Matchmaker was launched in August 2000 as a new addition to the Lycos Network of premium brands.
planetary positions:
Mars: 0°-19° Leo
Jupiter: 6-9° Gemini
Saturn: 29° Taurus-0° Gemini
Uranus: 18-19° Aquarius
Neptune: 4-5° Aquarius
Pluto: 10° Sagittarius
North Node: 24° Cancer
Saturn is placed on the critical 29th degree of Taurus (The Weeping Sisters), but it may as well be on 0° Gemini, denoting an awful lot of change. The North Node is on the 24th degree Cancer, a degree of a merging in compliance with a cost-benefit analysis. We may expect Matchmaker.com to merge with another Corporation later on. The opposition between Jupiter in Gemini, the sign of its detriment, and Pluto in Sagittarius reinforces our presumption (the more so because Jupiter is the dispositor of Pluto!). The beautiful Jupiter-Neptune trine can be very helpful in a unification, which will give Matchmaker.com more strength.
Update Feb. 21, 2006: Avalanche, LLC, a company owned and operated by the founders of leading online dating site Date.com, Inc. has acquired Matchmaker.com. Our prediction about the merging hit the nail!!
Depending on the position of Mars, Matchmaker.com can gain power (on condition that Mars makes a trine to Pluto). Nevertheless, with the Jupiter/Chiron midpoint and the Venus/Jupiter midpoint making an exact aspect to Pluto, Matchmaker.com must be (very) successful in the field of online dating.
What will the future bring? (General trends)
From 2004 on, transiting Uranus is going to a semisextile with Neptune in the corporation chart and later on in the years to follow, transiting Neptune is going to conjoin Uranus. These reciprocal aspects will break all boundaries. Online dating will get a new dimension, thanks to the new oncoming innovative technologies.
These aspects do point to a new technological era.
When transiting Pluto will enter the sign of Capricorn (in 2009) it will be 150° from Saturn, bringing about a world-wide crisis and deep transformations. Transiting Neptune too will then make a 150° aspect to the North Node, causing deep structural changes and people leaving Matchmaker.com.
