Essentials 
    of Vedic Astrology Module 1: Static Horoscope 
    Lesson 3A: Planetary portfolios
    Venus/Shukra
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| VENUS SUKRA   | CREATIVE POTENTIAL, Pleasures, Desires, Reproduction, Correct Behavior | Wife, Romance Partners Women | Beauty, Sexuality, Sensual, Luxury, Harmony, Comfort, Music, Poetry, Vehicles (Minister) | female benefic rules Taurus & Libra | 
       
       
       Venus rules: Desires Pleasure Beauty Creativity Romance Procreation Pleasure Artistic-Endeavour Wife/love partners Vehicles Luxuries/Comforts (home) Finances 
   
   
    Sukra 
    as a general significator holds absolute sway over the vast domain of knowledge. 
    This is the only planet that can give you acumen and intelligence of how to 
    utilise Shastric codes in the practical field of life. For, it knows the intricates 
    of all Shastras. Moreover influence of Sukra over the adornment of body and 
    luxuries of life is well-known to all astrological pandits. The planet denotes 
    fashions, perfumes, all artistic expressions, interior decorating. Sukra is 
    beauty personified. The planet signifies practical knowledge, desire, passion, 
    sexual pleasure, material prosperity and comfort, artistic skill, poetic faculty, 
    music, musician, actor, feminine grace, lustre in the eyes, author-ship, dancing, 
    learning, amiability, kindness, perseverance, vitality, marriage, sexual intercourse, 
    adultery, scandals, dens of prostitutes, harems, pomp and grandeur, infinite 
    faculties. Applied Science, young man and woman, flower, garment, machines, 
    medicines, aesthetic sense, affection, sensuousness, romance, conveyance, 
    painting. It signifies prostate gland, ovary of a woman, testicle, generating 
    organ, Rajo guna, sour taste, south-eastern or eastern direction.
 
 
 
  
    Disease : Venerial disease, disease of the uterus or ovary of a woman, diabetes, 
    or disease of kidney, stricture due to gonorrhoea or syphilis, or enlargement 
    of prostate gland, asthma or any other disease due to cough and cold, pthysis.
    Colour : White.
    Vocation : Engineer, poet, artist, musician, publicity business, or business 
    of advertisement, actor, physician, business concerning conveyance, jewellery 
    or medicinal products, astrologer.
    Birth star : Magha.
    Digit : 6, 37, 52.
    Strength : Sukra is strong when the Sun and the Moon occupy Vrsa or Tula Rasi, 
    or when the full moon is associated with either of the Nakshatras (Stars), 
    viz. Aswini, Aslesha, Magha, Jestha, Moola or Rebati. Afflicted Sukra by association 
    with malefics or by occupation in an unfavourable house causes loose morals. 
    Again when Sukra conjoins with or aspected by Sani there is every possibility 
    of late marriage or marriage disregarding the native's social customs or environments, 
    Friendly aspect between Sukra and Chandra may make the native popular, ambitious, 
    and prominent in public life but the native may be sensuous.
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