Marriage in your kundli: the 7th house and the upapada

In short: In Vedic astrology, marriage is read from the 7th house, its lord and Venus (BPHS ch. 18), and from the upapada, the pada of the 12th house (ch. 30). The 7th lord in its own sign or exaltation gives full happiness from the wife (18.1); a malefic with the 7th house or its lord harms her, the more so when it is weak (18.16); the upapada in a benefic's sign, joined or aspected by benefics, gives full happiness from wife and sons (30.3–4). In a woman's chart, the rules of chapter 80 are read too.

Parāśara reads the spouse and married life from the 7th house, its lord and Venus (chapter 18), and again from the upapada, the pada of the 12th house (chapter 30). Your reading checks both and shows where they agree and where they clash.

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The 7th house

When the lord of the 7th is in its own sign or in its exaltation, declare full happiness from the wife.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra 18.1

When the lord of the 7th is strong and joined or aspected by benefics, the native is wealthy, honoured, and endowed with happiness and good fortune.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra 18.4

When the 7th house or its lord is joined with a malefic, declare harm to his wife; especially so when (it) is weak.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra 18.16

The upapada

The upapada is the ārūḍha (pada) of the 12th house. The text reads marriage from it as well as from the 7th.

When it is in a benefic's sign, joined or aspected by benefics, full happiness from sons and wife arises.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra 30.3–4

If the 2nd from the upārūḍha is aspected by benefics, is a benefic's sign, or is joined by a benefic, the result told before holds.

Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra 30.7

A woman's chart

The verses are worded for a man. Chapter 80 gives the rules read in a woman's chart; mark 'female' on the form and those are checked too.

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Questions

Does this do kundli matching?

Yes, as its own screen, open with any plan: Guṇa milan matches two charts by the eight kūṭas and 36 guṇas of Muhūrta Chintāmaṇi. The reading itself covers what one chart says about marriage, by the rules of the text.

Will it tell me when I will marry?

The reading gives the likely times: the sub-periods (antardaśās) in which the classical rules for marriage come into force in your chart, within the years of marriage, each with its verse. It does not give a single date, and horoAstro does not invent one.

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