The Seventh House

Think of the person who knows you best: a partner, a best friend, a business partner, even a rival who sharpens you. Think of what you keep meeting in other people, the qualities that attract you, or annoy you, again and again. That is the 7th house: the part of the chart that is about others.

The 7th house begins at the Descendant, the point setting on the western horizon at birth, directly opposite the Ascendant. Where the 1st house is you, the 7th is everyone you meet face to face.

What the 7th house covers

• Marriage and committed partnership.
• Business partners and close collaborators.
• Open enemies and rivals.
• Contracts and agreements.

Every chart has all twelve houses. Yours may have several planets in the 7th house or none at all. Either way, this area of life is part of your story.

Where it sits

The 7th house is an angular house, above the horizon, on the western side. Angular houses (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) begin at the four angles of the chart. They are the strongest and most visible houses: what happens here happens out in the open.

The old name: the Setting

In Hellenistic astrology the 7th house was simply the Setting place, where the planets go down below the western horizon. It was linked with marriage, and also with the end of life: the setting of the Sun. The house of the other was also a house of endings, because every meeting changes who we were before it.

What fills this house in your chart?

See the sign on its cusp, the planets inside and the ruler that runs it.

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