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NewYeaarsEdition200912_june_july_2009.qxd 16/12/2009 2:32 PM Page 3 3 Astrology & The Scientists 3 Astrology & The Scientists ASTROLOGY & THE ASTROLOGY & THE SCIENTISTS SCIENTISTS Continued from Page 2 Then Marcel Boll, a member of a committee of Belgian scientists set up specifically to study paranormal phenomena, commented: “Your conclusions are nothing but pulp romances... If you undertook the same inquiry in Britain, Germany, the U.S.A. or Russia you would come out with nothing but national idiosyncracies.” Warlike Mars Stung, Gauquelin set out with his wife to collect data from birth registers in Germany, Italy, Holland and Belgium: and in due course he found the results he compiled were comparable to those he had found in France, but with some interesting variations. For instance, Mars appeared for Italian soldiers, significantly more often than Germans. He suggested that, as was well-known, Germans are more war-like as a nation than Italians, and that one would therefore expect German soldiers to be far less in need of a strong Martian influence in their horoscopes in order to be successful. Statistical Significance high proportion were born in the late summer or astrologer, Professor Hans Eyswenck, an early autum, with peaks in Leo and Scorpio. eminent psychologist, collaborated in an Altogether, the Gauquelins assembled * 6,412 doctors showed above average investigation of another claim made by birth data for more than 25,000 people. In the figures for birth in summer and autumn. astrologers: that people born in Cancer, Scorpio, horoscopes of 3,305 scientists, Mars was found * Out of 8,932 musicians, an above or Pisces tend to be overemotional or neurotic. in one or other of the significant positions 666 average number were born in winter or early They reportedly found that those born with the times, where the statistical average would have spring, with the sun in Sagittarius, Capricorn, sun in the even-numbered signs - Aries, Gemini, been 551 - and the odds against this were Aquarius and Pisces. Leo, Libra Sagittarius and Aquarius - tended to 500,000 to one. In the horoscopes of 3,142 * 6,677 American lawyers showed a be extroverts; while those born with the sun in military leaders, the planet Mars and Jupiter peak in Gemini. the other signs showed introvert tendencies. occurred in these positions in 640 cases, * British politicians peaked in Aries. And they showed that Cancer, Scorpio and compared with an average of 524 - the odds * 7,118 advertising agents and 1,834 Pisces (and, to Mayo’s surprise, Aries) were against this being a million to one. diplomats peaked in Gemini. statistically linked with emotional or neurotic It was also found that significantly low personality traits. * Out of 5,056 schoolteachers, a figures were obtained for planetary positions in significant proportion were born with the sun in certain groups. Actors, painters, writers, and Leo or Virgo. Mortal Bliss musicians, for instance, showed an unusually * 5,111 librarians showed a marked low frequency of the planets Mars and Jupiter in trend to Libra. One of Eysenck’s colleagues, Beverley important positions in their natal horoscopes. * Out of 3,927 authors, a high Steffert, investigated the belief that there was a Gauquelin published further details of proportion had the sun in Virgo. connection between astrological sun signs and his research in The Truth About Astrology * There was a marked tendency for happy marriages. She found that successful (1984). He had also looked for any correlation comedians’ birthdays to fall in the spring -in marriages are more likely when both partners with the position of the sun in the horoscope, Aquarius, Pisces, Taurus, or Gemini. are born in either even numbered or odd but could find nothing of statistical numbered signs. Whether the positions of the significance. However, other researchers in the Shortly after these figures had been planets provoke changes in gravitational or U.S.A. and Britain followed up his work. published, a group of British doctors published magnetic fields, or induce showers of high In America, Edward van Deussen their analysis of 28,000 patients born between cosmic radiation, and whether these influences collected 163,953 birth-dates for individuals 1921 and 1955 who were admitted to have a profound (and predictable) effect upon born in the U.S.A. and Canada. In Britain psychiatric care in 1070 - 1971. They said that those about to be born, requires a great deal sociologist Joe Cooper, in association with Dr. 7 percent more manic depressives and 9 percent more serious research. But it begins to seem that Alan Smithers of the University of Bradford, more schizophrenics than average were born in we have underestimated the ancients, and that collected another 35,000 birth-dates. Between January, February, or March. the magicians of Babylon might have known them, these various researchers reported the more about the forces of destiny than the following findings: A Nervous Disposition scientists of the modern world would have been prepared to give them credit for. * Out of 28,000 soldiers, a significantly In 1977, Jeff Mayo, a professional www.xzoneradiotv.com People in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the People in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Bermuda Triangle Bermuda Triangle Listen to The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show Listen to The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show AM 1620 WDHP with Rob McConnell on AM 1620 WDHP with Rob McConnell on