Ask Your Chart: Love and Marriage

A Vedic chart does not hold one answer to a relationship question. It holds five, they are computed by five different methods, and they usually name five different planets.

The five are your 7th house lord, Venus, the ruler of your navamsha rising sign, your Darakaraka and the ruler of your Upapada. Each is defined below. Across 100,000 charts computed on AstroMedha's own engine, those five pointers named five distinct planets in 13.87% of charts, four in 50.15%, three in 32.29% and two in 3.65%. All five collapsed onto a single planet in 0.04% of charts, which is four charts in ten thousand.

So in 96.31% of charts, a relationship question has at least three different planets pointing at it. Anyone who answers such a question from one of them, and most published astrology answers it from the 7th house alone, has picked one witness out of five and not told you the other four exist.

That is what this page is for. It gives you the method for all five, the base rates that tell you whether your own finding is unusual or ordinary, and two real charts read end to end. Everything is sidereal, computed with the Lahiri ayanamsa, which is the calculation behind every free tool on this site. If you know your sign from a Western horoscope, that is a tropical sign and sits about 24 degrees away from the one used here, so it will usually name a different sign entirely.

The five pointers, in one table

The reason these disagree is that they are computed from different things. The 7th lord depends only on your rising sign. Venus is the same significator in every chart ever cast. The navamsha lagna depends on the exact degree of your ascendant, so it moves every 13 minutes and 20 seconds of clock time. The Darakaraka depends on the degree-in-sign ranking of seven planets. The Upapada depends on where your 12th lord sits. Five independent inputs give five independent answers, and the reading is the argument between them.

Here is how often each pair happens to land on the same planet, over the same 100,000 charts:

Nine of the ten pairs sit near one in seven, which is what you would expect if the two methods were picking planets independently. The last row is the interesting one. The 7th lord and the Upapada lord agree less often than chance would give you, because the Upapada is derived from the 12th house and its lord is structurally pushed away from the 7th. That is the pair worth computing when you already know your 7th lord: nine times out of ten the Upapada hands you a second name.

Start here: your 7th house, from your rising sign

Your lagna, which is the sign that was on the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born, fixes the whole frame. Houses in this system are whole-sign, so the entire rising sign is your 1st house, the next sign is your 2nd, and your 7th house is the sign directly opposite your lagna. The planet that rules that opposite sign is your 7th lord, and it is the single most-used pointer in Vedic marriage reading.

You can read it off this table without any calculation. The 2nd and 11th lords are here too, because they matter for a reason given further down.

If you do not know your birth time, read the table from your Moon sign instead of your lagna. Houses then count from the Moon rather than from the horizon. This is the standard fallback and it is what AstroMedha's own marriage reading does when a birth time is missing, because the Moon sign is fixed by the date and roughly the hour while the lagna changes every two hours. It is a coarser frame and it is a real one. Your Moon sign is on the free rashi tool and your lagna is on the free kundli tool.

Two lagnas are worth calling out because they surprise people. Leo rising and Cancer rising both get Saturn as the 7th lord, and Saturn has a reputation that frightens people who have read one article about it. Saturn ruling your 7th house is not a problem in itself. It is a description: partnership arrives through duty, endurance and time rather than through spark, and it tends to hold once made. What decides whether that description is good news is the condition Saturn is in, which is the next section.

What "condition" means, and the four dignities

Every pointer above is a planet, and a planet's answer is only as strong as the sign it is standing in. That strength is called dignity, and there are four states:

• Exalted, meaning the planet is in the one sign where it is strongest.
• Own sign, meaning it rules the sign it is sitting in.
• Debilitated, meaning the sign opposite its exaltation, where it is weakest.
• Neutral, which is everything else, and which is most of the time.

Here is how often your 7th lord lands in each, across the 100,000 charts:

Seven charts in ten have a neutral 7th lord, so a neutral finding is the ordinary case and tells you almost nothing on its own. That is why the reading moves on to where the lord sits rather than stopping at what state it is in.

A debilitated 7th lord is the finding people panic about, and it is worth being precise about what it does and does not mean. It appears in 7.72% of charts, which is about one person in thirteen. It does not deny marriage. What it means is that the marriage axis is not self-starting: it needs a supportive planetary period and a real remedy rather than good timing alone. Chart B further down has exactly this, and the same chart has that debilitated planet exalted in the D9, which reverses most of the finding. A debility read without the D9 is half a reading.

Where your 7th lord actually sits

The house your 7th lord occupies is the second coordinate, and it is the one that turns a generic answer into your answer. Across 100,000 charts it lands close to evenly, between 7.84% and 9.13% per house, with the 12th house the most common at 9.13% and the 6th and 8th the least at 7.84% each. No house is rare and no house is a verdict.

The cell most people search for is the 7th lord sitting in the 7th house itself, which happens in 7.95% of charts. That placement means the ruler of partnership is at home in the house of partnership, and the classical reading is that the marriage forms on its own terms rather than being pulled into shape by another department of life. AstroMedha has a full page on that one cell: 7th house lord in the 7th house.

The other eleven cells are the same question with a different answer, and they are the natural shape for this subject. In the 29 days before 23 August 2026, the bare head term "7th house lord" brought this site 1,901 impressions and 5 clicks at an average position of 9.3, while the computed cell "7th lord in 7th house" brought 442 impressions and 11 clicks at position 4.7. The reader who has already worked out their lagna and found their lord is asking a different question from the reader who typed three words, and only the first one clicks.

What sits in the 7th house

A planet occupying your 7th house colours partnership directly, and half of everyone has nobody there at all. Over 100,000 charts the 7th house was empty in 49.91% of them, held exactly one planet in 32.51%, two in 12.43%, and three or more in 5.14%.

An empty 7th house is therefore the ordinary case, not a deficiency, and it moves the reading onto the 7th lord instead. This is the most common false alarm in amateur chart reading: someone opens their kundli, sees nothing in the 7th, and concludes the chart has no marriage in it. Half the population would have to draw the same conclusion.

The nine grahas share those 7th-house placements almost equally between them, from 10.90% of them for Jupiter to 11.33% for the Moon, which per chart is about one in twelve for each. At least one malefic, meaning Saturn, Mars, Rahu, Ketu or the Sun, sits in the 7th in 35.19% of charts, and at least one of Jupiter, Venus, Mercury or the Moon in 27.68%. So a malefic in the 7th turns up in more than one chart in three, which makes it an ordinary finding rather than a rare warning. What it means then depends on that planet's own dignity and on what else reaches the house.

Saturn or Ketu in the 7th carries a specific name in the engine's own reading: the delay signature. Both worked charts below have one. The reading attached to it is that marriage tends to arrive later than the people around you expect, and to be steadier when it does. That is a description of pace, and pace is the thing most readers actually came to ask about.

Venus, and why "Venus is well placed" is not a reading

Venus is the karaka of marriage in every chart that has ever been cast, which is what makes it different from the 7th lord. The 7th lord changes with your rising sign. Venus does not. It is the significator of the wife and of marriage itself, and in a woman's chart Jupiter additionally carries the husband, so both are read as significators. AstroMedha's reading applies Jupiter's husband layer only when it has been told whose chart it is, and says so in the output rather than assuming.

The trap with Venus is that it has at least four independent conditions and most readings check one. Here are all four, with how often each turns up:

Those conditions are independent of each other, and they can point in opposite directions in the same chart. Chart A below has Venus in Taurus, its own sign, which every quick reading would call strong. The same Venus is 1.7 degrees from the Sun and therefore combust, it is retrograde, and it is debilitated in the navamsha. One condition says strong and three say compromised. Reporting only the first one would not be wrong about the sign; it would be wrong about the reader.

Combustion deserves a sentence of its own because it is the condition most often skipped. A planet is combust when it sits so close to the Sun that it cannot act freely, and Venus has the tightest orb of the seven at 10 degrees. Venus is never far from the Sun to begin with, which is why 15.14% of charts have it burnt, and that is roughly one person in seven. The reading is not that the marriage fails. It is that the significator's expression is muffled, so what it promises tends to arrive through the Sun's departments, which are status, the father, and public position, rather than on its own.

The D9, which is where the answer often changes

The navamsha, usually written D9, is a divisional chart, meaning a second chart derived by splitting every sign into nine equal parts of 3 degrees 20 minutes and mapping each part onto a full sign. It is the chart the tradition assigns to marriage specifically, and the rule of thumb is that the birth chart shows the promise while the D9 shows the delivery.

That rule earns its keep. Over 100,000 charts, Venus is strong in the birth chart (exalted or in its own sign) but not strong in the D9 in 22.03% of charts, and strong in the D9 but not in the birth chart in 17.95%. So the two charts disagree about whether your marriage significator is strong in 39.98% of cases, which is two charts in five. A reading that stops at the birth chart has a two-in-five chance of telling you the opposite of what the marriage chart says.

The direction of the disagreement matters as much as its size. Venus debilitated in the birth chart but exalted or own-sign in the D9 happens in 1.63% of charts, and that is the case where a frightening-looking birth chart is quietly corrected by the chart that governs the subject. It is uncommon, and if it is yours it is the most important line in your reading.

Here is Venus by dignity in both charts, side by side:

Your 7th lord gets the same treatment, and lands at 69.05% neutral, 14.56% own sign, 8.15% exalted and 8.24% debilitated in the D9.

Two further D9 facts are worth having. A planet is vargottama when it occupies the same sign in the birth chart and in the D9, which is treated as a strong confirmation because both charts agree. Venus is vargottama in 11.37% of charts and the 7th lord in 11.42%, so roughly one chart in nine gets that confirmation on either count. And the D9 has its own 7th lord, computed from the D9 rising sign, which turns out to be the same planet as the birth chart's 7th lord in 16.66% of charts. In the other 83%, you have a sixth name that nobody told you about.

AstroMedha's page on the divisional chart itself is D9 Navamsa chart: marriage and the spouse, which covers how the ninth parts are constructed.

The Darakaraka, the pointer that describes a person

The four pointers so far describe the marriage. The Darakaraka describes the person. It comes from the Jaimini system, a second branch of Vedic astrology that ranks the seven planets from Sun to Saturn by their degree within their own sign, highest first, and assigns each rank a role. The seventh and lowest is the karaka of the spouse.

AstroMedha pins the seven-karaka scheme. Schools that add Rahu produce an eight-karaka ranking and a different Darakaraka, so the choice is stated rather than implied. The ranking is computed from exact sidereal degrees, not from the rounded two-decimal degree, because rounding to 36 arcseconds made ties frequent enough that the spouse karaka was occasionally decided by which planet's name sorted first.

The distribution is close to even, with one exception:

Jupiter is the least likely spouse karaka at 10.19%, noticeably below the even share of 14.29%. Jupiter moves slowly and covers each sign over roughly a year, which changes the distribution of its degree-in-sign relative to the fast movers, and the lowest-degree rank is the one that distribution feeds. Nothing interpretive follows from the rarity; it is a fact about the arithmetic that is worth knowing before someone tells you a Jupiter Darakaraka is a special blessing because it is rare.

The Darakaraka is the same planet as the 7th lord in 14.05% of charts and is Venus in 14.49%. When either happens, that planet is doing two jobs and its condition matters roughly twice as much, which is exactly what happens in chart B below.

The Upapada, the pointer almost nobody computes

The Upapada Lagna is the arudha pada of your 12th house. An arudha pada is a reflection point: you count from a house to its ruling planet, then count that same distance again from the planet, and the sign you land on is the pada. The 12th house is what you give away, and marriage in the classical framing is the giving away of the self, which is why the 12th house's reflection is read for the marriage rather than the 12th house itself.

The AstroMedha engine has no upapada function, so the arudha arithmetic for this page runs in the page's own script on engine sign indices and lordships. The full three-step method, the exception rule and the worked derivations are on Upapada Lagna and what it says about my marriage. Two things from it are needed here.

The exception fires more often than people expect. If the pada lands on the 12th sign itself or the 7th sign from it, it moves on to the 10th sign from that pada. Over the 100,000 charts here, that correction fires in 33.28% of them. A calculator that skips it is wrong about one chart in three, and it will be wrong about the sign, the ruling planet and the house all at once.

Your Upapada can only land in six of your twelve houses. The arithmetic forces it into the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 9th or 10th, and the observed shares are 16.35%, 16.61%, 16.50%, 17.03%, 16.67% and 16.84%, close to an even sixth each. The other six houses returned zero charts out of 100,000. If a report has put your Upapada in your 7th house, it has made an arithmetic error.

The Upapada lord's dignity distribution is 69.05% neutral, 12.59% own sign, 10.02% exalted and 8.35% debilitated, so it behaves like every other pointer: mostly ordinary, occasionally decisive.

Mangal Dosha, and the reason it sits this far down the page

Mangal Dosha, also called Manglik or Kuja Dosha, is the most feared label in Indian marriage astrology and the least useful thing on this page. Two measured facts explain why.

It applies to about two thirds of everybody. The rule the engine applies is Mars in the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th or 12th house, counted from the Lagna or from the Moon. Over 100,000 charts, that fires on 65.72% of them. Mars lands in each of the twelve houses at close to an even rate, the rule names five of the twelve, and it gets two independent chances to fire, so two thirds is simply what the arithmetic produces. Of the charts that do trigger, 36.89% trigger from the Lagna only, 36.78% from the Moon only, and 26.33% from both.

That number will look different from the one AstroMedha already publishes on How common is Mangal Dosha, which reports 75.0%, and the difference is worth explaining rather than leaving to look like a contradiction. The published page uses the six-house set that includes the 2nd house. The engine narrowed its own trigger to five houses on 6 August 2026, because the 2nd house belongs to the South-Indian Kuja set rather than the mainstream North-Indian one, and including it produced a verified false positive on a real user who knows his own status. Re-running the wider six-house set over this page's own 100,000 charts returns 74.82%, which matches the published page. Same rule, two house sets, both numbers correct for the set they name. The 2nd house is still computed and reported in every AstroMedha reading as a secondary note; it just no longer sets the verdict on its own.

People barely ask about it. Of the 721 relationship questions real users have typed into AstroMedha's Chart Chat, 5 mention Mangal Dosha. Five. The fear is almost entirely supply-side: it comes from matchmaking, not from the person holding the chart.

Where the label does still matter is in a matching conversation with someone else's family, and there the useful facts are the cancellations. Classical practice treats the dosha as neutralised when both partners carry it, when Mars is in its own or exalted sign, and when Mars is with or aspected by Jupiter. Of the charts the engine flags, 23.95% carry a cancellation on the engine's own test, which is 15.74% of all charts. The tradition is full of cancellations because a label covering two thirds of the population needs them.

If this is your live question, the free Mangal Dosha check runs the rule on your own chart and names which reference point fires, and Mangal Dosha in matching covers what happens when two charts are compared.

The dasha decides when, and it never says yes

Everything so far is structure, and structure has no dates on it. Dates come from the Vimshottari dasha, the 120-year cycle of planetary periods that starts from the exact position of your Moon at birth. Each period is ruled by one planet, and the classical reading is that a planet delivers the results of the houses it rules and the significations it carries when its own period runs.

So the timing question reduces to a specific test: during a given period, is the ruling planet one of the planets that carries a marriage signification in your chart? AstroMedha's engine builds that signification list from nine sources: the 7th lord, anything occupying the 7th, Venus as karaka, the navamsha lagna lord, the Darakaraka, the 2nd lord (family, the household the marriage creates), the 11th lord (a desire fulfilled), the 7th lord's dispositor, and any planet sharing a sign with the 7th lord. That is why the 2nd and 11th lords were in the lookup table at the top.

Over 20,000 charts, the number of planets carrying at least one marriage signification comes out at 5 in 35.09% of charts, 6 in 31.44%, 4 in 16.38%, 7 in 12.60%, and 3 or 8 in the remaining 4.5%. So a typical chart has five or six of its nine grahas marked, out of nine.

That has a consequence people find surprising, and it is the most useful thing on this page for anyone who has been told to wait for their window. Measured across the same 20,000 charts, over the stretch from age 18 to age 45:

The median person spends about two thirds of their marrying years inside a supportive antardasha, and about four years in ten with both levels supportive at the same time. The longest continuous stretch in which neither level signifies runs a median of 2.10 years, with a 90th percentile of 4.67 years and a maximum across all 20,000 charts of 11.55 years.

Read that carefully, because it cuts both ways. The reassuring half is that a genuinely silent decade is close to unheard of; most people are never more than about two years from a period their own chart supports. The demanding half is that a supportive period cannot be the whole answer, because most of your life is one. A dasha is permission, not an event.

What separates a strong window from a merely permitted one is how many significations the ruling planets carry and how strong those planets are, which is what AstroMedha's scoring does, and then whether a transit lands on the axis at the same time. Classical practice treats Jupiter crossing your 7th house, or the 7th from your Moon, as the trigger that lands a marriage when the running period already supports it. A dasha alone is permission and a transit alone is weather. The event is read where the two coincide, and both worked charts below print those overlaps with dates on them.

Chart A, read end to end

Born 14 June 1988 at 07:40 in Mumbai. This is the same chart used on the Darakaraka page, so the two readings can be checked against each other. Every value below is engine output, computed on 26 August 2026.

The lagna is Gemini at 21.28 degrees, in Punarvasu nakshatra, which is one of the 27 lunar mansions the zodiac is divided into. The navamsha rising sign is Aries, ruled by Mars.

The five pointers for this chart

• 7th house: Sagittarius. 7th lord: Jupiter, in Aries, in the 11th house, neutral dignity, direct motion.
• Venus: Taurus, its own sign, in the 12th house, retrograde, combust at 1.7 degrees, and debilitated in the navamsha.
• Navamsha lagna lord: Mars, in Aquarius, in the 9th house, own sign in the D9.
• Darakaraka: Saturn, in Sagittarius, in the 7th house.
• Upapada: the 12th house holds Taurus, its lord Venus sits in Taurus itself, so the count is one and the raw pada lands back on Taurus. That is the 12th sign, so the exception fires and moves it nine signs on to Aquarius, the 9th house, ruled by Saturn.

So the five pointers name four distinct planets: Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars. Saturn is named twice, once as Darakaraka and once as Upapada lord, and it also occupies the 7th house. When one planet holds three of the six roles, it is the planet the reading is about.

What the chart says, and what it costs

The engine scores this marriage axis at 49 out of 100, in the Moderate band, and prints both sides of the arithmetic.

Supporting it: the 7th lord Jupiter sits in the 11th house, which is a supportive placement that keeps partnership in the working part of the chart; and Venus, the marriage karaka, is in its own sign Taurus.

Working against it: Saturn sits in the 7th house, which is the classical delay signature; and Venus is debilitated in the navamsha, the chart that governs marriage specifically.

Now add the conditions a quick reading would have missed. That own-sign Venus is also retrograde and 1.7 degrees from the Sun, and Mercury and the Moon are burnt alongside it in the same 12th house. Four planets sit in the 12th, which is the house of expenditure, retreat and letting go. The Moon is exalted there and still combust at 3.5 degrees. So the chart's strongest-looking placements are all standing in its most self-effacing house, and all but one of them is under the Sun's glare. The honest summary is that this chart's warmth is real and is not easily visible from outside, which is a description a reader can actually use.

The delay signature is the practical finding. Saturn in the 7th and Saturn as the spouse karaka, both at once, says the same thing twice: this marriage is built out of endurance rather than spark, and it does not arrive on the schedule the family around the person expects.

The timing, computed

On 26 August 2026 this chart is running:

This is the running dasha lord's relationship to the 7th, made concrete. The sixteen-year period is run by the 7th lord itself, which is the strongest form of permission a chart gives. The sub-period inside it is run by a planet with nothing to do with marriage in this chart, which is why the last year has been quiet despite the mahadasha. The current pratyantar, the third and shortest level, is run by the planet that holds two marriage roles, and it closes on 14 September 2026.

The scored windows, from the scan across ages 18 to 45:

The engine's age band for this chart is 39 to 42, anchored on the Saturn/Saturn window, and it states plainly that the peak at ages 25 to 28 has already passed. That is the answer a chart owes a 38-year-old who asks this question, and sliding the band forward to wherever the person happens to be now would make for a nicer read and a useless one. A window that has gone is information. It usually means the next one asks for a deliberate decision rather than arriving on its own.

Jupiter's transits over this axis, computed from the ephemeris rather than rounded to years:

Overlay the two and you get the convergences, which is where a supportive period and a supportive transit run at the same time:

• 28 Feb 2028 to 19 Jan 2031, ages 39 to 42, Saturn/Saturn scoring 100, with Jupiter aspecting both the 7th house and the 7th from the Moon during it. This is the chart's strongest remaining opening by a wide margin.
• 26 Aug 2026 to 26 Nov 2027, ages 37 to 39, Jupiter/Rahu scoring 35, with Jupiter aspecting the same two points. A weak period under a supportive transit, which reads as an opportunity that has to be taken deliberately rather than one that arrives.

Chart B, read end to end, and it disagrees with Chart A everywhere

Born 9 March 1995 at 22:25 in Bengaluru. Also from the Darakaraka page. The lagna is Libra at 22.93 degrees in Vishakha nakshatra, and the navamsha rising sign is Aries, ruled by Mars.

The five pointers for this chart

• 7th house: Aries. 7th lord: Mars, debilitated in Cancer, retrograde, in the 10th house. And exalted in the navamsha, in Capricorn.
• Venus: Capricorn, neutral, in the 4th house, direct, not combust. Own sign in the navamsha, in Taurus.
• Navamsha lagna lord: Mars again.
• Darakaraka: Venus.
• Upapada: the 12th house holds Virgo, its lord Mercury sits in Capricorn, a count of five, five signs on from Capricorn lands on Taurus, the 8th house, ruled by Venus. The exception does not fire here.

So the five pointers name two distinct planets, Mars and Venus. That is the 3.65% case, and it changes how the chart should be read. Venus is doing three jobs at once: fixed karaka, Darakaraka, and Upapada lord. Mars is doing two: 7th lord and navamsha lagna lord. In a chart like this the entire relationship reading rests on the condition of two planets, so those two conditions carry roughly two and a half times their usual weight.

The reversal this chart turns on

The engine scores this axis at 42 out of 100, also Moderate, and the reason it is not lower is the D9.

In the birth chart the 7th lord Mars is debilitated, which is the finding that frightens people, and retrograde on top of it. In the navamsha, the chart the tradition assigns to marriage, that same Mars is exalted. Venus moves the same way: neutral in the birth chart, own sign in the D9. Both pointers are stronger in the chart that governs the subject than in the chart people read.

This is the 39.98% disagreement from earlier, appearing in one chart on both pointers at once and in the same direction. Chart A ran the opposite way: Venus own-sign in the birth chart and debilitated in the D9. Two charts, one method, opposite verdicts, and neither is visible from the birth chart alone.

The frictions the chart shows are the debilitated 7th lord, which means the axis needs a supportive period and a real remedy rather than good timing alone, and Ketu in the 7th house, which is the same delay signature Chart A had through Saturn.

Mangal Dosha is not present in this chart. Mars is in the 10th from the Lagna and the 3rd from the Moon, and neither is in the trigger set. The engine still reports what it considered and rejected: Mars is in the 7th house counted from Venus, which is a modern secondary reference rather than part of the classical rule, and Jupiter aspects Mars by its ninth aspect from Scorpio, which is one of the classical cancellation conditions. Naming what did not fire is the difference between a verdict and a reading.

The timing, computed

On 26 August 2026:

This is the exact mirror of Chart A, and it is why the two are worth reading together. In Chart A the sixteen-year period is run by the 7th lord and the sub-period is empty. Here the sixteen-year period is run by a planet with no marriage role at all, and the sub-period is run by the planet holding three of them. Someone who checks only their mahadasha would conclude this chart's marriage years are Jupiter's, which they are not. Someone who checks only the current pratyantar, which runs to 6 January 2027 under Rahu, would conclude the next four months are dead, which understates a supportive antardasha running until April 2028.

The scored windows still ahead:

The engine's age band is 31 to 36, anchored on the Jupiter/Venus window running now, with the note that the highest-scoring window ahead is later, from 17 June 2030 to 24 May 2031 at 73 of 100, and is reported separately rather than folded into the band. The peak at ages 21 to 22 has passed.

Where the five pointers disagree, which they will

You now have five answers and no rule for combining them. Here is the one AstroMedha's reading uses, and it is worth stating because most published readings do not have one.

Weight a planet by how many marriage roles it holds, then scale that by its dignity, then subtract for the delay signature. A planet that is the 7th lord and nothing else carries one role. A planet that is the 7th lord, the Darakaraka and the navamsha lagna lord carries three, and its condition decides three times as much of your reading. In Chart A the weights come out Saturn 5.0, Mars 5.0, Jupiter 4.0, Venus 3.6, Moon 2.5, Ketu −1.0, and everything else zero. In Chart B they come out Mars 5.6, Venus 5.0, Ketu 3.0, Sun 2.0, Moon 1.25, Saturn −1.0. Those weights are what score the dasha windows, so the timing follows from the structure rather than being asserted next to it.

Three practical consequences follow.

A single frightening finding is almost never the answer. A debilitated 7th lord, a malefic in the 7th, a Manglik verdict: each of these is one input among five pointers and nine conditions, and each has a base rate on this page that tells you how ordinary it is. A malefic in the 7th appears in 35.19% of charts. Manglik fires on 65.72%. Neither is rare enough to carry a verdict.

A single reassuring finding is not the answer either. Own-sign Venus sounds like the end of the conversation and was, in Chart A, three-quarters bad news once combustion, retrogression and the D9 were checked.

When the pointers agree, that is the real finding. Chart A had Saturn holding three roles and every one of them said the same thing about pace. That agreement is worth more than any single strong placement, and it is only visible if you computed all five.

What you can do right now, free

The structural half of this page needs no account and no payment:

• Kundli gives you your lagna and every planetary placement, which is everything the tables above need.
• Rashi gives you your Moon sign, the fallback frame when the birth time is unknown.
• Nakshatra gives you the Moon's segment, which is what fixes where your dasha cycle starts.
• Dasha calculator gives you the mahadasha and antardasha you are running today.
• Mangal Dosha check runs the rule on your chart and names which reference point fires.
• Kundli matching gives you the guna score out of 36 when there is a specific match to check.

With your lagna from the first tool and the lookup table near the top of this page, you have your 7th lord and its house without paying anything. That plus the base rates here is enough to know whether your own finding is unusual.

What the reading adds

Four of the five pointers cannot be read off a table, because they depend on exact degrees rather than on your rising sign alone. The navamsha lagna moves every 13 minutes and 20 seconds. The Darakaraka depends on a seven-way degree ranking. The Upapada depends on where your 12th lord sits. Venus has four independent conditions, and combustion is measured in degrees from the Sun.

The Marriage Timing Report computes all of it for one chart: the 7th house, its lord and that lord's real condition, whatever occupies the house, your marriage karaka, and your navamsha, read placement by placement; a marriage-yoga score out of 100 with the drivers and the frictions both printed, as they are for both charts above; every dasha window from age 18 to 45 scored and dated; your age band and the exact arithmetic it rests on, including whether your best-scored window is already behind you; Jupiter's real transits over your axis with the convergences marked; and remedies attached to the findings in your chart rather than a generic list. It runs from your birth details alone, which is the point, because most people asking about timing do not have a partner's details to enter.

When there is a specific person, the question changes from when to whether, and that needs both charts. The Marriage Compatibility Report reads two charts against each other across temperament, communication, money, intimacy and family, and explains the score instead of stopping at it. The Relationship Compatibility Report does the same for a partnership that is not headed for marriage yet.

If your question is about the period you are in rather than a fixed date, Chart Chat answers against your own computed chart. That is where the 721 questions behind this page came from.

The pages this replaces

Five existing pages were written for questions this one answers with the reader's own values. Each is a general essay where this page gives a computed method, and each of the five earned two clicks or fewer in the healthy month before 23 August 2026, the best of them 34:

• How to know if someone is my soulmate
• When will I meet the right person
• Why am I still single
• Why is my marriage getting delayed
• Love marriage or arranged marriage

The other 45 pages under Relationships are not replaced by this one and should stay. They are about attachment, jealousy, trust after betrayal and the patterns people repeat, and none of those is a chart calculation. This page answers the structural questions and leaves the inner-life ones where they are.

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• Why does my marriage feel lonely and Why do my partner and I keep fighting, for the questions that start after the marriage exists