When In-Laws and the Seventh Agree

The seventh house is marriage. Kind treatment from the spouse's family follows a seventh lord that can share the second house of family speech and wealth without a fight. Jupiter aspecting the seventh is the classic picture of goodwill, because Jupiter is counsel and protection. That aspect is available to every rashi. It is not issued to five signs at birth. The fourth house is home. Goodwill that never offers a peaceful fourth is only a polite festival, not a shared life.

The second house is wealth and speech. In-laws become easy or hard in conversation and in money: who pays, who comments, who is allowed to finish a sentence. A clean Mercury and a second lord that is not at war with the seventh lord describe dinners that end. Mars in the second can still love people and scorch the wording. Calling that Mars one of the unlucky signs misses every chart where Mars is a yogakaraka and the speech is blunt but fair.

The native's chart does not award in-laws. The spouse's chart has its own fourth house of home and its own Moon. Navamsa shows whether the marriage bond can carry family traffic. Ashtakoota, the Moon-nakshatra match of 36 points, is a separate test and not a substitute for these houses. Vimshottari of the seventh lord times the years when the families actually share a roof. Venus mahadasha lasts 20 years and can include the best and the hardest of those years.