- Natural sign
- Libra
- Ruler
- Venus
- House type
- Angular house
- Axis
- 7 / 1
What the house governs
The seventh house begins at the descendant, the point opposite the ascendant. It is everything that requires a second party: marriage, business partnership, contracts, and in tradition open adversaries as well. What is described here is not a particular person but the type of relations a person enters.
How to read it in a chart
Look at the sign on the descendant, its ruler and the planets in the seventh house. The ruler of the seventh and the house it sits in show where and through what partners arrive. Saturn here is not about loneliness but about responsibility and later, more durable unions.
The axis of the house
The 7-1 axis is the other and the self. The seventh house shows what a person delegates to a partner and what they do not claim in themselves. That is why the traits of the seventh house often look like the traits of partners: they are one's own part, handed outward.
Common reading mistakes
The most common mistake is reading the seventh house as a portrait of a future spouse. It describes your side of the contract. The second mistake is looking for compatibility here: compatibility is synastry, the comparison of two charts, not one house in one chart.
Houses depend on the exact time of birth: an error of a quarter of an hour shifts the cusps by a few degrees, an error of two hours moves a planet into the neighbouring house. Without a birth time it is correct to read only the planets by sign.