Which House Talks About Marriage

The house that talks about marriage is the 7th, kalatra bhava, and that answer is false for every other number people try to promote. The 7th holds the spouse, the open partner, and the contract of marriage. Its lord carries the promise into whatever house he occupies. Venus is the wife karaka in a man's chart. Jupiter is the husband karaka in a woman's chart. Both karakas are read with the 7th, not instead of it. D9, the Navamsa, is the second chart of the same question. A 7th house that looks strong in the rashi and collapsed in Navamsa has not finished speaking. A 7th house that looks empty can still give marriage when its lord is sound and the dasha arrives.

The 2nd house is family, speech, and food. It shows the household the marriage joins, not the choice of spouse. The 5th is romance, intelligence, and children, so a love affair can be a 5th-house event that never becomes a 7th-house marriage. The 8th is the 2nd from the 7th, used for crises, shared money, and the private bond. The 11th is gain and the fulfilment of a wish, including the social fruit of an alliance. The 12th can show a foreign spouse or a costly, private marriage when the 7th lord occupies it, but the 12th itself is loss and bed, not the wedding. The 4th is the home the couple lives in. Asking 'which house' and receiving a pile of five houses usually means the 7th was never isolated.

Marriage is timed by the Vimshottari periods of the 7th lord and of the spouse karaka, not by a transit that a weekly note assigned to all of one sun sign. Saturn aspecting or occupying the 7th is the classical delay. It does not move the topic to another house. Mangal dosha checks Mars in a set of houses from the lagna, the Moon, and Venus, and it is a modifier of the 7th, not a rival marriage house. If you remember one rule, remember the number. Partnership that is marriage is the 7th. Partnership that is business is also willing to use the 7th, because trade lives there too, and the 10th then shows the work itself. The question decides which of those two uses you meant.