Venus Transit in Mula

Mula opens Sagittarius from the gandanta that ends Scorpio. Nirriti, the goddess of dissolution, is its deity, Ketu its lord, and a bundle of roots its symbol. Ketu is read as Mars, neutral to Venus, and Jupiter, lord of the sign, is neutral as well. With no friend and no enemy here, Venus is shaped by the nakshatra's own nature.

The root is pulled up. Venus in Mula takes a relationship, a comfort or an expense back to its source and asks what it was for, and attachments that had no root come away easily in these eleven days or so. Money goes into research, into medicine made from roots and into settling old matters.

Mula is tikshna in muhurta, sharp, and suits the cutting of what has failed. Muhurta Chintamani still lists it for a wedding. The first pada, at the gandanta, is the least steady and is best kept for reflection.

Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, Leo, Taurus, Aries, Aquarius and Capricorn Moons hold Venus in the houses Phaladeepika calls favourable. For them the uprooting is mostly of what they were ready to lose. Cancer, Gemini and Pisces Moons have Venus in the sixth, seventh and tenth from the Moon. For them a partnership or a position is tested at its base, and the lagna is counted the same way.

Over these days a person sees what their desire is rooted in, whether fear, habit or something real.

Recite Om Shukraya Namah, give rice or white cloth on Friday, and make an offering to Nirriti naming what you will release. Ketu's own remedy, food for dogs, fits here too.