Venus has the status of apsara (goddess of beauty).
With respect to one's birth chart, one can perceive the favourable or unfavourable position of the Venus, based on the following "symptoms":
Benefic Effects: Good relations with spouse, mother, daughters (generally with the feminine gender); comforts, good life-style, glamour, profession connected to movies/television/fashion design/intellect/food & beverages/painting/dance/tailoring/hospitality, sudden gain in designation, white-collar job, sensual tastes; attraction to perfumes, music/instruments; feminine grace.
Malefic Effects: laziness, lack of discipline, addiction, insufficient recognition for work, dealing in fake currency/notes/gold gemstones, urine infection, impotency, low vision, leucorrhea, extra-marital affairs, uncontrollable sexual-emotions, waste of energy & money on bad habits.
It is difficult to judge or ascertain in which category a person exists. It is not usual that every benefic or malefic character would be effecting a person at the time. There can be mixed effects too. To reduce the malefic effects, the under stated remedies can be considered suitable: