Marriage in Astrology

Marriage is a most complicated structure made up as it is of a whole
series of subjective and objective facts of a very heterogeneous nature.
Since we are concerned with the psycho -astrological aspect of marriage
we shall exclude the objective factors of legal and social nature
although these factors have a pronounced influence on the
psychological relationship of the married pair.

Marriage is not an institution for simple brute sense gratification. The
idea that it is a civil contract terminable at will smacks of meanness in
conception of the grand liabilities and assets between the parties to be
engaged in sacred wedlock. One of the great American judges said "the
contract of marriage is something more than a civil agreement between
the parties, the extent of which only affects themselves. It is the basis of
the family, and its dissolution as well as its formation is a matter of
public policy in which the body or community is deeply interested and it
is to be governed by other considerations than those which obtain with
regard to any other civil contract that the ground which shall invalidate
the contract must be something more than a mere representation as to
collateral matters that no ground will annul a marriage which does not
go to the very essence of the contract".