Shukra

Shukra is Venus. The Brihat Jataka gives Bhrigu, Bhrigusuta, Sita, the white planet, and Asphujit as other names. In the Kalapurusha, the sign-by-sign body of the book, Venus is desire, and in the court of the planets it counsels with Jupiter. The book's description is a pleasant body with fair eyes and black curling hair, a color neither very white nor very black, and a link to water, the south-east, pearls, a sour flavor and the spring months of March and April.

Vrishabha and Tula are its signs. Pisces is the sign of exaltation, at the twenty-seventh degree, and Virgo the sign of fall at that degree. Libra is the mulatrikona, a sign of added strength, which the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (typed Sanskrit, edition not identified) gives as the first 15 degrees. The Sun and the Moon are the planets that the quoted line leaves as enemies.

Venus sees the seventh house fully, as all planets do, and has no extra aspect. It is strong in the north or the fourth sign, as the Moon is, and by day. The Vimshottari scheme gives Venus the longest period, 20 years, along with Bharani, Purva Phalguni and Purva Ashadha.