CHAPTER 47
1. Venus in its own place gives the destruction of one’s wealth and wisdom; in the second strife with one’s wife; in the third it destroys honor, wealth, and brilliance; in the fourth it gives honor from one’s own relatives and expensive things;
2. in the fifth it causes injuries and wandering and destroys one’s wealth; in the sixth it produces intelligence, beauty, and honor; in the seventh sexual intercourse with women and food; in the eighth Venus causes distress from low people;
3. in the ninth it destroys cleanliness and sexual intercourse and gives wandering; in the tenth it destroys pleasure and profits from one’s actions; in the eleventh Venus produces women, silver, and food; and in the twelfth joy and beauty.
4. Venus in the place of the Sun gives little happiness and anguish; in the second it causes excessive expenditures; in the third (it produces) quarrels with one’s sons and wife and fear; and in the fourth goading and piercing by one’s enemies;
5. in the fifth it gives loss of wealth, wandering, and disease; in the sixth Venus destroys joy, happiness, and money; in the seventh it causes strife with one’s wife and breaking; in the eighth pleasure and good health;
6. in the ninth Venus causes the appearance of wounds and roaming; in the tenth the loss of one’s money; in the eleventh Venus gives the acquisition of gold; and in the twelfth cleanliness and food.
7. Venus in the place of Saturn gives strife, hunger, and quarrels; in the second diseases; in the third it causes the acquisition of cows, buffaloes, and money; in the fourth success with regard to friends and wealth;
8. in the fifth Venus causes the acquisition of position, wealth, and money; in the sixth the appearance of pride, fatigue, and illness; in the seventh diseases of the genitals; in the eighth the acquisition of position, glory, and happiness;
9. in the ninth Venus causes the acquisition of women and property; in the tenth the appearance of honour and happiness; in the eleventh the acquisition of women, extravagant things, and money; and in the twelfth pain.
10. Venus in the place of Jupiter takes away beauty, intellect, and exercise; in the second it causes destruction; in the third expenditure of one’s money and quarrels; in the fourth indigestion and an increase of phlegm;
11. in the fifth the acquisition of sons, status, and real estate; in the sixth it gives diseases and fear; in the seventh Venus produces knowledge; in the eighth position, women, and good health;
12. in the ninth it gives success with regard to speech and money; in the tenth honour and wealth from great men; in the eleventh it causes an increase in one’s treasure; and in the twelfth Venus gives the loss of one’s business and pleasure.
13. Venus in the place of Mars causes offenses and the death of one’s wife; in the second imprisonment; in the third many possessions, honor, and enjoyment; in the fourth it gives valor;
14. in the fifth it produces power, courage, and diligence; in the sixth (it gives) beauty and nobility; in the seventh Venus destroys one’s wife, one’s happiness, and one’s prosperity; in the eighth it causes decline and evil;
1.5. in the ninth Venus (gives) success in arguments and a good wife; in the tenth the loss of one’s accumulated possessions; in the eleventh the acquisition of lands, gold, and sons; and in the twelfth power.
16. Venus in the place of Mercury destroys one’s virility and beauty; in the second one’s wealth; in the third it destroys diseases and one’s foes; in the fourth it takes away honor and victory;
17. in the fifth (the native) is a leader in sons, clothes, position, and wealth; in the sixth it gives victory; in the seventh it destroys one’s business and power; in the eighth it obstructs one’s intelligence and strength;
18. in the ninth it causes worship from men who rise from their seats (to pay their respects), learning, and honor; in the tenth it destroys one’s vows; in the eleventh Venus gives lands, sons, and money; and in the twelfth it hinders one’s business.
19. Venus in the place of the Moon causes the acquisition of gold, women, silver, money, learning, sons, clothes, position, and quadrupeds; in the second the gaining of wealth and a wife;
20. in the third it produces cows, lands, garments, sons, honour, joy, position, women, and good health; in the fourth Venus gives wealth, a wife, sons, friends, good food, clothes, and perfume;
21. in the fifth it gives friends, the birth of sons, the appearance of good qualities, fame, and money; in the sixth Venus causes poverty, quarrels, diseases, hatred, and the loss of one’s honor;
22. in the seventh Venus gives debts, wandering, anxiety caused by women, and bad friends; in the eighth women, happiness, publicity, honor, joy, friends, learning, and clothes;
23. in the ninth Venus causes the acquisition of wealth from friends, elders (guru), and women, of righteousness (dharma), of knowledge, of glory, and of good qualities; in the tenth the loss of one’s money, the affection of one’s relatives, the profits of one’s actions, and one’s honour;
24. in the eleventh it produces women, beds, food, drink, ornaments, sexual intercourse, joy, houses, and money; and in the twelfth Venus gives food and happiness, and causes the loss of one’s clothes.
25. Venus in the ascendant produces an abundance of cows, friends, jewels, clothes, gold, women, edible foods, beds, precious stones, and pearls; in the second place it gives a wife, wealth, and grain;
26. in the third Venus gives the acquisition of gold and pearls, and causes the destruction of one’s enemies; in the fourth it gives cows, houses, ornaments, women, prosperity, and honor from one’s relatives and friends;
27. in the fifth from the ascendant it causes the acquisition and attainment of wealth, honor, a wife, business, and glory; in the sixth Venus produces many quarrels, wanderings, grief, toils, injuries, and pains;
28. in the seventh quarrels with one’s wife, diseases, and sorrows originating in the deceits of women; in the eighth Venus gives various foods, drinks, friends, sciences, and ornaments;
29. in the ninth Venus gives reverence, wealth, and honor from the lords isvara) ; in the tenth Venus produces little livelihood, the aversion of outstanding men, diseases, and illness;
30. in the eleventh Venus gives precious stones, jewels, pearls, women, ornaments, clothes, and food; and in the twelfth place from the ascendant it causes the loss of one’s wealth, wandering, and mental delusion.
In the Yavanajataka: the transits of Venus.
