Jagannath Hora

Mars is the planet of desire, initiative and the fight, and a relationship without it is a friendship; a relationship with too much of it is a war. The chart reads Mars for relationships in four layers. What Mars rules for the ascendant, which decides what its period brings, the bond for Taurus and Libra where it rules the seventh, the romance for Cancer and Sagittarius where it rules the fifth, and the quarrel for Gemini and Scorpio where it rules the sixth. The sign, which is how the native wants and how they fight, hot and fast in fire, slow and held in earth, argued in air, sulked in water. The house, where the heat lives, with Mangal dosha read as what it is and not as a curse, the partner who is a match rather than a comfort, and the cancellations that the classical rules give. And the condition, exalted in Capricorn, debilitated in Cancer, with Venus, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu or the Moon. The twelve-ascendant table, the Mars period and its short hot seasons, Mars’s transit over the seventh as the quarrel window, the line where heat becomes harm and the reading stops, and a worked chart of a Cancer lagna whose dosha was a yoga.

Venus is the planet of how a native loves and how they need to be loved, and it is read for relationships in four layers, in the same order every planet page in this cluster uses. What Venus rules for the ascendant, which decides what the Venus period brings, a bond for Aries and Scorpio where it rules the seventh, a romance for Gemini and Capricorn where it rules the fifth, and something else entirely where it rules the sixth or the twelfth. The sign, which is the love language, what the native gives without thinking and needs without asking. The house, which is where the love lives and where it is met. And the condition, exalted in Pisces, debilitated in Virgo, combust, retrograde, or in the company of Saturn, Rahu, Ketu or Mars, each of which changes what the native’s love is like from inside. The twelve-ascendant table, the Venus period for relationships, Venus retrograde in transit, the weak Venus and what does and does not help it, and a worked chart of a Libra lagna whose exalted Venus in the sixth loved through service.

A relationship begins when three layers of the chart meet, and the reading of “when will I find love” is the reading of those three. The carrier, a planet that can bring a relationship at all: the fifth lord, the seventh lord, Venus, a planet in the fifth or seventh, the eleventh lord for the meeting through friends. The carrier’s sub-period, the season of one to three years in which it acts, found on the dasha table. And the trigger, Jupiter’s transit over the fifth, seventh or eleventh or over natal Venus as the year, Venus’s own transit over the fifth or seventh as the month. The carrier’s house adds the answer to the question underneath, where, since a carrier in the tenth meets at work and one in the ninth on a journey, in a twelve-row table; the sub-period’s length says how long the relationship lasts; Rahu’s windows are read as sudden and real but not lasting; and the reader is shown how to find their own next window in twenty minutes. A worked chart of an Aries lagna who met her husband at work in the eleventh lord’s sub-period with Jupiter over her fifth.

The native who has never been in a relationship usually arrives with a question about themselves, and the chart answers a different and better one: which of ten reasons is in the chart, and when it changes. An empty or afflicted fifth that gives no romance, a weak Venus that gives no attraction, Saturn on the fifth or seventh that starts late, Ketu there that does not need it, the fifth or seventh lord in a dusthana, a Moon that does not reach out, or, most often of all, no sub-period of the fifth lord, the seventh lord or Venus having run yet, so that the chart has simply not had its season. The ten reasons in a table with what each means and when it changes, the difference between no romance and no marriage, since the arranged-marriage chart may have both a silent fifth and a full seventh, the late starter and the first relationship after Saturn’s return, the chart that does not need a love life and is not lacking one, whether love is ever denied outright, and a worked chart of a Virgo lagna whose first relationship came at thirty-three in the seventh lord’s own period.

A relationship kept hidden has a house before it has a reason: the twelfth, where the private and the far and the unseen live, or the eighth, where the secret and the transformation live, carrying the fifth of romance or the seventh of the bond. The chart reads who it is hidden from, the family through the second and fourth, the community through the ninth, the workplace through the tenth; whether the hiding is the relationship’s shape, a native who loves privately by signature, or its season, a sub-period of the twelfth or eighth lord that will end; whether it comes into the open by the couple’s choice, in the seventh lord’s sub-period under Jupiter, or by exposure, in the eighth lord’s under Saturn or Mars; and what the hiding costs the home. Nine signatures in a table with what is hidden and from whom and how it comes into the open, the secret channel of the third house, the secret that carries danger and the reading’s first duty, and a worked chart of a Cancer lagna whose twelfth lord sat on the fifth beside the family’s lord.

One-sided love is a feeling that lives in the fifth house without an answer from the seventh, and the chart reads it as a signature, a question and a season. The signature is the placement that gives love without return: Venus with Ketu, Venus with Saturn, Venus in the twelfth, the fifth lord in the twelfth, sixth or eighth, Ketu or Saturn on the fifth. The question is whether it can turn mutual, which needs the fifth-seventh join, a carrying period, and the other person’s own seventh open, and which the chart answers with a yes and a window or a no and a date. And the season is the sub-period in which the feeling lifts, which every one-sided love has and which is the most useful sentence the native hears. Nine signatures in a table with the shape of each and whether it turns, the pattern of the native who only loves the unavailable, what the other person’s chart and a horary can add, the love that becomes a marriage and the conditions it needs, the difference between devotion and obsession, and a worked chart of a Scorpio lagna whose seventh and twelfth share Venus.

Distance is a house before it is a circumstance: the twelfth, the far and the foreign, and the ninth, the long journey, standing on the seventh where the partner lives, and a long-distance relationship is one of those houses carrying the bond. The chart answers the three questions such a couple asks in the order they ask them. Will it survive, which the seventh lord’s dignity and the third house’s communication decide. Who moves, which the fourth and twelfth lords’ periods decide, since the one whose twelfth lord’s period is running is the one who goes and the one whose fourth lord’s is running is the one who stays. And when the distance closes, which Jupiter over the fourth or seventh gives within the carrying sub-period. Nine signatures in a table with what the distance is and whether it closes, the relationship that lives on distance and dies when it ends, the third house that keeps the bond alive, the visa and the settlement as the foreign cluster reads them, and a worked chart of a Pisces lagna whose home and partner share one lord in the twelfth.

“Commitment phobia” is not a term the chart uses, but the thing it names is in every chart that has a seventh house, and the reading separates three conditions the phrase runs together: not ready, which is a period and passes; not able yet, which is a seventh house that cannot carry a bond until a planet has finished with it; and not this person, which is neither a fear nor a fault. Eleven signatures in a table with the shape of each reluctance and when it lifts, Saturn on the seventh and the long test it sets, the seventh lord retrograde and the partner who keeps revisiting, Ketu’s detachment and Rahu’s appetite for the next one, the seventh lord in the twelfth who loves at a distance, the native reading their own pattern, the partner reading the other’s chart, what waiting does and does not do, and a worked chart of an Aquarius lagna whose three relationships ended at the door and who married in the seventh lord’s sub-period at thirty-seven.

The family’s opposition to a love marriage is read from two houses, the fourth, the mother and the home, and the ninth, the father and the tradition, set against the fifth and seventh where the relationship lives, and the reading answers the questions the couple actually ask: which parent, and why; whether the no is the kind that delays or the kind that denies; when consent comes, in the fourth and ninth lords’ sub-periods and under Jupiter’s transit; what the partner’s family will do, read from the partner’s chart or from the third and tenth houses of your own; what a marriage made without consent costs, in the second house, and when the family returns; and where caste, community and religion enter the chart, which is only as the ninth house’s reaction. Ten signatures of opposition and consent in a table, the Saturn no that is a wait, the Rahu no that is a tradition broken, and a worked chart of a Sagittarius lagna whose father said no in one sub-period and came to the wedding two years later.

The question is the oldest one in the subject and the one most often answered dishonestly, from the wrong chart. Your chart does not contain another person’s feelings, and a reading that tells you from your Venus what he feels has read your hope. His chart, with his consent or at least his date, reads his capacity for a bond, the period he is in, and whether this relationship lives in his fifth house or his seventh, which is the difference between the romance and the intention. Two charts together read what each brings out in the other. And a horary, cast for the moment you ask, reads the question as asked, through the seventh house and the reception between its lord and yours. Nine questions in a table with the chart that answers each, the signs of the serious partner, the relationship that is a fifth-house thing for him and a seventh-house thing for you, what the Moon’s reception says in a horary, the reading you should not want, and a worked horary chart.