A Bhakoot score of 0 out of 7 does not always mean the dosha stands — a cancelled Bhakoot scores 0 too. Three checks separate a real dosha from a cancelled one.

Nav-Pancham is the 5/9 form of Bhakoot dosha, and it is the one that always cancels: every 5/9 pair is a trine pair whose rashi lords are natural friends. What that means for your 7 points.

The cancellation is real, but it can only ever fire inside six rashis: Vrishabha, Mithuna, Kanya, Tula, Makara and Kumbha. In the other six, two people sharing a Moon sign with different birth stars always have different nadis, so there was never a dosha to cancel. The six exact pairs, the pada trap that flips the answer, and three worked couples.

Every calculator says it checks all three charts and none explains what to do when only one flags Mars. A three-column worked example, the priority order astrologers actually use, the North Indian 2nd-house versus South Indian 1st-house split, and why the Moon check is the right fallback when the birth time is unknown.

Mars in the fourth house makes you Manglik, but at 80% strength — not the 100% of the 7th and 8th. Here is the house-strength table, what a fourth-house Mars actually aspects, how the Lagna, Moon and Venus readings differ, and the four cancellations that switch the dosha off completely.