Venus in Capricorn (Shukra in Makara)

Venus in Capricorn is in a friend's sign. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, and Venus counts Saturn a friend.

The relationship runs both ways: Venus counts Saturn a friend, and Saturn counts Venus a friend. A mutual reading is the simpler case — the graha and its host agree about each other, so the placement does not change character depending on which of the two is stronger.

Capricorn is a chara earth sign governing the knees, and Venus is reckoned benefic, governing love, marriage, beauty, luxury. Whatever Venus signifies — marriage, the wife in a man's chart, vehicles, art, music, luxury, hotels, cosmetics — is what this rashi’s restlessness moves along.

The Dignity, Stated Precisely

• In Capricorn: in a friend's sign.
• Venus’s own signs: Taurus and Libra.
• Exalted in: Pisces, deepest at 27°.
• Debilitated in: Virgo.
• Moolatrikona: Libra 0°–15°.
• Capricorn’s lord: Saturn. Capricorn exalts Mars at 28° and debilitates Jupiter at 5°.

What Venus Aspects From Capricorn

Every graha casts a full aspect on the 7th house from itself, and Venus has no special drishti beyond it, so the 7th is the whole of its reach. Counting from Capricorn, that lands on:

• 7th from Capricorn → Cancer (Karka), ruled by Moon.

Cancer is not one of Venus’s own rashis, so the single aspect Venus throws from Capricorn lands on Moon’s territory. Whose territory it is decides how the aspect is received.

How Far Capricorn Is From Venus’s Own Ground

A graha is read partly by how far it has been displaced from the rashi it owns, and that distance is simple counting. Counting inclusively from Taurus and from Libra, Capricorn falls as follows:

• 9th from Taurus — a trine, the easiest of the distances.
• 4th from Libra — a square, both of them kendra houses.
• 11th from Pisces, the sign of its exaltation — a 3/11, the upachaya pairing.
• 5th from Virgo, the sign of its fall — a trine, the easiest of the distances.
• Opposite Capricorn stands Cancer, ruled by Moon — the rashi Venus faces from here, and therefore the one it aspects whatever else it does or does not aspect.

The Company Venus Keeps in Capricorn

Dignity runs in both directions, and the rashi has its own roster. Capricorn runs from 270°00′ to 300°00′ of sidereal longitude — the arc the Sun crosses about Jan 15 – Feb 12 — faces south, is classed female, and as an earth sign is of the Vaishya varna. Within those thirty degrees:

• Ruled by Saturn.
• Exalts Mars at 28° — not Venus, so the strongest single degree of Capricorn is not Venus’s.
• Debilitates Jupiter at 5°, a different graha from Venus.
• Holds no moolatrikona. Capricorn contains no graha’s moolatrikona stretch, so there is no privileged arc within it.

So Venus shares Capricorn with both an exaltation degree and a debilitation degree belonging to other grahas. A graha sitting close to either point is read against it, which is a reason the exact degree matters more in Capricorn than in a sign carrying neither. Capricorn’s own traits — ambitious, disciplined, patient, practical, reserved — are the register in which love, marriage, beauty, luxury gets expressed when Venus sits here.

The Nine Padas Venus Crosses in Capricorn

A rashi is thirty degrees and a pada is three degrees twenty minutes, so every sign holds exactly nine padas — never a round number of nakshatras. Capricorn holds 3 nakshatras in whole or in part: Uttara Ashadha (padas 2, 3, 4), Shravana and Dhanishta (padas 1, 2).

Venus rules Bharani, Purva Phalguni, Purva Ashadha, and none of them falls in Capricorn. So across all thirty degrees there is no stretch where Venus has nakshatra-level ownership to fall back on; the whole sign is read through Saturn, and through what Saturn makes of a guest it counts a friend. The nakshatra lords it does cross here are Sun, Moon, Mars.

When Venus Is Actually in Capricorn

This is the part of the page that is not in a textbook. Computed from the DE421 sidereal ephemeris, Venus occupies Capricorn for 3 stretches inside 2026 and 2027:

• 13 January 2026 to 6 February 2026 — 24 days, after which Venus moves on to Aquarius.
• 24 February 2027 to 21 March 2027 — 25 days, after which Venus moves on to Aquarius.
• 15 December 2027 to 31 December 2027. This stretch is still running when the computed window ends, so the exit falls after 2027 and no date for it is printed here.

Dates rather than clock times, because that is what a placement question needs. The ingress instants are computed and are printed on the monthly readings, where they matter for choosing a day.

Venus also combusts: within 10° of the Sun when direct, 8° when retrograde. A combust Venus in Capricorn is read as weakened whatever the dignity above says, which is the standard case where the textbook verdict and the actual sky disagree.

Reading Venus in Capricorn

Venus signifies marriage, the wife in a man's chart, vehicles, art, music, luxury, hotels, cosmetics. In Capricorn those significations are filtered through a chara earth sign ruled by Saturn, and the dignity above says how much support they get in the process. In a friend’s sign they are supported without being amplified — a quietly workable placement.

This is not a prediction, and it cannot be one: the house Capricorn occupies from the ascendant, which of the nine padas above holds the graha, and the running dasha all change the answer. Venus is reckoned benefic, and it gains in the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, 11th and 12th while it struggles in the 6th and 8th, and the 7th for a benefic carrying kendradhipati dosha — so Venus in Capricorn is a different placement in each of them. Under Kaal Purush Capricorn is the 10th bhava, so Venus in the 10th house is the same pairing read from the bhava side, with the Capricorn transit dated for each of the twelve ascendants.

For what Venus does when strong and when afflicted, its 20-year mahadasha, and the full remedy set, see the Venus (Shukra) page. The short form: Venus’s day is Friday, its gemstone is Diamond / White Sapphire, its mantra is Om Shukraya Namah, and its deities are Lakshmi, invoked through the Shri Suktam.

Venus in the Other Eleven Rashis

The Other Eight Grahas in Capricorn