The Astrological Houses...
House 1
House 2
House 3
House 4
House 5
House 6
House 7
House 8
House 9
House 10
House 11
House 12
The 7th House
(marriage,partnerships,relationships)
The Seventh House represents the field of experience in which you are challenged to develop and sustain relationships with those whom we can broadly call your "soulmates, committed lovers, spouses, best friends, business partners" etc etc...
One thing about love... There's no way to learn much about it without some help! The Seventh House, traditionally the House of Marriage, is the part of your birthchart where you encounter the people who'll provide your deepest insights into intimacy.
But that's not a code word for sex!... For that reason, "Marriage" is a misleading title for this House.
You can have intimacy without erotic or romantic feelings... There are two parts to understanding the Seventh House...
The first is that whatever energies you have in this part of your birthchart represent lessons you're learning about empathy, trust, and commitment... The second is that those same planetary energies describe the people who'll provide the lessons...
They may be mates or lovers... They may be best friends... They may be colleagues or business associates... They may even be "worthy opponents".
It most often indicates those that can be partners who can help and assist us in succeeding where we may not be able to do that on our own.
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