Venus Transit in Shatabhisha

Varuna, lord of the waters and keeper of the law, presides over Shatabhisha in the middle of Aquarius. Rahu is its lord and its symbol is an empty circle or a hundred healers. By the rule Shanivat Rahu, Rahu is read as Saturn, a friend of Venus, and Saturn also owns Aquarius, so Venus is supported twice here, by the nakshatra lord and by the sign lord.

Healing is the theme. Venus in Shatabhisha favours medicine, especially the alternative and the foreign, along with secluded pleasures and arts made alone, and wealth comes through technology, the sea and people far away. Love is private, sometimes hidden. For the eleven days or so the person prefers a small circle.

Shatabhisha is chara in muhurta and suits travel, a change of residence and the start of a course of treatment, and Muhurta Chintamani does not count it for a wedding. Rahu adds a taste for the unusual. Under Rahu, Venus can be drawn to what is exotic and unwise, and a secret affair is the classic trouble of this transit, since the empty circle is also a veil.

By the Moon and the lagna, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, Cancer, Gemini, Aries and Pisces Moons hold Venus in Phaladeepika's favourable houses. They gain quietly. Virgo, Leo and Taurus Moons have Venus in the sixth, seventh and tenth. For them a health matter, a partner's secrecy or a cost at work may surface.

Here Venus shows what a person hides in order to enjoy. Varuna sees the hidden, and this transit invites the person to see it too.

Recite Om Shukraya Namah, and give curd or white cloth on Friday to someone who is ill. Offer water to Varuna with an honest account of your faults.