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Sun, Moon, and Venus in a Match
Matching by Sun, Moon, and Venus uses three grahas, and Venus, not the Sun, is the karaka of the spouse. That trio is not the twelve-house map, and it is not Ashtakoota.

Three grahas, three jobs
The Sun is vitality and authority. The Moon is the mind. Venus is the spouse karaka and the graha of pleasure. A match that compares these three can show whether authority clashes, whether the minds can share a kitchen, and whether pleasure has a common language. It cannot see the seventh house of marriage if nobody casts the lagna. The first house is the self. Two people with friendly Venuses and warring lagnas still share a house badly. Lahiri sidereal positions are required, because a tropical Venus is often one sign off.
Ashtakoota is the Moon alone
The 36-point match uses only the Moon nakshatras. Nadi is 8 points. Bhakoot is 7. Adding Sun and Venus is a different exercise, useful and incomplete. Navamsa re-reads the seventh after both Rashi charts exist. A pretty Venus-to-Venus aspect that dies in Navamsa was never a marriage plan. The fifth house is children and earlier romance. Sun-Moon-Venus notes often call the fifth a soulmate and skip it as a house. Name the house or do not claim the match.
Periods still have to overlap
Venus mahadasha lasts 20 years for the person running it. A couple is not inside the same dasha just because their Venuses are friendly. The seventh lord's period is when marriage is practical. Compatibility paragraphs that never mention Vimshottari describe temperament and call it a wedding. No degree of a synastry orb is invented here. The method is whole signs and houses, not a borrowed orb from another tradition.
Frequently asked questions
Which of the three is the spouse significator?
Venus. The Sun is vitality and authority. The Moon is the mind. Marriage as a house is still the seventh.
Does this replace the 36-point match?
No. Ashtakoota scores Moon nakshatras. Sun and Venus are extra grahas. Navamsa still re-reads the seventh.
Can friendly Venuses time a wedding?
They describe pleasure, not the clock. Venus mahadasha lasts 20 years only for the person whose sequence has reached Venus.
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