Mars in the 7th House

The Seventh House is the house of partnership. Referred to as the marriage box by some astrologers, this house concerns itself with one-on-one dynamics; romantic, business, and even adversarial couplings fall within its proverbial walls. Those with natal planets in the Seventh House tend to be very focused on relationships, gravitating towards partnership in all areas of life.

With Mars in the Seventh House, your mission is to learn how to cooperate with others. You are highly independent, work towards having your own way, and you must develop gentleness and diplomacy in order to avoid rubbing people the wrong way.  

Relationships energize you, and you get a great deal of stimulation from them. You desire an active partner who can help you share in the world's goings-on. Your partner needs to challenge you, help you initiate projects, and perhaps compete with you. You need a sparring partner! Your relationships have much energy, and you need to channel that energy into constructive means and not into destructive ones. The competition between you and your partner might better be directed towards the outer world.

In all your dealings with others, you enjoy the element of challenge and competition. You may goad others just to see how they will react. The chase is important to you, perhaps more important than the end result. Because you enjoy the action, you may not mind losing battles to a partner who is prepared to carry the fight to you. Your marriage partner is likely to be very ardent, positive, active, capable, and courageous, with a will of their own.

Perhaps the partner you seek is someone who can play the role of a champion or a crusader. Mars here makes for an association where the passions have full play, and a love match with much devotion is possible. The tendency is to marry early, often as a result of love at first sight, although if Mars is poorly aspected, you may "marry in haste and repent at leisure."

There may be strife and friction in marriage as a result of the partner's hasty temper, intemperance, extravagance, brashness, intolerance, over-demanding attitude, or violence.

In order to get the best results from marriage and partnership, you should try to be as cooperative and easy-going as possible, practicing gentleness and diplomacy rather than allowing any overly assertive or quarrelsome tendencies to gain the upper hand.