Marriage astrology
How a Vedic birth chart is read for marriage and partnership, and how two charts are matched.
What Jyotish looks at for marriage
- 7th house
- Kalatra bhava: partnership and marriage. Its sign, occupants and aspects describe the partnership itself.
- 7th lord
- Where the ruler of the 7th sits, and how strong it is, is read for how partnership enters life.
- Venus and Jupiter
- Venus is the natural significator of marriage; tradition also reads Jupiter, especially in a woman's chart.
- Navamsa (D9)
- The divisional chart for marriage and dharma, read to confirm or qualify the birth-chart picture.
- Manglik dosha
- Mars in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th from the lagna, with its cancellations; weighed in matching.
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One chart, then two
A single chart is read for how partnership tends to show up. Before marriage, families traditionally compare two charts through Guna Milan (36 points) and check Manglik dosha in both.
A chart is read for tendencies and for periods when certain themes are emphasised. No chart factor has been shown to fix the date of an event, and astrologers can read the same chart differently. Use a reading as one input alongside your own judgement.