Shukra appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Deities
Shukra
Shukra is the Navagraha of Venus and the guru (preceptor) of the asuras, the divine teacher of the demons in the Puranas. He is the god of love, beauty, pleasure, wealth and fertility, invoked for marital happiness, prosperity and artistic success.
Correspondences
Offerings
- Offerings
- White flowersRiceGheeSweetsSilver
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- SukraThe Venus Graha
- Gender Expression
- Masculine
- Titles
- The Navagraha of VenusGuru of the AsurasLord of Love and Wealth
- Symbols
- LotusWhiteVenus symbol
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneGracious instructionAddressLord ShukraSukracharyaRelationshipTeacher of the asurasWarningHe teaches desire as well as loveResonanceThose seeking love prosperity or art
- Modern Practice
Invoked for love, marriage, prosperity and the arts; his gemstone is prescribed in Jyotish for a weak Venus.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- VenusLoveBeautyWealthPleasureTeachingThe asuras
- Mythology Summary
Shukra is the Navagraha of Venus and the guru (preceptor) of the asuras, the divine teacher of the demons in the Puranas. He is the god of love, beauty, pleasure, wealth and fertility, invoked for marital happiness, prosperity and artistic success. Friday (Shukravara) is his day, white and bright colours are his, and diamond is his gemstone.
- Related Deities
- BrihaspatiBudhaLakshmiKamaRati
Details
- Secondary Planets
- Moon
- Correspondences
- ColorsWhitePinkGoldScentsJasmineRoseSandalwoodMetalsSilverCopperAnimalsParrotSwanCow
Jyotisha
Exalted at 27 degrees of Pisces, debilitated at 27 degrees of Virgo; moolatrikona the first half (0 to 15 degrees) of Libra, the second half being own sign, with Taurus as the second own sign (BPHS ch. 3). Friends Mercury and Saturn; enemies the Sun and Moon; Mars and Jupiter are neutral. The navagraha metal is copper in some lists and silver in others; the gem is diamond (vajra), and the combustion orb is 10 degrees (8 when retrograde).
Correspondences
- Planet
- Venus
Sacred timing
- Day
- Friday
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- BhargavaUsanasKavyaVenus
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Graha
- Sanskrit
- शुक्र
- English
- Venus
- Nature
- ClassSaumyaQualityBeneficConditionBenefic in every chart: the lesser benefic, whose harm is indulgence rather than malice.Reading
Shukra is saumya and the lesser benefic. Its affliction is read as pleasure that costs too much, not as injury; the classical warning about Venus is excess and entanglement, not cruelty. Together with Jupiter it forms the pair of natural benefics, and a chart's 'benefic aspect' means the aspect of one of these two (or of a strong unafflicted Mercury).
- Meaning
Shukra is Venus, the graha of love, marriage, beauty, art and the pleasures of the senses. It is the karaka of the 7th house and of the spouse, and therefore of marriage and partnership in every chart. Its 20 years are the longest period in the Vimshottari cycle and are read as the years in which what one loves, and who one loves, sets the shape of the life.
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☊ Jyotisha 2
- Shukra Deity
- Shukra Dasha Graha
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