A pattern of abusive and violent behavior by one or both members of an intimate relationship such as marriage, when one person tries to dominate and control the other person, is known as domestic abuse or violence.

In astrology, it is possible to predict the likelihood that the person you are or about to become involved with will be of an abusive and violent nature.

Behaviors and traits of an abusive and violent husband:

• physical aggression [hitting, biting, slapping, kicking etc]
• Verbal abuse
• Negative attitude towards women.
• Jealousy
• controlling behavior
• unrealistic expectations
• Shift blame for problems
• Economic deprivation of the wife.
• hypersensitivity
• cruelty to children
• Sexual violence or marital rape

Factors responsible for the violent and abusive husband:

Upward: Body, mind and habit of the native

6th house: Enemies, lawsuits, injuries, bad fame, bad luck, disgrace, anxiety

7th house: Social status, sexual relationships, life partner,

eighth house: Litigation, sexual relations, anxiety and cause of death, sexual organs

house 12: subconscious fears or guilt, resentments or hatreds, past life karma, potentially harmful secrets, secret enemies or saboteurs, secret plots, secret motives, repressed knowledge,

Moon: complex inferiority, complex interpersonal weaknesses, emotional instabilities, emotional frustration and blocks

Jupiter: husband’s significator

Venus: sexual pleasure, material comforts, incestuous, adulterous, scandalous, libertine, petty and lazy partner,

March: brutally violent, aggressive, murder, violence, riots, fires, rules of sexuality, sexual energy, accidents and surgeries, assertive and daring by nature.

Saturn: obstruction, despondency, extreme discipline, troublesome nature, lack of tact and sensitivity, lack of consideration, excessive self-interest

Rahu: unpleasant and fluctuating temper, harsh speech, falsehood, sin, mental illness, spouse problems,

keto: uncontrollable nature, devious, malefic, horrible

Different mix for an abusive and violent husband:

March:

• Mars, in astrology, is responsible for jealousy, anger, lust, aggression, and violence. Mars just has a lot of destructive power. Mars is responsible for violent behavior in an individual.
• Mars postulated in houses 1, 2, 4, 7 and 12, produces the Mangal-Dosha, which in one way or another is related to marital disputes and domestic violence.
• Mars in aspect to the 7th house/lord indicates an aggressive and violent partner.
• The Mars-Saturn-Rahu combination gives him hostile and violent traits.
• Mars postulated in the seventh house and aspected/associated by Saturn, the lower animal nature of the husband is obvious, resulting in anger, revenge, stubbornness, resentment and an unforgiving nature, there may be sadness and despondency on the part of the husband.

7th house/Libra sign:

• The 7th house/lord is in the sign of Aries/the sign of Scorpio/associated or aspected by Mars, indicates the violent and aggressive nature of the spouse.
• The placement of planets of a fiery/separative nature, such as the Sun, Mars, Saturn, and Rahu/Ketu in the seventh house, indicates the violent nature of the spouse.
• Scorpio in 7th house associated with nodes.
• Venus and Rahu placed in 7th
• 6/8 placement of lords of the ascendant and 7th house.
• Lord of the ascendant/7th associated with nodes/functional malefic
• The appearance of at least two retrograde planets in the seventh house indicates the violent nature of the spouse.
• Association/aspect of Saturn in the 7th house, conflicts can occur in married life which can be of a violent nature. The main conflicts in marital life are indicated during the transit of Saturn
• Ketu in the seventh house, there may be unhappiness in married life and the spouse may have extramarital affairs.
• Saturn and Rahu, Sun and Mars, Mars and Rahu combined in the seventh house indicate domestic violence.

8th house/sign Scorpio:

• Scorpio/8th house has warrior qualities and is more about domestic violence and family disputes. It informs us about the possibilities of divorce and breakup in the conjugal life of the native.
• The 8th house reveals the height of the obstacles that the natives might face in their married life and in societies.
• The 8th house/lords represent the genital organs, when afflicted, resulting in sexual incompetence, it further increases the violent nature of the couple.

house 12:

• Afflictions to the 12th house can cause an immoral sex life, resulting in domestic violence.
• Mars and Saturn in the 12th house create attitude problems and cooperation is to be expected.
• Mars in the 12th house increases sexual desire but reduces the level of satisfaction, resulting in extramarital affairs that cause domestic problems.

Jupiter:

• Afflicted or weak Jupiter shows the selfish nature of the married couple.
• The Moon is in a discordant aspect to Jupiter, indicating dissatisfaction in married life.
• Jupiter afflicted by Mars-Saturn-Rahu indicates cunning intelligence, ignorance, over-indulgence and vanity of the husband.

Venus:

• The 6/8 placement of Venus and the Moon indicates disputes in married life.
• Rahu conjunct Venus gives an erratic and uncontrollable spouse.
• Venus and Mercury afflicted in the seventh cause the couple to lean towards secret pleasures, resulting in their abusive nature.
• Venus conjunct Mars indicates problems in marital life, including violence involving the spouse.
• If the ruler of the 7th is aspected by Venus occupying a sign of Mars, it indicates the animal-sexual instincts of the husband.

FOR

GEETA J.H.A. [SPIRITUAL HEALER]

INDIA.