Marrying a Tula Chart: Venus's Sign and Mars as 7th Lord

A Tula Moon thinks in Venus's language: agreements, fairness, aesthetics, and a dislike of crude rupture, with Saturn exalted in the same sign able to make the fairness severe and slow. The Sun is debilitated here, so a Sun placed in a Tula Moon's sign is a weak Sun by dignity, which can mute authority inside that mind. None of this is the spouse's body. The body is the lagna. A Tula lagna is ruled by Venus, who also rules the 8th house Vrishabha, so Venus is both the self and a dusthana lord. Marriage for that lagna runs through Mars, a seven-year mahadasha when Mars is the timer, and Mangal dosha has to be checked because the 7th lord is Mars himself. You are not marrying a poster. You are marrying either a Venus ascendant whose spouse-lord is Mars, or a Moon in Venus's sign whose ascendant is still unknown.

Your 7th lord and Venus, and theirs, plus both D9 charts, decide the household. Ashtakoota uses their Moon nakshatra. Tula contains Chitra's later padas, Swati, and Vishakha's opening, so a Tula Moon is not one nakshatra and not one nadi or gana. Swati is Deva and Rahu-ruled. Vishakha is Rakshasa and Jupiter-ruled. Chitra is Rakshasa and Mars-ruled. A compatibility score that says Libra and stops has skipped the star. Graha maitri between your Moon-sign lord and Venus, Tula's lord, is only 5 points. Nadi can still be zero.

If their lagna is Tula, watch Mars's seven years and Venus's twenty, because Venus is the lagna lord and Mars is the 7th lord. The Mars-Venus antardasha is 7 times 20 divided by 120, a little over a year, a concrete overlap of self and spouse. If only their Moon is Tula, you cannot use that overlap until the lagna is cast. Jyothish SI will separate Moon and lagna with Lahiri ayanamsa once the birth time exists. Marry the chart you have calculated, not the English name of a month.