Marital Happiness

MARITAL alliance has the sanction of nature. The affection between mother and son, brother and sister, husband and wife, is the offshoot of nature's law. Any attempt to interfere with this law is fraught with dangerous consequences for the human race. Imagine what would happen to our world if mutual hatred developed on a mass scale between men and women! This can happen in those human societies which drift away from nature and live an artificial life. Hinduism, as it has been practiced for thousands of years, is a way of life that is closest to natural living. Consequently it has survived all the onslaughts on it and fathered very many sects. It permits an individual to live his life according to his own conviction and faith.
The prescription of age of marriage for the girl and the boy calls for a deeper examination. It is claimed that the age of 18 years for the girl and 21 years for the boy are prescribed on medical grounds. Yet, in the climate of our country girls become capable of producing a child at the age 14-15 years. Abhimanyu had sown the seed for the birth of Parikshit even while he was under sixteen years in age. Thus, there is nothing sacrosanct or scientific in prescribing the above ages for marriage. A scientific approach to the solution of this problem would be that both the boy and the girl should go in for medical check up before entering into matrimonial alliance or, for that matter, consummating their marriage.
In the past, tallying the birth charts of the boy and the girl played a decisive role in fixing arranged marriages. This was done by the family priest-astrologer whose opinion was final. Other considerations were secondary. Physical fitness, mental qualities, heredity, sexual compatibility, social and economic status were the main factors kept in view. The charts were examined from the point of view of longevity of the bride and the bride groom, their character, progeny and financial prosperity. The guiding principle was to ensure that good points indicated in one chart were not cancelled by the bad ones in the other chart while the evil indications in one were reduced by good factors in the other as far as possible. Elaborate rules depending on various kutas were employed in matching the two horoscopes.
I would suggest that it is not enough to match kutas. the role of the malefic Grahas viz. the Sun, Mars, Saturn and Rahu should be carefully examined in the two charts. Below are given some adverse combinations.
Widowhood: Rahu posited in the sign of Aries or Scorpio ruled by Mars or occupying the 7th, 8th or 12th house. In the bridegroom's chart, if Rahu occupies the 7th house, the bride might suffer continuous ill health. If the ruler of the 7th house is in the 8th house and the lord of the latter is posited in the 7th house joined or aspected by malefic Grahas, the bride would be widowed. The same would be the result if lords of the 7th and 8th houses occupying the 6th or the 12th house with malefics. The bride might become widow in the 8th year if the Moon is posited in the 6th or 8th house. When Mars is posited in the 7th or the 8th house with malefics, widowhood is indicated. Malefic Grahas in girl's chart posited in the 7th house are not conducive for happy married life.
Poverty: The Sun and Mars posited in Cancer in the 7th house indicate poverty. Similar result occurs when 12th lord is posited in the ascendant and the ascendant lord is in the 12th house. Exchange of the 11th and 12th lords is also not conducive for financial savings.
Children: The Sun posited in the 7th house in a fiery sign makes the girl barren. She may be neglected by her husband. Jupiter or Venus occupying the 8th house may cause miscarriages. If the ascendant is Aries, Scorpio, Capricorn or Aquarius; the Moon is joined by Venus and aspected by malefics, the woman is incapable of conception. 5th house vitiated by three malefics by occupation or aspect and devoid of Jupiter's influence makes both husband and wife incapable of producing a child.


Adultery: When ascendant and the Moon are both in moveable signs, strong malefics are posited in Kendra, not with benefics. Jupiter and Venus occupy common signs and do not aspect malefics, the girl may not be faithful to her husband. If both the ascendant and the Moon fall in moveable signs and also the ascendant lord, chastity of the girl becomes doubtful. Conjunction of Mars and Venus or their mutual aspect raises doubts about the character of both the bride and the bridegroom. If the ascendant in the girl's chart falls in Aries, Scorpio, Capricorn or Aquarius with Venus or the Moon posited in the ascendant, or Saturn occupies the 7th house, or Mars happens to be in the 8th house, the chastity of the girl becomes doubtful. The Sun's position in the 8th house in the girl's chart is also not desirable.
The marital alliance is not compatible if Kuja Dosha is present in one chart and absent in the other unless it gets cancelled due to other factors. Such an alliance brings unhappiness and separation.It must be emphasized that the bad features described above get eliminated under Jupiter's benign influences. For example, if 7th house is occupied by Mars who is aspected by Jupiter, then the couple get every happiness. In this yoga even the Kuja Dosha gets cancelled.
When the Moon joins Jupiter or Mercury, many Doshas get eliminated. Therefore, in matching the two charts the role of benefic planets must be kept in mind.
The role of Rahu is invariably dubious. Usually, he harms the Karakatva of the house in which he is posited and yields results of the Grahas whose Rasi he occupies. Still Rahu can give prosperity and success during his period and sub-period when posited in the 4th, 5th, 7th and 10th house. In many charts, I have noticed Rahu causing mental problems when posited in the ascendant; abortions or unhappiness from some child when he is in the 5th house; late and unhappy marriage when he is in the 7th house.
Thus, under the above description 10th house seems to be the desirable place for Rahu's position. In the 11th house also he yields favourable results, especially in the signs of Cancer, Gemini, Taurus and Virgo. Rahu loses much of his evil effect when posited in the 12th house from the Moon.
If the 7th and 8th houses, both from the ascendant and the Moon are free from malefic influence, one could expect marital happiness for the girl, provided the Kutas tally well. Otherwise suitable remedial measures should be taken by propitiating the Grahas at the time of marriage.


(Condensed from The Times of Astrology, January, 1990)