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Graha

Venus

शुक्रShukra

Love, marriage, luxury, art, beauty.

Where Venus is now

Kanya 7°29', in Uttara Phalguni pada 4

Sign lord
Mercury
Western sign
Virgo
Dignity here
Debilitated

Computed for Sat, 8 Aug, 2026, 5:30 pm IST, sidereal Lahiri.

Classical attributes

From the standard texts. These do not change.

Rules the signs
Vrishabh and Tula
Exalted in
Meen (deep exaltation at 27°)
Debilitated in
Kanya (deep debilitation at 27°)
Moolatrikona
Tula 0°–15°
Aspects (drishti)
7th house from itself
Natural friends
Mercury, Saturn
Neutral toward
Mars, Jupiter
Natural enemies
Sun, Moon
Karaka of
Marriage and love, beauty, art and music, vehicles, luxury and pleasure.
Presiding deity
Lakshmi
Weekday
Friday
Gemstone
Diamond (Heera)
Metal
Silver or platinum
Direction
South-east
Beeja mantra
Om Draam Dreem Draum Sah Shukraya Namah
Vimshottari mahadasha
20 years

Venus in the Vimshottari cycle

Love, marriage, luxury, art and comfort; relationships and pleasures flourish.

Venus rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras, evenly spaced through the zodiac. A birth Moon in any of them starts life in a Venus mahadasha of 20 years.

The other grahas