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2021, Correlation Journal
There is a disconnect between how researchers test natal astrology and how consultants practise natal astrology. In consultation, astrologers will consider multiple variables when interpreting a birth chart. So in research, testing for single factors such as Sun Signs is unlikely to yield the same results. This is partly due to the small effect size and a lack of sizeable homogenous groups. The problem is not just quantitative, it is also qualitative. In the 21st century researchers have been successful in testing multiple factors, notably by matching the birth charts of samples with astrology textbook descriptions. However, professional consultant astrologers are not guided by ‘cookbook’ trait descriptions which operate in isolation. They seek to consider the horoscope as a whole. To do this they identify themes or sub-personalities. By analysing how these themes are reinforced by, or contradict, each other, the astrologer attempts to bring the chart into a coherent whole. Replicating this complex process has always been a challenge for researchers. Some themes, such as rating the elements, are used successfully in research. Here we outline a more precise and powerful technique known as mutual reception or double whammies, recommended by many top consultants. For our purposes, a mutual reception theme is the relationship between two planets located in the sign or house in which the other rules and any conjunction between them. These interplanetary combinations share a dual common principle that researchers can measure to test themes in a chart.
Correlation Journal
Review: Astrology under Scrutiny: Close encounters with science.2014 •
Editor in chief: Wout Heukelom. Guest Editor and Principal Compiler: Geoffrey Dean Sub-editor: Bert Terpstra. Production Rudolf H. Smit Publisher: Wout Heukelom and Cygnea van der Hooning, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 364 pages. Hardback. Price: €25 plus €10 postage. Available via PayPal Contact: wout.heukelom@hetnet.nl Astrology under Scrutiny is probably the first coffee table book for astrology sceptics. It’s a high-quality hardback book of over 200,000 words, printed on glossy paper, and accompanied by detailed graphs, photographs and illustrations. Astrology under Scrutiny (AuS) is divided into four sections: (1) Summaries of the best 110 articles from Dutch astrological research journal Astrologie in Onderzoek (1977-2003), (2) Astrology My Disaster by Rudolf Smit, (3) the history of the lifework of the Gauquelins, and (4) the largest (containing over 60% of the content): The case for and against astrology. Most of this last section is so controversial that it deserves more than a general review in Correlation. So the focus of this article is The Case for and against Astrology, referred to herein as The Case. ____________________________________________________ Contents Proposers of the Case: Dean and his team Their case in a nutshell The core myth: “Hundreds of scientific tests have solved the puzzle.” Meta-Analysis of matching birth charts to owners Using White Swans to camouflage Black Swans Lunar ‘effects’ Red Hair & Mars Rising Omission of Inconvenient Data Divination Natural Astrology The Origins of Astrology: Observation or Invention? Quote mining and circular reasoning The 110 Best articles in Astrologie in Onderzoek Smit and the Placebo effect The Gauquelin Research and the Parental Tampering Conjecture Who will read Astrology under Scrutiny? Conclusion Acknowledgements References
Abstract—In traditional astrological frameworks of interpretation, resonances between positions of astrological planets in the birth charts of friends (called “candidates” and their “partners”) are assumed to play a decisive role. In the study presented here, this general claim is investigated at diff erent levels of sophistication. For this purpose, five main hypotheses are formulated, all of which are different versions of the general assumption that there are more resonances between birth charts of friends than can be expected randomly. The material on which the study is based is taken from a questionnaire concerning the dates of birth of candidates to whom the questionnaire was distributed, as well as those of their partners. Having gained interesting results with partially supporting evidence, but also with elements that did not support the hypotheses, the experiment was repeated with a second sample. It failed to replicate the results of the first experiment.
Correlation, Astrological Association Journal of Research in Astrology, Vol 20 (2), 2002
The Australian Parent-Child Astrological Research ProjectThis paper is the result of research conducted on a database of the horoscopes of Australian parents and their children. The work was stimulated by Michel Gauquelin's hereditary work, which I judged had not really considered the traditional horoscopic associations that can link one chart to another. These associations, such as rulership of a planet over a sign, exaltation and angularity, are additional ways in which an astrological influence can be represented from one generation to another. This research paper explores these types of relationships. The results indicated that the astrological concepts of old rulership seem to be more influential than new rulerships when establishing a correlation between the charts of parents and their children. This held true over a range of different experiments. However, the most interesting result of the entire project came from the ancient Greek disused technique called the noddings of the Moon. This produced surprisingly strong results when the mother's chart was considered. The data was also examined focused on the gender of the child, as well as their order of birth. This proved to be quite important, with a consistent emphasis over most of the research questions showing that the first-born child's chart contained a greater frequency of correlations.
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The good science of astrology: Separating effects from artifacts2011 •
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How to think about the astrology research program: An essay considering emergent effects2022 •
As it has been shaped by improvements in its tools and methods, and by its discourse with critics, I describe how the astrological research program has advanced through three stages of modelling and design limitations. Single-factor tests (for example, the many Sun-sign–only experiments that have been published) are typically underdeterministic. Multi-factor tests, unless they are very well designed, can easily become overdeterministic. Chart-matching tests have been vulnerable to confirmation bias errors until the development of a machine-based, whole-chart matching protocol that has objectively produced evidence of high effect-sizes. A meta-analysis of recent results shows the rapid advancement and how to further improve the results. The value of the program is not only to corroborate the taxonomic counterfactuals of astrological “cookbooks,” but to extend their explanatory reach by the comparison of astrological postulates and inferences with philosophies in other disciplines in terms of quantifiable processes and emergent effects.
ABSTRACT: This paper is focused on how meaning is drawn from a natal horoscope based on interviews with contemporary western astrologers who work with natal horoscopes. Some authors of astrological texts suggest that the activity of reading a natal horoscope for a client evokes mystery or the divine. Many astrologers think that reading a chart is a ritual. This paper proposes a different approach, that of creativity, and suggests that reading a natal horoscope is a secular creative endeavour. A glossary of astrological terms is included at the end of the paper.
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A note on techniques used within modern astrology with the intention of 'improving' it
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