Thanks, Minderwiz, I get it. Something is bothering me though. LOL ... I also try to fit the horary into our much more fast moving world. In fact, I'm surrounded by people who married really quickly, thus if they had asked me last year they wouldn't have even been in a relationship or "knowing each other". Not to mention that in today's world engagement is very often a completely missinf stage, so "fiance' is under question. I have this issue with cards too. These things that were created at times when life was so much slower and many people spent their entire life in their village where they knew 50 people are hardly comparable to what's going on now. As I think, one can meet someone online right now and easily get into something... I don't know, I wish I had a recipe for this but I don't, I'm just wondering how astrology could meet the changing environment. I remember we also discussed this in the Hellenistic thread in terms of medicine. We talked how the statements of ancient astrology do not fit modern medicine, thus quite a few need to be reconsidered at least.
Also, what if the person is thinking of marrying not for love but for, say, documents, money or else? There will be no relationship actually. The astrologer may not know as it's the querent to decide if to share the true reason. Only the legal act remains in this case... Business. What if it's a 10th house thing, change of status? Just thinking here as in our time all these are existing possibilities and they happen.
P.S. Last year I did a chart answering same question "will I marry next year" for a friend of mine, nearly 50-year old bachelor in search of the perfect woman about whom I'd swear he would never marry and the chart was clearly negative. I remember there was absolutely no clue about marriage, no aspect, no reception, the Moon was not making aspects, no light transition, I'm sure I couldn't have missed something big! Yet, he is about to marry right after the holidays but still this year. And it all happened in three months. I'm startled.