Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Rupert Gleadow published Sun-sign breakdowns of 3,464 "persons of mixed professions" (but mostly soldiers) from Who Was Who 1897-1915. It isn't clear to me why he didn't simply isolate the soldiers and do a study of them, if the volume was weighted so heavily, though I suspect it was because he was hoping for a more general birth-curve (eminent people birth curve) distribution.

In any case, the final study isn't very significant when corrected for astronomical factors. It gives the right bottom-line answer, but with a cumulative Chi-square of only 7.4 for 12 categories, the overall significance of the study is poor and its results are better taken as broad inferences.

Bottom line, Virgo and Aries where the two most frequent Sun-constellations, of which Virgo was strikingly stronger but not quite reaching even the bottom level of statistical significance.

Gleadow then published breakdowns for the 832 soldiers in that volume. We can weight these two ways.

First, in what is usually the preferred way, weighting them against all births in the volume from which they were drawn. I had poor expectations of this because those total numbers are already dominated by this category, so I expected results to be thinned or reduced, with a particular bias against Virgo. What we get is probably along those lines, because we get the right results but at disappointing levels of significance.

Virgo and Pisces are the most significant - Pisces slightly better than Virgo. They breach the low .10 level. (Libra is lowest, but not significant.)

Switching to correction for astronomical factors only, we do better. The overall Chi-square isn't as good as we'd like, but Virgo is the clear leader (< .01), with Pisces in second place (< .05).