Part B · The Twelve Houses · House 7
The Seventh House
Saptam Bhava · the maraka of the ego
The 7th house is everything opposite to you: the spouse and the business partner you attract, the way the world judges you, and your private parts. It is also the killer of your individuality, because here you must step down from your ego to walk along with someone.
In one minute
- Partnership: marriage and business partnership, the spouse's nature, compatibility, and fraud or growth through partners.
- Perception: how the world sees you. The 7th house always judges you.
- The body: the private parts, physical intimacy and the health of the reproductive organs.
- Family: the mother's moral core (4th from the 4th) and the father's income and desires (11th from the 9th).
- The killer: the maraka of your individuality, and the house where we look for divorce, downfall and cheating.
Quick facts
- Natural sign
- Tula (7), Shukra's sign
- Opposite
- The lagna: you yourself
- From the 4th
- 4th: the mother's moral values and happiness
- From the 9th
- 11th: the father's income and desires
- From the 10th
- 10th: the source of your career
- Four pillars
- 7th house, Shukra, 7th lord, D9 lagna
- Key words
- saptam bhava, maraka, partnership, perception
What the 7th house shows
When we study the 7th house, many things become clear to us, because the 7th house is how people see you. It is also the house of relationships, and it is the house on which the most consultations will come to you. There are a great many permutations and combinations in it, so I have a lot to teach you here. Learn partnership and marriage properly: if you do not, then on what basis have you learnt the kundli? Here is everything we read from it.
- Partnership of every kind. This is the first and most important thing. The partnership can be a marriage, and it can be a business partnership. We see both from the 7th house: fraud or growth in relationships, in partnerships and in business, and how life will be once the partner comes.
- Whether marriage will happen. Some people ask, "Sir, will my marriage happen, or will I just remain like this?" To check this, we look at the 7th house: whether the marriage will happen at all, and whether it will happen smoothly.
- The spouse. The husband or the wife: what their nature will be like, and how he or she will talk.
- Marital compatibility. Whether you are actually compatible with your partner, and whether you are comfortable in sex with your partner.
- The business partner. Whether you should enter a business partnership at all, how your partners will behave with you, and whether you will face fraud or growth. How many times have we done a partnership and the person turned out to be a fraud? And how many times did both people grow a lot in business? Both are seen here. In some charts partnership is simply not good, so it is very necessary to know whether you can do partnership or not.
- How the world sees you. How does the sansar (world) see you? Your perception, your general image in society, the way people judge you.
- The private parts. The genitals: physical intimacy, and whether your reproductive organs are healthy.
- The mother's inner core. Your mother's moral values, her emotional body, how morally correct she is, and her emotional happiness. The 7th is the 4th house from the 4th.
- The father's income and desires. Your father's wealth, and his fulfilled or unfulfilled desires. The 7th is the 11th house from the 9th.
- The opposite of your personality. The 7th stands opposite your vyaktitva (personality). It is what you want to become, and whom you attract.
- The killer of your personality. It kills your aloneness, your pride and your ego. Here you lose your individuality and become ready to go along with someone.
- Divorce, downfall and cheating. The three inauspicious (amangal) things we must examine in the 7th house whenever we match kundlis.
"Please don't judge me." But the 7th house always judges you.
The house opposite to you
The 7th house represents exactly the opposite of who you are. The lagna is what you are; the 7th house is what you want to become. It is whom you attract, how you deal with others, how you make partnerships, and how people perceive you.
Let me show you. Suppose the number 9 is written in your lagna. Then the number 3 sits in your 7th. Number 9 represents a mute sign, and number 3 a sign of constant chatter. So the 7th house always stays opposite to your personality. The one who attracts you in the 7th house is always a person whose personality is the opposite of yours.
How people perceive you is also your 7th house. If someone has the Sun in the 7th house, people will perceive him as egoistic. If Venus is in the 7th, people will see a beautiful person with many Venus qualities. If Rahu is in the 7th, they will perceive him as a cheater.
Whoever is perceiving you, that is from the 7th house. Whatever graha sits there will judge you.
The father's money and your marriage
Remember this point carefully. If your father earns money through bribes (ghoos), the chances of cheating in your 7th house increase. If he earns by fraud, problems come in his child's chart, in the child's marriage. The marriage gets spoilt.
This is tough to digest, so let me say it plainly. If your papa has earned money in a wrong way, where is it reflected? On your marriage. Not on your child's marriage: on your own marriage, because you are his child.
If there is a flaw (khot) in the father's income, you will face trouble in marriage.
It is not only the father's income. From the 7th you also see the father's desires, the wishes he fulfilled and the ones he could not. And because the 7th is the 4th from the 4th, you see the mother's moral values, her inner core and her happiness. So when you read the grahas in the 7th, read them for the father and the mother too. I have done that for the grahas below.
The killer of individuality
The 7th house has been called maraka, the killer. It kills your aloneness, your personality, and the pride (guroor) you carry. It kills your ego. Here we lose our individuality and become ready to go along with someone.
Here we receive corrections. Here you start going about a little dressed up (saj-sanwar ke), for someone else.
The 7th house requires compromise, balance and stepping down from your ego. It demands that you lose your pure individuality to move along with someone else. So ask: which graha can compromise here?
Will Mangala compromise in the 7th house? Never. "You will have to go according to me." He makes it a pact. Will the Sun compromise in the 7th house? Never. The Sun and Mars want only themselves in everything. These grahas are not good in the 7th house, because they cannot compromise.
Then there is Mercury. Mercury's way is logic: he will pinpoint everything. If the person in front of him can give a good answer, Mercury is happy. Mercury in the 7th house wants someone with whom he can play and frolic, someone he can talk with.
Divorce, downfall and cheating
Within the 7th house come three things we have to look at whenever we do kundli matching.
- Divorce. The marriage breaks.
- Downfall. You married, and after that everything shut down. Everything collapsed (bhatta baith gaya).
- Cheating. One partner deceives the other.
These are the yogas of divorce, downfall and cheating. The grahas below will show you where each one comes from. How a marriage actually ends, through the dashas, I teach with the 8th house. Take two lines from there for now: with the 7th house, when the antardasha of the 2nd house comes, the partner changes and relationships end; and when the 8th-house dasha of the Navamsa runs, the marriage ends in divorce, finishes, or transforms.
And practise on many charts. Pick up five charts, ten charts, and you will see that the divorces you predict are not happening everywhere. That is how you understand how the dynamics are actually set.
The four pillars of reading marriage
Before you look at any graha, learn how we see marriage. For marriage we look at four things.
| Pillar | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| The 7th house | Whether marriage is promised in the chart at all |
| Shukra (Venus) | The quality and flavour of the marriage: love, luxury, happiness |
| The 7th lord | What happens after the marriage |
| The D9 (Navamsa) lagna | The overall picture, and whether fortune rises after marriage |
First, the 7th house: whether marriage will happen. The house itself decides whether marriage is promised. Suppose you predict that someone's marriage will come six months from today, and his chart does not even have a yoga for marriage. Where would you have caught that? In the 7th house.
Second, Shukra: the quality of the marriage. Will you get happiness or not? Will the one you are marrying love you or not? That is the flavour of the marriage, and we see it from Shukra. If Shukra is good, the flavour is good and the quality is good. If Shukra is bad, then love, luxury and happiness: none of these will remain.
Third, the lord of the 7th house: what happens after marriage. The marriage has happened; now what? After marriage there may be losses, or gains. Your career may be made. You may become happy. You may get a promotion. Your house may change. You may start living separately from the family, or go abroad. Or the marriage happens and then breaks. Whether the marriage will actually last, all of this we see from the 7th lord.
Fourth, the lagna of the Navamsa, the D9: the rise of fortune. Will there be bhagyodaya (the rise of fortune) after marriage or not? The lagna of the Navamsa tells you the overall picture: the overall luck, and the overall quality of the marriage.
The 7th lord: where the partner comes from, where the marriage delivers
You met the delivery idea in the first-house chapter. Every lord is a delivery boy. The house he owns is the cloud kitchen, where the food is cooked; the house where he sits is the address it is delivered to. The 7th lord cooks in the 7th house, so wherever he goes, he carries the relationship's energy there. From there he brings resources, and there he searches.
This is exactly what they teach on YouTube: "Where will you find your life partner?" Wherever the 7th lord goes, from there you get the partner.
| 7th lord in | What it shows |
|---|---|
| 1st (lagna) | Relationship and partnership ride your mind. The partner tells you how to dress |
| 6th | The spouse's energy goes to the workplace |
| 8th | After marriage the package leaves for the 8th: the in-laws become heavy |
| 9th | The girl was found at a temple, or papa searched and brought her, or the guru introduced them |
| 10th | The spouse's energy goes to the workplace. A fight with the wife, and the profession starts going bad |
| 11th | The wife gives her energy to her circle of close friends. Consider an extramarital affair |
| 12th | After marriage, the relationship's resources go into 12th-house matters |
| Karka (in any house) | 50 to 60 percent of the Moon-in-the-7th traits will match |
The 7th lord in the lagna. You will always talk about relationship, partnership and the spouse. People say: "Whose ghost rides his mind? Relationship, partnership! 'Come, let's partner with him, it will work; alone it won't.'" And the partner comes and tells you: "Wear this. You don't look good like this. Why do you always wear black? Wear some pink, something colourful." A Mercury-type 7th lord says: "Why do you wear clothes like a child? Be stylish. You are a man, and you go out in red, yellow and green like a child." Mars will not say that. Mars says: "Get ready like an office commander and go."
Before marriage and after marriage. Learn two concepts together here. Before marriage, ask: where will the partner come from? See whose lord has come into the 7th. After marriage, ask: where does the marriage give its result? See where the 7th lord has gone. So the 7th lord in the 8th means: the marriage happened, and the package left and went to the 8th. As soon as the marriage happens, the in-laws become heavy. And the 12th lord in the 7th means the partner comes from a foreign place.
The lagna lord in the 7th. Wherever the lagna lord goes, there the person puts most of his energy. In the 7th, he depends on the partner: "You do this, bring me this, I will do this for you. You are everything. If you are there, everything is there. My life is from your life." And: "If I don't make money for the partner, what use is the partner?" This person will work hard for anyone who comes to him, because the lagna lord has gone to the 7th.
When one graha owns the 7th and sits on the lagna. For a Karka ascendant, Shani owns the 7th and the 8th. If Shani sits in the lagna, will the native find the partner himself? No. The lagna is the throne, and here the throne is controlled by the partner: full control of the partner.
The 7th, your career and your home
The 7th is the 4th from the 4th, and it is also the 10th from the 10th. So it feeds both your peace at home and your career.
When the 7th lord sits in the 10th, the source is the 7th and the delivery goes to the 10th. If there is a power cut in the 7th, a relationship problem, no sex between husband and wife, a bad sexual life, then the career and the workplace go bad. The source, the power station, has been damaged.
When the 10th lord sits in the 7th, it runs the other way. The wife says: "He never listens to me. He always listens to my mother-in-law, or to his boss." Because of the boss there is a problem in the married life. The career goes bad first, and then the married life goes bad. Learn the difference between the source and the sink.
Houses counted from the 7th
Rotate the axis and the 7th house gives you the spouse's whole life.
- The 10th is the mother-in-law, because it is the 4th from the 7th. When malefics sit in the 10th, the mother-in-law becomes heavy and handling her becomes a problem. Always suggest that the wife live separately from the mother-in-law. Then she will be happy, and the mother-in-law will be happy too. Otherwise the mother-in-law will always dominate, and she will come out beaten.
- The 11th is the partner's romance, because it is the 5th from the 7th. So whenever someone's 11th house becomes very active, an affair often starts somewhere: the spouse's, the father's or the mother's.
The rashi in the 7th
Remember what the number in a house means. If 8 is written in a house, it represents Vrishchika rashi, not the 8th house. If 5 is written there, it is Simha; if 6, it is Kanya. The number always represents the rashi.
Which rashi sits in your 7th house, and what it does there, you will truly understand when I teach the rashis. For now, take two things. First, the 7th always holds the rashi opposite your lagna, so whom you attract is the opposite of you. Second, the Moon's results in the 7th do not come only from the Moon. Whether Karka is in the 7th house, or the Moon is in the 7th house, or the 7th lord goes into Karka, we will see the same things; with the 7th lord in Karka, 50 to 60 percent of them will match.
The grahas in the 7th house
The grahas placed in the 7th house dictate the trajectory of your marriage and how you handle partnerships. The work of the 7th house is to create balance: balance, and no ego. So watch what each graha does to that balance.
I read every graha through the same list, the one I put on the slide: the spouse and the marriage, the business partner, how the world perceives you, the private parts, the father's income and desires, the mother's emotional body, the killer of your personality, and the possibility of marriage. Keep applying a graha's significations one by one, and you will find all of them in the person's 7th house.
Will all of these results be there in every chart? Not all of them. But the graha does give its problems there.
A student asked: "What about retrograde grahas?"
Retrograde grahas are a separate topic, and I will teach them separately. For now, know that a retrograde graha behaves in the same way. It only increases the intensity: four times, eight times, sixteen times.
Rahu
The obsession, the little poison, and the grey area
Rahu is extremely focused, and in the 7th he has come into relationships. Rahu does "I": "What will I get? What will I get? What will I get?" And Rahu never follows rules and regulations.
Spouse and marriage
- An intense obsession about the partner, or with one specific person.
- He feels that a relationship means you have to eat a little poison. "If the partner is not poisonous, if he does not bite a little, then how is he a partner?" Rahu is the karaka of the snake, so in a partnership a little poison comes free, and it has to be taken.
- So he likes toxic people, slightly toxic partners. Normal people he likes less.
- He wants someone he can stay crazy and obsessive about, someone he roams after saying, "Please, please, please accept me. Accept my friend request. Accept me as your partner."
- Because Ketu sits on the lagna, these people sell themselves into the partner's hands, even their own body. In the past life also they created a problem regarding the body, and in this life too it will give problems. So keep caution here: you must not sell your body.
- "What did I get in the relationship? What did I get by living with you?" Rahu is the karaka of taking, and it is very stubborn. So he has to learn to give a little. Receiving from the world is very important, but even a beggar receives. When you come into a partnership, become a giver. Do not do too much "mine, mine".
- He always bargains: "All right, I will give you this. What will you do? Will you give anything at all?"
Business partner
- Fraud in partnership. Either you cheat, or you are cheated; either you give deception or you receive it. One of the two will surely happen whenever Rahu is in the 7th. Apply it and see.
How the world perceives you
- In a black or grey area: neither too good nor too bad.
- Allegations (aarop) will always be put on him, because Rahu never follows rules and regulations.
- People see him as a cheater.
- Whoever connects with him sticks to him like a magnet and will not want to leave him.
Private parts
- An obsession with the private parts: touching them regularly, as a habit.
- An obsession with underwear: "unique" underwear, with patterns, in silk. It looks a bit strange. What kind of night suit, what kind of undergarments: he will be crazy about all of it.
- Whenever Rahu is in the 7th house, read it as a Venus-Rahu combination. He is very obsessive about physical touch.
- Alcohol plus sex. You will see this combination regularly.
- Rahu is darkness, very loud music and smoke. So during intercourse you will find darkness, loud music and smoke. He likes dark, loud environments. What a dark, loud environment means, I will not explain; watch the film Fifty Shades of Grey and you will understand. There he will try everything he wants.
The father's income and desires
- Up-down, up-down, up-down. Sometimes a lot of money is coming, sometimes none at all. A regular struggle with money; the income never stabilises.
- The money you get at home, or from the father, will be a bit troublesome, because wherever Rahu is, things are not clear. The source of that money is a little unnis-bees (nineteen-twenty: not quite clean). And that shows in your marriage.
The mother's emotional body
- The mother's work is to bring big, big things into the home: utensils, a fridge she gets ordered, clothes. She buys a lot. That is Rahu's effect.
- She has many manorath (cherished wishes) and many unfulfilled desires.
- She is obsessive about you: "You are only mine."
Killer of your personality
- If the wife or the partner leaves, it gives a great deal of pain, because Rahu cannot let go of things.
Possibility of marriage
- An obsession for marriage: "When will my marriage happen?"
- A madness: "I have to marry only this one. I have already sold myself to this one. I simply cannot marry anyone else."
Surya
No clothes in the 7th: ego, insult and the bowed head
A very difficult placement. In the 7th house the Sun has no clothes. So he always feels: "My honour is being taken away." The Sun ultimately has to control his own heat here, so he has to destroy his own ego. That is why the Sun should be controlled.
Spouse and marriage
- Heavy ego clashes, and a desire to dominate the partner.
- Insult by the partner, again and again.
- He has a bad ego here, not a good one. With a good ego you do not see yourself through the other person's eyes. These people start getting offended: whenever the partner says or expresses something, they take offence.
- Slowly they separate, and start sleeping in different bedrooms. Husband and wife sleep separately: that is ego, the Sun.
- The distance can also be geographical: you live in Bihar and your partner lives in Dubai.
- Separation, if the Sun is very malefic.
- It is very difficult for him to trust the partner.
- Illegal relations, many times.
- Multiple marriages, many times. In all the kings of the Suryavansh, the solar dynasty, I have noticed multiple marriages in the Puranas. We come from lineages, and this is the quality of that lineage.
- The Sun has to learn to ask: "What will I give?"
Business partner
- Absolutely terrible for business partnerships: too much "I" and "my share". "If we put in this much money, my share is this much; if you put in that much, your share is that much." There is a great deal of conflict over ownership.
- Ego issues with the partner. He always tries to make others accept his own point.
- You have to stay suppressed (dab ke rehna), and it gives loss and conflict.
- The people in his office and his business partners will insult him. He stays busy trying to please others.
- And yet he will always want to work in partnership only.
- Even when the Sun transits the 7th house, it gives these issues.
- So never do business partnership if the Sun is in the 7th, and never do one with a person whose Sun is in the 7th.
How the world perceives you
- Henpecked: joru ka gulam (the wife's slave). The Sun eventually loses his ego in the 7th to keep the peace, so he compromises. Mummy says: "Ever since you got married, you have become your wife's slave."
- He has to bow his head (natmastak): "Beloved, I give away the pride of my weapons."
- Others also perceive him as egoistic.
Private parts
- Problems of sexual timing. The 7th is a cold place: the private parts are cooler than the rest of the body. The Sun raises that temperature, so problems come in the bedroom life. Not in every case, because Venus is also the karaka here, but the Sun does impact it.
- Heat-related problems: he feels very hot there, scars form, sometimes eruptions come out. Skin-related issues.
- A low, slow sperm count, even when the Sun sits with Shukra.
- In many cases, premature ejaculation (shighrapatan).
The father's income and desires
- The Sun is sattvik (pure) in nature here. There is no trouble.
The mother's emotional body
- The mother is commanding at home. Very heavy. She keeps everyone in the house in line.
Killer of your personality
- You will have to live bowed down.
Possibility of marriage
- Good. But the chances of divorce remain. That is why the Sun's placement in the 12th and in the 7th has not been called good.
Ketu
Eager to marry, bored at once
When Ketu sits in the 7th house, the house opposite your personality, it brings confusion into relationships and a problem with touch. Wherever Ketu is, you should kill all your hopes and all your desires there. Then the person stays happy.
Spouse and marriage
- Deep confusion in relationships.
- The sooner they marry, the sooner they get bored. They are very eager to get married, they marry in great haste, and then they feel they have made a mistake. After the wedding he does not like the peda (the sweet); he does not like the shaadi ka laddu, the sweet of marriage. "I was a little hasty. I should not have done it so quickly. I deserve better."
- Dissatisfaction always remains in the marriage.
- To be happy he must expect nothing from the partner and live like a fakir, a detached monk in the relationship. A fakir is also called a beggar; seen in good terms, he is mukt (free), the one for whom the thing makes no difference at all. He must stay detached here; otherwise his humiliation is certain.
- He needs a supportive and spiritual partner, a travel-loving partner.
- It can also give physical abuse. If you are not interested in the sex life within the partnership, it gives physical abuse as well.
Business partner
- Separation in partnership.
- It can work only when you have no expectations from your partner. Keep no expectation at all, and things will be fine.
How the world perceives you
- Anxious, confused, directionless, not logical, and sanki (cranky, eccentric).
- People will say: "Do you know how much anxiety he has? What confusion! What kind of brain does he have? He is a first-class crank (sanki ek number ka)." "Why is he in such a fluster (hadbadahat)?"
- In short, people will not be able to judge you.
Private parts
- He is highly sensitive to physical touch: nobody should touch his body. Ketu is very sensitive.
- Wherever Ketu sits, it makes that part of the body small. It creates problems there, and over time it creates gaps there or makes it functionless.
- Physical blockages and numbness.
- The problem of hardness in the private parts: erectile dysfunction.
- Problems with the length of the private parts, especially in males.
- Later it gives sugar: insulin resistance and blood-sugar trouble. So please be careful.
- That is why regular exercise should be done here.
The father's income and desires
- The income comes in stops and starts: it comes, stops, comes again. "Papa's salary came and went straight into the EMI." It comes with delays and goes into debts and EMIs.
- The father's desires stay unfulfilled.
The mother's emotional body
- The mother is a giver. Charity (daan-punya) keeps happening through her.
- She always has a problem with dirt, and she is always ready to throw things out of the house: whatever is of no use, out it goes. Never let garbage collect at home.
- She is minimalistic, keeping the fewest possible things at home. This is Ketu working in the 4th from the 4th.
Killer of your personality
- Isolation. When you forget yourself, there will be a lot of trouble.
- To lose your individuality and go along with someone, you need a supportive and spiritual partner with whom you can travel regularly. Ketu in the 7th gives a lot of travel: Rishikesh, the mountains.
Possibility of marriage
- Good. It is not that marriage will not happen with Ketu in the 7th.
- If it is not happening, it is just not happening; then suddenly (phatak se, jhatke se) it happens.
- Ketu never accepts the qualities of Venus. So, just as with Ketu in the 9th, this person will not believe in marriage; he will believe in sadhana (spiritual practice).
Shani
Intimacy as a nine-to-five job
Shani is gender neutral, very hard-working, and very good for money. But Shani creates pressure, and his work is to create fear in you. Being a malefic, he puts that problem into the relationship.
Spouse and marriage
- The partner is extremely hard-working, but can be slow and lazy. You will see these characteristics.
- He treats marriage and physical intimacy like a nine-to-five job, a stressful duty, not an enjoyment. What people generally do in the 7th house for enjoyment, he does like a job, under pressure: "What am I doing? I am doing a job. I have to make my partner happy." This is the biggest problem. If this is understood, things get better.
- Anxiety in the bedroom, and an inferiority complex: "Am I good in bed? I am not good in my sexual life." Shani gives him this fear again and again.
- So physical intimacy feels very stressful. He says: "With my partner I am not comfortable. I go somewhere outside and do it."
- The wife will always create a lot of pressure on him. Understand it like this: you have married Yamaraj.
- Shani, wherever he sits, does not want to change. And Shani in the 7th suspects a great deal: if the partner so much as looks at someone else, the suspicion starts. Add Ketu to it and he becomes completely sanki.
- Wherever Shani sits, either you abuse or you get abused. In the 7th the trouble with the partner comes from abusive language (gaali-galauj). Do not consider your wife your servant. Your wife is your wife.
Business partner
- The partner treats you like an employee. He gives you orders (hukum chala raha hai) and wants all the work, all the heavy lifting, done by you alone.
- And he makes it look as if you do nothing at all. It dulls your image.
- The wife treats him the same way, like Shani: she gives him two meals a day, and that is all, and she is happy.
How the world perceives you
- Very ideal and very hard-working. People feel you are extremely hard-working.
Private parts
- In males, first it creates sensitivity. Second, it creates erectile dysfunction.
- Performance anxiety, from the mental pressure.
- So look after your fitness: go to the gym regularly. If you do not, you will have trouble in the private parts.
The father's income and desires
- A stable income, but it stabilises late in life.
- Whatever of papa's wishes get fulfilled, get fulfilled in old age, or after a delay.
- With the father, I have seen an addiction to alcohol many times: to wine, to that drink which tastes very bitter.
Killer of your personality
- Throw inferiority out of the door, and take decisions. Shani delays a great deal, so take your decisions boldly.
- Losing your individuality and going along with someone is no problem here. It is good.
Possibility of marriage
- A delay in marriage. How much delay depends on the dasha, but Shani certainly gives delay.
Chandra
The remote control in the partner's hand
The Moon in the 7th is entirely like a film. It is the most interesting of all. It gives mood swings and raag-dvesh (attachment and aversion): a lot of fighting and a lot of love. And what you like, you do not get.
Spouse and marriage
- A very beautiful, attractive partner. A very beautiful wife.
- Massive mood swings, regular fights and intense love: sometimes very attractive, sometimes the very opposite. Off and on, off and on. I have seen this exact problem in an officer's chart.
- The heart keeps changing. First it fell for someone, then for someone else, then for someone else again. So the partners keep changing, and that is why one should settle on someone (tik jana). Chandra himself had many wives, the twenty-seven nakshatras, so the Moon in the house of relationship can give many partners.
- The changing heart leads to dissatisfaction: "I didn't get what I actually wanted."
- The partner holds the remote control of the person's emotions. The wife is always controlling his emotional body.
- They love eating from the spouse's own hands, or feeding the spouse: "Someone should feed me." I have noticed this pattern.
- The spouse falls ill quickly and keeps getting ill. It makes the spouse lazy and moody.
- Klesh (strife) for three days every month.
- Trauma in marriage in the long term. And it is here that one also receives a curse (shraap), so one should live carefully in the 7th house.
Business partner
- A Moon business partner can never be trusted. The Moon is a little sanki (whimsical): if it likes something, it likes it.
- Deception comes here: going back on one's word (mukar jana), not honouring agreements (samjhauta) and rules.
- Working manmauji, as the mood takes you.
- Here you have to use emotional intelligence.
How the world perceives you
- An emotional fool, 110 percent. Moody, always crying.
- And very beautiful. You are attractive, because that is what sits in the 7th house, and people will certainly like you.
Private parts
- Premature ejaculation. I have seen this problem here.
- Childhood trauma: inappropriate touch early in life. If there are malefics here, I have seen cases of child abuse, where some relative gives a bad touch in childhood. You will have to look for this. That is why you should be very careful whenever the Moon goes into the 7th house.
- Narcissistic traits. All of you, add this: the Moon in the 7th house gives narcissistic traits. It comes whenever the Moon and Venus meet: the 7th is naturally Venus's house, and when the Moon sits in it, the person always wants to be treated like a maharaja or a maharani. So be very careful how much air you give that trait.
The father's income and desires
- The father will have left his education midway.
- Seasonal work, like a barsati nala (a monsoon stream): money came once, and then no money is coming.
The mother's emotional body
- Everybody knows the mother, whatever happens. She is very famous and well known in her circle.
Killer of your personality
- He hands his remote to the partner. If the Moon joins a malefic here, the remote literally stays in the partner's hand, and the partner can make him dance to his tune (naach nachana). He can do the same to the partner.
- This is very risky. Many times I have seen people taking poison here. If it becomes very malefic, the situation of taking poison arises; if it comes very strongly, it gives a suicidal tendency. So one should live very carefully.
- In losing his individuality, it is madness. He will jump into fire for that person.
Possibility of marriage
- Marriage certainly happens. But the one you love, you do not marry.
- The father-in-law will be a bit of a Hitler. He gets very angry.
Brihaspati
Marriage on God's trust, a guru for a spouse
Whenever Guru is in the 7th bhava, decisions are taken on God's trust (Bhagwan bharose). The marriage too happens on God's trust. Most of this person's decisions will be on God's trust.
Spouse and marriage
- Marriage decisions are left entirely up to God.
- Make the spouse your guru, and go according to her. The spouse acts as a guru, a guide, and always does the work of margdarshan (guidance). You have married a guru.
- The spouse gives a lot of gyan (lectures of knowledge) and shows off that knowledge.
- The partner is usually stable and highly moral, and generally healthy, with good fat in the body: a little plump, a heavier or healthier build.
- Jupiter in the 7th aspects the lagna. So the person looks beautiful and sattvik: a learned face, with that scholarly, educational nature on it.
- Not wildly sexual, and not interested in going dirty. Either you will not be interested, or the other person will not be. Many times I have seen the sexual side even come to an end, and then the person runs here and there.
- Jupiter in the 7th requires agnihotra, the sacred fire offering. Until the yajna (fire sacrifice) is done, you cannot sleep with that partner or be sexually involved; until then the union is not considered legal.
- After marriage you get the support of fortune (bhagya).
- Brihaspati was attracted towards his brother's wife and destroyed the child in her womb. So Brihaspati in the 7th can show a relationship, or a debt, within the family's own relations.
Business partner
- A very good business partner, and he can work in partnership. The partnership runs on trust, and you get good partners.
How the world perceives you
- A sadhu (saint). If anybody at all has Jupiter in the 7th, then even if he commits a scandal (kaand), people still take him for "a sadhu, nothing else". Whatever he does, the relatives still take him for a sadhu.
- People see him like their own relative: "He is our home's own child." Someone sees a sister in him, someone a brother, someone something or other. It always feels: "This is a relative from my own house."
- A people-pleaser, but people trust him.
Private parts
- No problem. Only a little delay: a delay in childbirth.
The father's income and desires
- Very sattvik. This is a good placement for the father.
The mother's emotional body
- The mother is very religious, and does a great deal of puja at home.
Killer of your personality
- The giving nature. Guru's job is to give. So whenever anybody needs anything, he asks the wife for it and gives it away. Many times I have seen them give away, even sell, the spouse's belongings.
- So the fights come from the giving: "Why did you give him that? That was mine." "You give away far too much money, or anything at all, to anybody." The spouse bought something and brought it home, and you gave it away to the whole world at once. Control that.
Possibility of marriage
- Very good.
- If it is not happening, keep the Brihaspativar (Thursday) fast and worship Lord Hari regularly. Then you will see things move.
Budha
Marriage as if in play
With Budha in the 7th comes khel khel mein shaadi: a marriage that happens as if in play. It is a children's kind of marriage.
Spouse and marriage
- Playful marriages. First a physical relationship, then the marriage.
- Early physical relationships: losing virginity in school, early sexual experience.
- Multiple relationships and multiple romantic partners. Three people come into the life.
- Humour, and a sibling feeling. Look at the husband and wife: the way these two behave, they behave like brother and sister. The spouse feels more like a sibling or a best friend.
- The relationship he likes has that school-life feeling in it: humour, roaming about, a young partner he can go on holiday with.
- He needs a partner he can travel with, dance with, learn music with, practise all his hobbies with. Hobbies play a very big role.
- He likes the partner whose touch he likes.
- The husband or wife will be young, good-looking, very fast, humorous and well-dressed.
- When the husband leaves the wife and lives with someone else, with two families, that is Budha.
- Extramarital affairs can be there with Budha in the 7th, and yet the relationship still goes on. The wife knows, the husband knows, that the other is involved with someone, or likes someone, and they laugh it off as a joke (mazaak-mazaak mein). There is a fragment of Budha and Mangala in this. That is how things differ from chart to chart; we will understand these dynamics slowly as we grow in prediction.
- With Budha in Simha, or with the Sun, the Sun controls him.
Business partner
- Consultancy and multiple businesses.
- Import-export work, third-party services, and sales.
How the world perceives you
- A trader, a businessman: intelligent and jugaadu (one who always finds a workaround), a clever, resourceful fixer.
Private parts
- No problem, and he looks young. Only Shani should not come here. Shani should not sit with Budha in the 7th, and Shani's drishti (aspect) should not fall on him; otherwise it brings napunsakta (impotence), even severe impotence.
- When Shani afflicts Budha here, it also creates gender and hormone confusion. It makes the combination of gay and lesbian.
- If Budha becomes very powerful here, a transgender kind of feeling also comes sometimes.
The father's income and desires
- Three sources of income, because Budha is in the form of three. Multiple sources of income.
- The father's desires are about roaming and travelling about.
The mother's emotional body
- The mother is humorous, playful by nature, good-natured and helpful.
- All her purchases come in threes. Whatever your mummy brings, she brings three: three sofas, a set of utensils, three glasses, three shampoos. Everything in a format of three.
Killer of your personality
- Don't take advantage.
- Nothing with children: no child pornography and no abuse of children (bachchabazi), nothing at all. If you touch children here, Rahu will beat you and beat you and ruin your condition. Behave absolutely well with teens.
- Mercury's way is logic. He pinpoints everything, and if the person in front of him can answer well, he is happy. He wants someone to play and frolic with, someone to talk to.
Possibility of marriage
- The marriage does happen. But deception also comes here: you get deceived, my friend. So please be careful.
A student asked: "If Shani is the lagna lord and aspects Budha, will it still happen?"
Yes, even then it will happen. Whenever Shani's aspect falls on Budha in the 7th house, it makes the combination of impotence. Please be careful; it creates problems there. Work regularly on the hormones.
Shukra
Blind in his own house
Shukra is very eager to go into a relationship. But going into his own house, Shukra closes his eyes. Shukra is blind here, and so he marries the wrong person.
Spouse and marriage
- Very aatur (impatient, eager) to get into a relationship.
- Marriage with the wrong person, chosen purely on physical attraction.
- That is why, if Shukra is in the 7th house, one should marry by the family's choice, after listening to the mother and father. An arranged marriage gives a very beautiful, sweet-smelling partner. If Shukra is on the lagna instead, the person should marry by himself, with his eyes open.
- If malefics come here, they damage the marriage, and there is a lot of trouble.
- The husband or wife has very good-looking, very beautiful eyes, and a very beautiful face.
- He smells very good.
- Sexual desires are extremely high.
Business partner
- The business partner is wealthy. And here, actually, there is deception.
- So keep your eyes open. What did Shukracharya do? He took all the wealth from Kubera. There is magic in Shukra's eyes, and in a partnership he coaxes and lures (bahla-phusla lena). Be very alert.
How the world perceives you
- Wealthy and resourceful.
- And kaami (lustful), from kaam (desire).
- A beautiful person, with a lot of Venus qualities.
Private parts
- No issues, unless Shukra is afflicted here; then there will be trouble.
- With desire this high, he must keep strict hygiene and avoid over-indulgence. Over-indulgence: stop it.
The father's income and desires
- The father's income is excellent, and his desires are fulfilled.
- But sometimes it gives the father an extramarital affair, because for the father there is Rahu's effect here. You will see it whenever the dasha runs. I have tested this a lot. I first worked it out in a chart from my own family, a cousin's, and after that I came to know a lot of things.
The mother's emotional body
- Very nice. She cooks very good food at home, exceptionally well.
- The mother is beautiful, and looks beautiful too. The 7th is the 4th from the 4th.
Killer of your personality
- Take care of hygiene. It must not become bad here.
- Look after your smell and your eating habits.
- Losing individuality is fine here. There is no trouble in this.
Possibility of marriage
- Very good. There is no trouble here. The only trouble, as I told you, is the chance of an extramarital affair for the father, so be very careful there.
Mangala
The pact, and the flavour of the bedroom
Mars in the 7th house is very heavy. Mangala never compromises here: "You will have to go according to me." He makes it a pact.
I left Mars out of the class notes on purpose, because those notes were made by one of my students from the live session where I taught it. But my audience has grown mature. The people with the old principles have stopped watching my channel, and that is good for me, and good for them also.
Private parts
- Whenever Mars is in the 7th house, it makes the combination for oral sex. I have predicted this a lot. If you want to know more about it, I will tell you.
- If Shani aspects Mars, the oral sex will be on the male side.
- If Brihaspati aspects it, or the benefics aspect it, the oral sex will be on the female side.
Killer of your personality
- He will not compromise and will not step down from his ego, so Mars is not good in the 7th. Like the Sun, he wants only himself in everything.
- Plain and simple, Mangala has only one thing: "Stay with me, go by my reckoning." My way or the highway.
You will see the whole flavour of Mars when you do the predictions. There is a whole playlist on my channel with complete marriage predictions. How Mars plays with Shukra and Shani beside him in the 7th, I show in "Mangala, Shukra and Shani together" below.
Two grahas together
I will teach conjunctions properly later, so do not take tension. But some pairs in the 7th you must know now. When there is more than one graha in the 7th, a little of each one's quality comes.
Budha with Shani. If Budha and Shani are in the 7th house, or on the 1-7 axis, they give problems related to the private parts. And the person asks the partner so many questions that the married life gets spoiled. In every single thing he wants an answer: "Why had you gone out? Why did you spend fifty rupees? Why did you come by auto?" He becomes critical about everything. Brother, you get completely drained, as if you are solving a question paper in the relationship.
A student once asked me: "Her husband is gay. How will you see it?" Someone answered Budha and Shani. Budha with Shani on its own will not make him gay; it gives sexual problems, and it gives tendencies. When Shani afflicts Budha in the 7th, by sitting with him or by aspect, it gives impotence and gender and hormone confusion, and that is the combination of gay and lesbian.
Mangala with Rahu. Her husband is very violent: Mars with Rahu.
Surya with Shukra. Even with Shukra beside him, the Sun in the 7th still gives the sperm-count problem.
Chandra with a malefic. The remote control literally stays in the partner's hand. In the extreme, this is where people take poison.
Brihaspati with Shukra. Whenever Shukra and Guru meet, they represent pending karma. And whenever they sit together in the 7th house, they create a lot of problems for that house.
Budha with Surya, or in Simha. The Sun controls Budha.
Mangala under aspect. Shani's aspect on a 7th-house Mars puts the oral sex on the male side; Brihaspati's or a benefic's aspect puts it on the female side.
You are not memorising here. You are making combinations. That is what I will teach you throughout.
Mangala, Shukra and Shani together
In a practice class I put a blank chart in front of the students with three grahas in the 7th house: Mangala, Shukra and Shani. The full class reading is in the practice chapter (Worked practice 3). Here are the 7th-house points that came out of it.
Do not predict what is true of everyone. A newer student said: "The partner will be aggressive, a little quarrelsome, a little angry." Quarrels happen in every relationship. And anger: every man stays like that. Slowly maya (the illusory energy) beats us so much that the emotions inside a man die; he faces so much outside, and wherever he shows his emotions, right there maya gets his corpse ready. Slowly everyone becomes stone. That is very common, so tell me something different. In the same way, "the partner will be good-looking" says nothing: everyone is good-looking. Tell me the characteristics.
Mangala with Shani makes an engineer. He is passionate about things, about material things. Put Shukra with them and the husband earns heaps. Why? Mangala is passion, and Mangala is your vehicle. Shani is the road. And on it he is carrying Shukra: money.
The delay is balanced. Shani alone would make the marriage late, but Mangala counterbalances it.
The spouse's body and age. An older student said that Mangala gives the spouse a good body and Shani gives an elderly look, a little more mature than the age. Good. But will Shani make the husband mature, or turn a little frail, earlier than the wife? No: Mangala stays with Shani, so it gets balanced. Will the age gap be too large because of Shani? No. Mangala with Shani does not like that body type. They will be of the same age, and the height will also be the same. Look: you choose a vehicle you can actually ride. If your body is heavy, you will not like a 130 or 150 cc engine at all; you will take a 180 cc or a 200 cc. That same cc is there in the relationship.
The sexual impulse. Mangala with Shukra is sexual impulse. Shani is very materialistic, and stubborn. The same student said that when Shani plays his role, the native will move away from the spouse and lose interest. No. The same thing I keep telling you: Shani, wherever he is, does not want to change. So however he wants to play with her, he will play like that. She will be like a toy car: however he feels like it, he will have sex with her like that, and whether she feels like it or not, whether she says so or not, makes no difference to him: "If I want it, it will go this way." He dominates very aggressively, because it has become a sport for him. Mangala with Shani: give challenges, take challenges. Physical abuse can also be there.
Both libidos must be high. So how should both partners' sexual impulse be? At peak. Both should have a very strong sexual impulse, and both should be madly in love with each other. Then the marriage will run very well and sustain. With that, this is a good combination.
Hot blood. The blood is very heated in this combination. There can be physical fights too. For the husband, he can kill or he can die: Mangala is there.
Possessive and suspicious. "You are mine. You will stay only mine. You cannot go here and there." If she so much as looks at someone else, it starts: Shani in the 7th suspects a lot. The real fun comes when Ketu gets added. Then he becomes completely sanki: "You were looking at him, weren't you? You are talking to him, aren't you?"
A passionate lover. He is madly in love with the partner and can do anything for her. If she wants a Rolls-Royce, Mangala with Shani in the 7th has the guts to bring a Rolls-Royce. If she wants a 10,000-rupee bag, he will get her the 10,000-rupee bag. He gives her every material thing she needs. And the love of Mangala, Shukra and Shani matures slowly, when the blood calms down.
Gadgets. A student added that the spouse may like electronic gadgets. Very nice. Take it further: Mangala with Shani will even make sex toys.
The wife's hair. Shani is also hair. With Shani beside Mangala and Shukra, the wife's hair is long, and black because of Shani.
Business. The same thing shows in business. He will be very good in business: you will find Mangala with Shani in builders' charts, very passionate for money, for building things, for creating housing societies. He is aggressive in business and will try to earn by hook or by crook. He goes to the technical side, engineering; he can have his own company; he can be an architect, or, because Shukra is there, an interior designer. The wife can be an interior designer too.
In partnership, he dominates. My way or the highway. Plain and simple, Mangala has only one thing: "Stay with me, go by my reckoning." And Budha's qualities should never come into it, fighting over five or ten rupees.
How the world sees him. Aggressive, but a nice person, because Shukra and Mangala are both there: he looks aggressive, but whoever talks to him and gets to know him finds he is basically a nice person. And a money-making machine.
A third person in the marriage
Whenever the 7th lord gets linked to the 3rd house, or Shukra gets linked to the 3rd house, or the 7th house gets linked to the 11th house, a third person enters the marriage. You will all learn this slowly.
Sometimes you will see that the marriage is very toxic, and so the person looks for someone else. Understand the point: this is not wrong. Sometimes you do not get love in marriage. You do not get everything at one grocery shop, so you go to another; in the same way, when a person does not get everything from the partner, he goes outside the marriage. It is not as taboo as it may seem to you.
I have confirmed a lot of things in my consultations, and I can tell you clearly: in around 70 to 75 percent of cases, at least an emotional affair is there, at least once in a lifetime. So it is very common.
- In villages and rural areas, it will be with someone within the family itself.
- In modern society, it will be with colleagues: the 6th house, the workplace.
- If someone is a businessman, it will be with the wives of his many partners, or with the partners themselves.
- When Budha is involved, it generally happens with the junior employees of the office: the HR person, the assistant. And with Budha in the 7th, the marriage can carry on through the affair: both know, and they laugh it off.
When I was preparing for IIT, the manager there had an affair. Some of our friends caught the two of them on an outing, took their photo, and it was sent around in groups. Both of them were married. So these things actually happen. How you deal with it is your personal matter.
Readings from the live class
A student with Budha in the 7th, waiting for his marriage
At the start of the class a student asked when his marriage would happen and what his wife would be like. After Rahu, the Sun, Ketu and Shani, I took his chart, one shot.
The chart. The Moon's dasha was running. Budha sat in the 7th house, in sign 9; Ketu sat in sign 4, Karka. The lagna lord was in the 3rd house. Shani was in the 12th, and Shani was also transiting sign 12. In the past-life combination, Brihaspati, Ketu and Shukra had come together.
The predictions, in order. 1. A yoga for marriage is formed in this chart. The rashi chart was correct, and a small change in the Navamsa made no difference: the chances of marriage stay the same. 2. I asked: "Has your marriage been fixed?" At first it seemed he was saying yes, and I said: "Then what is there left to see? Enjoy. The date got predicted." 3. Then he wrote that the marriage had not happened. So a remedy has to be done. 4. The dasha that should have brought it ended on 15 August. Things should have happened in it, and the marriage did not get fixed. 5. When Brihaspati comes here, the marriage will happen. There are chances next year, and the year after. 6. In 2026, after Brihaspati's transit into Karka, the marriage will happen. Brihaspati's dasha also runs next year, and it will get him married before it goes. 7. After that Shani runs. Shani is in the 12th, and in transit Shani is in sign 12 now. There is no problem. 8. The lagna lord is in the 3rd house, so the father's family will play a very big role, either in breaking the match or in making it. 9. The timing: the 8th or the 11th month of 2026. 10. The past life: Shukra and Guru meeting means pending karma. With Ketu among them, there is a great deal of confusion. Proposals must be coming, but he must have done so much nautanki (drama) in them, being very choosy, that problems came. Ketu's job is fault-finding: whoever brings a proposal, he makes trouble. 11. He has troubled a guru a great deal, because the 9th house represents the guru. He has betrayed a guru.
The remedies. - If Ketu is spoiling things, do Ketu's remedy. With Ketu in sign 4, Karka, we always get it done this way: do the shringar (adornment) of Mother Parvati, regularly. He needs the blessing of Lord Shiva. - Fast on Thursday, for the wrong done to a guru. - The Kanya sign, sign 6, is there: go to some temple and do seva (service). Whichever temple you go to, serve there. - For the Shukra-Guru combination: go to a guru, take sharan (shelter) and serve him. That is where this debt will be cleared. - Do not be so picky. Trust in God and marry someone.
What he confirmed. He corrected me on the first point: the marriage had not been fixed. On the proposals he wrote back, and I told him: yes, that is exactly what I am telling you. Proposals are coming, and you are creating far too many problems.
Remember
- The 7th is the exact opposite of you: what you want to become, whom you attract, and how the world judges you.
- It covers marriage, the spouse, compatibility, the business partner, public image and the private parts.
- It is the 4th from the 4th (the mother's moral core) and the 11th from the 9th (the father's income and desires). A father's corrupt money spoils his child's marriage.
- It is the maraka of the ego. The Sun and Mars cannot compromise here; Jupiter can when dharma is satisfied; Mercury wants answers and play.
- Four pillars: the 7th house (whether), Shukra (the flavour), the 7th lord (what happens after), the D9 lagna (the overall fortune).
- Before marriage, see whose lord has come into the 7th. After marriage, see where the 7th lord goes. The 7th is also the 10th from the 10th: a bad sexual life brings the career down.
- Rahu: obsession and a little poison. Sun: ego, separate rooms, never a business partnership. Ketu: eager, then bored. Shani: intimacy as a duty, and delay.
- Moon: the remote in the partner's hand. Jupiter: a guru for a spouse and a sadhu's image. Budha: marriage as if in play. Shukra: blind, so marry by the family's choice. Mars: never compromises.
- A 7th lord or Shukra linked to the 3rd, or the 7th linked to the 11th, brings a third person into the marriage.
- Mangala, Shukra and Shani together: a passionate, dominating lover who earns heaps; same age and height; the marriage sustains when both libidos are high.
Check yourself
1. Which of the four pillars tells you whether marriage is promised in the chart at all?
The 7th house says whether; Shukra gives the flavour; the 7th lord shows what happens after; the Navamsa lagna gives the overall fortune.
2. Why does the 7th house show the mother's moral values?
Rotate the axis: the 4th from the mother's house is the 7th. The 11th from the 9th gives the father's income.
3. A father earns through bribes. Where does it show in his child's chart?
A flaw in the father's income spoils the child's own marriage.
4. Which graha in the 7th makes a person feel that a partnership needs "a little poison"?
Rahu is the karaka of the snake, so he likes slightly toxic partners, and must learn to give instead of asking "What did I get?"
5. The Sun is in the 7th. What do I say about business partnership?
The Sun has no clothes in the 7th. Even its transit through the 7th brings these issues.
6. Ketu is in the 7th. What is the usual pattern of marriage?
Ketu's marriage happens suddenly. He is happy only with no expectations, like a fakir, and with a spiritual, travel-loving partner.
7. How does Shani in the 7th make a person feel about intimacy?
Shani creates pressure and an inferiority complex, and can bring performance anxiety and erectile dysfunction. Patience and the gym help.
8. The Moon is in the 7th and joins a malefic. What is the danger?
With the Moon in the 7th you must live very carefully. It can also give narcissistic traits and early childhood trauma.
9. How does the world see someone with Jupiter in the 7th?
Jupiter also asks you not to give away your spouse's belongings out of generosity.
10. Budha is in the 7th and Shani aspects it. What does this combination give?
Budha in the 7th is fine for the private parts unless Shani sits with him or aspects him.
11. Shukra is in the 7th. How should the person choose a spouse?
If Shukra were on the lagna, he should choose himself, with his eyes open.
12. Which link brings a third person into a marriage?
In my consultations, around 70 to 75 percent of people have at least one emotional affair in a lifetime.