Love Marriage Becomes Real in the D9 7th

Conjunction, aspect, or exchange between the 5th and 7th lords is the rashi link. Venus in the 5th or the 7th supports it. Rahu with either house marks an unconventional route and needs the eighteen-year Rahu question handled honestly: unusual is not the same as durable. D9 then places every graha in a navamsa sign. If Venus is dignified there, or the D9 7th lord is sound, the romance has a household to enter. If the D9 7th is occupied by a severe malefic picture while the rashi chart looks romantic, the prediction should shrink to a relationship, not a marriage. This is the step popular yoga lists skip because D9 requires the minute, not the date.

Love marriage is two D9 charts. One strong navamsa 7th and one broken one is a mixed prognosis, often felt as unequal certainty. Ashtakoota can be friendly while D9 is not, because the 36 points use Moon nakshatras and the navamsa uses the whole lagna. Mangal dosha can sit on a love-marriage yoga and add heat without erasing the 5th-7th link. For a woman, Jupiter's condition in D9 matters because Jupiter karakas the husband. For a man, Venus in D9 carries the wife. Reading one gender's rule onto the other chart is a common mistake once the yoga has been spotted in the rashi.

The 5th lord's antardasha can start the romance. The 7th lord's antardasha, or Venus's, is the one that can hold a wedding. Venus mahadasha is twenty years, so the sub-period is the real gate, product of the years divided by 120. If you are not in either gate, the yoga is a natal promise waiting. Jyothish SI casts D9 with the same Lahiri calculation as the rashi chart, on paid plans that include the extra divisional charts, and a free account can still show the rashi 5th and 7th. Do not call the yoga complete until the navamsa 7th has been seen.