Pati, Patni aur Jyotish - [Husband, wife and Astrology]

By Sri Chiraan 2008/10/24

One of the astrological principle is , if the two people involved have friendly moon signs or ascendants , they become good friends, relationship between them is harmonious and happy. According to astrology seventh sign is that which describes wife. Seventh lord if it is friendly to ascendant lord then husband and wife will be coherent. But strangely no sign in astrology has its seventh as a friendly sign.

1. Aries < Libra               neutral/neutral
2. Taurus < Scorpio        neutral/neutral
3. Gemini < Sagittarius  enemy/enemy
4. Cancer < Capricorn    neutral/enemy
5. Leo  < Aquarius           enemy/enemy
6. Virgo < Pisces              enemy/enemy

Thus we can see nowhere friendship is found between the two signs showing this relationship can never be friendly and harmonious except when Aries / Libra Taurus / Scorpio pair have in their respective horoscopes, Venus and mars within four signs. This would make them temporary friends, and man woman can have very happy life. Incidentally, Aries / Scorpio is ruled by mars and Libra / Taurus belongs to Venus. So it is only Venus and Mars pairs that can get happy in a marriage, all others brave a at the most neutral relationship with either one of them dominating. This is perhaps a great balance levered by God to induce a person to seek other world, else man would never ever want to leave this world, when he is happy with his wife. He would like to have his time freeze forever. So what are a happy marriage combinations?

1. seventh lord exalted in kendra
2. aspect of Jupiter on seventh house
3. arudha lord and upapada lord in mutual angles
4. Jupiter in second from upapada
5. Jupiter and Moon in seventh from  karkamsa
6. Venus exalted/own house in other than seventh.
7. Venus seventh lord and seventh in Navamsa well disposed.

moon in the seventh house gives shy and soft spoken wife . Sun gives wife who is always ready to pack bags to her mother’s house. Mars gives a short tempered wife. Mercury gives  a clever and communicative  wife. Jupiter gives a pious, knowledged and well mannered wife. Venus gives a voluptuous wife with very attractive features but spoils happiness in  married life. Saturn gives if placed well a religious wife, if otherwise a sickly woman, if afflicted, an elder woman as wife.

Mars in seventh and fourth if unaspected by Jupiter shortens  marital  life. Saturn denies marriage. Saturn with Venus, aspect of Saturn on seventh or Rahu in seventh delays marriage. association of Ketu with Venus or seventh brings many obstacles in marriage. A  good wife indicates a person also enjoys good food . If somebody has abundance of Ghee and butter it indicates he will invariably marry a good girl . Those who eat in golden plates marry well. Those who are happy in marriage are also successful in transactions, travels, and almost always recover lost wealth. Marriages happen only by the will of destiny, when marriage yoga occurs irrespective of time, position and wealth ,marriages takes place. Like Draupadi marrying unknown, ordinary appearing, men; who had won her swayamvar.

King Drupad worried as to who had won the hand of his daughter, sent his son Dhrustadhyumna to spy on the Pandavas in disguise. (Pandavas were thought as dead in Laksha graha , their last rites were also performed ). Dhrushtdhyumna finds that these men, though looking like ordinary people, were speaking extraordinarily and their gaits were kingly yet they were wearing a dress of brahmins, but living like ordinary peasants. To test them Drupad prepares four houses suitable for four castes.

1. one with all the stores of articles for homa and yagnya
2. second with arms and the articles of  weaponry
3. third full of wealth/cattle
4. last full of grains and pots

Pandavas enter second one ,giving immense pleasure to Drupad ,who asks why they were living a simple life when they were kshatriyas. To this Yudhistira replied “oh King you had not declared swayamwar only for kshatriyas ,ordinary men could also take part. Now are you repenting that? ”

Then Yudhistira told they were Pandavas ,to give immense pleasure to Drupad. Though a King, Pandavas married every time they were either in exile or forest, in ordinary circumstances.

One should marry good people, giving preference to the qualities rather than pomp and show. King Manu gave away his daughter  to a Hermit in the forest ,after he came to know that he was the best in the qualities, instead of giving his daughter to a prince. Princess served her husband for many years in forest without having any  pleasure since rishi was engaged in penance. Both grew older and when rishi realised he had not given any happiness to his wife ad they had got older now , he acquired youth through penance for both himself and wife and enjoyed bodily pleasures for hundred thousand years by creating palaces , gardens, rivers through his mystical powers. and in the process creating the entire clan of human mankind. Thus is told the story of first man and woman who procreated many folds thus fortifying the belief of MANU.

sri krishnarpanamastu