The twelve houses
The Seventh House
Partnership and the other person. Who do I partner with, and what do I meet in them?
- Sphere of life
- one-to-one relationship
- Natural sign
- Libra
- Natural ruler
- Venus
- Type
- Angular
- Keywords
- marriage, partners, open enemies, contracts
Directly opposite the first: everything that requires another person. Marriage and committed partnership, business partners, and the people who oppose you openly.
Houses are not signs. The signs describe how something happens; the houses describe where in a life it happens. The seventh house is the one-to-one relationship — and every chart has one, whether or not a planet is sitting in it.
Angular, succedent or cadent
Angular houses (1, 4, 7, 10) are the loudest in a chart — planets here act, and act visibly. The seventh house is angular.
A planet in the seventh house
A planet here describes what you look for in a partner — and often what you meet in one.
An empty seventh house
An empty seventh house says nothing about your prospects. Read the cusp sign and its ruler. Most charts have several empty houses — there are only ten or so bodies for twelve rooms, so emptiness is the norm and means nothing bad.
Why the natural sign matters
Each house has a sign that belongs to it by nature — here, Libra, ruled by Venus. That association is where the house's reputation comes from: Cardinal air: relationship as an initiative. But the sign on your seventh cusp is set by your birth time, and it is the one that describes how this part of your life actually behaves.
Your seventh house sign
Find the sign on your own cusp in the birth chart report, then read what it does there: