Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Sometimes, it's the simplest things that are most amazing... I'm a bit blown away by a graph I created today.

I'm near the end of a 17-month writing process on a new edition of Sidereal Mundane Astrology that brings the "worst of the worst" catalogue up to 500 events. I'm currently working on appendices.

The graph to which I refer shows chi-square values for all non-lunar aspects within 3° that fall proximate to the angles of all relevant Sidereal solar and lunar ingresses etc. - all relevant timing charts - for each of the events. (Moon aspects are excluded because they were counted and processed differently.) For these roughly 500 "bad" mundane events - natural disasters, mass murders, massacres, war outbreaks, etc. - there were 2,615 non-lunar conjunctions, oppositions, and squares within 3° that were near the ingress and quotidian angles.

The single most common aspect was Mars-Saturn and - not counting Neptune-Pluto, which has some freaky, uncertain expected probabilities - the single least common aspect was Venus-Jupiter.

Let me say that again: In this large collection of terrible, hurtful events, the most common foreground close-orbed hard aspect in the relevant ingresses was Mars-Saturn, the lesser and greater malefics, and the least common foreground close-orbed hard aspect was Venus-Jupiter, the lesser and greater benefics.

Sometimes, it's the simplest things...

These 2,615 aspects had a mean occurrence per aspect of 72.54. In other words, within this data pool, each of these 36 aspects could be expected to occur 72 or 73 times if only chance were determining it. Venus-Jupiter occurred 43 times, which (with a chi-square of 12.09 for one degree of freedom) would happen one time in 2,000. Even more extreme, Mars-Saturn occurred 112 times, which (with a chi-square of 21.33 for one degree of freedom) would only occur one time in 258,000.

But, the numbers aside... the high and low were Mars-Saturn and Venus-Jupiter! I'm used to astrology being ultimately simple and straightforward, but even I'm not used to it being this simple. (The new edition with its expanded catalog will be available soon.)

Now, the frequency of Mars-Saturn foreground aspects and infrequency of Venus-Jupiter aspects shouldn't be entirely surprising because of something else we've long known:

Mars and Saturn are the most commonly foreground planets and, therefore, will form the most foreground aspects. Venus and Jupiter (along with neutral Moon and Mercury) are foreground least often in these terrible events, so they will have the least opportunity to form aspects.

But I don't think we can say which one caused the other. They are interlocked. Between the aspects and the angularity, if one is true then the other is necessarily true - whichever way you look at it. Mars and Saturn are BOTH the most foreground planets and the planets that form the most foreground aspects.

In the current catalogue of events, we find - for all relevant charts (an average of about 6 charts per event), we have 5,254 close (Class 1) planetary angularities. For 10 planets, these average 525 angularities per planet. By pure chance, every planet would be expected to be angular 525 times.

However, Mars is angular 658 times and Saturn 642 times. These give chi-squares, respectively, of 33.47 and 25.88 (for one degree of freedom). What this means is that the odds are REALLY, RELALY BIG against them being foreground this much by chance. If you want to calculate it exactly (confession: I do!), Mars (or any planet) would only occur 658 times in this many charts one time in 137,854,335: less than one time in a hundred million. Saturn (or any planet) would only appear 642 times once in 2,747,581. These are... really, really big numbers.

Similarly, Moon would only appear as infrequently as 406 times 1-in-5,268,688, or Venus 461 times 1-in-202, or Mercury 473 times 1-in-45, or Jupiter only 479 times once in 23 tries. These would be the odds against chance occurrence forany planet occurring that many times. The fact that the specific planets that so fell are Mars and Saturn at the top and Venus, Jupiter, and two neutral planets at the bottom is... incalculably large.

Proof. Not anecdote nor received knowledge, or "all the ancients say so." Just proof it's real.
Cool.
Thanks for all the work.

Thanks. By now theres a LOTof data here. We can draw at least the big, overview conclusions and we can see the "piping," how the system works and what we can rely on.