Astrology

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An Astrologer’s delight …

Ive been researching with the art of astrology for more than 35 yrs now, yes since the age of 10. Trying to deperately find the link between the science in the background astronomy and the art in the deliverance of predictions. This is in no way meant to demean the great astrologers of our Indian heritage nor to question the scietificity of their art of astrology. The question is how can those astrologers handover the capability of prediction to any novice in the form of hypothesis versus result (likened to any scientific experiment ) – in short there should be a hypothesised occurence and a derivable result (of happening) that can be ‘verified’ ‘over and over again’. For example – if you were to enter the city and lat/long (and any more parameters) you should be able to display when next (date and time) that rain would be experienced – importantly with a published theory of ‘the combination of planets / positions’ that would lead to rain.

This could be very far fetched. Some other aspects are still intruiging. By seeing the chart (horoscope) of a person does the astrologer submit that yes, this chart is say 40% less likely to be predicted correctly, or someother is a typical chart and hence can be predicted accurately almost throughout the life time of the native ?

For that matter does an astrologer ever send you back saying that well during this period, these days or months or years, as an astrologer, I am likely to be less correct hence would not like to predict ? or are there typically days / months/ years in this century that are not conducive to predicting due to planetary positions ? I have never heard of any such thing true. Whereas as an astrologer, I know that during certain days ‘I would not do well in the act of prediction since the planets that made me an astrologer are weak’ – or that the native’s planets are positioned in such a way that its hard (or easy) to predict.

In India there are very many ephemeris ‘panchangs’ that are the planetary (astronomy) calendars. Like Lahiri’s Rashtriya panchang, (North India) or the ones used by Bengalis, or the many ones in South like Pambu(Snake), Madathu etc. When it comes to important transits like Saturn changing houses, there could be differences in weeks, for Mars upto 5 days, in Mercury/Venus 1 or 2 days is common. While each of these ephemeris is scientifically correct as they could be referring to various aspects of transitory motion and hence difference in the dates and position of change, the astrologer who actually these ephemeris to Cast the chart finds it difficult to folllow one or the other. Whereas after some study, I have found out exactly when and in what combination of planets and positions these panchangs are likely to differ from each other (and in what times they are likely to match).

I pity the natives who blindly believe in the astrologer’s capability to predict and who do not even recast the chart for themselves (when they are shown the chart) and start delivering prediction. Some other intruiging aspects are like can the astrologer find out whether the horoscope is that of a boy or a girl ? No. then what prediction would they do ? Do they have access to automated systems that would run thru 100s of 1000s of combinaitons to reinforce a particualr line of theory ? before actually believing in one and delivering on it…

To answer all the above I finally decided that I would not put an art on top a science and call the whole package scientific. If astronomy is verifyably scientific then the predictive part also has to be 100% scientific. 99.99% predictability is in many ways as good as 50%. After all when major calamities or accidents happen dont you get cought, or otherwise have a miraculous escape, by the skin of yr teeth – some micro seconds ? A mistake of calculations by this margin is enough to make it right or wrong.

When a native is born say at the same time in 2 cities seperated by say 100 miles from each other, how is say Saturn  that is Billions of Millions of miles away from earth going to affect them differently ?

The new system is based on patterns (aimed to grow into a full-blown POSA Pattern Oriented Software Architecture aka here as Pattern Oriented Software for Astrology). Its uniquely talior made for you, by you by identifying your own happenings (probably not all) and recognising a unique astronomical pattern to it – guided by the system. Any change or identity to that pattern and its reoccurence will then “statistically” establish the pattern and its correctness (occurence) – something which inherently intakes “Time ” as the fourth dimension-and something which you can hypothesise and see results for. The percentage of correctness will be as good as any statistical theory. You can liken this to the weatherman’s predictions. (Gosh they could be horribly wrong in some countries, do we know). Much as he fails time and again he nevertheless does not stop from refining the parameters to develop a stronger ‘model’ that ‘perpetually’ improves in correctness.

I intend to build a grand grid of users whose feedback would provide automatic data points that the system would use in the first place and hence would be self-healing in all states. So even if the system starts with 60 or 70 % accuracy it would only increase for you. The more the people use the system the more the statistical data points and higher the correction.

Any VCs ?