7th House

the Seventh House
by
DR. Wm. M. DAVIDSON

If Mars was in the SEVENTH HOUSE at the moment of your birth, it will affect your life as follows:

Disposition
This inclines you to be somewhat aggressive in dealing with others, though to some extent this is fate, for it attracts to you people with whom you have to disagree. You like to debate and challenge people and are not easily convinced, and you may be disposed to even deliberately display this belligerent attitude. You like combat either physically or mentally, and may be naturally attracted to legal work or to surgery. It tends to exhibitiveness in disposition.

Gainfulness
Gain or loss here is in the business of dealing or negotiating with others. This can be in agency work, in sales work, or in legal negotiation. Your every transaction with others personally is influenced by this, even in a simple act of shopping. You should learn to discern the Mars people (see below) so you will know how to avoid or handle them. It is good for balanced, aggressive action, but undue force will invariably be attended by failure; where well-aspected it is good for all efforts of personal strength in combat, wrestling, boxing, tennis, ju-jitsu, and feats of exhibitive skill, stage dancing and acrobatics.

Things - Circumstances
This influence tends to bring you into circumstances where there is clash and enmity with others. Try, therefore, to sidestep such conflicts for they do you no good. Unless well aspected, you are less likely to succeed in negotiations, dissensions, agreements of any kind if you try to affect them personally. You do better by getting things done through a tried and trusted friend or coworker. You tend to be drawn into litigation, so unless you current cycle is very favorable, side-step this and affect agreement through arbitration or agreement rather than through fight. Guard against being drawn into physical fights. In war, males born thus are invariably wounded and even taken prisoner. If well aspected, there is favor for partnership where there is energetic, physical cooperation as in dancing, acrobatics, fencing, boxing, etc. It rules skating clubs, drills, balances; artificial teeth, dental display; military court marital, law courts; high-colored paints and enamels, acid etching, metal engraving.

Health
This placement tends to functional kidney disturbance through injuries or inhalation of acrid, pungent substances such as turpentine; emotional upsets; also to skin troubles through contact with irritant substances as poison ivy, and to burns due to contact with acid substances. To a lesser extent it tends to head and eye injuries inflicted by others. If very adversely aspected you should insure your sight against damage. In early life you may be subject to scarlet fever, measles and like eruptive skin conditions.

Marriage
This position tends to much acrimony in marriage, and points to the need for deliberate avoidance of conflicts or undue discussion of differences. It can be overcome by always trying to see the other’s point of view and by seeking harmonious settlement of differences, for you gain nothing by conflicts and can lose much. In some signs it threatens the partner physically with accidents or illness. Troubles in marriage tend to eventuate after the birth of the second child. Care should be taken in regard to love letters – differences arise. The second child is contentious and fractious.

People
This indicates sharp featured, somewhat interfering, curious-minded individuals. If favorable, enemies easily become friends; if adverse friends become avowed enemies. It signifies lawyers, dentists, surgeons and iron workers.

Attunement
The keynote of this influence is that it focuses into your life people and things which are martial, forceful, combative, disruptive or irritant. Your secret of transmuting this is to see that all these martial activities are constructive just as electricity can heal or hurt, so Mars force can benefit or hurt you. It is not the force itself but rather the use you make of it. Therefore, realize that you have a greater than normal force pouring into you; do not be tempted to use this destructively and drawn into energy-wanting conditions, but rather seek to be forceful in an energetic and constructive manner so success and benefits will arise out of it.

DR. Wm. DAVIDSON was a homeopathic physician who practiced in the Chicago area some 50 years ago. He was an active member of Friends of Astrology, and frequently lectured for us. These notes are part of his lessons from 1954, and have been donated to us through our member, EDNA KAYE.

Venus in 7th house
You are charming, sociable and friendly and it is easy for people to
see your loving nature. Partnerships are generally happy and
harmonious. But your desire for peace and harmony at all costs may be
detrimental to you if you do not stand up for your own needs. You
desire a spouse who is attractive and probably well off financially.
Creature comforts and enjoying them with your partner are desired.
Take care that you do not get in the habit of expecting too much from
others, though.

You have a deep appreciation of the value of relationships. Too great
an emphasis on affection might cause problems for you. A desire for
the perfect relationship may be so strong that any imperfections in
your relationship could be blown up beyond proportion. Balance and
poise are necessary.

You seek a partner that can supply you with "the good life". You want
beauty, luxury and the finer things in life and you seek a partner who
can provide these. Perhaps marriage will bring you to a higher
station in life. Over-indulgence and over-emphasizing the sensual side
of life can lead to problems. You must have a partner you feel is
cooperative rather than competitive. If Venus is aspected poorly in
your chart, then perhaps your partner's moral standards are subject to
question.


Sun in 7th house
You want a partner that you can be proud of. In some way your sense
of pride is involved in the choosing of a marriage partner. There may
be a wish to gain social prestige and to marry someone who can be
admired and respected or someone who is higher on the social ladder.

Your partner must be one who encourages you to be your real self and
one who wants you to fully develop your powers of inspiration,
creativity and will. Your partner may be in a position of authority
and this may help give you more confidence in yourself or more
security within the framework of the relationship. You may be
challenged to display a greater degree of confidence and to exercise
authority more effectively and with greater magnanimity.

You must seek a relationship where both people are equal. A
partnership in which one is "superior" and the other "inferior" is not
likely to be successful. That "always me-first" attitude is not
conducive to a rewarding partnership. A need to feel part of a family
is present.

With this position marriage and partnerships are likely to assume a
paramount and key role in your life. There may be a tendency to look
for a "father figure" and, as you may be inclined to surrender the
initiative to your partner, you are rather more likely to react than
act first yourself, so that your partner may assume a dominant role.

If your natal Sun is badly aspected, then the partners you attract may
be egotistical, domineering, vain and ostentatious. If your natal Sun
is well aspected, then partners are likely to be proud, firm-minded,
self-confident, ambitious, honorable, frank and generous.

Selfish pride and too much desire to have your own way may be the
greatest challenges in your relationships.