Venus: effects and importance in Indian astrology

Venus, known as 'Shukra' in Indian astrology influences romance, beauty, passion, wealth, dance, music and rain, etc. Often famous as the morning and evening star, Venus is the second planet to the sun and is known as the brightest object in the sky next to sun and moon. Venus rules both Taurus and Libra. While Mars stands for the youthful male in our solar system, Venus represents the lovely princess. It is one of the nine planets rotating the Sun. A powerful Venus in the horoscope brings comfort, wealth, and attraction to opposite sex.
Venus rules over eyes, nose, chin, throat, sexual organs, kidneys, bladder etc. A badly placed Venus indicates dysfunction of these parts. Venus is inextricably linked to refinement, culture and grace. Venus is considered to be a benefic, feminine and gentle planet. The quality it features are romance, love for fine things in life, luxuries, wealth, food, costumes, jewellery, sensual pleasures, inclination towards arts, music, beauty and tasteful living. Venus is pleased to spread happiness and warmth, and loves teaching how to love and appreciate others and the things that we possess.
A well-placed strong Venus influences refined romantic and artistic temperament. It also provides luxuries and fortune in married life. A person ruled by Venus also undergoes study of secretive sciences. Physical pleasures and sensuality is an integral part of life for all Venusians. Venus stands for pleasure - love, romance, and harmony in our emotional attachments, marriages, friendships and other unions and association in our everyday life. Venus influences the personal appearance, the individual’s character or personality and the level of achievements of an individual in the social world.
Venus also influences the love life. Venus also rules over art and artistic sense and signifies liking towards music, arts, humorous literature, theater, and many more creative artwork. People practicing arts or any other creative work, either professionally or as an amateur, have a strong influence of Venus in their horoscopes. It also has a control over cinema and theater stars, films and photography, etc. If Venus is not so strongly placed in the chart of any individual, he/she suffers from lack of physical appeal, coarse behavior, and a tendency for failure in love or married life
As a preceptor of demons, Venus stands for the wife and beloved in the horoscope of a male. Venus offers good results if placed alone in the birth chart. The 2nd and the 7th houses are owned by Venus who gets exalted in the 12th house in a horoscope. Mercury and Ketu are the friends of Venus whereas Sun, Moon and Rahu act as a enemies.
Venus offers very good results if posited in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th and 12th houses but the 1st, 2nd and 9th houses are considered bad for Venus. Accordingly Venus provides very good results in the houses of Mercury, Saturn and Ketu whereas evil effects will follow if posited in the houses of the Sun.Rahu and Moon. When Rahu aspects Venus or Vice versa or when both are placed together in a house, the good results of Venus will be nullified and the native will get deprived of Money, wealth and family comforts altogether. The eyes of the native’s mother will become severely defective if moon and Venus are placed just opposite to each other.
Afflicted Venus causes troubles in the eyes, diseases of the ovaries, gout, anaemia and other complications due to over indulgence in amusement and sex, including gonorrhea and syphilis. An afflicted Venus may cause vehicular accidents, faithlessness in love and marriage and will deprive the native of the comforts of Vehicles, conveyance etc.