Venus Transit in Bharani

Venus owns Bharani, which lies wholly in Aries. Its deity is Yama, lord of death and of dharma, and its symbol is the yoni. In its own nakshatra Venus is at home even in Mars's sign, where Mars is neutral to it. The stay is around eleven days.

Birth, restraint and the bearing of what one has taken on are the themes. Desire runs strong and meets Yama's discipline. Sexuality, conception and the reproductive system, all under Venus as karaka, come forward, and money arrives through work with the body, with fertility, with the dead, or with arts that carry heavy feeling.

Bharani is counted among the ugra nakshatras in muhurta, so the window suits firm and forceful acts, and a marriage is better fixed elsewhere. A purchase of land, a decision to end a partnership or a treatment that must be endured fits these days.

From the Moon and the lagna:

• Aries, Taurus, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Sagittarius Moons hold Venus in the first to fifth houses and the twelfth, where Phaladeepika calls it favourable.
• Virgo, Leo and Gemini Moons receive it in the eighth, ninth and eleventh, also favourable, with gains through inheritance, teachers and friends.
• Scorpio, Libra and Cancer Moons have Venus in the sixth, seventh and tenth and should hold back in love and in expense.

The transit shows how a person carries desire under a limit, and whether pleasure can wait for its right time.

Keep japa of Om Shukraya Namah, give silver or rice on Friday, and remember Yama, keeper of order. Lakshmi is honoured with a clean house and a settled mind.