In ancient times and in certain cultures, deciding the best match was the role of the matchmaker and astrology along with the science of types played a big part in this.
While in modern times the ideal match is considered by the needs of our personalities and established societal dictates in the moment itself, the matchmaker considered the qualitative essence blend of the male and female principles (yin and yang) over a life time and could tell, even when very young, the quality of compatibility.
In modern times the emphasis on the needs of our personalities makes this appear absurd yet most divorces occur because of the strength of the attractions of personalities. After a while, the differences in their essential nature become more obvious as the initial personality attractions wear off making life together intolerable so they part.
If men really wanted and valued truth over illusion, would women wear makeup?
From the spiritual perspective, it is the woman who is better able to determine the spiritual quality of the opposite sex. Where a man doesn’t discriminate in this way when young, the woman’s need to carry a baby of a certain quality is the spiritual part of what exists mechanically in nature as “preservation of the species.” So the greater the spiritual quality of the woman, the more selective she will be sexually since by definition such quality is in a minority.
Since in modern times the discriminative heart in relation to the human essence has been dulled in many women through no fault of their own but through enculturation, concern for this essential difference in qualitative male/female perspectives expressed in the amount of sex partners is considered sexist.
Later in life, when a man feels the need for something more than a vehicle to psychologically increase the population with his imagined self importance, the ideal woman becomes different.
I’ve tried to understand this in connection with the life of a talented ancestor of mine. As a divorced man celebrated in the arts, he had access to many women. All of a sudden at age 65 he meets this woman and they are married within a month. This means to me that she had the gift of understanding at the expense of the natural tendency towards vanity. But what does it mean to share on this level?
On a trip to America in the late 1900s, he and his wife were on this ship when a violent storm kicked up in the Atlantic ocean. The Capt., crew, and everyone else were below deck hanging on for dear life. This talented ancestor and wife, made their way to the deck at the risk of their lives in order to take in the energy and experience these oppositional forces of nature in a state of intense chaos. She apparently understood what he understood and could share the depths of it. That is a match. It makes fighting over whether the seat should be up or down irrelevant.
Well, a least it gives me a possibility to look forward to.