7th House

The seventh house is angular, sitting opposite the first across the chart's widest axis. Aligned with Libra and Venus, it governs partnership in its fullest sense: marriage, close alliance, and the open encounter with another. Where the first house is the self, the seventh is the one who stands across from it — the committed other through whom the self is reflected and tested.

Here are the bonds that require two, the negotiations of equality and difference. The seventh house describes the reaching toward union, the relationship in which a life sees itself completed, challenged, and met.