Is marriage good for me? is a different question from will I marry, and Jyotish answers the two from different things. Timing comes from the Vimshottari Dasha of the marriage significators, which the Marriage Timing calculator works out. Whether marriage will actually be good for you comes from how well the chart's marriage complex is supported - and that is what this page reads.
What the chart is asked
Classical practice never reads marriage from one placement. Six things are weighed, and this calculator scores each of them separately so you can see which carried the answer:
- The 7th house - the kalatra bhava, the seat of marriage. Who occupies it, who aspects it, and whether the sign on it is fixed, movable or dual.
- The 7th lord - the planet that carries the marriage. Its dignity, the house it has gone to, whether it is combust, retrograde or under malefic pressure. A 7th lord fallen into the 6th, 8th or 12th is the single heaviest factor against a marriage in the whole reading.
- The kalatra karaka - the spouse significator. Venus in a male chart, Jupiter in a female one, with the other counted at lower weight.
- The houses that sustain married life - the 2nd (family and what you keep), the 4th (domestic peace, where a marriage is actually lived) and the 11th (whether it fulfils what you wanted from it).
- The Navamsa (D9) - the divisional chart read specifically for marriage. A planet strong in the birth chart but fallen in the Navamsa promises less than it appears to, and the reverse is also true.
- The classical afflictions - Manglik Dosha, the Rahu-Ketu axis across the 1st and 7th, Saturn on the 7th, Papakartari on the 7th - each checked together with the cancellations the same texts attach to them.
How the yes or no is decided
Every factor adds or removes points from a neutral 50, and the total becomes a marriage-support score out of 100. The answer is Yes at 42 and above, and that cut sits deliberately below the midpoint. A chart whose factors roughly cancel each other out is not a chart where marriage is a bad idea - it is an ordinary chart, and the honest answer for an ordinary chart is yes with the usual care. A No therefore has to be earned: it means the opposing factors outweigh the supporting ones by a real margin, roughly the weight of a 7th lord in a dusthana with nothing offsetting it. Across randomly sampled birth charts the calculator answers yes a little under four times in five, which is also what the tradition implies - Jyotish treats marriage as the normal path and reserves its warnings for charts where several significators fail together.
Doshas are checked with their cancellations
Manglik Dosha is counted from the Lagna only, over the houses 1, 4, 7, 8 and 12. Reports that also count it from the Moon and from Venus, and add the 2nd house, end up calling roughly nine charts in ten Manglik - at which point it has stopped being a dosha and become a statistic. Here the Moon and Venus references only describe how insistently an existing dosha repeats, and the bhanga rules are checked in every case. A cancelled Manglik is reported and scored as neither for nor against, because that is what it is.
What a No means, and what it does not
A no is about the chart as it stands, and the three things that change it are all changeable: the partner, the timing, and the strength of whichever significator is weak. Matching the two charts properly is the largest lever of the three. No classical text asks anyone to stay unmarried on the strength of a chart reading, and charts with difficult 7th houses produce long and happy marriages regularly - usually later, and usually where both people went in with their eyes open.
This calculator is educational guidance, not a prediction, and it cannot see your circumstances or the other person's chart. If you are in a marriage that is hurting you, that belongs with a counsellor, a lawyer or people who can keep you safe rather than with an astrology page. For a decision this size, sit with a qualified astrologer who will read the whole chart with you. Enter the exact birth time and pick the city from the dropdown so the ascendant and the 7th house are right.