Planets in the 7th House
 
     You  may  spend  much  time  thinking   about  your   relationship  or
     relationships in general.  Marriage may be quite often  on your  mind. 
     You  desire  a marriage  or business  partner that  provides you  with
     mental  satisfaction  and  challenge.   A partner  who challenges  you
     mentally and one who  helps you  function on  more of  an intellectual
     level is what you are looking for and need. Their value is enhanced if
     they  help  you  better  adapt and  more effectively  communicate with
     others.  The person who gives you a lively flow of  ideas, ideas  that
     challenge and test your own mental processes, one who brings  out your
     best mentally, stimulates you in a way that others may not understand. 
     Yet that is what you seek in a partner.
 
     Your partner may be  quick-witted, fluent,  volatile, restless,  high-
     strung  as  well  as  outspoken,  argumentative,  wordy and  critical. 
     Nervousness  or  mental imbalance  may be  present.  Your  partner may
     possibly  be  connected  with  education,  writing,  traveling, sales,
     language interpretation or clerical,  secretarial, typing  or computer
     work.
 
     In order to achieve the most positive results from any partnership you
     should  learn  to control  your argumentativeness  and your  desire to
     criticize.
 
 
     You have a deep appreciation of the value of relationships.  Too great
     an emphasis on affection might cause  problems for  you. A  desire for
     the perfect relationship may be so  strong that  any imperfections  in
     your relationship could be  blown up  beyond proportion.   Balance and
     poise are necessary.
 
     You seek a partner that can supply you with "the good life".  You want
     beauty, luxury and the finer things in life and you seek a partner who
     can  provide  these.   Perhaps  marriage will  bring you  to a  higher
     station in life. Over-indulgence and over-emphasizing the sensual side
     of life can lead to problems.   You must  have a  partner you  feel is
     cooperative rather than competitive.  If Venus  is aspected  poorly in
     your chart, then perhaps your partner's moral standards are subject to
     question.
 
 
     Because of the uniqueness that exists within your partnerships, it  is
     likely that others will not understand  them. You  may not  understand
     them  yourself.   You  meet  the most  interesting and  unconventional
     people in your life.
 
     Any  need  to  control  the other  person in  your relationships  will
     probably lead to disaster. Partner and you will have to find your  own
     comfort level regarding time and attention spent on the other.   A lot
     of elbow room may be required. A relationship  in which  you feel  you
     are free to grow is one that makes it possible for you to do  so.  Any
     limits or constraints placed on the relationship are likely to  be met
     with a certain "hit the road"  attitude. Sudden  and unexpected  turns
     are likely. Perhaps one person is required to be away  from the  other
     for long periods of time.  This position may give many  long distance,
     "casual" types of relationships.
 
     You probably seek a partner who  provides the  thrills and  spills for
     you  in  your  life.   A  partner  who  challenges  you  mentally  and
     emotionally  is  desired. Your  relationships may  be lab  experiments
     where you  hope to  learn who-knows-what.   Someone who  is inventive,
     individualistic, creative, original, out-going,  eccentric or  radical
     appeals  to  you.   Your  partner  may  possess considerable  personal
     magnetism and  occasionally a  degree of  genius, but  eccentricities,
     erratic tendencies and even fanaticism may be present.
 
     Your approach  to marriage  may be  highly idealistic  or utopian  and
     there may be an inclination to  favor platonic  unions.  You  want and
     need  your  partner  to  be your  friend. Most  of your  relationships
     probably started as friendships.  On the  other hand,  there may  be a
     tendency to seek excitement in partnerships and a  marked interest  in
     romantic adventures may result in passing infatuations that  can cause
     a rift with the marriage partner.
 
     The greatest threat to marriage may occur when one partner's  capacity
     for  self-development  expands  at  a rate  greatly in  excess of  the
     other's,  so  that one  spouse may  no longer  be recognizable  as the
     person they were when the marriage took place.
 
     For  a  successful  partnership,  you and  your partner  will need  to
     develop  the  qualities  of  tolerance,  cooperation,  detachment  and
     freedom.
 
 
     Your partner must be one who encourages you to be  your real  self and
     one  who  wants  you  to  fully  develop your  powers of  inspiration,
     creativity and will.  Your partner may be in  a position  of authority
     and  this  may  help  give  you  more confidence  in yourself  or more
     security  within  the  framework  of  the  relationship.   You  may be
     challenged to display a greater degree of confidence  and to  exercise
     authority more effectively and with greater magnanimity.
 
     You  must  seek  a  relationship  where  both  people  are  equal.   A
     partnership in which one is "superior" and the other "inferior" is not
     likely  to  be  successful.   That "always  me-first" attitude  is not
     conducive to a rewarding partnership. A need to feel part of a  family
     is present.
 
     With this position marriage and partnerships  are likely  to assume  a
     paramount and key role in your life. There may be  a tendency  to look
     for a "father figure" and, as  you may  be inclined  to surrender  the
     initiative to your partner, you are rather more  likely to  react than
     act first yourself, so that your partner may assume a dominant role. 
 
     If your natal Sun is badly aspected, then the partners you attract may
     be egotistical, domineering, vain and ostentatious.  If your natal Sun
     is well aspected, then partners are likely to  be proud,  firm-minded,
     self-confident, ambitious, honorable, frank and generous.
 
     Selfish pride and too  much desire  to have  your own  way may  be the
     greatest challenges in your relationships.
 
 
     Saturn  here  indicates you  need to  learn to  cooperate with  and to
     develop empathy for others.  You are perhaps cautious  about marriage,
     but, when committed, may find it very difficult to leave your marriage
     partner, even if you are unhappy.  You may  marry for  security rather
     than love. Discipline is needed in relationships.
 
     There may be a very self-controlled and sometimes calculating attitude
     towards all forms of partnership. You are inclined  to seek  a partner
     who will awaken your sense of  responsibility and  give you  a greater
     sense of  purpose and  will to  succeed. For  a woman  there may  be a
     subconscious desire to marry  a "father  figure" and  the partner  may
     well feel an urge to organize your life on a more effective basis.
 
     The responsibilities of marriage  or the  fear of  marriage may  delay
     marriage.  If Saturn is well aspected in your  natal chart,  then this
     position usually indicates that  one loyally  abides by  marriage vows
     and faithfully carries out  marital duties.   With a  well placed  and
     well aspected natal Saturn, the partner is likely  to be  a person  of
     integrity, faithful,  steady, reliable,  industrious, persevering  and
     economical,  perhaps  not over-demonstrative  and preferring  deeds to
     words, and providing a real anchor for the partnership.
 
     If natal Saturn is badly aspected, then there is a tendency to  endure
     an unhappy marriage rather than to lose face  by breaking  up. If  you
     neglect  to  make  your  partner  happy,  your own  happiness will  be
     affected in the same proportion.  This position can also mean a second
     choice marriage, which endures in spite of boredom, unhappiness and  a
     lack of love. In other words you may have wanted to marry someone else
     but settled on a second choice instead.  The partner may act in such a
     way  as  to become  a burden,  and may  be uncommunicative,  narrow in
     outlook, cold, and over-critical.   In some  cases the  spouse may  be
     much loved, but prone to ill health.  Marriage to a  widow or  widower
     is possible.
 
 
     Your imagination and your  idealization of  your partner  may be  more
     real to you than what your partner is in reality.  If this is so, then
     there will come the day when your blinders  are removed  and you  will
     see their true nature.  This then may lead to great disappointment and
     discouragement when you find out that they or you have  been living  a
     lie and that things are not as they have appeared. With this  position
     you must  make absolutely  sure you  are dealing  with the  hard, cold
     facts of your relationship  and not  the romantic  notions dreamed  up
     from storybook tales.
 
     You are likely to seek a marriage partner who can provide a  source of
     inspiration  and  bring out  your capacity  for compassion  and loving
     understanding. There can be a tendency  to see  a prospective  partner
     through rose-colored glasses or to weave  imaginative fantasies  about
     new  contacts  or  hoped-for  encounters.   Consequently  there  is  a
     possibility that the partner may not be the type of person conjured up
     by your imagination.
 
     There is some tendency  to form  partnerships based  on admiration  or
     pity.  If your natal Neptune is  afflicted, such  admiration may  have
     resulted from your having been dazzled  by glamorous  externals, while
     an over-active sense of pity may be exploited by a prospective partner
     so that you marry out of sentiment or misplaced sympathy.
 
     Possibilities exist that the partner is very sensitive and may need to
     be treated with kid gloves. The partner may  be artistic  or musically
     inclined or have some connection with drama or the stage. The material
     side of  life may  not concern  them. Your  relationship may  be quite
     spiritual and above the sordid things of this  life, hence  it may  be
     more platonic than sexual. The other side of the coin is that  you may
     become  involved  with unreliable,  inconstant and  somewhat shiftless
     types whose sympathies may be largely focused upon themselves, or they
     may be underprivileged in some way, or neurotic or invalids  suffering
     from chronic ill health.
 
     An unconscious willingness on your part  to indulge  in self-deception
     regarding  your  partner  is  possible.  This  may keep  you in  a bad
     relationship  because  you  refuse  to see  the truth  or you  falsely
     believe that only you can change things.
 
     In order to get the best  results from  the marriage  relationship you
     must learn to overcome  vague desires  for an  unattainable ideal,  to
     control any tendency to get carried away by shallow romanticism and to
     be  as  clear-headed  and  practical  as  possible when  assessing the
     virtues and attractions of prospective mates. Stay well-grounded.
 
 
     You are inclined to seek a  partner who  will provide  a challenge  to
     discover new resources within yourself that will give you the power to
     transcend previous performances and  to transform  certain aspects  of
     your being. A partner who makes you feel growth and  intensity is  one
     you seek.  There is a tendency to admire well developed will power  in
     others,  with  the  result  that  you  may attract  those who  tend to
     dominate  you,  possibly  feeling  that  if  you have  to cope  with a
     somewhat overpowering  personality you  may discover  more effectively
     the full extent of your own resources.
 
     There are intense feelings  and reactions  in your  relationships. You
     have a need to cooperate with  others and  expect total  commitment in
     your  partnerships.   Trouble  can  occur  when  this  same  sense  of
     commitment is not felt by the other person in the relationship.
 
 
     Your feelings are greatly  influenced by  those with  whom you  are in
     close personal contact.  You want to be popular with others.   You are
     inclined to seek partners who can bring out your sympathetic  side and
     play on your emotions.
 
     For men there is often a  tendency to  seek a  "mother figure"  and to
     bring out in others a desire to mother, protect and care for them. You
     are  therefore  likely  to  attract  a   partner  who   is  kind   and
     domesticated.
 
     Both you and your partner may need to be on  your guard  against moody
     or fickle  behavior. Marriage  may be  undertaken with  the object  of
     establishing a home. More than one marriage is possible.
 
     There is probably a compelling emotional  need for  a partner  and for
     marriage.  In order to get the best results  from any  partnership you
     must learn to control any tendency to be continually at  the mercy  of
     your moods, which may  result from  over-vulnerable feelings.   Try to
     control a tendency to be too  dependent on  others for  your emotional
     stimuli and you should discipline a constant desire for changes in the
     nature of the relationship.
 
     Concerning  vocation:  Your  work  situation  is  tied to  the public,
     partnerships, a keen awareness of public expectation and  the need  to
     meet it. Perhaps marriage  is essential  to give  clear focus  to work
     security.   For  many  with  this position,  the work  profile can  be
     labeled a "public personality."  You are dependent upon others for the
     fulfillment of work needs.  The process of relationships  is extremely
     important.
 
 
     Relationships energize you and  you get  a great  deal of  stimulation
     from them. You desire an active partner who can help you share  in the
     goings-on of the world. Your partner needs to challenge you,  help you
     initiate projects and perhaps compete with you.  You  need a  sparring
     partner!  Your relationships have much energy and you need to  channel
     that energy into constructive means and not into destructive ones. The
     competition  between  you and  your partner  might better  be directed
     towards the outer world.
 
     In all your dealings with others  you enjoy  the element  of challenge
     and competition.  You may goad others just to see how they will react.
     The chase is important  to you,  perhaps more  important then  the end
     result. Because you enjoy the action, you may not mind  losing battles
     to a partner who is prepared to carry the fight to you.  Your marriage
     partner is likely to  be very  ardent, positive,  active, capable  and
     courageous, with a will of their own.
 
     Perhaps the partner you seek is  someone who  can play  the role  of a
     champion or a crusader.  Mars here makes for an association  where the
     passions  have  full  play  and  a  love match  with much  devotion is
     possible. The tendency is to marry early, often as a result of love at
     first sight, although if  Mars is  badly aspected,  you may  "marry in
     haste and repent at leisure".
 
     There  may  be strife  and friction  in marriage  as a  result of  the
     partner's   hasty   temper,  intemperance,   extravagance,  brashness,
     intolerance, over-demanding attitude or violence.
 
     In order to get the best  results from  marriage and  partnership, you
     should try to be as cooperative and easy-going as possible, practicing
     gentleness  and  diplomacy  rather  than  allowing  any  assertive  or
     quarrelsome tendencies to gain the upper hand.
 
 
     Your partner, who may be a member of  one of  the professions,  may be
     more affluent than you.  If Jupiter  is badly  aspected in  your natal
     chart,  then  your partner  may be  somewhat opinionated,  lazy, self-
     indulgent,  extravagant  and  self-willed,   sometimes  untrustworthy,
     immoral, shameless and wasteful.
 
     You are able to bring out  the generous  and good-natured  impulses of
     others,  but  in  order  to  get  the best  results from  the marriage
     partnership you  may need  to control  any extravagant  tendencies and
     prevent false pride from unduly affecting  the smooth  course of  your
     relationships.