What to look at and what to look for

partners, clients, contracts, open enemies, and every mirror that shows you what you project. a 7th-house year makes relationship the curriculum: marriage, divorce, business partnerships, legal binds, the other.

the year lord is Mercury: messages, contracts, commutes, and the stories you tell. Mercury retrogrades and transits to your natal Mercury are the year's edit passes.

In your natal chart

Start here before you chase transits.

• the sign on your Descendant and the year lord: who you attract and what you outsource.
• Venus and Mars: chemistry and conflict style in partnership.
• planets in the 7th: partners you already carry in the chart.
• aspects between the year lord and your Ascendant ruler: identity versus compromise.
• the 1st house as counterweight: do not disappear to keep peace.

In the sky this year

Mark dates when the year lord or profected house is touched; those are the year's loudest weather.

• Venus and Mars transits to the year lord: relationship plot points; mark them on the calendar.
• eclipses on the 1st/7th axis: partnerships renegotiated or ended in public view.
• Saturn to the year lord: commitments hardened or burdens acknowledged.
• Uranus to the year lord: sudden meetings or exits.
• Jupiter in the 7th: beneficial alliances; say yes to the right contract.

Inside the twelve months

7th-house months inside other years are affair weather; here the whole year is the marriage plot. when monthly profections hit your 4th, family opinion on a partner may surface.

Where it goes wrong

outsourcing decisions, staying for the logo, or picking a fight because solitude feels unfamiliar.

What the year is asking

choose partners on purpose. sign, renegotiate, or leave the agreement that is costing your name.

you should know who stands beside you and what that costs; clarity beats chemistry alone.