In modern urban society   people are becoming more and more  career conscious and choosy about marriage. Due to this sometimes they become overage for marriage or relationship. In many cases the marriage is delayed due to some other reasons like lack of financial stability, illness, badly located house  or because of some family troubles etc. In such situations an astrologer should be smart  in understanding the changing patters of modern civil society and he must be an apt person in doing marriage or relationship  counselling for his/her  client so that they can be helped out  to overcome a possible depression. Delay marriage may cause extreme level of  depression, loneliness  and sensual frustrations in some cases.

In this article i will discuss about some of the classical astrological combinations of Vedic astrology texts which shows delay marriage in a horoscope. One must remember that these principals must be used with through analysis of running dashas in a horoscope.

Parashari yogas for delay marriage 

 

1. Saturn giving aspect to the 7th house and/or 7th lord has been found giving delay in marriage in majority of the cases. Saturn is the slow moving planet and if it become retrograde and aspects the 7th house or its lord then it can cause a very painful delay in marriage which frustrate the person in most enigmatic manner.
2. Malefic planets in Kendra (Square) positions in Rashi and Navamsha charts shows delay  in marriage. If the Kendra houses are devoid of  any benefic planet in both Rashi and Navamsha then it causes delay in marriage.
3. If the 7th lord is weak and placed in the 6th , 8th or 12th house or it is in its sign of debilitation then it destroy marital happiness. {Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra}
4. As per saga Parashara the Moon in the 7th house and badly place 7th lord and Venus gives lack of happiness from spouse. {I have observed this in so many horoscopes that a waning  Moon in the 7th house gives delay in marriage. It also makes a person very sensual, tender and erotic}
5. A close conjunction of Venus-Saturn, Venus-Mercury and Moon-Saturn also gives delay in marriage.
6. It has also been observed that opposition of Venus-Saturn and Saturn-Moon also gives delay in marriage.
7. If the 7th house from Moon has Mars, Saturn and Venus then it shows delay or denial of marriage. {Jataka Tattva}
8. If the 7th house from Venus has malefic planets then it also gives delay or denial of marriage. {Jataka Tattva}
9. The Mangal Dosha or Kunja Dosha is also a combination of delay in marriage if other factors are also not good. The Mars place in the 4th , 7th, 8th or 12th house causes the Mangal Dosha or Kuja Dosha. {A person with Mangal Dosha in his natal chart is called Manglik. In modern society it has been found that girls having this dosha in their chart find lots of difficulties to find a suitable match for themselves.}
10. Sometimes Sanyasa Yoga or Pravrajya Yoga’s in a horoscope also shows denial or delay in marriage. These yogas gives lack of interest in marriage and due to it gives extreme delay in marriage.
11. The depositor of Moon i.e. the lord of Chandra lagna under the aspect of Saturn gives delay in marriage or lack of interest in marriage as it is a Sanyasa Yoga as per Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra.
12. The 7th lord in its own Nakshatra or asterism  gives delay or denial of marriage as per Sarvatha Chintamani.
13. As per Brihat Jatak if the Sun and Moon are in the 7th house under the aspect of Saturn also shows lack of happiness from marriage or relationship.
14. If the 7th house or its lord and/or Venus are sandwiched between malefic planets then it gives extreme delay in marriage.
15. If Venus is in the Rashi or Navamsha of Saturn or Venus and Saturn have Navamsha exchange then this yoga cause delay in marriage and unusual sexual behaviors in a native. {Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and Brihat Jataka}
16. The 12th house is the house of bed comfort and if it gets afflicted by malefic planets then it shows delay or denial or marriage.
17. Sun in the 7th house under the aspect of a malefic planets gives lack of happiness from marriage or relationship is a tested classical principal.
18. As per Jataka Tattva the Sun-Venus conjunction in the 5th , 7th or 9th house also shows lack of happiness from spouse.

Jamini Yoga’s for delay in Marriage 

(i) The close degree conjunction of Darakaraka and Ganatikaraka shows delay or troubles in marriage and relationships.

(ii) The Saturn place in the 7th house from Karakamsha lagan gives infatuation towards getting into relationship with older age person.

(iii) If the second house from Upapada sign has a malefic planet or malefic aspect, the native loses his/her spouse or take renunciation. { Jaimini Sutra , Chapter I Quarter  IV}

(iv) A debilitated planet in the  2nd house from Upapada also gives loss of spouse in marriage or trouble in relationships.

(v) If malefic planets  are associated with 7th from Upapada, the seventh from Navamsha or 7th from Karakamsha lagna then the native is deprived of marital happiness or suffer trouble in relationships.

The above yogas will be helpful for astrologers interested in doing marriage or relationship counselling, love astrology and/or match making of horoscopes.