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co-significatorship is more popular among practitioners of tropical zodiac.
Conventional jyotish followers do not buy this theory. They simply rank
Venus as wife or girlfriend and Mars as husband or boyfriend. Some northern
Indian jyotishis take Jupiter as husband while some nadi texts mark
Venus+Mercury as girlfriend.
Apart from female partner or girl friend, “lobha” (love, sexual desire, cupidity
etc.) is again an exclusive jurisdiction of Venus both in male and female
horoscopes. All astrological schools accept this attribute of Venus. It explains
the way, how one falls in love. Placement of Venus in mooltrikona,
swakshetra, or uccha (either in rasi or navamsa) surely yields a soul painted
by Eros and Cupid. Aspect of Jupiter over such a Venus is indeed a gifted
combination. But R. Santhanam holds that retrogression of Venus (especially under
aspect of Saturn) is ominous for enjoying inter-personal happiness. Retrograde
Venus unearths deep rooted misunderstanding about intimacy and sometime
produces love-hate relationship. This signature (when devoid of beneficial
sambandha) may entail failed affair in early life and later disturbed married
life. On the other hand, Moon in the sign or navamsa of Venus, especially in Libra,
reveals a mind, highly sensitive towards love business. Interestingly, very few
people are aware of the fact that English word “love” and Latin term “libido”
are driven from Germanic word “liob” which itself taken from ancient
Sanskrit term, “lubhaeti” or “lubhyati”. Lobh and lubhana being its derivatives
are still in vogue in various vernaculars of Indian sub continent.
Some modern interpreters and practitioners suggest that relations between a
girlfriend and a boyfriend, especially in western countries and eastern
urbanized societies, should be observed from 12th house (which stands for
sexual relation) rather 7th house (which indicates legal marriage according to
established social norms). Although it holds some weight but it can not be
generalized for all lovers, since many a couples, even today, are not stimulated
by mere sexual desires. However, short term cohabitation without wedlock
may be judged from the 12th house. This is somewhat akin to Gandharva
Vivah, one of the 8 kinds of marital relationships, Manu Smirti expounded.
Earlier scholars have also paid significant importance to 6th house for
“sapatni”, (co-wife, fellow mistress) and pratiyuvati (concubine, courtesan). In
present day context, sapatni should imply extramarital relations and sexual
liaison with others, when one is already married. In female chart, 6th house
indicates possibility of extramarital relations of her boyfriend or husband.