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A High Guna Score Can Still Separate If the 7th Lord Is in a Dusthana
Milan compared the Moons. Separation compares the marriage lords and the dasha. A couple can pass one test and fail the other.

The score did not see the 7th
A match can score well on the 36 points and still separate if the 7th lord sits in the 6th, 8th, or 12th and that lord's dasha runs. Milan never claimed to read the 7th. Families hear a high number as a guarantee and then meet Saturn, Ketu, or a 12th-house lord on schedule. The break feels like a failed promise. It is a category error. Nadi can be perfect, bhakoot can be perfect, and Ketu can still occupy the 7th. During Ketu's 7 years the detachment is the chapter. The gunas remain perfect. They are about the Moons, which have not moved.
Dasha is the second surprise
Two people can match on nakshatra and be in incompatible periods. One is in Venus mahadasha, 20 years, with Venus as 7th lord. The other is in Saturn's 19 years with Saturn aspecting the 7th. The lunar score is stable. The lived years are not. A separation in the second person's Saturn antardasha does not erase the milan. It times a pressure milan could not see. Rahu on one 7th adds an unconventional bond that a traditional guna match may have disliked for other reasons, or may have missed entirely. After the break, people redo the gunas as if the arithmetic erred. The arithmetic was narrow. The 7th lord was the omitted line.
What to check after a match that failed in life
Go back to both D9 charts and both 7th lords. If the birth times were rounded, the 7th may have been wrong and the milan of the Moons may still have been right. Those can be true together. Do not invent a curse to explain a dusthana lord. Do not blame the spouse's rashi. The repair, if there is one, is not a new guna screenshot. It is a clear reading of whether the separating dasha has ended and whether D9 supports staying. Some charts separate in one antardasha and stabilize in the next. Milan will look identical on both dates. That is the clue that milan was never the timer.
Frequently asked questions
Why do matched horoscopes still divorce?
Because the 36 points do not include the 7th lord, D9, or the dasha. A dusthana 7th lord can run after a perfect lunar score.
Does a low score cause the break?
A low score describes lunar friction. The break itself still wants a 7th-house pattern and a period. Do not give the gunas a power they do not have.
Can the same match look fine later?
The Moon score will not change. The dasha will. A later antardasha of a sound 7th lord is a different season in the same milan.
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