The general significator of marriage, or that which is common to both sexes, is the seventh house, or west angle. Invariably the student will observe that when or is therein, a discordance in marriage will occur. If they are afflicted, a fatal and unhappy union takes place, ending in misery or hate, or mutual dislike; if they are assisted by a fortunate aspect of or , the marriage, though not prosperous, may not be unhappy; but the native will bury his or her, wedded partner. As unhappiness in marriage is thus caused, so happiness therein, is the result of or being found unafflicted in the seventh house.

The particular significators of wedlock are different; thus the Moon is the particular significator of marriage to the man, so far as the marriage contract is concerned; and to marry for-tunate, the should be (in the man's horoscope) assisted by the good aspects of or To marry happy, the in to the may suffice; but that would not ensure good fortune.

If the is in semiquartile, sesquiquadrate, or parallel of or , the native is unfortunate in his choice; if the be in semiquartile, sesquiquadrate or to or , he is by no means fortunate therein; if in , parallel, semisextile , quintile, or bi-quintile to or , the native will be eminently fortunate therein, provided the seventh house is not afflicted by the presence of evil stars. The planet either posited in the seventh house, or to whom the applies by aspect, will describe the person of the wife, and her conditions.

In a female horoscope, the is the prime significator, and must be judged in every respect as the in the male horoscope. In both sexes, afflicted, shows an unhappiness in love; but in a female nativity, has great share therein, and many females have late marriages solely through having weak and afflicted in their horoscope.

In a female nativity, if the be in semiquartile or sesquiquadrate to , unchastity is greatly to be feared, unless or assist to avert the noxious configuration. Plurality of husbands or wives is denoted by the significators being in bicorpbreal signs, and having many configurations.