When Will I Get Married? Marriage Prediction by Kundli

How astrologers read when you will get married

No kundli prints a wedding date. What an astrologer does is read a set of factors, each of which says something about marriage, and look for the years in which several of them point the same way. These are the factors, in roughly the order they are read.

The 7th house and its lord

The 7th house is the house of marriage and the spouse. Its sign, the planets in it and the house its lord sits in describe what marriage looks like for you. The 2nd house (family) and the 11th (fulfilment of desires) are read with it.

Venus, and Jupiter for women

Venus is the karaka, the natural significator, of marriage in every chart. Traditional practice also reads Jupiter as the significator of the husband in a woman's chart. A strong, unafflicted Venus is the single most common sign of a happy and timely marriage.

The Navamsa (D9)

The Navamsa divides each sign into nine parts and redraws the chart from them. It is called the marriage chart: its 7th house and lord confirm or qualify what the birth chart promises, and a planet that looks strong in the birth chart but falls weak in the Navamsa gives less than it seems to.

The darakaraka

In the Jaimini system the planet with the lowest degree in its sign is the darakaraka, the significator of the spouse. More on it below.

The dasha: which years are active

The Vimshottari dasha divides life into periods ruled by the nine planets. Astrologers look for marriage in the periods of the 7th lord, Venus, planets in or aspecting the 7th house, the darakaraka, and Rahu. These periods are calculated exactly from the Moon's position at birth, which is why the birth time matters.

The transits: Jupiter and Saturn

Within an active period, astrologers watch for the year in which Jupiter and Saturn both influence the 7th house or its lord, a pattern known as the double transit, and Jupiter's position from the Moon sign, called Guru bal, which pandits check before fixing a wedding date.

None of these decides on its own, and charts disagree with themselves often. That is the reason a reading of the whole chart is worth more than any single rule.

Shadi kab hogi 2026–27: Guru bal for every rashi

Guru bal is the rule pandits apply when choosing a wedding date. Count from your Moon sign (rashi) to the sign Jupiter is in. Jupiter in the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th or 11th is favourable. In the 1st, 3rd, 6th or 10th the wedding can go ahead after a Jupiter puja. In the 4th, 8th or 12th it is avoided. It is checked mainly for the bride. Don't know your rashi? Find it from your date of birth.

Guru bal says when a wedding can be held, by the broadest measure there is, one shared by everyone born with the Moon in your sign. It does not say whether a marriage is coming in your chart. That is read from the factors above.

Love marriage or arranged marriage?

This is one of the most asked questions in Indian astrology, and astrologers answer it from the link between the 5th house, which governs romance, and the 7th, which governs marriage.

• The 5th lord with, aspecting, or in exchange of signs with the 7th lord.
• The 7th lord in the 5th house, or the 5th lord in the 7th.
• Venus joined with Mars, or the Moon with Venus.
• Rahu in the 5th or 7th house, or with Venus, read as a match outside the expected community or background.

An arranged marriage is read from a 7th lord tied to the 2nd and 9th houses, which govern family and tradition, and from a strong Jupiter on the 7th house. Many charts carry signs of both, which astrologers read as a love match that the families come to accept.

Why marriage gets delayed: late marriage in the kundli

The factors astrologers read for delay:

• Saturn in the 7th house, aspecting it, or joined with the 7th lord or Venus.
• The 7th lord in the 6th, 8th or 12th house, or combust, or debilitated.
• Venus combust (too close to the Sun) or weak in the Navamsa.
• Mangal dosha that the chart does not cancel. Check yours free.
• Rahu and Ketu across the 1st and 7th houses.
• Malefic planets on both sides of the 7th house, a pattern called papakartari.

Saturn is the most common of these, and astrologers are careful to say it delays rather than denies. A late marriage under Saturn is traditionally a lasting one.

Remedies for late marriage

• The Katyayani mantra, recited by women for a good husband: Katyayani Mahamaye Mahayoginyadhishwari, Nandagopasutam Devi Patim Me Kuru Te Namah.
• Thursday fasts and worship of Jupiter, especially for women; the Mangla Gauri vrat on Tuesdays of Shravan.
• The Solah Somvar vrat and Shiva-Parvati worship.
• Friday worship of Lakshmi and Venus remedies, especially for men.
• Saturday remedies and Hanuman worship when Saturn is the cause; Mars remedies when Mangal dosha is.

A remedy works on the planet behind the delay, so the first step is knowing which planet that is.

What will your spouse be like?

The 7th house sign and its lord

The sign on your 7th house sets the partner's temperament. A fire sign (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) suggests an active, confident partner; an earth sign (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) a practical, steady one; an air sign (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) a sociable, talkative one; a water sign (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) an emotional, caring one. Where the 7th lord sits adds the story: in the 10th, a partner met through work or devoted to a career; in the 9th, one from a cultured or religious family; in the 12th, one from far away.

Your darakaraka

Take the seven planets from the Sun to Saturn and look at their degrees within their signs. The one with the smallest degree is your darakaraka. (Some astrologers include Rahu, counting its degree backwards from 30.) Your free kundli lists every planet's degree, so you can find it in a minute. What tradition reads from each:

Upapada lagna

The upapada is the arudha, the outward image, of the 12th house, and it is read for the marriage itself rather than the person: how it is seen, how it holds up, and what strains it. To find it, count from the 12th house to the sign its lord occupies, then count the same number again from there. If you land back on the 12th house or on the 6th from the lagna, take the 10th sign from that point instead. Benefics in or aspecting the upapada, and a well-placed 2nd house from it, are read as a lasting marriage.

Looks, profession and a foreign spouse

Looks are read from the 7th sign and the planets in it: Venus there is linked with an attractive partner, Jupiter with a large frame and a dignified manner, Saturn with a lean build and an older or serious partner, Mars with an athletic one. The partner's work is read from the 7th lord and from the 4th house, which is the 10th counted from the 7th. A foreign or distant spouse is read from Rahu in the 7th, the 7th lord in the 12th or 9th, or the 12th lord in the 7th.

Marriage yogas in the kundli

• The 7th lord strong and placed in a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) or trikona (1st, 5th, 9th).
• Venus and Jupiter well placed and free of affliction.
• The 7th lord joined with or aspected by the lagna lord: the self and the partner in agreement.
• Benefic planets in the 7th house or aspecting it.
• The same sign in the 7th house of the birth chart and the Navamsa, or the 7th lord vargottama.

Can marriage be predicted by date of birth alone?

Only partly. The date gives the signs of the planets and, on most days, the Moon sign, which is enough for Guru bal. The 7th house, the most important factor of all, comes from the lagna, and the lagna changes about every two hours, so it needs the birth time. The dasha also starts from the Moon's exact degree, which moves about half a degree an hour. A name gives no timing at all. If you know your birth time, use it.

Matching a partner is a separate question. For that, use our kundli matching, which scores the guna milan out of 36 and checks both of you for Mangal dosha.

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