THE HOUSE OF MARRIAGE is also known as the House of Contracts and Treaties. If at birth the planet Jupiter, or the planet Venus, should be therein, it is a presumed to be a fortunate marriage. Any other planet such as Saturn or Mars, Uranus or Mercury being therein and well closeted by the Moon in a male horoscope, or by the Sun in a female horoscope, there will be good reason for presuming that marriage will be satisfactory and that the contract will hold on. The planet occupying the House of Marriage is, however, an index to the eventualities which circumscribe the marital life. Thus, if Jupiter is the planet occupying the House of Marriage, the partner will be fortunate, robust, generous, full of vitality and good natured and as the planetary signature indicates, will be "jovial" and fond of good living, and bountiful in all things.

If Venus is the planet in occupation, then the partner will be refined, cultivated, gentle and of good tastes, genial and persuasive, but not forceful or assuming, albeit kindly and sympathetic and at the same time fortunate. They are usually pride of the house, very neat and artistic and always tend to beautify and adorn their homes. If Saturn, being well placed, is the occupying planet, the partner will be careful, thrifty, industrious, a little on the near and sparing side of things, but methodical and parsimonious and much given to regime. Not altogether a comfortable partner, but safe, one who is guided by principle and always ready to conform to his own rules of conduct, rigid but consistent.

This position of Saturn in a female horoscope frequently indicates marriage to a widower, and more especially when Mars is in good aspect to Saturn. When Mars is the occupying planet, it denotes a partner who has much ambition, energy, self-assertion, and enterprise, and not infrequently a man in whose horoscope this planet holds the House of Marriage finds that it is the woman who "wears the trousers." But as we are dealing now only with those horoscopes in which the planet thus situated at birth is well aspected, and therefore favourable to the prospects of marriage, we may conclude that Mars thus placed is a good asset inasmuch as a man may expect his wife to be capable, executive, industrious, vigorous and forceful, and well able to look after their mutual interests; while a woman will find her husband under Mars influence to be enterprising, active, courageous and in all respects manly, though at times excessive in expression of feelings.

The Sun or Moon in the House of Marriage, and well aspected, will bring a congenial and happy marriage which will greatly be helped by success and good fortune. In effect, then, we have to look to the House of Contracts if we could know to what issues we are committed by reason of our entering into the bonds of marriage. This being satisfactory, in terms of the above indications, it will be an additional testimony of harmonious relations should the Sun and Moon in any part of the heavens be in good aspect to one another, as previously stated. When both these testimonies are present, marriage can be looked forward to as the continuous fulfillment of the promise of life.