The 1st Lord in the 7th House

The 1st lord in the 7th house is the ruler of the 1st, the Lagna / Tanu Bhava, placed in the 7th, the Kalatra Bhava. The 1st is a kendra and a trikona and the 7th a kendra. Which graha that lord is depends on the ascendant, so the table below answers for all twelve.

Counted from the 1st, the 7th is the 7th house, which from any house is a kendra position; counted back from the 7th, the 1st is the 7th, a kendra position from it. The 1st and the 7th face each other across the chart, so the 1st lord in the 7th aspects its own house with the 7th-house drishti every graha casts.

On the Parashari reading, in which a lord carries its house’s matters to wherever it sits, the 1st lord in the 7th reads the 1st’s matters — personal identity and life direction — through the 7th’s: spouse or partner, marriage, business partnerships and public relations. For the 1st lord in the 7th that is a frame, not a forecast; what it comes to depends on the graha, its dignity below, and the rest of the chart.

The 1st Lord in the 7th, Ascendant by Ascendant

Across the twelve ascendants the 1st lord in the 7th is in a neutral sign for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Libra and Scorpio, in an enemy's sign for Leo, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces and debilitated for Virgo. The Sun and the Moon rule one sign each, so for Cancer and Leo, where one of them is the 1st lord, it rules no other house; for the other ten the last column gives the second house the 1st lord brings with it to the 7th.

The Reverse: the 7th Lord in the 1st

Where the 7th lord sits in the 1st in the same chart as the 1st lord in the 7th, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. For all twelve ascendants the 1st and the 7th have different lords, so the exchange is possible whatever the ascendant.

Related

The 1st lord in each of the twelve houses is on the 1st lord page; the houses themselves on the 1st house and the 7th house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and astrology for beginners.