Q: Partner-1 (female) asks: Do you see whether we will have children together? Will I have children myself, according to my charts? Will my partner?

From a Jyotisha point of view, children seem less likely for you as the female partner -- but never impossible! It seems clear that child-producing in your busy professional life is, at minimum, slowed.

Saturn aspects both he 5th house and he 9th house, which are the two houses that produce children and other forms of romantic self-expression. Saturn's job in the chart is to cause delays.

he influence of Saturn would tell us that if children are produced at all, their appearance on the scenewill bedelayed.

In our culture your current solar age of 36 is considered "getting late" but not too late. So Saturn has pretty much done his slow-down job already.If Jupiter aspects the Moon in any woman's chart, she will definitely reproduce. Generally a Jupiter-Moon aspect in a man's chart guarantees children for a man as well.

Jupiter does not aspect the Moon in your rashi chart, and the Moon occupies an unfavorable 6/8 angle from Jupiter, which are both negative reproductive influences. Nevertheless,your Moon does occupy a sign of Jupiter which is Sagittarius; and furthermore your Moon/Jupiter/Cancer combination in the 3rd navamsha shows very good fertility in the partner.

Such a combination of negatives on your side with positive on the spouse's side makes me think of modern reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilizations and donated eggs to the mother from their sisters and female friends, etc. that could utilize reproductive capabilities on the spouse's side.

The three planets in the chart that typically signify the birth of children are the lords of the 5th and 9th houses, and also Jupiter.We would expect the bhukti's or sub-periods of any of these three planets on your vimshottari dasha timeline to produce children if any of these three planetswould bestrong enough child-wise.

Your 5th lord is Venus, and your 9th lord is Mercury. Neither Mercury nor Venus aspects a child-house nor receives the aspect of Jupiter, so neither is especially reproductively strong. Jupiter although exalted (in he 7th house which brings an excellent spouse) casts no aspect on the two traditional child-houses. So at first glance we would surmise there is not enough reproductive energy in the charts to generate children in this life.

Any bhukti of Jupiter is in a general way favorable for producing or obtaining children, and you do have a Jupiter period coming up quite soon 2/2005-1/2006. Your Jupiter bhukti 2/2005-1/2006 corresponds with your male partner's Jupiter bhukti 2/2005-8/2007 [see below].

Because you are already in the frame of mind to consider marriage on the basis of your existing committed relationship, I would say that these two overlapping Jupiter periods will probably be fruitful.

In addition, there is some benefit from the period of the planet which occupies 5th-from-maha-dasha-pati. For you during the current Mars period, it is Mercury (who is also an auspicious child-karaka 9th lord) that occupies 5th-from-Mars. Therefore it is possible that the bhukti of Mercury for you upcoming 3/2007-2/2008 can produce children.

Mercury = 6th-lordsuggests reproduction assisted by medical intervention. Mars being with Ketu suggests the innovative involvement of friends/community or an older siblingin your sexual-reproductive life, which could manifest in successful reproduction with the aid of donated psychic and genetic material from friends and family. But whether medical intervention is part of the picture or not, the period of Mercury 3/2007-2/2008 is auspicious for having children.

Your Mars/Venus period 7/2008-9/2009 is also reasonably auspicious in spite of the technical weakness of Venus, simply because Venus is the 5th lord who becomes strong as dispositor of the mahadasha pati.

Venus also gains some strength as lord of the saptamsha, the special Jyotisha harmonic chart for children.

The next auspicious period for children in the current lifetime, could be Rahu/Rahu and Rahu/Jupiter. Rahu conjoins 5th-lord Venus, soRahu is capable of bringing children even quite late in life.

This total period - Rahu/Rahu and Rahu/Jupiter-occurs duringyour age 43-48. In more traditional cultures, a Jyotishi would probablydeclare age 43-48 "too old" for children.

Natural conceptions in a woman's mid-forties are now commonplace in our society, and the possibilities of pregnancy through medical intervention or adoption remain strong until late forties.Rahu always gives urgency, non-conventional behaviors,and unusual social circumstances. So, I would consider these later periods of Rahu/Rahu and Rahu/Jupiter viable for bringing children in case the earlier Mars/Mercury was not productive.

Your male partner's chart is more straightforwardly fertile. Jupiter aspects his Moon which virtually guarantees children if children are wanted. Furthermore, Mars the 5th-lord (a bringer of children) occupies the 9th house, a house of children. The 9th-lord (the secondbringer of children) is Jupiter (the third majorbringer of children) itself. So, your male partner has excellent child prospects from an astrological point of view.

Timing of children for your male partner would follow the same rules in general. Bhukti of 5th-lord (for him, 5th-lord = Mars) or 9th-lord (for him, 9th-lord = Jupiter) are auspicious for children. Next bhukti of Jupiter is 2/2005-8/2007.

his period of Jupiter = 2/2005-8/2007 can easily produce children if desired, particularly if your male partner feels he has made good progress in career-building (the major focus of Saturn's mahadasha his age 18-37) so that he can relax a bit in his work schedule and open his heart (and his schedule) to the demands of family with children.

Your male partner will be an excellent parent.