By Patricia Darrow, Astrologer
In astrology, there is an angle that is directly across the Ascendant called the Descendant. This is also known as the cusp of the 7th house. It symbolizes our relationship with the self, social contacts and the people who play an important role in our lives. It also discloses to what type of people we are attracted and vice versa.
The 7th house represents your marital partner, significant other, business partner, agreements, the public, lawsuits, nephews and nieces, as well as polarities, visual arts and sunsets. It also describes family physicians, open enemies, competition, lawyers, astrologers, contests, divorce and how you get along with others.
The 7th house occupations can range anywhere from lawyers, artists, musicians, mediators and judges to architects, museum staff, art galleries and fashion designers.
Further occupations of the 7th house include interior decorators, marketing consultants, marriage counselors, team building, diplomats, floral designers, receptionists, customer service and even the Avon lady!
The 7th house correlates with the sign of Libra and the planet of Venus. You can blend these two energies to gain more insight into this house. Regarding medical astrology, it rules the kidneys and lumbar vertebrae. The 7th house also resonates to the Justice and Empress cards in the Tarot and to the number of six in Numerology.
A seventh house person is most often romantic and loves to maintain peace and harmony at all cost. If the person is a woman, she would enjoy a box of chocolates and flowers and to be courted in the old fashioned way! She probably fancies the soft pastels and could even have her home decorated in Laura Ashley accessories.
More often then not, a person is concerned with their significant other and how they relate. In astrology, the two most valid methods of comparing two people are the synastry and the composite charts. The first method compares the two horoscopes
and examines their interactions. It focuses on the aspects of the key planets and superimposes one planet into the house of the another. The second method is called the composite chart. This chart is generated by taking the midpoints between both sets of planets and house cusps and consolidating them into one chart.
Some tips on compatibility charts are checking out aspects to Saturn, as Saturn is good for long-term relationships and is also, in many cases, a karmic tie. Here is a good rule of thumb to follow. If a relationship survives the first two years, a Mars cycle, you will have experienced just about every major argument you’ll ever have in that relationship!
In closing, a key to a successful relationship is balance. One needs to maintain their own identity yet give up enough to engage in a relationship, so the key for both will be to recognize that the other also needs to maintain those attributes that make them unique. With this said and done both partners can get down to the business at hand; putting their best feet forward and …letting the tango begin!