The 7th house and planets
The 7th house is the prime significator of marriage and marital life partner. All the naturally good planets like Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Moon should give good indications about married life and marriage partner when they have any kind of connections with the 7th house. And all the naturally bad planets like Mars, Saturn, Sun, Rahu and Ketu as per vedic astrology should cause disturbance in married life and happiness from spouse. This is a very basic and general rule for a simple marriage prediction in astrology.
But the predictive experience of any knowledgable astrologer will suggest that those simple rules are not so simple in their applications. As I said before there are thousands of possibilities for your spouse, then how those small set of rules will give you a very clear method to predict your future wife.
What are the basic astrological rules about marriage and Spouse Predictions?
Rules for well behaved and dutiful wife:
1. Jupiter is the planet that gives a faithful and dutiful wife who has good behaviour when Jupiter is in the 7th house.
2. A strong Moon in the 7th house gives a loving wife who is emotionally attached to her husband.
3. An unharmed Venus gives an extremely beautiful wife.
4. A good Mercury in the seventh house can give a wife youthful appearances.
Rules for obstructions to marriage or delayed marriage:
1. Saturn is the planet of delay. When Saturn is in the 7th house it can delay marriage. Saturn normally gives a late marriage. In the worst cases, Saturn can delay marriage so long that a marriageable age has passed.
2. Mars is an aggressive planet that rules fights and quarrels. Therefore Mars is not suited for the harmonious environment of the 7th house. Mars is also not so good for the acts like building a relationship and running a marriage. This is Mars causes a Mangal dosha in the seventh house.
3. The seventh house is the place where Sun is not so comfortable. This is what we have learned in astrology that Sun is a King and the 7th house is the market. The King doesn't like to go to market. Sun also contributes towards delaying the marriage when in the 7th house.
4. Rahu and Ketu as we have learned are the karmic planets. They hold your karmic baggage. Therefore, Rahu and Ketu are the most unpredictable planet of vedic astrology. An astrologer cannot say what Rahu or Ketu in your 7th house of Kundli might bring to your life without the proper context of the whole birth chart.
How to predict your wife from the birth chart?
The essence of making any kind of prediction with the help of Indian astrology is to know:
1. What we are trying to look for?
2. How it is related to external circumstances?
3. What clues you can get from your birth chart or kundli?
Vedic astrology has sufficient toolsets and methods to give you the details of what you are looking for. But you need to develop some intuitions and insights to figure out those secrets from the birth chart.
Planets might fail to give the results naturally described to them.
Above in this article, I described how natural benefics or the good planets like Jupiter and Venus can give a good wife. And in the same manner how natural malefics or the bad planets like Saturn and Mars can cause obstructions to the bliss of married life. But luckily marriage astrology is not limited to those rules.
You must have learned or heard people from the astrology community saying that marriage astrology depends on so many things apart from the 7th house and the 7th lord. And Yes it is true.
But no one tells us why those other things are important. While researching the facts and matters of marriage astrology we needed to figure out those things. As we were developing software that would give you precise indications not only about marital life but also about your future spouse. In fact, we were trying to understand what really matters in the prediction of a wife or a husband. Below is what we understood in our research of marriage astrology and spouse prediction.
Kundli and 7th house
In our main kundli, which we also call a birth chart, lies all the pieces of information about each area of life. Our focus area is the 7th house. Now we made a basic structure that assigns importance, capacity and role to each of the planet in your case-specific birth chart, means your personal kundli.
Meaning to say no general rules as stated above were applies directly.
Reason for this approach: After looking at many kundli charts and case studies. We came to know that although Jupiter and Venus might be the best planets or best benefics to do something good, they don't guarantee you a good spouse and marriage predictions from them in the 7th house cannot be as ideal and favourable as always.
And in the opposite case scenario, it was amazing to find out that Saturn and Mars even though being the worst malefic planets as in vedic astrology were capable to give desirable spouses and healthy marriages.
The 7th lord, 7th house and other planets
The next step for us was to identify how these good and bad things happened unexpectedly. Why sometimes good planets didn't help and sometimes bad don't harm? Why those malefic planets not only supported your kundli but also boosted the chances of good marriage prediction.
To find out this we had to look beyond the actual nature of planets, the actual nature of being good and bad as per general rules of astrology.
So we figured out that every planet specifically arranges itself for a specific role to play in your fortune predictions. This case-specific behaviour of every planet was unique for each kundli with some basic kind of pattern and similarities. This was a milestone achievement.
Navamsa chart and Marriage horoscope
To get a more clear picture about predicting future wife or husband. We had to solve one more question. The questions of Navamsa chart. Why Navamsa chart is so important in marriage prediction and in knowing about the characteristic of the future spouse?
After all the Navamsa chart is nothing but a more insightful derivative chart of the 9th house. But don't we care more about the 7th house and the 7th lord for our prediction case.
Here is what needs to be understood.
The philosophy of astrological predictions is the answer to it.
Yes is true that spouse and marriage predictions are the subject of the 7th house. But if we understand it from the depth. We will know that the kind of marriage partner we will get much depends on our fortune than our free will. Because if you never come across a desired life partner, it is tough to say you will get such a partner. No matter if yours is an arranged marriage or a love marriage.
The 9th house is the house which says about our fortune and our destiny. So what we do is, instead of looking at the Saptamsa chart, which is a divisional chart derivative for the 7th house, we look at the Navamsa chart, the divisional chart of the 9th house.
The Life partner we get is due to our fortune of meeting them. Therefore, the 7th house of the Navamsa chart.
We try to see the person (the 7th house) we are supposed to meet by our fortune (the Navamsa).
This is the same as we see in the 5th house of Saptamsa chart for our children and grandchildren.
The reason is the same: The type of child you will have depend so much on your life partner, with whom you will have that child.
Conclusion - The Qualities of a Good Wife
The qualities of a good wife is a very subjective topic. Because it differs from person to person. But from our analysis what we have concluded is that if all the signals or most of the signals of marriage predictions are in your favour, you will end up with marital satisfaction and successful marriage.
If you are an astrologer you know how to check for accurate marriage predictions. If you are someone who wants to check the marriage prediction indicators for yourself, your can use our free marriage prediction web app, Spouse Indicator. After entering your birth details, go to the last section. There are a set of indicators if most of them or more than half of them are good, you will likely have a happy marriage and a good marital partner.
