𝓥𝓮𝓷𝓾𝓼’𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓽’𝓼 𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓮𝔁𝓪𝓵𝓽𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮𝓼

Venus as we all know is the Guru Shukracharya. It plays most diverse roles in our lives. Venus rules all the refined things in life, it is the karaka of luxury. Shukracharya was a Daitya guru but Mahadev still blessed him with the vidya of Mritak Sanjeevani. Mahadev was always generous to bless his devotees. And Shukracharya was an ardent devotee of Mahadev, Master of profound knowledge.
Venus represents femininity, beauty, romance, reproduction, art, and pleasure. In jyotish it is karaka of marriage. It shows the quality of marriage.
It rules the second house of rashi chakra, which is the sign of resources, wealth and food, also can be interpreted as Dhana Lakshmi. One of the forms of Devi Laksmi, as she is the goddess of dhan dhanya. Another sign ruled by Venus is Libra, the natural seventh house. It is called as Bhagya Lakshmi, your spouse.
Shukra gets exalted in the 12th house, Pisces, Jupiter’s sign, also known as the house of giving. There’s a beautiful story behind it, mentioned in Adi parva of Mahabharata.
Kacha was the son of sage Brihaspati. He ordered his son Kacha to go to Shukracharya and learn the knowledge of Sanjeevani. Knowing that Kacha was Brihaspati’s son, Shukracharya accepted him as a disciple regardless of every demon’s disapproval. In acquiring knowledge, Kacha fell in love with Devyani, the daughter of guru Shukracharya. Having hatred towards Kacha, all the demons killed him when Shukracharya was out. When Devyani came to know about Kacha, she requested her father to revive him, which he did.
However, Kacha was murdered for the second time alone in the forest. The demons burned his body and mixed his ashes into the wine, and gave it to their Guru to drink. Again, Devyani requested her father, but this time Shukracharya had to sacrifice his own body to resurrect Kacha’s dead body. The sage’s boundless love for her daughter encouraged him to take his own life to revive his daughter’s love. When Kacha returned to life, he used the same Sanjeevani mantra to resuscitate Shukracharya. After this incident, sage Shukracharya prohibited wine from being taken by Brahmins as it destroyed their purity. Moreover, he said drinking wine is a sin that equals killing a brahmin.
With this story we get to understand why Shukracharya is exalted in Pisces sign, the sign of giving.
Few things we can always keep in mind to protect our Venus from malefic afflictions, for e.g., be mindful of grooming, and wear clean clothes, because Venus represents refined clean things. Use good fragrance or perfumes.