STUDY - Decanate study - U.S. Presidents
Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 5:47 pm
I have never been impressed with the value of decanates. This was solidified in 1980 when Tom Shanks and Michel Gauquelin gave me a stack of computer-generated statistics of the Gauquelin professional and character trait data according to Sidereal signs and, since it was already in Tom's program, broken down be decanate. The decanates just didn't stand up to statistical scrutiny. They were non-starters.
This doesn't mean there were no decanates showing in the statistically significant range. There were. In fact, there were individual decanates that showed very statistically anomalous results, with Chi-square values for the set sufficiently high to suggest that the highs and lows weren't random anomalies within the data set. However, these were not convincing for two reasons:
(1) The decanate positive results were few, and didn't follow any recognizable pattern, e.g., any that were high in a given set didn't share a planetary or zodiacal pattern anyone had proposed.
(2) The statistically anomalous results were nearly always readily traceable to another cause. Most often, spiking Sun decanates would be reflecting something else about a Mercury or Venus placement (which necessitated that Sun be concentrated in certain narrow areas).
For example, Sun and Venus spend the majority of their time about 40° apart, just as Sun and Mercury spend most of their time about 18° apart. For the character trait idealist, Sun spiked high for one decanate in Scorpio and one decanate of Capricorn, neither of which made sense by themselves. But both of those decanates were about 40° from different parts of Sagittarius, and it turned out that Venus in Sagittarius was uniformly high throughout the whole sign, and appears to be the actual factor that was scoring high for idealist, not the individual Scorpio and Capricorn decanates for Sun.
Anyway... I've never had serious cause to revisit the matter after that.
But, today, I have a few hours and want something to occupy my mind, so I thought I'd see if any of the three main decanate models produces anything interesting in Sun positions of a smaller but valuable data set: the collection of 44 men who have, to date, served as President of the United States.
First, is there any large bias in decanate distribution within the signs? 10 have Sun in first decanate of the signs, 22 in the 2nd decanate, and 12 in the 3rd decanate, so there is, indeed, an unusual distribution - half of all the cases being in the central decanate. I have no idea what, if anything, this means, but I mention it.
As an idle aside that might interest someone, the 2nd decanate of Libra has 4 Presidents' Suns, rather than the expected 1. The 2nd decanate of Virgo has 3.
By simple sign occupancy, Sun is most frequent in Aries and Virgo , and least frequent in Taurus, Cancer, and Aquarius. If Aries and Virgo represent the most presidential traits, and Cancer and Aquarius the least (followed by Taurus and Leo), one might think we would see similar preferences replicated in decanate symbolism if there is any significance to the scheme.
This doesn't mean there were no decanates showing in the statistically significant range. There were. In fact, there were individual decanates that showed very statistically anomalous results, with Chi-square values for the set sufficiently high to suggest that the highs and lows weren't random anomalies within the data set. However, these were not convincing for two reasons:
(1) The decanate positive results were few, and didn't follow any recognizable pattern, e.g., any that were high in a given set didn't share a planetary or zodiacal pattern anyone had proposed.
(2) The statistically anomalous results were nearly always readily traceable to another cause. Most often, spiking Sun decanates would be reflecting something else about a Mercury or Venus placement (which necessitated that Sun be concentrated in certain narrow areas).
For example, Sun and Venus spend the majority of their time about 40° apart, just as Sun and Mercury spend most of their time about 18° apart. For the character trait idealist, Sun spiked high for one decanate in Scorpio and one decanate of Capricorn, neither of which made sense by themselves. But both of those decanates were about 40° from different parts of Sagittarius, and it turned out that Venus in Sagittarius was uniformly high throughout the whole sign, and appears to be the actual factor that was scoring high for idealist, not the individual Scorpio and Capricorn decanates for Sun.
Anyway... I've never had serious cause to revisit the matter after that.
But, today, I have a few hours and want something to occupy my mind, so I thought I'd see if any of the three main decanate models produces anything interesting in Sun positions of a smaller but valuable data set: the collection of 44 men who have, to date, served as President of the United States.
First, is there any large bias in decanate distribution within the signs? 10 have Sun in first decanate of the signs, 22 in the 2nd decanate, and 12 in the 3rd decanate, so there is, indeed, an unusual distribution - half of all the cases being in the central decanate. I have no idea what, if anything, this means, but I mention it.
As an idle aside that might interest someone, the 2nd decanate of Libra has 4 Presidents' Suns, rather than the expected 1. The 2nd decanate of Virgo has 3.
By simple sign occupancy, Sun is most frequent in Aries and Virgo , and least frequent in Taurus, Cancer, and Aquarius. If Aries and Virgo represent the most presidential traits, and Cancer and Aquarius the least (followed by Taurus and Leo), one might think we would see similar preferences replicated in decanate symbolism if there is any significance to the scheme.