Horoscope Match?
In India it is generally true that if you’ve crossed 35, it is going to pretty difficult to find a spouse, as most people in India get married in their early to mid-twenties. What’s worse, as if that isn’t enough, are the twin obstacles of: horoscope match and caste (and/or gothram). Most of the people I’ve encountered who are left unmarried are so because of some blemish (dosham) in their horoscope. I’ve seen plenty of women on matrimonial searches who are still not married because everyone avoids them due to a “fatal” positioning of stars in their horoscope.
I started to wonder, and found it amazing that there isn’t a single site with statistics to help settle the accuracy of horoscope matching. I hope to one day collect statistics to settle this question. I predict the outcome will be that horoscope matching is very unreliable.
Example
I was researching on how Chevaai dosham (aka Mangalik) can be canceled in some folks, here is what I found. The complexity – and hence room for error is a lot.
Chevaai dosham gets cancelled if:
- Mars is in 2nd house in any of the signs of Mercury, i.e., Gemini or Virgo.
- Mars is in 4th house in own sign, i.e., Aries or Scorpio.
- Mars is in 7th house in exaltation or debilitation, i.e., Capricorn or Cancer.
- Mars is in 8th house in any of the signs of Jupiter, i.e., Sagittarius or Pisces.
- Mars is in 12th house in any of the signs of Venus, i.e., Taurus or Libra.
- Mars is in any house in Aquarius or Leo.
These also cancel Chevaai dosham:
- For Cancer and Leo ascendant Mars is a yogakaraka( a beneficial influence) wherever it may.
- Benefic Jupiter or Venus is in ascendant.
- Mars is in conjunction or aspected by Jupiter or Moon.
- Mars is in conjunction/aspected by Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Rahu.
My two cents
Horoscope matching should be believed (if at all) only to a very small extent. That is, it should be used as supplementary information with a large margin of error. This implies one should not take the information fatalistically.
And if you’re genuinely spiritual, you can offset most astrological ailments (depending on the strength of the ailment, and the strength of your spirituality). But who is to predict accurately what is the strength of that astrological ailment, or for that matter whether the ailment/dosham even exists (as seen by the above illustration)? See Astrology where I address just how inaccurate astrology is.