“To match, or not to match is the question”, my relative, relatively new to the field of bride-hunting (not literally – there is time for that), queried. She is looking for a suitable bride for her good looking, well qualified, well placed NRI son. She was extremely excited when she started off, sorting out suitable matches seemed to put her on a high for a while, but gradually her enthusiasm seemed to be thinning. “What happened?” I asked her once. “The horoscopes of the girls I approve of don’t match with my son at all.” “But why should we match horoscopes?” the son asked, to which she had no answer.
Some happily married (a clichéd oxymoron) couples insist they are happy though their horoscopes are not matched, some say they are happy because they are matched. Some unhappy couples insist they are unhappy because theirs were not matched, while some insist they are unhappy despite their horoscopes having matched. I wonder why they are not referred to as Horrorscopes rather than Horoscopes.
So my relative, relatively new to the field of bride-hunting, started sending horoscopes to more than one person offering horoscope matching services. She received a reply from all of them. One said they did not match at all, another said they had average match points. Third said they matched perfectly, to the optimum point, and fourth said they should not consider any other match as this would be a godly match. It seemed instead of finding a match between the bride’s and the groom’s horoscopes, they were playing a match among themselves.
So now my relative, relatively new to the field of bride-hunting, is confused, but intelligent as she is, she has come up with a unique solution. She will continue to consult all the pundits. If she doesn’t like the girl, she will say the horoscopes didn’t match. And if she likes the girl, they will match. And the best part is, she would not be lying at all.
