Bhavartha Ratnakara Part 20: Seventh House Indications | VedAstro
A modern English guide to the classical Vedic astrology text by Sri Ramanujacharya, translated and annotated by B.V. Raman.
Part 20 of 28
Chapter Vi
Seventh House Indications
If the lord of the 7th is combined with Shukra and has no malefic aspects or conjunctions, the person will have only one marriage
If the lord of the 7th is combined with malefics and malefics are in the 2nd and 7th.
If Venus occupies the 11th or is debilitated, if the 7th lord is in the 6th or in the 12th,
the native will have more than one wife. If malefics are in Lagna, then also the native will have more than one wife.
If Saturn, Mars and Venus occupy the 2nd, 7th, 8th, 4th and 12th, the person will have two wives.
Similar results have to be predicted if Mars is in the 2nd, 7th, 8th, 4th and 12th. If Jupiter is in the 2nd, the person will have a second wife late in life.
Astrologers say that a person will have two marriages if Saturn is in the 2nd or Rahu is in the 7th.
In Stanza 1 the author says that if the 7th lord and Venus are free from affliction the person will have only one marriage. In the next six stanzas combinations are given for two marriages. Whenever, in the course of translation, reference is made to more than one wife it should be taken to mean more than one marriage. It also implies a second marriage after the death of the first wife. The stanzas are simple enough and need no explanation at all. One important principle seems to emerge out from the above stanzas, that is unless the 7th lord and Venus are afflicted he will have no misery and cares arising from the 7th house indications. The 2nd house is equally important because it represents Kutumb or family. Thus in order to have
a smooth sailing in all affairs connected with family and wife, both the 2nd and 7th, their lords and Venus should be properly fortified.
If the 2nd and 7th are occupied by either the lords of the 2nd and 7th or Venus and if the 2nd and 7th are conjoined with or aspected by benefics, then the number of such benefics,
indicates the number of living wives the native will have, while only one wife will live if malefics join the above combination.
The above two stanzas are not difficult but are only confusing. Stanzas 8 and 9 comprehend the following combinations:
(a) If the lord of the 2nd is in the 2nd and is aspected by or combined with benefics.
(b) If the lord of the 7th is in the 7th and is aspected by or combined with benefics.
(c) If Venus is in the 2nd or 7th and aspected by or combined with benefics.
(d) If lords of 2nd and 7th are in the 2nd and 7th respectively and are aspected by or combined with benefics, then the number of living wives will correspond to the number of benefics in conjunction with or aspecting the above combinations. If, however, the planets aspecting the above combinations are malefics instead of benefics, then the native will have only one wife. This may mean that he may have only one surviving wife.
Astrologers say that if Venus is in the 7th with Saturn, the person will remain attached to his own wife.
Mercury in the 7th makes the person addicted to other women. Jupiter in the 7th renders the wife deeply devoted to him.
Astrologers say that if the lords of the 7th, 2nd and 10th are in the 4th the person will be addicted to other women.
The person becomes skilful if Rahu is in the 7th. Kethu in a similar situation makes the wife a shrew.
It is very difficult to define exactly the term ‘morality’. Moral values depend upon so many factors. In India, one is guilty of a moral lapse if he sexually unites with a woman other than his legal wife. In the West such a lapse is not really ignored.
The presence of Mercury in the 7th and the conjunction of the 2nd, 7th and 10th lords in the 4th are not conducive to make the person confine his sexual pleasures to his own wife.
Thus ends the Sixth Chapter entitled Seventh House Indications in Bhavartha Ratnakara of Sri Ramanujacharya.