MERCURY IN THE 7ᵀᴴ HOUSE

It is one of the best positions for Mercury. We already know that the 7ᵗʰ house rules marriage, married life, opposite sex partner in life.

The 7ᵗʰ house concerns many other elements too, which have been detailed earlier. The subjects concerning the 7ᵗʰ house chiefly concern love affair, and the beloved or the lover, sexual tendency and sexual capacity or lack of sexual capacity (partial and complete, curable or incurable). The 7ᵗʰ house also concerns buying and selling, confrontation, quarrel, fight, settlement in foreign land, wound or injury at the hands of or at the instance of competitor, opponent, adversary, and enemy.  

The success or failure of a marriage (failure includes separation by circumstances, separation because of maladjustment, divorce, death, due to a third person angle in the married life, or due to character-angle of the spouse) are ruled by 7ᵗʰ house. Similarly, lower abdomen, genital area (and any injury to it or any defect or deficiency thereof), sex-related diseases are the domain of the 7ᵗʰ house. Also, encouraging the spouse towards immorality for any kind for personal benefit, or because of deficiency in self, marriage of convenience, contract marriage for a fixed period, taking a mistress or paramour, spouse encouraging or leading the marriage partner towards illegal sexual relations with others are other subjects of the 7ᵗʰ house.  

Further litigation, natural or developed tendency towards illegal activity, criminal tendency are also ruled by the 7ᵗʰ house. This enumeration of subjects under the fold of the 7ᵗʰ house is repeated for sake of immediate attention and to serve as a reminder.

When Mercury is alone in the 7ᵗʰ house, it normally gives normally good and beneficial results. Mercury could give, in some rare cases, harmful results when any planet has direct drishti on Mercury from the 12ᵗʰ house.

The only bad effect of Mercury in 7ᵗʰ house is that if it is in a Rasi owned by Mars or Saturn (and sometimes the one owned by Sun too), it gives the individual a tendency to blackmail others by writing anonymous letters. Mercury does this to harm a person, or even to favour a person. The individual might indulge in making bogus-telephone calls, or sending mischievous messages on e-mail. If a woman has Cancer in the 7ᵗʰ house (apart from the Rasis mentioned above), she might indulge in some type of blackmail for one reason or the other.  

Normally, Mercury in the 7ᵗʰ house gives a person an educated life partner or a friend of the opposite sex. If the partner is not educated, she or he would be intelligent, worldly wise and would have or develop a very good understanding of human nature.

The spouse might be a writer, poet, journalist, astrologer or palmist or in any other profession or the carrier mentioned under Mercure’s attributes.

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