The 12 Signs and Marriage Compatibility

The twelve rashis meet marriage, in the natural zodiac, as six opposite pairs. Mesha faces Tula, Vrishabha faces Vrischika, Mithuna faces Dhanu, Karka faces Makara, Simha faces Kumbha, and Kanya faces Meena. The second of each pair is the 7th sign from the first. That geometry would be false if you paired Aries with Scorpio, which is a 6/8 relationship, shadashtaka, not a marriage axis. Opposite Moon signs do not create bhakoot dosha. Bhakoot dosha is 6/8 and 2/12. So the 'need to know' fact is the opposite of the usual poster: the sign across from yours is the natural spouse sign, not your enemy. Graha enmity is a different table. Mars and Saturn may be unfriendly while Mesha and Tula, their signs in this axis, remain 1 and 7.

A Mesha lagna has Venus, lord of Tula, as 7th lord. A Simha lagna has Saturn, lord of Kumbha, as 7th lord. The opposite sign tells you the lord to read, and then you still have to read that lord's placement, aspects, and Navamsa. Two people whose sun signs are Leo and Aquarius are not thereby a marriage. Their Moons may be in a nadi clash worth 8 points against them. Their lagnas may be the same sign, so each 7th is elsewhere. Compatibility of the twelve signs, as a product, pretends the Sun's rashi is the lagna. It is not. Use the pairs as a map when you know which sign is rising or which sign the Moon occupies. Do not use them as twelve personalities who date well. Kanya opposite Meena is also the axis where Venus is debilitated in the first and exalted in the second, a dignity fact inside the marriage axis, not a reason to rank the couple.

You need both nakshatras for the eight kootas, both 7th lords, and both D9 charts. You need Mangal dosha checked separately. You need the dasha, because a perfect axis during an 8th-lord period is not a wedding. The twelve-sign map cannot time anything. Vimshottari does not care that your Sun is opposite your partner's Sun. If the birth times are unknown, say that the axes of the sun signs are all you have, and that this is a thin fact. It tells you the natural 7th of those solar rashis and nothing about the houses. People ask for the twelve because they want a complete guide without a birth time. The complete guide is the list above plus the refusal to score a couple from it. Memorise the six pairs. Then open the charts.