humor – do you find your partner funny? Does your partner find you funny? How important is this quality for you in relationships? Sharing a similar sense of humor is imperative for a successful match between people. I feel that to be able to laugh at each other & at oneself is a necessary to glide more easily through relationship & life. Laughter brings us energy, helps us let go & relax & generally brings joy! Laughter brings our bodies & souls into a very open place (similar to crying), which means we can connect with others more authentically.

The word humor has interesting origins originating from “any of the four body fluids” (blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy or black bile) whose relative proportions were thought to determine state of mind. This led to a sense of “mood, temporary state of mind” (first recorded 1525); the sense of “amusing quality, funniness” is first recorded 1682, probably via sense of “whim, caprice” (1565).

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happy birfday! AstraMatch blog is one! Tuesday 24th June 2008 is our first anniversary! Starting with the first tentative posts it has moved to a fun & exciting weekly adventure of writing. Still not happy with lack of connection with the wider community due to original lack of SEO support from those who worked on the site. This coming year I look forward to feeling more connected to the greater internet community through SEO implementation. Exciting things to come!

Share a champes & blow out the candle with me by sharing some of my favorite past posts listed below as links:

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have you met your match? If not then this question needs to be answered with more questions:

Where?

Some possibilities:

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how close is too close for comfort for you? We all have different requirements when it comes to how close we want to be to others. There is a cultural component to this, as different nationalities generally require different physical space between themselves & others.  Australians like myself have the biggest requirement for space between self & others, understandably as we are a small population in a very large country. The US follows Oz & also like to have lots of space between themselves & others physically. However when I moved to Europe years ago, I was struck at how much closer people are comfortable with others. Asia of course is similar as these areas in the world are where many people are located in smaller areas.

‘Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.‘ Rene Yasenek

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each generation faces the next over what seems a huge gulf of differences – the generation gap! So that this doesn’t become a stand off, it is important to understand what is on the other side. At times it may seem that we almost need a handy rope bridge of openness & willingness to learn from each other to move across what at times can seem like a widening gap. The biggest gap is of course when adults & teenagers & children meet. This means we also need to take the generation configurations into account when matchmaking to ensure ease for a couple. We can look at the generational planets which help to clarify the general environment and therefore the focus & goals of each generation.

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