AstroLife.com is a nice site, but it doesn’t do much of what I want to do. I want to give automated astrological evaluations of relationships. It will be undistilled and voluminous, but having more content rather than less could be a virtue here.
I do have a problem here, while astrology is a great match making tool, astrology in and of itself has nothing to do with dating, and dating isn’t even a topic as such, just an intent. I don’t have high hopes for a forum initially. However, I think I have something much more visceral and compelling than a mere topic, but it requires a critical mass of participating members. It is very specific, as you’ve stressed, but in a different way.
There are two aspects in astrology that determine the chemistry between you and a man, the aspect between your venus and his mars, and between your moon and his sun. If his mars is in aspect to your venus then there is a strong physical attraction. If his sun is in aspect to your moon then there is something deeply compelling and masculine about him with a potential for a strong psychic and emotional bond. I’ve never seen an enduring relationship that lacked both of these aspects, except in couples that met as seniors, which read as best friends rather than lovers.
About one in 10 men have their mars in aspect to your venus, and another one in 10 have their sun in aspect to you moon. That one in a hundred who has both will be someone you have an intense electrical reaction too, someone that knocks your socks off. So a large group of people can be broken up into 100 divisions, and within those divisions everyone will have this electric reaction with all members of the opposite sex. But I figure I need to have at least 1000 active members in order to have any activity at all, since that would be only 10 people per board.
If enough people got involved to reach a higher critical mass, I think it could transform society. Even though I’ve almost never seen an enduring relationship that lacked both venus/mars and sun/moon aspects, I’ve seldom seen a relationship that has both. If true love and lifelong intense passion were extremely common rather than extremely rare, the world would be a different place. I think astrology is a lost science that, if applied properly, can really change the world, and it’s main application is in relationships.
Well, MySpace’s forums aren’t much to look at. Most dating sites don’t have any forum at all. Until I reach a critical mass the only forum activity I would expect is in the astrological interpretations themselves. (I want people to be able to comment on interpretations and add their own.)
As for using the astrological service without really using the site – I want this relationship evaluation to work on searched profiles. They’ll also be able to input the birth data, but it is primarily for looking at profiles. It’s like a super-expanded profile.
I think you are definitely right about having something that is narrowly focused. I want boards that are narrowly focused in terms of everyone having very similar or strongly compatible romantic chemistry. It’s not a topic, and ice breaking could be a problem, but it would be a forum exclusively for people who came up as an extremely strong match with you, largely the same people you’d find in a search.