The Seventh House

The Seventh House

The 7th house mainly refers to marriage, wife or husband and marital happiness. Marriage is a landmark in life. It is an institution founded on love and affection. But it is also a most complicated structure made up of a whole series of heterogeneous subjective and objective factors.

Since we are concerned only with the psycho-astrological aspects of marriage, we shall exclude the objective factors of legal and social significance in our study. Marriage is not an institution for brute sense gratification. It is not a civil agreement that affects only the parties to it.

It is the basis of the family and its dissolution as well as formation is a matter of social interest. It is the mould out of which the future generation comes out.

In our own country, marriage has been considered a sacrament and comprehends the equality of the partner in respect of Dharma (right conduct), Artha (financial position), Kama (sex relations) and Moksha (final emancipation).

In analysing the Seventh Bhava, due consideration must be given to three important factors, viz., (a) the House, (b) the Lord, and (c) the Karaka, who in this case would be Venus.

There are the secondary considerations also, viz , the occupants of the 7th house and the planets associating with the 7th lord.

Results of Seventh House Lord in Different Houses

1. In the First House: -The native may marry someone he has known since childhood or one who has been brought up in the same house. The wife or husband of the native will be a stable and mature person. He will be intelligent and capable of weighing the pros and cons. Afflictions to the 7th lord may entail constant traveling. If the 7th lord and Venus are afflicted, the native may be sensual and seek clandestine relationship with the opposite sex.

2. In the Second House:—The native will get wealth from women or through marriage. If afflicted, one may earn money through despicable means as trading in flesh, women, not excluding his wife. He may eat food offered at death-ceremonies (shraddha) and wander about seeking such food.

If the second house is a dual sign and afflicted, more than one marriage is likely. If a maraka Dasa is on, the native may die during the period of the seventh lord. The person will have a wavering mind and will always be inclined sensually.

3. In the Third House: — This disposition gives lucky brothers who may live abroad. If afflicted the native may indulge in adultery with a brother’s or sister’s married partner. Affliction also gives misfortunes to co-borns. Female issues servive.

4. In the Fourth House:—Gives a lucky and happy married partner with many children and comforts. The native may have the benefit of high academic qualification and own many vehicles.

If afflicted, domestic harmony may be spoilt through an immature and mean partner. The native may run into endless problems on account of his conveyances. If severely afflicted by the nodes and other malefics, the native’s wife’s character becomes questionable.

5. In the Fifth House:— An early marriage, the partner may hail from an affluent and well-to-do family. The wife or husband will be mature and an advantage to the native. If the 7th lord is weak, there may be no children.

If severely afflicted, one may get issues through the adulterous conduct of the wife. If there are both afflictions and benefic influences on the 7th lord, the native may get only female progeny. Trouble to one’s office superiors through foreign sources is likely. The native will possess good character.

6. In the Sixth House:—The native may have two marriages with both partners living. One may marry a cousin such as an uncle’s daughter. If badly afflicted and the karaka Venus is also ill-disposed, one may suffer from impotency and many other diseases. The native’s wife may be sickly and jealous by nature denying the husband happiness from marriage. If Venus is well placed but the 7th lord is afflicted, the native may suffer from piles. If Venus is weak but not afflicted, one may desert or lose one’s married partner through some indiscreet act.

7. In the Seventh Hous:— If well placed, the native will have a charming and magnetic personality. Women will flock to him and seek him out for alliance. The wife or husband will be a just and honourable person coming from a family of reputation and social standing.

If weak and afflicted, it gives a lonely life devoid of marriage and friends, and loss through marriage negotiations.

8. In the Eighth House:— When well placed, marriage may take place with relatives or the partner may be a rich person. Affliction causes the early death of partner while the native may die in distant lands. It gives a sickly and ill-tempered wife or husband leading to estrangement and separation.

9. In the Ninth House :—If fortified, the father may live abroad while the native may make his fortune in foreign lands. He will get an accomplished wife who will enable him to lead a righteous life. If afflicted, the father may die early. Married partner may drag the native from the right course (Dharmic) of life and he may waste away his wealth and suffer penury.

10. In the Tenth House :—The native may flourish in a profession abroad or his career may involve constant travelling One will get a devoted and faithful wife or husband. The wife may also be employed and contribute to the native’s income. Or, she may help in the advancement of the native’s career.

If afflicted, wife will be avaricious and over-ambitious but without sufficient capacity. Consequently native’s career may suffer and deteriorate.

11. In the Eleventh House :—There may be more than one marriage or the native may associate with many women. If beneficially disposed, wife may hail from a rich background or bring in much wealth. If afflicted, the native may marry more than once, but one wife may outlive him.

12. In the Twelfth House:— There maybe more than one marriage in the native’s life. He may marry a second time clandestinely while the first wife is still alive. Or, if afflicted, he may marry a second time after losing the first wife by death or separation. But if the affliction is severe, the wife or husband may die or separate soon after marriage and there may be no second marriage. Death may occur while travelling or abroad.

If both karaka and the 7th lord are weak, the native may only dream of women but never marry. The native’s wife may hail from a servant’s family. He will be close-fisted and generally Door.

Important Combinations

We give below important combinations on the seventh house drawn from standard and authoritative works.

If the 7th Bhava reckoned from the Lagna or the Moon be occupied or aspected by the 9th lord, or sign-lord or other benefics, marriage will be happy and the wife, a loving and fortunate woman. The 2nd, 7th and 12th lords in ker.dras (quadrants) or trikonas (trines), aspected by Jupiter, can ensure a happy marriage and a fertile wife.

If benefics are placed in the 2nd, the 7th and the 11th houses from the 7th lord, the wife or husband will be able to derive all happiness with healthy and lucky children. If Mars and Saturn are in the 7th in Capricorn, the wife will be chaste, beautiful and lucky.

If the 7th lord and Venus are in even signs, if the 7th house is also an even sign and the 5th and 7th lords are not combust or otherwise weak, the person will have a gooi wife and children. If Jupiter occupies the 7th house, the native will be devoted to his wife.

If Venus be in exaltation or own vargas or has attained Gopura or Vaiseshikamsa, the wife will be good and beautiful. If the 7th house be a benefic sign or if Venus as 7th lord be aspected by a benefic planet, the wife or husband will be devoted and charming.

If there are malefics in the 4th, 8th and 12th houses from Venus, or Venus is hemmed in between malefics, the wife will die soon after marriage. If there are malefics in the 7th from Venus, the marriage will be unhappy. Venus in the 7th for Taurus Ascendant threatens death to wife.

If the 7th lord is in the 5th or the 5th lord is in the 7th. the native may not marry, as if he gets married, childless. When the 2nd and 7th houses in the case of men and the 7th and 8th houses in the case of women are occupied or aspected by malefics, the loss of wife or husband happens.

If the 5th or 8th lord is in the 7th, death of wife or husband occurs. Malefics in the 12th, 7th and Ascendant with the weak Moon in the 5th deny marriage or children. If the Moon and Venus are in opposition to Mars and Saturn, marriage is denied. The Moon and Saturn in the 7th in a woman’s chart indicates remarriage while in a man’s chart, they deny marriage or progeny.

Malefics in the 2nd, 7th and 8th from Lagna result in demise of married partner. The Sun and Rahu in the 7th cause loss of wealth through women. Mercury in the 7th in Taurus or Jupiter in the 7th in Capricorn or Saturn and Mars in the 7th in Pisces are injurious to the life of the married partner. Mercury and Ketu in Lagna give a sickly wife Saturn and Mercury in the 7th indicate a widow or widower for a life-partner.

If the Moon occupies the 7th house in a malefic sign or Navamsa, the wife will be wicked, mean and similar to a menial. If a strong Moon be in the 7th, the wife will be good. Ketu in the 7th gives a shrew for a wife while Rahu gives an outcaste woman.

If the 6th, 8th and 9th houses be conjoined with malefics and be also aspected by malefics, the wife of the native will indulge in adultery. If Saturn is in the 7th, or if the lord of the Navamsa occupied by the 7th lord be a malefic, or if the 7th lord or Venus be in a depression Rasi or Navamsa, the wife will be a wicked woman. If weak and afflicted Venus be in the 7th house, the wife may be barren or the husband may be impotent.

If Mars with a malefic occupies the 7th house, the native may suffer impotency caused by urinary problems. If Saturn and Venus occupy the 10th or 8th and receive no benefic aspects, the person will be impotent. If Saturn in a watery sign occupies the 6th and 12th houses and is devoid of benefic aspects, the native will be a eunuch.

If the 7th lord or Venus be conjoined with Rahu or Ketu and be aspected by a malefic, the native or his wife will be adulterous. If Venus occupies a Navamsa of Saturn or Mars and is aspected by Mars or Saturn respectively, the native’s character will be questionable. If Saturn or Mars aspect Venus in the 7th house, the native will indulge in adultery.

If Saturn, the Moon and Mars occupy the 7th house, both the native and his wife will be immoral. If the 2nd, 7th and the 10th lords occupy the 7th, the native will be a profligate. If the Moon or Venus moving towards depressions be in a kendra in a cruel shashtiamsa and be aspected by or conjoined with a malefic, the native may commit adultery with his own mother. The same result occurs if the luminaries conjoined in kendras be aspected by or associated with malefics. The 4th house very badly afflicted causes similar results. If Saturn in the 4th house be afflicted, the native will commit incest.

If the afflicted Moon or Venus be in the 9th house, the native will violate his teacher’s bed. The 9th lord and the Moon or Venus similarly afflicted give the same result. If Gulika with a malefic occupies the 7th house, or if the Sun be in the 7th house and Mars in the 4th, or if Mars be in the 4th with Rahu in the 7th, or if the 7th lord aspected by Venus occupy a sign of Mars, or if malefics occupy 3 of the kendras, the native’s sexual behaviour will be coarse and crude like an animal’s

If the 2nd and 7th lords occupy their depression signs and benefics are placed in kendras and trikonas, only one marriage is possible. If Jupiter and Mercury are in Navamsas owned by the Sun and Mars, only one marriage is indicated. If Mercury in the 7th house occupies a Navamsa of Jupiter, the native will marry only once.

If the 7th lord and Venus be each in a common sign or Navamsa, the person will marry at least twice. If Mercury or Saturn be in the 7th with two planets in the 11th, two wives are possible. If the 7th lord be Saturn and conjoined with a malefic, the person will have many wives.

Three or more malefics in the 7th, or Venus in depression, eclipsed or inimical sign with a malefic, or 8th lord in the 1st or the 7th, or the Lagna lord in the 6th, or a malefic in the 7th while the 7th lord with a benefic is in his inimical or depression sign, or the 2nd lord in the 6th and a malefic in the 7th give two wives or more.

If the 2nd, 1st and 6th lords be conjoined with malefics, in the 7th house, or if the strong 7th lord occupy a kendra or kona aspected by the 10th lord, or if the strong 7th and 11th lords conjoin or mutually aspect or occupy trines, the native will have many wives.

If the 1st or 7th lord be in depression or occupy an inimical sign or be eclipsed in Navamsa, the native will have another wife while the first is still living. If the 7th lord be weak and the 7th house be aspected or occupied by a malefic, or if malefics occupy the 7th and 8th houses and Mars is in the 12th house, or if the 2nd lord be weak while the 2nd house is occupied or aspected by a malefic, the native will have another wife during the lifetime of the first wife.

Planets in the 7th House

1. The Sun :—The native will be fair and have thining hair. He will have few friends and finds difficulty in getting along with people. Marriage is delayed and troubled. Fond of travelling, he will have loose morals. He likes foreign things. His wife’s character will be questionable and the native will run the risk of loss and disgrace through women. He will incur the displeasure of the Government and suffer humiliation. He will be deformed.

2. The Moon:—The native will be passionate and easily roused to jealousy. Mother may die while the native is young. Wife will be good-looking but the native will seek other women. Narrow-minded but sociable, he will be energetic and successful in life. He hails from a good family if the Moon is waxing and otherwise strong. He will suffer pain in the groins. He will be stingy. If the Moon is waning, he will always be quarrelling with his enemies.

3. Mars :—The native will be hen-pecked by his wife and submissive to women. Married life will have clashes and tensions or there may be two wives. The native will be rash and indulge in speculation. He will be intelligent, tactless, stubborn, peevish and unsuccessful.

4. Mercury :—A man of virtue and geniality, he will dress well and tastefully. He will have profound knowledge of law. He will be skilled in business and trade tactics. He will have writing ability and success through it early in life. Early marriage to a rich woman. Learned in mathematics, astrology and astronomy, he will be religious and of a devout temperament. Diplomatic but if afflicted, the native will be cunning and deceitful. He will have a good physique and looks.

5. Jupiter:—Diplomatic and kind-hearted the native gets a virtuous, good-looking and chaste wife. He will get good education and gains through marriage. He will be sensitive to others’ feelings. He has a speculative mind and is a good agriculturist. He undertakes pilgrimages to distant places and is superior to father in his qualities. The native will possess good sons.

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6. Venus: — Fond of quarrelling, sensuous and passionate, the native has unhealthy habits, and a happy marriage and devoted wife. He is fond of pleasure and drink, is suave and charming with winning manners. He has a magnetic personality. He has danger of loss of virility due to disease or excesses. He is successful in partnership with those of the opposite sex.

7. Saturn :—The native will be under the wife’s control. The wife will be ugly or hunch-backed. He will have more than one marriage or marriage with a widow, divorcee or one advanced in age. He will be diplomatic and enterprising. He has residence abroad, a stable marriage and political success.

He will get honour and distinction in foreign lands, suffers from colic pains and deafness.

8. Rahu :—The native brings ill-repute to family, if a female. He will be unconventional and heterodox. He will have affairs with outcaste women or foreigners. His wife suffers from womb disorders. He eats good and rich food, has luxurious habits and suffers from diabetes, ghosts and the supernatural.

9. Ketu :—The native has an unhappy marriage with a shrewish wife. He is passionate, sinful, lusts after widows. His wife is sickly. The native suffers from cancer in the abdomen or uterus, if a female. He will suffer humiliation and loss of virility.

These results are modified by the aspects and associations received by the planet in the 7th house.

Timing Marriage

There are several methods suggested for timing marriage in classical works. The lord of the sign occupied by the 7th lord or that of the sign occupied by the 7th lord in Navamsa are capable of giving marriage in their Dasas. Venus, the karaka or natural significator of the 7th house, and the Moon can also give marriage in their periods. The strongest of these lords gives marriage in his Dasa. The lord of the 7th house, if he associates with Venus, can also give marriage in his Dasa or Bhukti.

The 2nd lord or the ruler of the sign occupied by the 2nd lord in Navamsa is also capable of conferring marriage in his Dasa. The lords of the 9th and 10th houses are empowered to give marriage in their Dasas if the earlier Dasas are fruitless Marriage is also possible in the period of the planet with the 7th lord or the planet occupying the 7th house.

Another method is to add the longitude of the lords of the Lagna and 7th house. When Jupiter transits the resultant Rasi or its trines, it is favourable for marriage. The resultant obtained by adding the Moon’s longitude to that of the 7th lord or its trines when transited by Jupiter can also give marriage.

Although there are several planets enumerated as marriage causing planets in their periods, due consideration must be paid to delay caused by other factors. Saturn’s aspect on the 7th house and 7th lord both from Lagna and the Moon and on Venus delays marriage if the Dasa lord is not very strong.

The association or aspect of the lord of the 6th, 8th or 12th on the 7th house, 7th lord and karaka also rules out early marriage. Primary importance must be given to the natal positions and Dasas and only secondary consideration to transiting planets.

Loss of Married Partner

Loss of wife and more particularly of the husband is of serious consequence in our society besides the emotional void created by the death of either partner, many other factors of nearly equal significance demand importance. The economical aspect apart, other practical questions such as running the household and bringing up the children arise.

As such any horoscope should always be carefully scrutinised for loss of partner. We shall give below some important combinations pertaining to loss of married partner and afflictions to married life culled from authoritative sources.

If the 2nd as well as the 7th house are occupied by malefic planets, death of wife occurs. But if the person concerned marries a woman with similar planetary afflictions, the mutual afflictions get neutralised and the couple will be blessed with children and prosperity.

If the 5th or the 7th house from the Ascendant or the Moon is occupied or aspected by a malefic, the native may not marry or if he marries, his wife may not live. If the Sun occupies Virgo which happens to be the Ascendant and Saturn occupies the 7th house, wife will die. If the 7th house is occupied by Mars, the wife will die. If the 7th lord from the Ascendant as well as Venus be fortified and occupy the 7th house and if the 7th house be strong and not afflicted, by aspect or association, by malefic planets, the wife and husban will die at the same time.

If the 7th house has karmuka (an upagraha), either the native or his wife will die early. If the 2nd and the 7th lords be associated with Venus or malefic planets and be badly placed, there will be loss of one or more wives depending upon the number of planets with them in dusthana.

If Mars is in the 7th house in a Navamsa of Venus and if the 7th lord is in the 5th house, the native will lose his wife. If Venus and Mars conjoin in the 7th, the native will be bereft of wife.

If the 1st, 7th and 12th houses be occupied by malefics and the weak Moon occupies the 5th, the native will have no wife or marry a barren woman. If Mars occupy the 2nd, the 12th, the 4th, the 8th or the 7th house, the native will lose, by death, his married partner.

Chart No. 1 – The 7th House : The 7th house in Chart No. 1 is Pisces occupied by 5th and 6th lord Saturn. Saturn’s presence as a malefic is not good causing affliction.

The Seventh Lord: The lord of the 7th, Jupiter, is in the 4th house in the 10th kendra from the 7th house. He is aspected by karaka Venus and malefic Saturn. Jupiter occupies his moolatrikona sign Sagittarius both in Rasi and Navamsa. But in Navamsa he is afflicted by Rahu and exalted Saturn.

Kalatrakaraka : Venus as 2nd and 9th lord is beneficially disposed in a friendly sign in a quadrant. He is aspected by a benefic as well as 7th lord Jupiter and by Mars, a malefic being the 3rd and 8th lord. Venus is slightly blemished but quite fortified by Jupiter’s aspect.

Considered from the Moon: The 7th house is Taurus, a benefic sign, aspected by the Moon and Mars and occupied by Ketu. Mars, by himself, would not be a malefic but his association with the Moon and Rahu afflicts him. The 7th lord Venus is quite favourably disposed as analysed above.

Conclusion : The 7th house is quite strongly disposed but the malefic influences are not negligible. The strength of the 7th lord Jupiter gives a strong-willed husband while the Moon with Mars and Rahu makes the native self-willed. The afflictions result in temperamental clashes but the presence of Saturn in the 7th and Jupiter and Venus in mutual aspect result in a stable marriage with deep attachment between the couple. Saturn’s presence in the 7th house as the 6th lord causes delay in marriage.

The Dasas operating during the period of marriageable age and after are of Venus, the Sun, the Moon, Mars and Rahu. Recollecting the periods propitious for marriage,

(1) the lords of the Rasi and Navamsa occupied by the 7th lord,

(2) Venus, (3) the Moon,

(4) the lord of sign occupied by the 2nd lord,

(5) the 10th and (6) 9th lords and finally,

(7) the 7th lord or occupant of the 7th house can give marriage in respective order in their periods.

The following planets in Chart No. 1 would therefore be empowered to give marriage in their periods :—

1. The lords of the Rasi and Navamsa occupied by the 7th lord—Jupiter, Jupiter

2. Venus 3. The Moon

4. The lord of the sign occupied by 2nd lord Venus Mercury

5. The 10th lord—Mercury

6. The 9th lord—Venus

7. The 7th lord—Jupiter, the 7th occupant-Saturn, and the planet aspecting the 7th house—none.

The native’s Mercury Dasa ends in childhood. The next Dasa that can give marriage is of Venus. Jupiter Dasa and Saturn Dasa operate very late in life. The Moon’s period also comes rather late in life.

Saturn in the 7th, no doubt delays marriage but the strength of karaka Venus and 7th lord Jupiter cannot push it off too far. Venus would, therefore, be empowered to give marriage in his Dasa.

Of the sub-periods of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and the Moon, Venus would be ruled out as being too early. Jupiter is the strongest of the remaining four contestants both by aspect, position anb lordship.

Marriage occurred in Jupiter Bhukti, Venus Dasa.

Early or delayed marriage is determined according to the times. At one time in India, marriages were celebrated of boys and girls at the tender age of 5 or 6 years. Later, as times changed marriages were celebrated a little later, perhaps at 10 or 12 years.

In the 2000’s, marriage at 25 was considered delayed while today it would be quite in order. Interpretation of a chart must always be made keeping in mind the background, period and society to which the native belongs.

Chart No. 2 – The Seventh House : The 7th house Aquarius is occupied by Vargottama Ketu. It is aspected by 7th lord Saturn, benefic Jupiter and 4th and 9th lord, Yogakaraka, Mars. Saturn is 7th lord and his aspect on the 7th is a stabilising factor. Jupiter and Mars are functional benefics and their aspects fortify the 7th house. Ketu should give the results of sign dispositor Saturn or of Mars, both of whom are beneficially disposed. The 7th house has no afflictions.

The Seventh Lord: The 7th lord Saturn is placed in the 10th house in a benefic sign Taurus hemmed in between benefics, the Moon on one side and Jupiter and Venus on the other. The 7th lord is well placed.

Kalatrakaraka : Venus is in a friendly sign very close to benefic Jupiter and subject to a slight papakaratri yoga caused by Saturn and the Sun. But this malefic yoga is balanced by Jupiter’s presence and the fact the Sun and Saturn are but the Lagna and 7th lords respectively being, therefore, benefic to the Bhava and karaka concerned.

The 7th lord being free from afflictions and in a benefic sign gives a good-looking wife with respect for conventions indicated by Saturn. The 7th house having no afflictions gives a happy married life. Ketu, fortified in the 7th, is good but nevertheless gives some points of difference due to the wife’s sensitivity in some matters.

As for the period of marriage, it occurred in the Moon Dasa, Moon Bhukti.

(1) Venus and Mercury, (2) Venus, (3) the Moon, (4) the Moon, (5) Venus, (6) Mars, (7) Saturn, Ketu and Mars can give marriage in their periods. Ketu and Venus Dasas end early in life.

Mercury Dasa does not operate at all. Mars and Saturn come rather late. Saturn’s aspect on the 7th cannot delay marriage as he happens to be the 7th lord himself. Therefore, the Moon Dasa becomes effective. So also the Moon Bhukti.