The seventh house is partnership, marriage, and the declared other. Jupiter at that angle makes the other person a benefit. The native's fortunes improve on pairing — a spouse who brings money, foreign connections, faith, education, or simply a larger view of what is possible. Business partnerships tend to prosper. Such natives are trusted counterparts, since their instinct in any negotiation is toward the settlement that leaves both sides better off.
Generosity is the native's method in relationship. They give ground, extend credit, forgive early, and assume good faith in a counterpart who has not yet earned it. This makes them well liked and, in the majority of cases, well treated. Partners of this placement are often larger figures than the native — older, foreign, more educated, more prominent — and the marriage does much of the work of the native's education.
The cost is expectation. The native asks the union to supply meaning, and no arrangement between two people can carry that indefinitely. Faith in a counterpart is extended past the evidence, so this placement is defrauded more often than a suspicious one. There is also a tendency to over-promise inside a marriage — commitments made warmly and honoured partially — and a restlessness when the partnership settles into the ordinary size of a life.
What It Gives
- ◆Partnerships that enlarge the life
- ◆Generous, forgiving in union
- ◆Prosperous business associations
- ◆Assumes good faith readily
What It Costs
- ◆Asks too much of marriage
- ◆Trust extended past evidence
- ◆Commitments made too warmly
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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