When To Marry?
When do people actually marry?

This page is not about finding the most appropriate and auspicious time to get married (this topic is discussed on our wedding setting date page), but it's about the FACTUAL dates/timing people actually do marry.

On this page, we will publish our findings, based on different astrological methods. This way, you can also find out in your own horoscope when to marry. For the moment, we researched two methods:

• marriage configurations in the Solar return charts
• marriage configurations in the Progressed charts

If you want to know how we conduct our research, click here.


Your Marriage Year in the Solar Returns

We analyzed 163 solar return charts calculated for the year of marriage. At first, we did not take into account the gender of the person involved, so we mixed the solar return charts for both men and women looking for common astrological signatures pointing to a marriage.

Actually, we did not find too much significant results in the solar return charts. The ones that stand out are listed below.

The results changed completely when we split our research group into male and female horoscopes! While 163 charts is not much, some results came out so strong that we wanted to let you know about these preliminary but significant findings.

Below we list these significant preliminary findings found in ALL 163 solar return charts calculated for the year of marriage of both men and women.

If you want to read the significant results, found in female horoscopes, click here.

If you want to read the significant results, found in male horoscopes, click here.

Our conditions:

• we use the Topocentric House system (almost similar to Placidus)
• we calculate the charts for the place of birth because we do not always know the place of residence.
• In our research, we use all the major planets and points (Sun to Pluto, Mean North Node and the 4 major Asteroids). We also incorporate the Vertex, the Dark Moon Lilith (the mean apogee of the Moon) and the Part of Fortune (changing between day and night births). We also use the TNPs (Trans-Neptunian Planets) from the Hamburg School (Uranian Astrology)
• We use all major and minor aspects, the parallel and contra-parallel included. The orb for the minor aspects is 1° and for the major aspects we do our research with three different orb settings (1°, 3° and 6°). All midpoints are done with 1° orbs.
• The conditions are tested in geocentric positions and heliocentric positions as well.
• We use the modern house rulers (for example, Pluto rules Scorpio).

Our Preliminary Findings in the Solar Returns:

• Sun conjunct Juno (orb 3°) (Chi square 16.0) (this combo means that when transiting Juno conjoins the natal Sun around your birthday, marriage is likely to take place within a year in both male or female horoscopes)
• Venus trine Vesta (orb 3°) (Chi square 16.0)
• Venus and Neptune in reception (Chi square 16.0)
• Moon parallel Cupido (the TNP, not the asteroid) (Chi square 16.0)
• Uranus stationary (Chi square 11.0)
• MC in Scorpio (Chi square 14.0)
• Sun + Mercury = Jupiter (8th Harmonic; 45° Dial; 1° orb)
• Venus in a mutable sign (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces), especially in Pisces
• Jupiter culminates (is the highest planet in the Solar Return)
• Neptune is in the 2nd Quadrant (houses 4, 5 or 6)
• Pluto parallel or anti-parallel the Ascendant or the MC
• Venus in the Midpoint of MC/Vertex (8th Harmonic; 45° Dial; 1° orb)
• Venus in a mutable sign and the Moon in any aspect to Uranus
• Ruler of the 9th house stationary (Chi square 9.0)
• Ruler of the Ascendant in any aspect (0°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, 120°, 135°, 150°, 180° -- orb 1°) with the (modern) ruler of the 7th house (Chi square 13.4)

Taking into account the TNP's (Trans-Neptunian Planets) and midpoints we found some very significant signatures when we compared these 163 solar return charts with another group of 680 (!) solar return charts for the years of childbirth.

In at least five solar return charts of the 163 charts calculated for the marriage years of men and women, we found the following combinations (= astrological signatures) that could NOT be found IN ANY of the 680 solar return charts calculated for childbirth years:

• Mars in the Venus/Kronos midpoint (8th Harmonic or 45° dial; orb 1°) AND Vulcanus in the Mars/Jupiter midpoint (12th Harmonic or 30° dial; orb 1°)
• Juno in the Pallas/Mean Moon's Node midpoint (8th Harmonic or 45° dial; orb 1°) AND Jupiter in the Juno/Kronos midpoint (12th Harmonic or 30° dial; orb 1°)
• the Moon in the Mars/Kronos midpoint (12th Harmonic or 30° dial; orb 1°) AND Mars in the Moon/Kronos midpoint (12th Harmonic or 30° dial; orb 1°)

The table below will make it more clear:

Clearly, these astrological signatures, found in the solar return charts of both males and females, seem to point to marriage!

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Your Marriage Year in the Progressed charts

Irrespective of the gender, we also analyzed the progressed charts of men and women for their date of marriage. This way, we are able to answer the question when to marry in reality.

During our research, we were struck by the importance of the "Arabic Parts." Some Arabic Parts that is.

We found the following Arabic Parts most important:

• the Part of Marriage: the Ascendant + the 7th house cusp - Venus (for Day and Night charts)
• the Part of Self (abbreviated as P1): the Ascendant + the 1st house cusp - the ruler of the 1st house (for Day and Night charts)
• the Part of The Other (abbreviated as P7): the Ascendant + the 7th house cusp - the ruler of the 7th house (for Day and Night charts)

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