How the Chart Describes a Spouse

Jyotish sketches the spouse from the lord of the 7th house and from Venus, then checks that sketch again in the D9 Navamsa. The sign on the 7th cusp sets a scene: a Mars sign is more direct, a Venus sign more relational, a Saturn sign slower and more dutiful. The person is closer to the 7th lord. If the 7th lord sits in the 10th, the spouse's life is tied to public work and status. If the 7th lord sits in the 9th, dharma, teaching, or distance from the birthplace enter the picture. If the 7th lord sits in the 6th, disagreement and service are part of the bond and have to be read honestly.

Venus is the natural karaka of the wife in a man's chart, and of sexual love and comfort for both. Jupiter is traditionally consulted as the husband karaka in a woman's chart, beside her 7th lord. A planet sitting in the 7th modifies the lord. Saturn there delays and steadies. Mars there heats the bond and raises the Mangal question, since the 7th is one of the Mangal houses. The Sun there can make the partnership public, or put ego in the middle of it. These are tendencies of the house. They are not a portrait you can match to a photograph.

The D9 divides each sign into nine parts and is the chart used to confirm marriage. A beautiful 7th lord in the birth chart who is debilitated in the Navamsa is a weakened promise. A modest 7th house that is strong in the D9 often does better in the actual marriage than the birth chart suggested. Read the D9 lagna for the inner weather of the native after marriage, and the 7th of the D9 for the partner as the marriage experiences them. Timing still belongs to the Vimshottari dasha already running. The spouse-description becomes a marriage event when the 7th lord, Venus, or Jupiter is the dasha lord.