Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha Vedic Astrology

L-7 in domains 1-12

L-7

 in Domain 1

Auspicious and identity-enhancing position, L-7 in 7th-from-swakshetra.

The native's social identity is deeply invested in one's marriage status. Sees oneself as a married person, an agreeable person, and a socially balanced person. No matter the degree of conflict or incompatibility, divorce is usually too high a price to pay for this native. 

One's choices in life are much determined by the spouse & their character. 

L-7

 in Domain 2

Inauspicious and secretive position, L-7 in 8th-from-swakshetra.

Problematic for the first marriage. The spouse is psychologically complex and controlling. Similar to the "virtual widowhood" of L-7 in domain-8.

It is as if the spouse is married to the greater world, and not to a human partner.

Spouse is concerned with the zeitgeist, performing on the stage of history, wealth-building, huge movements of social values change, & major turnings of the cycle of birth & death. The spouse is self-identified as a public agent of transformative change. 

Most of the relationship energy is diverted into developing the spouse's own role upon the world stage. As a result, the native is ignored. Indeed one may feel quite unworthy of requesting the spouse's interest, since to do so would distract them from the greater matters which demand their attention.. 

As a result of the spouse's energy being largely consumed with giant transformative forces (8) the native may not get the marital attention one requires. 

The native's simple need for companionship gets somewhat left behind in the spouse's concern with larger matters, & unless the native is willing to sacrifice one's own life in the process, marital infidelity can easily result. There is typically a hidden outside companion, and the companion is also married. 

If Shukra is damaged (Prince Charles , Bill Clinton) expect scandal through the marriage difficulties. 

L-7 in domain-2 signifies a second marriage which is better aligned with the native's deeper life needs than the first.  The second marriage typically fulfills the native's positive expectations of spousal love and commitment.

L-7

 in Domain 3

Auspicious and guidance-providing position, L-7 in 9th-from-swakshetra.

Spouse is in charge of the marital money, stronger when L-7 is a benefic. Spouse is organized and administratively minded, has a sibling attitude toward the marriage partnership, and is helpful in the style indicated by the nature of the graha which is L-7. 

Spouse brings assets into the marriage, either social or financial or both. Good tolerance for constant travel & occasional loss of the home through relocation (domain-3). If L-7 is poorly aspected, spouse may have mental health concerns.

L-7

 in Domain 4

Auspicious and respectable position, L-7 in 10th-from-swakshetra. Spousal behavior will strongly resemble either of the parents, more often the mother. 

The native's social & emotional security depends considerably on the behavior of the spouse. Spouse has a conservative nature, is loyally attached to the cultural values of their birth land. Spouse is strongly identified with being a parent and cultural role model. May be a school teacher, property manager, or a patriotic government official. 

If malefic, the parental behavior which the spouse repeats is difficult to manage. 

L-7

 in Domain 5

Auspicious and gainful position, L-7 in 11th-from-swakshetra.

If L-7 = benefic graha, spouse is gainful, friendly, creative, & identifies strongly with children from the marriage. Spouse will be involved in positive amusements such as romantic weekends with the native, creating and working with children, and writing of inspirational speeches, poetry and fine literature.

Even if L-7 = malefic, this graha will be fruitful in domain-5. Creates at least one child, at least some profits, and generates a community of associations around the marriage. 

If malefic, spouse will be involved in more negative (nevertheless interesting) amusements such as gambling, rough political contests, and lower forms of theatre. Spousal intelligence is strong, but if L-7 = malefic, the creative path may have vulgar qualities.

L-7

 in Domain 6

Inauspicious and loss-causing position, L-7 in 12th-from-swakshetra.

Loss of marital agreement is part of the experience. Divorce is not necessarily required, but some expression of loss of agreement such as cessation of sexual congress or an adversarial extramarital interest, is usually part of the situation.

If L-7 is dignified, this position can grant a good career for the spouse in one of the professions that manages social conflict (attorney, physician, urban planner, social worker, etc). 

However the spouse is likely to have considerable inner conflict also. Even if L-7 in domain-6 helps the profession, it will afflict the marriage to some degree. 

Psychological withdrawal & withholding of full participation in marriage, along with lack of initiative to make needed changes. Exhaustion, loss of identity within the partnership.  

Chronic resistance to marital negotiation, therapeutic dialog, or legal action. Unable to act in either a positive or negative direction; tends to subsist in a low-energy state. Most of the marriage energy goes into the realm of the imagination. 

The native is unhappy, and the spouse is "stuck" in their own problems. Typically, spouse self-medicates. Substance addictions and depression in the spouse. 

L-7

 in Domain 7

Auspicious socially but overwhelming personally; L-7 in 1st-from-swakshetra.

The partner has such a strong personality that the native's psychological growth into maturity is stunted. "Too much partner." 

The partner has a dominating personality according to the nature of the L-7; s/he dominates the agreement-crafting & social balancing process of marriage to an undue extent. 

Spouse is in charge of the couple's social life; spouse represents the couple in public. The native will permit this spouse to control the public image of the marriage, even if that image is inaccurate. 

Typically a strong & active sexual relationship, which may consume the creativity of both partners leaving little energy for more sophisticated interaction. If Shukra 

L-7

 in Domain 8

Inauspicious and forced-change position, L-7 in 2nd-from-swakshetra.

L-7 in domain-8 of sudden, forced changes is always problematic for marriage. The spouse in this lifetime has a rather mysterious motivation for joining the marriage. The spouse becomes a major catalyst for forced change in the native's self-consciousness awareness. 

The spouse may be a tantrik priest, a therapeutic healer, a surgeon or psychiatrist, a covert operator, or a handler of dangerous and confidential information. If the graha is very difficult, the spouse may be a person who is severely emotionally closed due to trauma, and resistant to adult intimacy.

L-7 in domain-8 indicates that the spouse is prone to martyrdom, perhaps a great saint, committed to sacrifice, and often wishing to transform the basic instinctual human sexuality of domain-7 into something 'higher' via religious abstinence or other sacrificial transformation. Thus the spouse is often not sexually available. 

Although divorce is not required and in fact the spouse is often committed to religious beliefs which proscribe divorce, one feels effectively divorced or more accurately widowed. The native rather predictably turns to other companionship.

Conventional society expects that spouses should support and stabilize each other's social identities. However, when L-7 occupies domain-8, the spouse does not accept one's current identity, and in fact sets out to destroy it so that the native can be pushed forward to a higher destiny or otherwise 'improved'.  

When in domain-8, L-7 the agreement-maker is forced to express its balance-seeking behavior in context of sudden, often catastrophic, changes. In this psychic environment, marriage finds no stable foundation. Rarely can the couple remain faithful nor even share the same house.

However, all is not lost. If L-7 is a favorable graha, the spouses may greatly respect each other for their respective strengths & personal integrity. They may continue to help & support each other in non-intimate ways. Tantrik knowledge is obtained. Spiritual benefits arise. 

The general public need not know the intimate details of this marriage, since domain-8 is the house of hidden things. The external appearance of the marriage may mask an interior reality of virtual widowhood.  

Interpersonally L-7 in domain-8 is a difficult placement for marriage. Yet if the graha is good, the external appearances, material and moral support, and other non-intimate components of marriage may be successful. 

L-7

in Domain 9

Auspicious and communicative position, L-7 in 3rd-from-swakshetra.

The spouse is an agent of good fortune in ways dictated by the character of the graha. Spouse functions as one's moral adviser and guru. The relationship is naturally somewhat sibling-like, with a competitive an affectionately adversarial under-layer. 

The spouses are comfortable with each other as typically this angle attracts those with a similar mentality. However a mental basis is not quite enough to sustain a lifelong engagement, and the native may outgrow such a first marriage especially if the mind is very active.

Spouse is morally supportive, and organized in matters of social networking through the sangha of professional, religious or scholarly fellowship. 

Spouse is often a fellow professional, respected practitioner in an allied field, or highly ranked in one's own spiritual or artistic lineage.

This position of L-7 in 3rd-from-swakshetra does not prevent divorce, but after divorce the couple may remain sibling-type friends, with many amicable connections in common.

L-7

 in Domain 10

Auspicious and emotionally stable position, L-7 in 4th-from-swakshetra.

The spouse is a steady & grounding force of parental quality who strongly supports and stabilizes one's own career. 

Spouse is a practical, hardworking overseer of the home, often a teacher and often the primary parent, yet quite capable of high ranking leadership in their own professional area. Great parental stability and care. Spouse has strong cultural roots very compatible with the native's basic cultural upbringing.

However this good auspice can always be reversed if L-7 is a graha of poor quality (see Jodie Foster).

L-7

 in Domain 11

Auspicious position, L-7 in 5th-from-swakshetra.

The spouse is friendly, creative, & speculative, and gainful according to the character of the graha that is L-7.  Spouse functions like an elder sibling, friendly and guiding. Yet also the spouse's behavior is quite ego-driven and independent (5). 

Spouse may be highly social, creating a large network for the couple to enjoy. Spouse is often associated with large assemblies of profit-makers, and the marriage increases the native's own gainfulness according to the strength of L-7 by rashi, drishti, and lordship.

Spouse may be politically active, enjoy fund-raising for community development, or just really like going to parties. Spouse is speculative, likes taking risks, enjoys celebrity and fame. If the graha is intelligent and productive, this is a literary angle where both the spouse and the native enjoy writing and reading in literary culture.

L-7

 in Domain 12

Inauspicious and unrealistic position, L-7 in 6th-from-swakshetra.

The spouse is a shadowy figure whose identity is not integral to the native's self-image, and whose behavior is not well understood by the native. 

Spouse may hail from a foreign land, or have been raised in a culture whose values are foreign to the native. Spouse may be chronically ill, have a private alternative sexual life, or have other ways of closing off him/her self from the marriage, into a private enclosure either mental or physical or both.

First spouse may have vulgar characteristics, hide in illness, or have a passive-aggressive personality (or all of the above). 

Private imagination 

The native may construct an interpretive story about their spouse in one's imagination. This story fills in the missing details about the spouse's true motives & what the spouse is actually doing. Yet this is a story drawing from the native's own subconscious childhood memories, and not necessarily an accurate account of the spouses actual behavior or intent. 

A native with dramatic talent can put oneself into the theatrical role being deeply in love, and successfully act out that role in public life (see: Nancy Reagan, Angelina Jolie, John Edwards). This native will appear to be touching and gazing adoringly at their partner. It is possible to use this imaginative projection as substitute for authentic interpersonal understanding, and those with dramatic training who are living in the limelight of public life frequently do. 

Typically there was unresolved conflict between the spouse's parents. This embedded memory repeats continuously in the native's subconscious mind. Thus the native carries uninterrupted childhood expectation of adversarial attack from the partner into marriage(s). 

Therapy and forgiveness practice can be beneficial to at least bring this subconscious negative expectation up to the surface of consciousness, and behavioral changes can be applied after that to reduce the habitual reactiveness.

Formal marriage is less desirable for this native. If multiple marriages have failed, it is probably not a good idea to just keep getting remarried - at least until the underlying fears have been revealed. The bulk of the karma is paid off with the first marriage, but the pattern of expectation-of-conflict-and-attack will persist in shadow form throughout subsequent marriages, if it is not discussed and corrected in therapy.

Public image of the marriage may be rather glamorous, esp. if L-5 is strong; because when L-7 occupies domain-12, the Arudha lagna of marriage becomes domain-5, the house of celebrity and fame. 

However the interior reality is that the native carries a persistent subconscious expectation that the spouse is an enemy. 

Marital conflict often addressed by the spouse's taking long journeys, sequestering in ashram or hospital, or seeking private alternative liaisons. Problems with the spouse eventually cause a loss of positive social identity for the native, during the periods of L-7.
 
 

A Balanced and Flexible Approach to Life

Developing a flexible approach to living is not only instrumental in helping us cope with everyday problems--it also becomes the cornerstone for a key element of a happy life: balance.

Settling comfortably into his chair one morning, the Dalai Lama explained the value of leading a balanced life.

"A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence. It is important in all aspects of life. 

For instance, in planting a sapling of a plant or a tree, at its very early stage you have to be very skillful and gentle. Too much moisture will destroy it, too much sunlight will destroy it. Too little will also destroy it. 

So what you need is a very balanced environment where the sapling can have a healthy growth. 

Or, for a person's physical health, too much or too little of any one thing can have destructive effects. For example, too much protein I think is bad, and too little is bad.

"This gentle and skillful approach, taking care to avoid extremes, applies to healthy mental and emotional growth as well."

~~  H.H. Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler, M.D.. (1998). The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. www.snowlionpub.com

  

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