In Astrology, horoscope matching, also known as Kundali matching or Gun Milan, is an important procedure carried out before marriage. According to Vedic Astrology, horoscope matching is done to evaluate or find compatibility between the groom and the bride. This guides you about the upcoming events and challenges and also gives you remedies.
Why is Horoscope Matching Important?
Matching horoscopes helps you to understand the compatibility and the challenges in your relationship with that person before and after marriage.
In horoscope matching, we do gun milan that helps us understand the following factors between the bride and the groom.
- Emotional and Mental Compatibility: Matching horoscopes will tell you about the emotional balance and compatibility of both individuals and how they will balance each other.
- Health and LifeTime: The positioning of planets determines the health and life span of a person. Matching horoscopes also determines how it will affect or balance your spouse’s health and life.
- Financial security & advancement: Horoscope matching determines how you both will financially complement each other or how you manage your joint financial condition.
- Family and Home Peace: Determines the relationship with family and respect for each other and each other’s family.
- Identifying Dosha: By analyzing the horoscopes of both the bride and the groom individually, you can determine any dosha present there due to planetary misplacement or any other possible reason.
The following are the doshas you should consider before marriage:
Manglik Dosha: The misplacement of Mars is considered inauspicious in Astrology, because of which the mangal dosha occurs, and it is believed that it affects your spouse in a lot of ways.
Naadi Dosha: It occurs when the bride and the groom both have the same nadi in their horoscope (kundali). This dosha creates health and compatibility issues in marriage. It also affects future childbirth.
Reasons for Horoscope Matching
- Ensure long-term compatibility: Horoscope matching will tell compatibility in every aspect, like emotional, physical, and spiritual compatibility between you and your partner. This will make you understand each other more.
- Emotional Understanding: It is important for a couple to emotionally balance each other. In the birth charts of you and your partner, the position of the Moon and certain planets will tell you about the emotional availability and compatibility.
- Prosperity & Financial Equation: The financial equation between a couple holds an important role in your life. The horoscope and your partner will predict the challenges and compatibility between the two.
- Dosha identification: Certain doshas, like mangal dosha and nadi dosha, can majorly affect your partner and your married life as well. So it is better to match your horoscope and check for your Nakshatra Compatibility before marriage. There are also some remedies that will help you to neutralize those doshas.
- Ensures physical & health compatibility: It can also predict the future health and physical compatibility between the bride and the groom. Getting married means expanding the family further. It is important to make sure to make the safe and right choice.
- Career & professional life: In Astrology, birth charts also predict professional life and choices. The planetary placement in your partner’s horoscope affects your professional life and career post-marriage.
- Family peace: Horoscopes reveal the similarities and differences between you and your partner’s family. It is important to check and analyze it before marriage.
What Happens in Horoscope Matching
Horoscope matching (kundali matching) refers to matching the birth charts of the bride and the groom. These birth charts are made using the time, date, and place of birth of both, so it depicts the real self of the person. It analyzes emotional, financial, and spiritual compatibility between the two personalities.
The primary factors considered in horoscope matching are:
- Guna Milan
- Dosha
- Planetary placements
Importance of Gun Milan
In horoscope matching, the birth charts of the bride and the groom are considered for finding the compatibility and challenges, as well as before and after marriage.
Here is the list of all the factors and points present in the ashtakoot system. And the eight factors mentioned below, along with their points, are analyzed. In total, 36 points, a score of 18 or above, is considered a good match, and marriage is considered.
Koota Maximum Points
Varna 1
Vasya 2
Tara 3
Yoni 4
Grah maitri 5
Gana 6
Rashi or Bhakoota 7
Nadi 8
Total 36
The ashtakoot milan system is used to find the compatibility between the bride and the groom. And mentioned below are those factors that fall under this ashtakoot milan system :
- Varna: Indian society is divided into 4 categories: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra. While matching horoscopes, these category matches are also checked.
- Vasya: It shows the mutual control and attraction in marriage and also calculates the power equation between the bride and the groom.
- Tara: There are 27 birth stars. In this category, the birth star compatibility is analyzed. And in this factor, the compatibility between the stars of the bride and the groom is also predicted.
- Yoni: Mutual love and sexual or physical compatibility are measured by this factor.
- Graha Maitiri: Shows mental compatibility. Represents the moon sign that refers to the natural friendship and affection between the two.
- Gana: It determines factors like behavior and temper. And everyone falls under these three categories according to their temper and behavior: Deva, indicating Satwa Guna; Manava, indicating Rajo Guna; and Rakshasa, indicating Tamo Guna.
- Rashi or bhakoot: This factor tells about the emotional compatibility of the two.
- Nadi: It tells us about the genes and health of the bride and the groom. It also predicts the challenges in childbirth.
Astrology guides you from every prospect of life which helps you to find the right partner. Matching horoscopes is just to make sure there won’t be any hurdles in pre and post married life.