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Seventh house

noun · astrology

The seventh house

1. the area of a natal chart that governs partnership, marriage, and the significant other; where a planet's sign is its style, its house is the arena of life it plays out in.

Its natural sign is Libra. Read as a lens for reflection, never a verdict.

In a natal chart, the seventh house is the area of life that holds partnership, marriage, and the significant other. Its natural sign is Libra. Where a planet's sign describes its style, its house describes the arena of life where that style plays out.

What the seventh house means

The seventh house is the other: marriage and close partnership, the people you meet as equals, and the qualities you tend to find in them that you have not yet claimed in yourself. It is the mirror a one-to-one relationship holds up.

A planet in the seventh house

A planet here tends to come alive in partnership, shaping who you are drawn to and what you project onto them.

What do you keep looking for in a partner that might be yours to grow?

Read about house systems (why astrologers divide the houses differently), see all twelve houses, or learn how to read a birth chart.

Frequently asked

What does the seventh house mean in astrology?

The seventh house is the other: marriage and close partnership, the people you meet as equals, and the qualities you tend to find in them that you have not yet claimed in yourself. It is the mirror a one-to-one relationship holds up.

What sign rules the seventh house?

The natural ruler of the seventh house is Libra, though in your own chart the sign on its cusp depends on your birth time.

What does a planet in the seventh house mean?

A planet here tends to come alive in partnership, shaping who you are drawn to and what you project onto them.