India, March 22 -- A woman worried about her marriage prospects given her advancing age came asking the other day: "I am touching 40 this year, and yet I have not been able to find a reliable partner who would stand by me. I am fairly attractive to look at and professionally, too, I am doing comfortably well. What is it that prospective grooms find lacking in me? In the past, I came close to settling down with three guys at different times, but they all ditched me just as the marriage was fixed. What does my destiny have in store for me where marriage is concerned? Is it denied?"

Answering her questions, I told her that marriage was not denied at all. Rahu, the 7th sub-lord identified with marital prospects, occupied the 2nd house marked...