Venus and the twelfth HouseTraditionally, the twelfth is vyaya sthan (house of loss). It is also one of the houses for assessment of marriage prospects. Most classical texts give bed pleasures as one of the significations of the twelfth house. Even moksha (salvation) is seen from this house. Venus placed here needs careful interpretation. According to the classic, Phaldeepika by Mantreshwar, Venus in the twelfth gives sexual enjoyment, wealth and splendor.Brihat Jatak of Varahmihira mentions that the person having Venus in the twelfth house would be rich. Kalyan Verma states the person will be indolent, happy, corpulent, fallen in moral sense, will eat cleansed food; will be skillful in providing sleeping comforts and attendants. He will be won over by woman. Almost all classical books and their commentators have said that Venus in the twelfth will make the person rich.With globalization affecting everyone the importance of the twelfth house, which represents a foreign country also has gone up manifold.The modern spending pattern (consumerism) should also see from the twelfth house. How you spend your money and how is your sex life logically should also be seen from the twelfth house. It has been observed that an afflicted twelfth house also could mean denial of conjugal happiness.