Randall West found astrology when he was 16. He immediately understood the principles of this language and began reading charts for friends and acquaintances. Astrology was always his vocation or avocation. In 2008, he became the President of the Santa Fe Astrology Forum.

Clearly, famous and well-known relationship professionals such as Dr C. G. Jung had proven the effectiveness of these principles. Why then, were there so many bad relationships? It seemed that people found each other mostly by chance, and then spent much of their lives trying to improve their relationship - or rather, only one of them did. The other one just went along for the ride, or worse, became neglectful, abusive, or violent.

Default relationships

Given the obvious success that even amateur astrologers like Jung have had with the principles of astrology, Randall keep expecting to find a dating or other internet service based on these principles. While some did offer limited services, many were still based on exploring in-depth individual matches, or cumbersome and awkward surveys.

Sadly, this was not the case. Dating sites preferred to use questionnaires based on sameness and astrologers preferred to consult with one client at a time. In fact, sites such as match.com, popular as they are, use extensive (and expensive) questionnaires to match people based on their answers of what they have in common. There is safety in sameness; but sameness can also be boring, and it is no guarantee of compatibility.

How AstroDates came to be

Having experienced the failures of default relationships several times in his own life, he decided to find the ideal mate. Since there were lots of dating sites just collecting members and profiles but no astrology information, and lots of astrologers for one-on-one consultations, it seemed obvious to bring them together in one place.

Randall is a man of many talents but computer programming is not one of them. He studied graphic design in college, and later acquired the basics of web design. After not finding a dating site that used astrology, he decided one was needed. He gathered the people with these skills and put them to work creating the site you see today.

Today, AstroDates.com is the first and only internet dating site based on matching individuals based on comparisons of thousands of possibilities, saving you weeks and months of filling out surveys, emailing dozens of seemingly possible candidates, and ultimately settling for a default relationship.

We use a proprietary astrological profile to match you to everyone else in our database, based on your preferences, and then rank them according to your compatibility. Our proprietary, sophisticated astrological profile, based on Jung's work, has over 300 different criteria. This does not make your decision for you - but it makes it easier.

Imagine being able to know who is the most potentially compatible mate in the city, or the state, or the country. You can remove your preferences to find the greatest potential match, or add more preferences to find that perfect person.

Members of this site will be able to receive a compatibility ranking for all the other members in our database. Accuracy, of course, depends upon the birth data provided by our individual members. (Please, use your real birth year. Changing your birth year to make you seem younger will change your results and may bring you people who are not compatible.)

How you can help

Obviously, you probably don't know the most compatible person for your mate right now. But the people you do know, just might be perfect for someone else. In fact, they are. At AstroDates.com, we don't feel there are good and bad people. We believe (with ax exception here and there) that everyone is perfect for someone. People become abusive or violent, in part, because their lives are not manageable. Their mates don't spend time and money on ways to improve the relationship because it's already great.

If you loved someone, would it matter what clothes they wore, how much money they had, or what their name was? Would it even matter what their heritage was, or their racial background, or their age? If you loved someone, or they loved you - really loved you - most of these things just would be a unimportant background to your real life. And, if you loved someone - truly loved them - you would both be enjoying life together. Isn't that what it's about?

You probably know the person that is right for someone in our database right now. Please do this: send them an invitation to join AstroDates.com. They don't have to pay anything unless they want to. But if they are not in our database, we can't find a match.