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7th House (Bhava) · Relationships · Vedic Astrology · Astrovene
The seventh house is about joining. Marriage, the spouse, business partnership, contracts and dealings with the public are read here. Its natural karaka is Venus, and in the natural zodiac it corresponds to Libra, which Venus also rules.
It sits directly opposite the lagna and is one of the four angles. If the first house is the person, the seventh is the other party they face. That single idea is why marriage, commercial partnership and public dealing share a house: each is an arrangement between two sides on equal footing.
By classification the seventh carries an overlap no other house does. It is a kendra and also a maraka, the only house that belongs to both. Being one of the four pillars of the chart and being paired with the second in the maraka group are both true of it at once.
Maraka is a doctrine about a lord's periods, holding that the dasha of the second or seventh lord asks for more care than usual. It is not a prediction and not a verdict on what the house signifies. Being an angle, the seventh lord also falls under the kendradhipati blemish.
The seventh lord answers to two classifications at once, angle and maraka, and its placement is weighed under both. Where it sits names the setting in which a joining happens: through work from the tenth, at a distance from the twelfth, inside the household from the fourth. The same lord anchors anything counted from the spouse rather than from the person, which is why partnership questions keep returning to it.
No reading of marriage stops at the seventh house. The tradition takes the ninth divisional chart, the condition of Venus and the placement of the seventh lord together, precisely because a single house is too narrow a base for a judgement of that weight.