Tradition links Venus with the spouse, the arts, music, beauty, comforts and the women of the home. Below are Venus-related options to choose from: the ₹0 ones first, then the rest; which one you take up is your choice.
Eating or sharing a simple grain or fruit linked with the planet, on its weekday.
On Friday, include rice, white beans (lobia) or rajma in a meal.
When: Friday
Do
On Friday, have milk, curd or a little kheer; offer mishri in worship.
When: Friday
Don't
The planet's weekday fast or Ekadashi, within your health; ask a doctor if unwell, pregnant or on medicines.
On Friday, eat one simple white meal (such as kheer or rice); remember Lakshmi or the Goddess. In North India the Friday Santoshi Mata vrat is also common, in which nothing sour is eaten.
When: Friday, starting on a Shukla-paksha Friday
Do
Don't
Everyday conduct tied to what the planet signifies: respect for elders, honesty, discipline.
For planets adverse in transit, Praśna Mārga lists this conduct: obey elders, listen to the Vedas and Puranas, keep the mind pure. Read or listen to a good text for a little while each day.
When: Daily
Among the house karakas, Phaladīpikā names Venus for the 7th house (spouse). So Venus's remedies focus on respect for the spouse (this form of conduct is tradition).
When: —
Listen carefully to your spouse, respect the women of the home, keep yourself and the home neat, and make a little time for music, painting or any art.
When: Daily, especially Friday
Don't
Clothes or flowers in the planet's colour on its weekday, and the direction linked with it.
For planets adverse in transit, Praśna Mārga prescribes clothes and flowers of the planet's colour; Venus's is white. On Friday wear clean white or light clothes, and keep white flowers in worship.
When: Friday
Do
Phaladīpikā gives the south-east as Venus's quarter. Place Venus on the south-east side in worship.
When: In worship
Feeding cows, dogs, birds or ants, serving elders and people in need; never harming any creature.
On Friday, feed a roti or green fodder to a cow, or at a gaushala.
When: Friday
Don't
Leave a little flour mixed with sugar under a tree, away from the house.
When: Friday
Watering or planting the tree linked with the planet (e.g. shami for Saturn, peepal for Jupiter).
BPHS names goolar as Venus's samidh in havan, so tradition treats it as Venus's tree. On Friday, water a goolar or plant one in an open space (watering and planting are tradition).
When: Friday
Do
Grow white-flowering plants such as jasmine, mogra or raat-rani at home and tend them on Friday.
When: Friday
Don't
The planet's name-mantra, beej mantra or a stotra, a few calm minutes a day.
After bathing in the morning, sit somewhere quiet and chant 'ॐ शुक्राय नमः' 108 times (one mala).
When: Friday morning, or daily
Do
A beej mantra from the tantric tradition; chant it 108 times on Friday.
When: Friday
Phaladīpikā names Lakshmi as Venus's presiding deity. On Friday, read or listen to the Shri Sukta, or a chapter of the Durga Saptashati (the choice of stotra is tradition).
When: Friday
Don't
Lighting a lamp on the planet's weekday or visiting a temple linked with it.
BPHS describes offering the planet flowers and cloth of its colour, sandal, a lamp and incense. On Friday evening, light a ghee lamp at your home shrine and place white flowers (the ghee lamp is tradition).
When: Friday evening
On Friday, visit a Lakshmi or Devi temple and offer white flowers; you may also visit Shukra at a Navagraha temple.
When: Friday
Don't
Simple, harmless totke from Lal Kitab (a separate tradition); nothing that harms rivers, animals or property.
On Friday, feed a cow a little jowar or green fodder.
When: Friday
Lal Kitab links Venus with cleanliness and fragrance; wear clean clothes and a light attar or sandal.
When: Daily, especially Friday
Don't
Lal Kitab links Venus with the spouse; speak to your spouse with respect and share the housework.
When: Daily
Giving a small item linked with the planet, within your means, to someone in need on its weekday.
BPHS (84.25) names a horse as Venus's gift, and Praśna Mārga names silver and a white horse. This is information; don't go beyond your means.
When: Friday
On Friday, give rice, milk or mishri to someone in need, or clean white cloth to a woman in need.
When: Friday
Don't
BPHS lists rice with ghee as Venus's offering when feeding Brahmins. Today's form (tradition): feed ghee rice to someone in need.
When: Friday
A bath with water steeped in the planet's herbs; skip it if your skin reacts.
For planets adverse in transit, Praśna Mārga mentions pouring the planet's medicated water over the body.
When: —
Add two or three crushed cardamoms, a few white flower petals and a few strands of saffron to a bucket of water and bathe. Lists differ between traditions.
When: Friday morning
Do
Don't
A plant root linked with the planet, worn in cloth or an amulet; traditions name different roots.
Tradition gives the sarpankha root (in some traditions, goolar root) for Venus: on Friday it is worn tied in white cloth or on a white thread on the arm.
When: Friday, Shukla paksha
Do
Don't
The rudraksha of the planet's mukhi (e.g. 7-mukhi for Saturn), with a genuineness check.
Tradition links the six-mukhi rudraksha with Venus. Wear it on a white or red thread at the neck or wrist.
When: Friday
Do
Don't
The planet's number yantra on copper or bhojpatra, for the prayer place; no claims of power.
Place a Shukra yantra on a copper plate or bhojpatra at your home shrine on Friday; remember it with white flowers and a lamp during worship.
When: Friday
Do
Don't
A pandit performs the planet's japa or havan with a sankalp in your name; agree the cost beforehand.
BPHS gives 16,000 as the japa count for Venus's Vedic mantra (opening: 'अन्नात्परिस्रुतो…'). A pandit takes the sankalpa, worships the planet and then does the japa; it is often spread over several days or pandits.
When: Begun on a Friday
BPHS prescribes goolar sticks for Venus's havan, with honey, ghee, curd or milk, in 108 or 28 offerings.
When: After the japa
Sankalpa, Ganesha puja, Venus puja (white cloth and flowers, rice), mantra japa and a small havan. Usually ₹251–₹2,100 (from a short puja to one with havan); the full 16,000 japa can cost more, so ask in writing first.
When: Friday
Don't
Only for the chart's functional benefic planets; the lower-cost uparatna first, then a certified ratna. No gem is necessary.
A ratna (and its uparatna) is suggested only for planets that are functional benefics for your lagna: the lords of the 1st, 5th and 9th, and the yogakaraka. Every ratna is shown with its lower-cost uparatna, and the ₹0 options always come first.
Always show the uparatna (lower cost) before the ratna. No gem is 'necessary'; ₹0 options always on top.
No gem for children under 12. No gem offer during pregnancy, illness or grief (W12 rule).
The lower-cost option first. Worn in silver or platinum, on the middle or little finger, on a Friday (uparatna, metal, finger and day: tradition).
When: Friday, Shukla paksha
Do
Praśna Mārga names 'vajra' (diamond) as Venus's gem, in the context of adverse transits; wearing the gem of a chart's benefic planet is today's tradition. Silver or platinum, middle or little finger, Friday (metal, finger and day: tradition).
When: Friday, Shukla paksha
Do
Don't
Lal Kitab is a popular, separate North Indian tradition; its remedies are shown here separately, under its own name.
Remedies are done with faith, regularity and patience; tradition sees them as a way to steady the mind and turn it to good deeds.
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