An extra marital affair generally takes place due to the following reasons:

Early marriage

Married for wrong reasons

In love with someone before marriage

Physical dissatisfaction

Mental and emotional incompatibility

Lack of intimacy

Boredom

Due to peer pressure

No fear of public opinion and criticism

To seek revenge

For sake of variety and excitement

For career advancement

Astrological factors responsible for extra marital affair are :

Venus --- significator of marriage for male, rules emotional love, sensual pleasures and worldly
desires.

Jupiter --- significator of marriage for female

Mars --- rules intense sexual expression, daring and passion for carnal pleasures

Rahu --- indicates extreme mental tendencies, unconventional thing of life

Moon --- mental tendencies, harmony with others, emotional stability

5th house --- stands for love, romance, and scandals and is the primary indicator of affairs.

7th house --- indicates marriage, harmony in love

8th house --- house indicates sexual attitudes, orgasm, masturbation, secrecy of life etc. The 8th house
indicates whether the affair will be physical or not.

1 2 th house/lord --- Bed pleasure

Some yogas for extra marital affairs :

Rahu/ Mars/Saturn :

7th house/lord, Venus and Moon afflicted by Rahu develops the tendency to cheat.

Conjunction of Moon and Rahu or Venus and Rahu in a chart may create the problem of infidelity.
Rahu posited in 7th house indicates sexual delinquency, lack of self- control and unconventional
behaviour with spouse.

Lord of 7th house is in the conjunction of Rahu indicates those people who are not so committed in
their relationship.

Jupiter+ Rahu [Guru Chandal yoga] in 7th house gives cheater partner and motivates the person to go
beyond limits.

Weak Mars in a horoscope afflicted by Saturn/Rahu in the horoscope indicates high sexual desires.

Rahu placed in 12th house influenced by malefic planets, the native will involved in illicit relationships
with other person apart from their own spouse.

Mars in 7th house is responsible for creating intense feelings of jealousy and mistrust due to false
suspicion of infidelity.

Badly afflicted Mars placed in 7th house, the female will be in sexual relationships with those male who
already have relations with other female.

Moon :

Moon and Venus combined in 6th house and afflicted by malefic, the person will have many illegal
relations.

Moon aspect/conjunct by Venus gives extreme sensuous thoughts in the mind.

Badly afflicted Sun and Moon combined in a house and 4th house is also in heavy affliction without
any benefic influence, the native will have secrets and illegal relations with elderly or aged women.

Venus :

Venus afflicted by Mars indicates sadism, lack of sincerity for spouse, sexual scandals, separation and
promiscuity.

If there is a weak Venus in a horoscope further afflicted by Saturn/Rahu indicates very high sexual
urge.

Badly afflicted Venus is placed in 7th house; the male will be in sexual relationships with those female
who already have relations with other men.

5th house/lord :

The 5th house stands for love, romance and scandals and is the primary indicator of affairs. The
classical combinations for such relations are Venus+ Rahu in the 5th or Mars+ Venus in the 5th
house.

7th house/lord :

The 7th house stands for marriage. A strong 7th house means that you will never have affairs because
you are devoted to your husband.
7th/2nd lord are influenced by Venus or 10th lord combined with Venus in 7th house the person will fall
in to illicit relation due to strong sexual desires.

7th lord is connected with Rahu/Ketu then every possibility this person will fall in the trap of extra
marital relation.

Mars in 7th house is responsible for creating intense feelings of jealousy and mistrust due to false
suspicion of infidelity.

7th lord is aspected or conjoined with Rahu, the native will attract to elder women mostly married or
divorced. If Venus is also involved in this combination the native will have very high sexual drive and
will fall into many illicit relations.

Saturn, Moon and Mars placed in 7th house without having any benefic influence, character of both
husband and wife is questionable.

Lords of 7th and 6th combined in 9th house, without having any benefic influence, the native will
involve in several relationships with several women and maximum of them will be elder to him.

Others factors :

Moon/Venus afflicted by Saturn gives immoral behavior.

Moon aspect/conjunct by Venus gives extreme sensuous thoughts in the mind.

If Libra sign is owned by 4 or more than 4 planets domestic pleasure, cohabitation and conjugal life
gets disturbed.

In male horoscope if Sun, Mars and Venus are heavily afflicted by Saturn, the native will definitely
become a characterless person.

In female horoscope if Mars is heavily afflicted or sitting in a malefic house she will have a very high
sexual urge and may have multiple sex partners .

Lords of ascendant and 6th house combined in a house also having malefic influences,the native will
have illicit relations.

BY

Geeta Jha