Shaadi by Rashi Still Ends at the Lagna's 7th Lord

The 7th from the Moon describes a picture: Saturn's picture is older, slower, dutiful. Venus's picture, when Tula or Vrishabha is the lunar 7th, is agreement and comfort. Mars's picture is heat and directness. These pictures help a conversation. They do not set the muhurta and they do not replace Ashtakoota, which needs the nakshatra inside the rashi. A Makara Moon might be Uttara Ashadha, Shravana, or Dhanishta, three stars with different ganas and nadis. A shaadi column that stops at Makara has not reached the guna sheet, let alone the lagna.

Name the rising sign, count seven, name the lord, read his house and dignity, then open D9. For Mesha the lord is Venus, also a maraka as 2nd lord, so his twenty years must be split into antardashas rather than feared or worshipped whole. For Tula the lord is Mars, seven years. Mangal dosha is checked separately from lagna, Moon, and Venus. A lunar Saturn-spouse story plus a lagna Mars 7th lord is a mixed marriage: the mind expected patience and the life-path lord is heat. The dasha that arrives tells you which description is in force. Both can be true in different years.

The other chart has a Moon and a lagna too. Your lunar 7th does not pick their rashi. Matching uses both Moons. The wedding uses both 7th lords. Jyothish SI casts all four points, two Moons and two lagnas, from two birth times. Shaadi by rashi is the lunar count, worth knowing. Shaadi by jyotish is the lagna count, the navamsa, and the antardasha whose length is the product of the years divided by 120. Keep the Hindi word for the event, and keep the lagna for the decision.