Art & Beauty

Art & Beauty

Beauty

What placements would indicate beauty or handsomeness?

The beautiful planets are: Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and the Moon. This is in decreasing order, but they are all quite beautiful.

The ugly planets are: Mars, Saturn, Nodes, and Sun… Again in decresing order. The nodes are wildcard, with aspects from beeautiful planets they can really amplify beauty.

Armed with that information and knowing that the 1st house is the physical body and the 2nd house is the face. YOu can put 2 and 2 together and read charts to figure out beauty. When the 1st and second houses belong to beautiful planets, are aspected by and occupied by beautiful planets, and when their rulers are aspected by or conjoined with beautiful planets, the person is beautiful.

Singing

What placements in Astrology would indicate good singing ability or pleasant speaking voice?

- 2nd house

- 2nd sign (Taurus)

These represent the face/ mouth/ neck and therefore deal with the voice. By extension, the ruler of the 2nd house is an important factor. The ruler of the 2nd Sign too, is Venus:

- Venus (ruler of Taurus and planet of pleasant and good things)
- 2nd House lord

- Jupiter (the planet controlling the element of ether, which is the element in which sound vibrates)
- Mercury (the planet controlling mastery of language and speech)

… so when these factors are in auspicious situations – you know, in good houses, good dignity, nice benefic aspects coming to them… this promotes the quality of the voice and speech.

In order for there to be good singing, however, Mercury is less important (except for writing lyrics) and Jupiter more important…. But now you need significant combinations between houses 3, 5, 11 and 4. I wrote an article explaining why.

Dancing

What in a birth chart indicates the native can be an excellent dancer?

Classical answer is that the 11th and 3rd houses must be strong! Here is why: The third house controls dexterity (because it pertains to the arms, hands and fingers). Dancing requires excellent dexterity. The 11th house controls social pleasures, including theatre and performance. When the 3rd and 11th houses are strong the person has great dexterity which can be used to entertain others.

If Venus is also strong, good and prominent, and MERCURY (dexterity), this highly contributes.

[I have seen this produce accurate results. It works best (like all house based assesment) on sidereal zodiac with whole-sign houses.]

Mercury and Creativity

Shouldnt Mercury determine how imaginative or creative a person is?

 


Mercury is not about imagination or creativity but about the ability to understand and be understood. The Moon is full of the desires and emotions that generate creativity.

The 5th house is very important for creativity. The 3rd and 11th also.

- Vic DiCara

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Mercury & Beauty

Mercury & Beauty

A respectable Vedic Astrologer contacted me to disagree with my presentation of Mercury as an extremely beautiful planet. She said that it may be my opinion or my preference, but it is not classical Vedic Astrology. Here is my reply showing doubtlessly that classical Vedic Astrology strongly and surely connects Mercury to beauty.

Three Kingdoms Beauty

Mercury - Planet of the Asian Race

Brhat Parashara Hora may be of questionable authenticity, but I think it is pretty safe to call it a “classic.” There is a chapter in that book titled, “Nature and Forms of the Graha.” This chapter is actually the source material behind the “party” chapter in my book. Here is the description of Mercury:

वपुःश्रेष्ठः These are the first words of the sloka describing Mercury (the 23rd shloka of the chapter). Romanized, it reads: vapuh-shreShTha. The meaning of this is vapuh – the body, shreShTha – the very best. The meaning is that Mercury has the very finest physical form of any Graha. His/her body is the best of all the planets. His “form” is most “excellent” among the planets as some translations put it.

You search the shlokas in this chapter describing the nature and form of the rest of the planets and you will not find this complimentary terminology for any other planet, except – and this is really important – except Venus!

Venus’ description (the 28th shloka of the chapter) is: सुखी कान्तवपुःश्रेष्ठः – “sukhee, kaanta, vapuh shreShTha”. In Mercury’s description the term “vapuh shreshtha” (lovely body) was the very first thing Parashara said about him/her. In Venus’ description “lovely body” is the third thing said – indicating to some extent that the beautiful features are even more prominent and important to Mercury than to Venus. Primary to Venus is that she is sukhee & kaanta – that she brings happiness and love, then we are told that she has a beautiful body.

So, most certainly classical Vedic astrology promotes the idea that Mercury is a primary source of beauty. Both Mercury and Venus possess, and thus can grant, extraordinary beauty. Other planets do not have this distinction in the fundamental descriptions of classical Vedic texts.

- Vic DiCara

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Venus better for Women? Mars Better for Men?


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Question

 

Is Venus conjunct Asc better for women and Mars conjunct Asc better for men?

Answer

Venus in the first house, near the ascendant, or aspecting the ascendent or the first house will make people very sensually aware and refined. It can give talents with sensual expressions like arts. It can make them sensually attractive, “beautiful.”

Mars in the same configurations will make a person very adventurous, daring, exciting, independent and bold.

You could say it is “better” for women to be beautiful, etc. and for men to be bold and daring, etc. And in social settings which still have very traditional roots this might be very practically true. But personally I think it is an unnecessary value judgement.

PS – Ugliness / Beauty doesn’t come so much from the planets in the ascendant etc. but from the positive or negative CONDITIONS those planets are in. This might be something you need to study astrology pretty carefully for some time to really figure out how to read from a chart.

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Venus: Making the World a Better Place


Venus makes the tangible, empiric world better and more satisfying.

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Remember when you were standing on your island, looking at the shore of the world? Mercury built a bridge into that world – and off you went. What did you find?

You found two things:

- Objects

- Other people

These discoveries caused Mercury to evolve into Venus.

Objects / Senses

When you encountered objects, what did you do? You tried to understand them. You named them, categorized them, etc. This was great, but not completely fulfilling. You wanted to feel, smell, taste, hear and see the stuff in the world, not just intellectually understand it.

And so Venus emerged. She gave you a body, with senses to fully experience the objects in your world.

Other People / Cooperation

When you crossed the bridge and went into the world you found more than just objects, you also found other people. That’s a little bit dangerous, isn’t it? I mean, what if that other guy over there wants to feel, smell, taste, hear and see the same objects that you do? You are going to need to cooperate! This is another catalyst for the creation of Venus – who gives to human beings the ability to cooperate, form relationships, make marriages, be peaceful, and experience the joy of love – the ultimate goal of relationships in the first place.

A BODY WITH THE ENERGY TO ENJOY LIFE

The first duty of Venus is to let you fully enjoy your experience of life. To fulfill this duty, the first thing she does is give you a real, solid, physical body.

Have you stopped, ever, to ask yourself what a “body” is?

A body is a network of senses: Eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin – all put together in a package that is mobile with hands and feet. It is the machine through which you can tangibly interact with your world.

So, first of all, Venus gives you a body and senses. She grants to this body of senses a certain degree of what the japanese call 元気 (“Genki” – presence of energy), what we call “virility.” In other words Venus gives you a body and invests it with strength, health and power to function enjoyably.

MAKING OBJECTS MORE ENJOYABLE

Venus gives us senses and the energy that vitalizes them, and she also grants us the ability to improve the sense objects we can experience. For example she gives you an ear and the enthusiasm to listen to things – and then she also gives you the ability to create beautiful music.

That’s why lots of people associate Venus with “art.” Art is the talent of making beautiful and satisfying objects of perception. Venus controls all the arts: painting and the visual arts, music, cooking, making perfumes, and the erotic and sensual arts of touch.

Somethings are naturally desirable and beautiful. Flowers, for example. No one needs to make them beautiful – they just are. Venus creates flowers. From the cooling touch of marble or the soft touch of velvet, to the soothing sounds of streams and birdsong, to the fragrance and color of flowers, to the beauty of a lover’s enchanting eyes – Venus creates the natural beauty in all people and things.

So Venus creates things with inherent desirability, and she also creates in human beings the arts and talents to make things even more desirable than they naturally are.

MAKING RELATIONSHIPS MORE ENJOYABLE

When it comes right down to it, thinking that senses alone provide for a happy and satisfying life is an infantile attitude. People are much more important than things, and relationships are therefore much more important than sense objects.

Venus helps you realize this.

And just as Venus concerns herself with making the sense objects as enjoyable as they can be, she also concerns herself with making relationships as satisfying and fulfilling as possible. Here is how:

Cooperation

A relationship can’t go anyplace good without this fundamental quality. Without knowing how to cooperate, we simply can’t enjoy relationships. Venus grants us the ability to be cooperative.

Peace

We can’t really be cooperative unless we are peaceful. Peace is the opposite of war. War happens when you get what you want by force. Peace then, is what happens when you don’t give undue attention to what you want. The less you are concerned with fulfilling your own personal desires, the more peaceful you become. This holds true in politics as well. A nation with a passionate agenda that it values above any other nation’s will find itself constantly at war. Whereas the ability to subordinate the nations agenda to a broader international agenda promotes peaceful global relations.

When you are not driven by your own desires you become peaceful. A peaceful person can easily cooperate with others. Peace and cooperation both come from Venus, in her effort to make your world a better place to live in.

Love

Why would you want to subordinate your desires to someone else’s? You wouldn’t, unless you love that person. Love means valuing the needs of another person. Venus blesses the world with love, because this is the root from which peace sprouts, and from peace cooperative relationships can  form.

Marriage

The archetype of all cooperative relationships is marriage. Venus creates marriages and blesses them to be happy and fulfilling. Good marriages are impossible without being founded on love, because love causes an individual to be at peace with their own personal desires, which allows one to cooperate fully with their partner.

SUMMARY

Venus makes the tangible, empiric world better and more satisfying.

A horoscope with a very positive and influential Venus would create a person who is very loving, peaceful, cooperative and unselfish. They would have bright senses and appreciate the beauty and divinity in all the things in this world. They would create even more beauty by their very nature and their artistic talents.

- Vic DiCara

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