Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Wayne Turner wrote:Hi all,
While I was working at the Heart Center Library in 2006 I had the opportunity to make copies of many old articles. Among Donald Bradley's more important articles I would rank "Statistics to the Rescue!" near the top. It was published in the March 1957 American Astrology and details his analysis of sidereal lunar returns that cover births, weddings, and accidents. For 75 births, he found the Moon, Jupiter and Uranus (probably; he doesn't say exactly) at a statistical high point just past the angular cusps, much as Leon Lasson and the Gauquelins did during the same period. The "malefics", Mars and Neptune, avoided the angles, though with less statistical enthusiasm, but clustered near the prime vertical cadent cusps. These results included both natal and return positions.
In 120 wedding returns, angular natal and return Jupiter shows up as a welcome guest at odds of about 5000 to one against chance. (The results are shown in graphs so this is just a good guess.)
For 60 accidents, return Mars and Saturn are on the angles against odds of better than (or worse than) 10,000 to one. Contrarily, Jupiter and Venus avoided the angles at just about the 100 to 1 level. Leaving out the--to him--anomalous birth result past the angular cusps, for the other four tests his combined result soars past the one million to one mark. (For a sad but spectacular confirmation of the accident results, see this post re JFK Jr's plane crash: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1097 It is worth noting here that he was born about a month early by C-section. This does not seem to have affected the validity of his SLRs.)
In my own case, the SLR before an accident on June 15, 1965 that sent me to the hospital for emergency surgery occurred on June 6 at 1:00:30 pm PDT, Reseda, California, and features more trouble than any kid should face, including a Moon/Mars conjunction rising and Saturn setting! Ouch!
Incidentally, if topocentric positions taking parallax into account are used--something that Bradley wrote about early on--the return occurs nearly an hour earlier, at 12:10:33 pm PDT, and moves the culprits away from the angles and widens the Moon/Mars conjunction. This suggests that contrary to expectations, it is not the Moon's real apparent place in the sky that matters here, but the mathematical position as seen from the Earth's center. Therefore, we should not think of any astrological influences emanating from the Moon, but rather must somehow put ourselves into an archetypal mathematical universe that is none-the-less "real." That's enough mind bending for now, thanks...)

At some point, these results should be replicated with larger samples. We should cross our fingers though, because statistics and natal astrology do not have a very amicable history together, apart from the Gauquelin's results.
Regards,
Wayne

Wayne Turner wrote:Continuing with the less pleasant side of SLRs in the first post, I will note that the lunar returns of Jesus preceding the crucifixion had an eerie parallel in my own accident chart. If we accept preliminarily the natal chart proposed here: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=407 then his fatal sidereal lunar return occurred on 15 March 30 CE at about 2:20 UT, depending on which software you use. (The Swiss ephemeris gives 2:20:40 UT.)
This shows a close 1° MO 0 MA 90 SU with Saturn less than 3° from the IC in Bethlehem, a similar pattern to my own accident chart, and a confirmation of the danger of MA/SA combinations that touch the angles. (I also did the return in the tropical framework and found that although the MO 0 MA was closer, it put the VE/UR opposition across the ASC/DSC.
I suppose you could read this as the popularity that he experienced on his triumphal entry, with the later hostility shown by the "bloody" conjunction, but the SLR shows the ultimately fatal nature of the period better.) It is interesting that the Moon's nodes are right across the MC/IC. At the time of his death, if we take 3:00 pm literally and as a mean time (unlikely but possible) then the nodes are also across the MC/IC angles in reverse to the SLR position. How often would this happen by chance? (In Vajrayana iconography the Sun and Moon are often placed above the heads of saints and yogis. Quite a powerful symbolism for the balance and unity of consciousness.)
Is there a progression technique that will bring the MO/MA conjunction to an angle at the time of death? At about one degree per day, the MC would arrive at these points on about Tuesday 4 April. Was this when he overturned the tables of the money changers and whipped the sacrifice sellers, causing quite a ruckus? (It is just odd, perhaps, that on Friday the 7th at the time of his death there is a ME/UR square 26' from exact, the same aspect that I have in my natal chart. This may help explain why I used an article from Sky & Telescope to discover his natal horoscope and other dates in his life. However, I've also developed charts for Buddha and Mohammed without such an aspect being involved.)
Regards,
Wayne