🌌 Marriage Match-making using Navamsha ( D-9)

Planets govern every aspect of human life. The association of planets with houses related to a particular aspect of life tells us about how that particular stage of life will go for the native. Let us consider 3 major aspects of human life and see what planets tell us.

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📚 Education

Education is judged by houses 2-4-5-9, and the following are the general results of planets associated with these houses:

Note: Besides Ketu (☋), there is no other planet that, if strong and in the relevant house, could generally be considered a negative influence for education.

💼 Career

The prime house of career is the 10th house, and the general result of planets associated with the 10th house gives the following results:

• 🚀 Strong Mars: Gives an excellent career.
•       Strong Saturn is very important for  career as it owns the 10th House
• 👑 Strong Sun: Gives a reputation in Career.
• 📊 Strong Mercury: Gives analytical careers.
• 🎓 Strong Jupiter: Gives a career in teaching.
• 🌊 Strong Moon: Give a career related to nourishment.
• 🎭 Strong Rahu: Gives tricks to excel in career.
• ✨ Strong Venus: Gives a luxurious workplace or sophisticated work.

Again, except Ketu in general, most of the planets associated with the 10th house indicate the type of career, and if they are strong and the native pursues the career, he will get success and happiness.

💍 Marriage

The prime house of marriage is the 7th house. Let us see what the planets associated with the 7th house do:

• ☀️ Strong Sun: Gives arrogance and indicates separation (Sun is debilitated in the 7th house).
• 🔥 Strong Mars: Gives aggression and indicates disputes.
• 👥 Strong Mercury: Gives duality and multiple marriages.
• 🌪️ Rahu and Ketu: Are separative planets.
• 🌊 Strong Moon: Makes the native emotional; in the sign of balance, not considered good.
• ⚖️ Strong Jupiter: Makes a person too idealistic to enjoy the pleasure of marriage.
• 🌸 Strong Venus: Though being in its own house, is near its debilitation and not considered very good.

Saturn (♄) is the only planet that exalts in the 7th house. Saturn is a Natural malefic, cold planet; hence, it gives a stable but very cold and indifferent marriage.

🧐 The Astrological Reality of Partnerships

What we observe from the above is that, unlike Education and Career, where the majority of planets provide strong support to the Native, for Marriages, if associated withthe  7th house, no planet can be considered excellent for a happy married life.

Add to it that here we have to analyse the horoscopes of 2 people, which means the probability of a happy married life further gets reduced. Both partners can be happy only if those planets that are partly good for marriage are associated with the 7th house. This means both partners should have Moon, Venus, or Jupiter in the 7th house and also should not have a very strong influence, which is a very limited probability.

What do we conclude from this?

1. Planets support individuals but do not support partnerships. Partnerships in general, and marriages in particular, are not favored by any planet. Being individualistic is natural; entering a partnership is an arrangement that could give happiness only if it can fulfill individual ambitions.
2. Saturn’s Role: Because Saturn exalts here, marriages are not meant to make the natives happy; they are a duty to maintain order in society.

Delination of a Horoscope for Marriage

Let us consider the following horoscope

In the Above chart, the lord of the 2nd and 7 th house has moved to the 11th house, meaning the marriage is going to give gains to the Native

Let us consider another chart

In this chart, the lord of the 2nd and 7 th has moved to the 6th house, indicating that the marriage would be troublesome for the Native.

Thus, given a choice, a  Native would be willing to enter and stay in a Partnership or marriage only if they are getting gains and not problems from the partnership or marriage.

 As “Desh, Patr, and Kaal” change in contemporary India, the institution of marriage has moved away from a very strong Saturn (Societal) focus. Marriages in the 80s and 90’s had a limited scope of individual choices and fulfillments, and most of the time it was about fulfilling family or social duty.

How to select a partner

Traditionally, matching moon sign and sign lord is the criteria as one cannot stay in a partnership or can not enjoy a partnership if there is a natural difference in the core values among the partners. The Idea being, even if the partners do not stand to gain anything significant from the partnership, they can still fulfill the societal duty of bringing up the next generation without a strong mental trauma of dealing with an individual they are completely at odds with

As things change the natives approaching an Astrologer are no longer satisfied with merely the basics and look forward to a more fulfilling lives by understanding themselves better. Thus a more elaborate guidance is expected from an astrologer..

🔭 Spouse Selection via Navmansh (D-9)

To see what the core desires of a native are when he chooses a spouse, we have to look for the Ascendant of the Navmansh (D-9).These are the core expectations other than the primary matching criteria that an Individual looks for when he wants to enter into a partnership of marriage.

Similarly if these requirements are understood and taken care of by the spouse it can ensure a reasonably fulfilling married life

In Conclusion

Marriages are an important aspect of life, and of utmost importance to maintain order in society. However, no planet by itself supports partnerships or marriages. It is the duty of the astrologer to advise in the best interest of the native so that their personal requirement is fulfilled out of marriage and they remain satisfied, and also fulfill the social obligation of bringing up the next generation in a harmonious and stable environment. 

📝 Summary

Marriages are an important aspect of life and of utmost importance to maintain order in society. However, no planet by itself supports partnerships.

• Marriages are a Saturnian Duty: They are a social arrangement for transferring generational values in a stable environment.

• Personal Fulfillment: Happiness comes when partners derive individual satisfaction alongside fulfilling societal codes.

• The Astrologer’s Role: To advise so that the native’s personal requirements are met while fulfilling the social obligation of guiding generational change in a stable environment.