The Seventh House

The seventh house rules a person’s relationships and partnerships, marriage, wife or husband, legal bondage, lawsuits, quarrels, divorce, open enemies. The seventh house rules any person with whom the one interacts that is ‘the other’ it can be colleague, client, layer, doctor or any one, the opponent. It also governs the niece and nephew. The seventh house is the “house of union or earthy ties”, it mostly means the marriage. Besides the life partner, the partner in business and the degree of success achieved through such partnership is also shown by this house. The seventh house also refers to all those with whom the native enters into any contract or agreement, those with whom the native is engaged in quarrels and comes into conflict, the native’s competitor in any undertaking, his rival in any contest. In a nut shell, the seventh house is said to indicate all those with whom the native transacts or deals in any manner. Fines, divorces, legal bondage, agreements, contracts etc. are other matters which are ruled by the seventh house. The seventh house shows break of journey. It is also one of the maraka or death inflicting houses the other being the second house. For common signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, the seventh house is also the bhadhak or life obstructing house.

This house refers to the seventh sign of the zodiac, Libra or Tula. The natural significator of the seventh house is the planet Venus. The parts of the body ruled by the seventh house are kidneys, middle and lower back and vertebrae. As per Mundane or State or Political Astrology, the seventh house is considered in matters pertaining to foreign affairs, relations with other countries, wars and international disputes, foreign and international trade, enmity as well as treaties and alliances, public reaction, the laws relating to partnerships, marriage and divorce. It governs all the matters signified by the external and overseas affairs ministry.