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Venus (Shukra) in Indian astrology
Venus is the planet of attraction and refinement.
- Sanskrit
- Shukra (शुक्र)
- Weekday
- Friday
- Nature
- a natural benefic
- Rules
- Taurus, Libra
- Exalted
- Pisces (27°)
- Debilitated
- Virgo (27°)
- Dasha length
- 20 years of the 120-year Vimshottari cycle
- Signifies
- love, marriage, comfort, the arts, beauty and vehicles
- Rules the stars
- Bharani, Purva Phalguni, Purva Ashadha
In a man's chart it is read as the significator of the spouse, and in everyone's chart as the taste for pleasure, harmony and craft. It has the longest period in the Vimshottari system, twenty years, so a Venus dasha is a long chapter.
In the dasha cycle
In the Vimshottari order, Venus is followed by Sun. The period of Venus lasts 20 years when it runs in full. Read more about the system on the dasha page.
See it in your own chart
The terms on this page appear in every birth chart report, explained for your own planets and dates.