Marriage — promise, timing, and Kuja dosha with cancellations

The protocol

Five steps for marriage

Run every marriage read in order. 1 — the 7th HOUSE and its lord, judged the threefold way (n35). 2 — the karaka VENUS (spouse; Jupiter as the husband-significator in a woman's chart). 3 — the D9 NAVAMSHA (n47), the single most important varga for marriage. 4 — the KUJA-DOSHA check from lagna, Moon, and Venus, with cancellations. 5 — the TIMING: the 7th-lord and Venus dashas, with the Jupiter transit to the 7th or Venus.

7th and lord, Venus, D9, Kuja check, then timing — the fixed order for marriage.

Kuja dosha — compute it from three references

Kuja (Mangal) dosha is Mars standing in houses 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, or 12 — counted from THREE reference points: the lagna, the Moon, and Venus. Count Mars's house from each; each hit in a dosha house is a flag. It is a screening check, not a verdict: a flag opens an inquiry into cancellations, it never closes the question by itself.

Dosha houses from any reference: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 12. Check the lagna, the Moon, and Venus in turn.

Worked · Priya

Flagging Priya's Mars

Priya's Mars is in Capricorn. From her Cancer lagna, Capricorn is the 7th — a dosha house, FLAG. From her Cancer Moon (same sign), again the 7th — FLAG. From her Venus in Virgo, Capricorn is the 5th — NOT a dosha house, clear. So Mars is flagged on two of the three references. A folklore reading ends here in alarm; the method treats it as an inquiry now opened, not a sentence passed.

Mars in Capricorn: 7th from lagna (flag), 7th from Moon (flag), 5th from Venus (clear) — 2 of 3.

Worked · Priya

The cancellations dissolve it

Now the bhangas. Priya's Mars is EXALTED in Capricorn — an exalted or own-sign Mars cancels the dosha. And for Cancer lagna, Mars owns the 5th and 10th and is the YOGAKARAKA — a yogakaraka Mars for Cancer or Leo cancels the dosha. Two independent cancellations apply. The honest verdict: technically flagged, substantively cancelled. The frightening word had no teeth once the arithmetic was finished.

Exalted Mars (bhanga) + yogakaraka Mars for Cancer (bhanga): a flagged dosha, cancelled twice over.

The standard cancellations

Learn the bhanga list: Mars in its own sign (Aries/Scorpio) or exalted (Capricorn); Mars conjunct or aspected by Jupiter; Mars as the yogakaraka for a Cancer or Leo lagna; and — matching two charts — a MUTUAL dosha, where both partners carry it and it cancels between them. Any one applying downgrades a flag from a threat to a footnote.

A cancelled dosha is NOTED, never weaponised — the entire ethical weight of this lesson.

Worked · Priya

Timing the marriage

Promise judged, dosha dissolved — now WHEN. The 7th-lord and Venus dashas carry marriage timing, sweetened by a Jupiter transit to the 7th or to Venus. Priya's 7th lord is Saturn, but its mahadasha is her childhood (0–12.1), too early; so the karaka Venus's period carries the window. Her Venus mahadasha runs 36.1–56.1, opening with Venus–Venus at 36.1–39.4 — the defensible taught window built back in n77.

7th lord Saturn's MD is childhood; the marriage window rests on Venus MD's early sub-periods (36.1–39.4).

The spouse, and difficulty, read ethically

Describe the partner qualitatively from the 7th sign and lord and Venus — Priya's Capricorn 7th with exalted Mars and a mature 7th-lord Saturn suggests a serious, dutiful, steadying partner. And when the 7th, its lord, or Venus are genuinely afflicted, name DELAY or difficulty as a season to navigate, never a denial. You describe tendencies and timing; you never forbid a marriage.

Afflicted marriage significators say 'later, and with care', never 'never'.