn the healing powers of essential oils, & arrange deep-pressure invigorating & restructuring massages.
Break taboos & take intimate risks, not only with your body but also with your heart. Praise their stores of secret wisdom & uncanny healing powers.
Dhanau [Sagittarius]
love of: public performances, sports, displays of enthusiasm & celebrations
Lisa Marie Presley (singer)
Carolina Kennedy
Loves abundance. Let every day be Christmas!
Beautiful expansive hips & thighs. Enjoys boosting the human spirit, coaching, team sports, camaraderie, and general Good Will Towards Men.
Likes golden-colored things, inclusive politics, laughter, healthy competition, big feasts, celebrations, & the joy of learning. Dislikes curmudgeonly Scrooges and all forms of Bah-Humbug.
Attracted to open-minded humanistic partners, especially educators & coaches. Likes positive religion, bright rituals, kindly priests. Loves high civilization, empowerment, spiritual upliftment, knowledge, and above all freedom to grow.
Collegial marriage practices.
Desires a learned, enthusiastic spouse with coaching, sponsoring lifestyle & culturally inclusive values.
To make Dhanus-Shukra happy, shower them with positive energy. Take them horseback riding, or to college sports events, with a tailgate party afterwards, or volunteer sports coach on their kids' soccer team. Attend religious services together, at a place of worship that has a big, inclusive community-service program.
Participate. Do mitzvahs together. Donate sports equipment to their neighborhood team. Invite them on a teach-and-tour holiday. Be cheerful! Envision a positive future! Praise their optimism, generosity, and perpetual good will.
Makara [Capricorn]
Love of: law & order, conservative traditions, status symbols
Jennifer Aniston
Cindy Crawford
Oprah Winfrey
Britney Spears
Gloria Steinem
Yoko Ono
Elvis Presley
Rupert Murdoch
Reasonably good place for Venus, in the sign of His planetary friend Shani.
Beautiful bone structure, giving the sculpted face & body of a fashion model. (If in Dhanishtha, a superb dancer.)
Like "Laura Norder" (a nickname for Maggie Thatcher giving her regional pronunciation of "Law & Order), this native loves strong but minimal government, firm cultural agreements/homogeny, hierarchies & traditions, and the Rule of Law.
Traditional marriage practices.
Desires a stable & predictable spouse with law-abiding lifestyle & conventional, hierarchical values.
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 and keep their promises.
To make Makara-Shukra happy, provide respect & dignity. Gift them with solidly made, class-status material goods: family homes in good neighborhoods, reliable vehicles, staunchly middle-class furnishings. Comfort & public respect are much more attractive to these folk than fashion or glamour.
Solid, middle-of-the-road, & reliable is the aesthetic key for their preferred environment. Diamonds are nice, but if you really want to make them happy, give them a savings bond or a good life-insurance policy. Praise their common sense, Ben Franklin values, and ability to save now for a more comfortable future. And, be sensible yourself!
Das says "Impotent, foolish, attached to women older in age; weak, fear, heart-trouble; service, trusted, gain through the employer. Gain & success through banking, stock-exchange, commerce etc. Trouble through marriage and high ambition."
Kumbha [Aquarius]
love of: futuristic social thought, conceptual abstraction, & large networked groups
Hugh Hefner (Playboy)
Barbra Streisand (entertainer)
Surprisingly good place for Shukra, in rashi of planetary friend Shani.
Beautiful ankles & calves; lovely skin.
Affection for abstract visionary social concepts, especially the concept of "community". Holds a pragmatic & philosophical view of relationships. Generally tolerant in the interpretation of marriage vows due to their high-minded viewpoint.
Loves huge gatherings of people. Pleasured by enormous festivals such as Kumbha Mela, where a tangible group vibration arises. Likes giant public events, political rallies, science fiction, futuristic design, eccentric behavior, and individual freedom of thought.
Attracted to partners who are a little nutty, with eccentric lifestyles, who like cosmic-scale events, sweeping future vision of a restructured egalitarian society, but enough social steadiness to guard the native against ostracism or failure. Likes a stable partnership within context of many interconnected networks of friendship.
Eccentric, egalitarian marriage practices.
Desires a philosophical, visionary spouse with networked, futuristic lifestyle & community values.
To make Kumbha-Shukra happy, take them to gigantic human gatherings such as major religious or lifestyle festivals, or huge conventions of futuristic prophets & their clans. Take them out to futuristic movies and halls of science.
Practice visionary lifestyles. Buy them eccentric clothing, & protect them from material uncertainty so their minds can range free. And be philosophical yourself! Praise their open-mindedness, concern for the group, neutrality, and future vision of a beautiful new world.
Meena [Pisces]
Love of: music, art, intuitive awareness
Tammy Wynette (singer)
Mariah Carey (singer)
Johnny Cash (singer)
Kurt Cobain (musician)
George Harrison (Beatle)
Elizabeth Taylor (actress)
Katherine Hepburn (actress)
Tony Blair (P.M.)
Gordon Brown (P.M.)
Uccha - the best possible place for Shukra.
Beautiful feet.
Meena-Shukra natives are often remarkably beautiful, with balanced features esp. lovely hands and feet. Beloved by the Muse, they normally become fine artists & musicians. (However they may be reduced to technical arts if Shukra is oppressed.)
Native loves the world of childlike imagination, and shows a philosophical turn of mind. (May have less interest in moral upbringing, regular meals etc.) They have an exquisite, ethereal sense of balanced color, sound, texture, scent, and taste. Everything they touch receives a golden light.
Attracted to partners who can simultaneously love them and give them the space to create.
Permissive marriage practices.
Desires an artistic, musical spouse with gentle, dream-like lifestyle & imaginative, meditative values.
When Shukra = uccha, the native can sustain a long-term love relationship even if other factors are inauspicious
Being imaginative artists, these natives need to be sheltered from the harsh conditions of the real world. If you love them (and you will), give them the gift of generous, enveloping, almost-parental levels of support. Shower them with studio time, paints & brushes, musical instruments, computers (these days!) and the training to use artists' tools well.
If you are blessed with a Meena-Shukra child, provide them the best artistic & musical tutelage you can humanly afford. Praise their divine creativity, their beatific expression, and their loving connection to all sentient beings. And be imaginatively open to the guidance of the Muse yourself!
updated: 26 August 2008
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