Rahu and Venus in a Love Marriage

A second, nodal indication of love marriage is Rahu conjunct Venus, or Rahu occupying the 5th or the 7th. Venus is desire and the marriage karaka. Rahu is the refusal of the ordinary script. Together they describe a bond that starts in attraction the family did not arrange, sometimes across community, language, or age. If Rahu is in the 5th, Ketu is in the 11th. If Rahu is in the 7th, Ketu is in the lagna. If Rahu sits on Venus in some other house, the love story follows Venus's house, not automatically the 7th.

The 5th lord and 7th lord should still be checked. Rahu can create a scandal of affection that never signs a marriage.

Ketu conjunct Venus, or Ketu in the 7th, is detachment on the karaka or on the spouse's house, with Rahu opposite. People sometimes still call it love marriage because it broke an arrangement. The feeling is thinner, more fated or more absent, than Rahu's hunger. Do not give both nodes the same romantic paragraph.

Rahu mahadasha is 18 years and is the long window for a Rahu-Venus bond. Venus mahadasha is 20 years and can marry the person with Rahu's style if they are conjunct. Ketu's window is only 7 years.

A birth-chart Rahu on Venus that is fallen in the D9 is a loud start and a weak sustain. A Navamsa that repeats Rahu or Venus in the 7th confirms that the unconventional marriage is not only a transit crush. Gun milan will not see this pattern. Ashtakoot scores Moon nakshatras and can give 36 points to a couple whose Venus is under Rahu, or a poor score to a couple with a clean 5th-7th exchange.

Use the node for the style of meeting. Use the 7th lord for whether a household exists afterward.