UNCONVENTIONAL MARRIAGES MARRIAGE WITH A FOREIGNER

The majority of people in this country appear to believe in the conventional marriage judging by the contents of the numerous marriage proposals advertised in the national weeklies. In most cases, it is the parents who seek a partner for their son or daughter invariably specifying the preference that the bride or the bridegroom should be from a family of the same ethnicity and caste professing the same religion.

However, there is a growing trend among parents to allow leeway for their sons and daughters to choose a partner of their choice. Very often young men and young women fall in love these days and later seek the parental consent to tie the knot.

While the inter-caste and inter-racial marriages are on the increase nowadays, yet another unconventional type of marriage has now entered the equation: marriage with a foreigner.

The trend of local-foreigner marriages has begun to grow of late , on one hand , with more and more foreigners visiting the country as tourists, investors, and manpower for the foreign-funded mega projects and on the other, Lankans securing employment in the mid-east and the developed countries like the UK, USA, Italy, Germany, and Australia.

Our present purpose is to discuss the astrological factors that lead a local to embark on matrimony with a foreign national throwing all conventions to the four winds.

Vedic astrologers credit the shadow planet Rahu with causing unconventional marriages, with foreign nationals in particular. Because Rahu is believed to be playing a very important role in connecting a native with everything foreign.

In fact, Rahu also plays an important role in timing such marriages. This type of marriage would take place either in the major Dasa period of Rahu or in the Sub-dasa period of Rahu in the major Dasa period of the lord of the 7th House.

Given below are a few planetary positions that cause a marriage with a foreigner.

■the lord of the 7th House is in the 12th House or vice versa point to a marriage with a foreign national and taking up residence abroad.

■the lord of the 12th House posited in the 4th House while being aspected by Venus or the lord of the 7th House indicate that the subject may live abroad after marrying a foreigner.

■ The lord of the 12th House occupying the 7th House with the lord of the 7th House signifies marrying a foreigner.

■rahu occupying either the 12th House or the 6th House from the Lagna in the Rashi, Sapthamsa and Navamsa charts would cause the native to marry a foreigner.

■the 12th lord either from the Moon or the Lagna placed in the constellation of Rahu would lead to a marriage with a foreigner.

■ Venus either posited with or aspected by Rahu in the 2nd to 12th position to each other in the Navamsa chart would indicate a marriage with a foreigner.