Astrological Perspective of Marital Discord

Discord is a lack of agreement or harmony between peoples /things. Marital discord would be the lack of agreement or harmony in a marriage.

Parameters :

1. Ascendant : personality traits
2. 2nd house/lord : indicates family 
3. 4th house/lord : stands for domestic environment 
4. 7th house/lord : indicates marriage
5. 8th house/lord : is marks for 7th house which is marriage here 
6. 12th house : bed pleasure 
7. Moon : represents mental inclinations 
8. Venus : love,sex, and female spouse 
9. Jupiter : ethics, moral , male spouse 

Astrological Perspective of Marital  Discord

7th house/lord 

1. 7th house /lord  is related to lord of 6/8/12th house especially with 12th house indicates marital disharmony/ discord .
2. Lords of 5th and 7th houses placed in each other's house or in conjunction  lead to dissatisfied marital life.
3. The good traits of 7th house are lost if its lord occupies the 3rd/6th/8tyh/12th position from its own sign.
4. Placement of natural malefic like Sun/Rahu/Ketu /Saturn/Mars in the 7th house indicates marital discord. 
5. Lord of 2nd/7th house are in retrogression or these houses aspected by a retrograde planet indicates marital discord.
6. 7th lord in Combustion/set / debilitated /hemmed between malefic indicates marital disharmony. 

2nd-4th  house/lord :

1. Afflicted 2nd & 4th house indicates problematic family environments .
2. Afflicted 2nd & 4th house lord indicates the lack of domestic peace and  pleasure .

Venus : 

1. Venus the significator of the 7th house sitting in 7th house, causes marital disharmony unless it is aspected by Jupiter because if the significator of a house placed in its house destroys the basic traits of the house .
2. Placement of Venus in 7th house of a male native apart from its own signs viz Taurus & Libra causes marital discords . 
3. Venus /7th lord  is related to Ketu , or Ketu is placed in trine from Venus/lord of 7th house indicates marital discord.

Jupiter :

1. The significator of a house placed in its house destroys the basic traits of the house, so Jupiter placed in 7th house in female chart causes marital disharmony. 
2. Placement of Jupiter in 7th house of a female native apart from its own signs viz Sagittarius & Pisces causes marital discord .

Influence of Natural Malefics : 

1. Saturn and Mars are in conjunction or placed opposite or 2nd/12th from each other indicates  marital discord.
2. Saturn related to Sun/Moon/Venus by aspect/conjunction/placement is responsible for marital discords.
3. Saturn, Mercury, and Ketu are impotent plants, whenever two of these planets afflict either of the 7th/8th/12th house ,the native develops impoverishment in the sexual course.
4. The conjunction of Saturn -Mercury in 7th house causes marital discord due to impotence or sexual coldness.
5. Sun-Saturn, Sun-Mars, Mars -Rahu related with 7th/.8th/12th house indicates marital disputes and disorders .
6. Rahu’s conjunction with Moon will cause other psychological problems in the way of mental health that may cause marital discord.
7. Saturn in 7th house is responsible for marital discord due to some sort of coldness between the life partners.
8. Mars-Rahu conjunction is the indicator of furious nature of the native ,hence there is negligence of the native in martial activities with the partner.
9. The conjunction of Saturn -Mercury in 7th house causes marital discord due to impotence or sexual coldness.
10. Influence of Mars and Rahu on Moon/Venus indicates marital discord due to extramarital affairs or infidelity.

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