Kalatra Bhava — marriage, partnership, business alliances, the other
Venus in the house of partnership, which it naturally governs. This is among the best placements for marriage in the chart: genuine affection, real capacity for partnership, and a spouse who is usually attractive in the broadest sense. Business partnerships work. The caution is dependence — the relationship carries more of the person’s wellbeing than is entirely safe.
Classical note: The 7th is Venus’s natural house — kalatra karaka in the house of the spouse.
The 7th house is how you meet an equal, governing marriage, partnership, business alliances, the other. Venus (Shukra) is a benefic of pleasure and refinement and signifies love, marriage, beauty, comfort, the arts; its drive is to enjoy, to harmonise, and to be loved.
The 7th is a kendra (angle), one of the four pillars of the chart, where planets act visibly and strongly. Planets in kendras gain Dig Bala (directional strength) depending on which angle they occupy, and their effects are prominent in the life rather than hidden.
Three things modify this placement more than anything else: the sign Venus occupies (see Venus through the signs), the aspects it receives — Jupiter's aspect can rescue a difficult placement and Saturn's can sober an easy one — and the strength of the 7th house lord. Read this as one factor, not a verdict.
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