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Vedic Astrology in Married Life
Married life in Jyotish is the 7th house, the 7th lord, and the Navamsa. The Vimshottari period of the 7th lord is when that promise shows up in the years of the marriage.
The wedding chart and the years after it
The birth 7th house describes the marriage the person meets. The Navamsa, D9, describes the vow as it is lived. A smooth 7th lord in the birth chart can sit badly in D9, and the marriage then feels harder than the wedding week. The reverse is also a real chart. Reading only the guna score, which compares two Moons out of 36 points, skips both of these. Married life is a house and a divisional chart, timed by dasha.
Why the reading continues after the wedding
Vimshottari does not stop at the ceremony. A 7th-lord antardasha can open the marriage, and a later antardasha of a dusthana lord can strain it, inside the same mahadasha. Venus, the kalatra karaka, runs for 20 years when its mahadasha comes. If Venus is strong and connected to the 7th, those years emphasize the spouse. If Venus is in the 6th, 8th, or 12th, the same 20 years emphasize the difficulty of that karaka. The chart is useful because the chapter changes.
What the couple can actually look up
Each spouse has a lagna. Houses are counted from that lagna, so the two 7th houses are different signs. Cast both from the birth city, with the zone offset, using a sidereal zodiac. Then name the mahadasha each person is in. A quarrel during the dasha of the 6th lord is a conflict period. A quiet stretch during the dasha of a well placed 7th lord is the house doing what it promised. The calendar date of the wedding does not replace those lords.
Frequently asked questions
Is the guna milan the same as the marriage reading?
Guna milan scores two Moon signs out of 36. The marriage is the 7th house, the 7th lord, and the Navamsa of each spouse.
Which dasha is most literal for marriage?
The period of the 7th lord, of Venus, or of a planet sitting in the 7th. Venus mahadasha itself lasts 20 years.
Do both charts matter after the wedding?
Yes. Each lagna has its own 7th house. One spouse's difficult antardasha can be the other's ordinary year.
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D1, D9, D10, dashas, yogas, and transits, the same calculations referenced in this article.