Shukra (Venus) mahadasha
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Shukra (Venus) rules a 20-year mahadasha in the 120-year Vimshottari cycle. The Moon's nakshatra at birth decides which mahadasha you begin in, and the Moon's exact degree inside that nakshatra decides how much of it remains.
Shukra (Venus) is the kalatrakaraka, governing partnership, pleasure and aesthetic judgement. It rules Vrishabha and Tula, is exalted in Meena at 27° and debilitated in Kanya at 27°. Its mahadasha is the longest at twenty years. Shukra shows what a person finds genuinely valuable, not merely what they enjoy.
During this period the chart tends to foreground relationship, beauty, value, pleasure. Well supported: Relates without losing self. Under stress: Pleasure substituted for meaning.
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