Examples: Barack Obama -- George H.W. Bush - 41 -- Author V. S. Naipaul
Deep apathy toward the karaka functions of Shukra: money and marriage. Resulting outcome is usually an inability to grow the marriage, expand the business partnership, or increase the bank account. Finances go flat. Reduced affection within the marriage. One may experience disrespect from others (the reflected image of internal apathy or disregard) regarding one's aesthetic or sensual tastes. Withdrawal from the world of sensual pleasures is to be expected.
Liminal understandings of the love-partner's tastes and confusion about the partnership contract are both good possibilities; one is both more sensitive to unspoken realities in the partnership and less inclined to make improvements in the contract.
Wealth acquisition is temporarily reduced, and interest in sensual experience is somewhat numbed. However one may feel deeply reflective on the peculiar role of pairing and partnering in human society, and aware of many subtle relationships (especially one's subtle but influential relationships with astral beings who do not have material form).
In Mithuna, Shukra's wealth-and-pleasure acquisition behaviors take on a variety of Budha-like communicative characteristics, and the native tends to have a persuasive style of engagement in human sensual-pleasure relationships. One enjoys the art of conversation, and tends to be quite talkative in human company. (The content of the talk is determined by bhava.)
During Ketu's transit across Mithuna rashi, the chatty, friendly style of relationship behavior and the use of information-provision as a major tool of wealth acquisition are both rather blunted by uncertainty and disregard for the value of human talk. One may become unusually quiet and detached in marriage communications. Less interest in the sensual pleasures of conversation and knowledge acquisition.
Gochara Ketu in Mithuna gives a much stronger effect for those in a Vimshottari bhukti of Shukra. Not an ideal time for marriage. Bank accounts go flat. Excellent period for extended monastic retreat. Benefit of perceptual calmness to those who disengage from the world of constant sensual experience.
