Venus Transit in Uttara Bhadrapada

Ahirbudhnya, the serpent of the deep, is the deity of Uttara Bhadrapada. Saturn is its lord and its symbol is the back legs of a funeral cot or a pair of twins. It lies wholly in Pisces, the sign of Venus's exaltation, and Saturn is a friend of Venus in Parashara's table, so a friendly lord in the exaltation sign makes this one of the finest nakshatras Venus can transit.

Depth is the theme. Love here is quiet and does not need to be spoken. Wealth comes slowly from investments, trusts, the sea and work done for its own sake, and over a stay of around eleven days Venus gives the artist patience and the householder a settled affection.

Uttara Bhadrapada is dhruva, and Muhurta Chintamani lists it for a wedding, a foundation and anything meant to last. A retrograde loop once held Venus here for about two months, the longest Venus stay in any nakshatra in recent decades. In such a season a marriage is tested by delay. If it holds, it is stronger for it.

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Leo, Cancer, Taurus and Aries Moons hold Venus in Phaladeepika's favourable houses and gain in peace and savings. Libra, Virgo and Gemini Moons have it in the sixth, seventh and tenth. Their Venus is exalted and badly placed at once, and the days bring a fine thing at some cost. The count from the lagna gives the same result.

The transit shows how still a person's love is. For a person of practice the serpent of the deep is a friend, and sadhana done now takes root.

Recite Om Shukraya Namah, and give silver or white cloth on Friday to someone old. Keep a fixed hour of meditation for the length of the stay.