The seventh house is partnership, marriage, and the declared opponent. Mars there guarantees that both will be lively. The native is drawn to forceful people — the partner is competitive, quick-tempered, or simply stronger-willed than the native's friends consider comfortable — and the relationship proceeds by contest. Arguments are frequent, loud, and, in the successful versions of this placement, genuinely productive. A marriage without friction would bore this native within a year.
Open enemies are a real feature of the biography. The native attracts declared opposition, in business, in law, in the neighbourhood, and handles it with unexpected composure: a named opponent is a clarifying thing. Litigation and hard negotiation recur. Such natives make excellent advocates and dangerous business partners, since the same appetite that wins the contract will, in a bad year, be turned on the co-signatory.
The cost is the difficulty of peace. The native provokes when things go quiet, mistaking calm for the beginning of neglect. There is a strong pattern of projection here: the anger is disowned and located in the partner, who is then blamed for a temperature both are maintaining. Marriages of this placement end suddenly and completely when they end. And a life organised around opposition means the native is rarely without an enemy, because one is always being recruited.
What It Gives
- ◆Handles open opposition calmly
- ◆Attracts strong, capable partners
- ◆Formidable advocate for others
- ◆Arguments that clear the air
What It Costs
- ◆Provokes conflict during calm
- ◆Own anger blamed on partner
- ◆Enemies acquired steadily
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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