Bradley's Jupiter/Rainfall/Ayanamsa

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The following selection is taken from the " Ayanamsa " file in

Sidereal.zip. It, in turn, is drawn from Garth Allen, aka Don

Bradley, writing in the August 1964 American Astrology Magazine. In

this, Bradley is talking about the occurance of Jupiter on angles of

the F-B Sidereal CapLunar Ingress and its correlation with maximum or

above average rainfall. I have posted a .jpg of the Jupiter graph in

the file section. The best copy I could find in my own records is a

hand tracing done many years ago by Jim Eshelman.

 

As Bradley points out, the chart is based on Jupiter positions in

49,576 instances observed and recorded over decades. It is pretty

straight-forward in showing Jupiter's angular preference on SVP-based

CapLunar Ingress charts. The preference would not show for an

ayanamsa about one degree away. A lunar one degree difference would

create an ingress midheaven about 30 degrees different

 

" Of course, we could have selected, say 25 of the 100 worst-tornado

charts, based on the list of historic twisters given in the World

Almanac, and confidently " demonstrated " the efficacy of the Spica or

hypsomatic fiducials. Dido, for train wrecks or coal-mine disasters.

But this would not be science--it would be a defending of a mental

commitment or professional posture. To save face is usually to

sacrifice facts.

The illustration herewith is the upshot of it all, the only single

" proof " which tells the ayanamsa story without any ifs or buts in the

telling. A few years ago, a team of scientists at a major university

undertook to look into " unorthodox " means of weather forecasting and

includedin their mass-data anaylses certain claims of what we call

astrometeorology. These men are our personal friends and we have been

'au courant' of their work all along. We finally prevailed

sufficiently on their curiosity that they experimented with the

Jupiter-rainfall correlation we reported on in the pages of " Your

Powwow Corner " back in 1957. We found, you will recall, a

mathematically abnormal tendency for Jupiter to be on an angle at the

moment of the Caplunar ingresses covering dates and places of record-

breaking amounts of rain.

In view of professional and institutional considerations, we are

requested to divulge only a bare minimum of information about this

project. Permission to publish an adaptation of one of the diagrams,

and tell its content, however, has been cordially granted, in the

mutual hope that it will nip in the bud this growing threat of a

" controversy " over the synetic fiducial.

The diagram simply consists of the quadrant frequency of Jupiter's

distribution at the moments of the synetic lunar ingresses of

Capricornus preceding th twelve dates over the past century on which

maximum 24-hour downpours of precipitation were recorded at every

functioning weather-observing station in the continental United

States.

The grand total of events amounts to--hold your breath--fully 49,576

items in all. The complete information as to date, place and amount

for each of 49,576 separte record entreis has been officially

published

y the U.S. Weather Bureau, so there can have been no " doctoring " of

the

raw data to yield the result that can be seen in the illustration--and

marveled at.

 

GRAPH: On left from bottom to top, standard deviations from -25 to 0

to +25. On bottom, Quadrants superposed Measuring Eastward from

Midheaven 0 to 90 (to 0) degrees. Angular Cusps using SYNETIC

Ayanamsa

show near +25 standard deviation. The negative peak is between -20 &

-25 for 45 degress eastward from Midheaven. And Angular Cusps using

CHITRA Ayanamsa show near -5 standard deviation.

 

The abscissa of the graph is in units of standard deviation.

Statistical significance commences at the two-unit level, at which the

odds arc 20 to 1 against the proposition that the deviation occurred

only fortuitously. The odds are around 10,000 to one at four standard

deviations. At six units the chances against mere coincidence become

incalculably large, running into the billions.

As you can observe for yourself, the departure from mathematical

" normalcy of occurrence " skyrockets into the trillions and zillions

again the premise of pure coincidence. Scientifically, this is

incontestable proof that the astrological claim concerning the

influence of lunar ingresses--the one into Capricornus, at any rate--

it

true. Needless to mention, this finding and others like it have

caused

considerable excitement over the " potential possibilities " among

scientists who are privy to it--but it is obvious why we cannot dwell

on this particular phase of the matter for the time being.

How ironic it is, that these research findings should have their

first public disclosure in form of an effort to enlighten siderealists

about a fundamental property of their own zodiac! We have been saving

this material, for a long time now, against the day it would be needed

to (a) squelch so-called scientific deriders of astrology, and/or (b)

demonstrate to tropical astrologers that there is something solid to

astrology after all, thus allaying their unspoken fears.

You people who are entertaining other ayanamsas must now face the

issue raised by this and other equally revealing displays of evidence

which underscore the reality of the SVP. That issue is, to put it

bluntly, the glaring fact that either the synetic vernal point is

pretty close to being 'right on the nose, " or else is some 3 degrees

wrong, three degrees being the minimum error which these irrefutable

statistics will permit to exist. [***see note below MQ]

That is, if the fundamental principle behind astrology in regard to

angularity of planetary position for appropriate events is true, and

if

the SVP is more than a few seconds " wrong, " the only possible

alternative is that the true ayanamsa is far enough away from the

synetic point that this same Jupiter-rainfall curve can be reasonably

duplicated only by at least a three-degree displacement of the actual

figure.

In summary, let us say that the Synetic Vernal Point conceivably

could be wrong. But if it is, it is wrong by a hell of an amount and

not by just one or two degrees! Using the median amount of daily

motion of the Moon as the criterion for spacing, we have marked arrows

on the graph showing the contrasting positions of the angular cusps

(quadrants being successively superposed) for the synetic versus the

expectations from use of the Lahiri fiducial.

Note how closely the SVP Jupiter distribution peaks out near the

lines of the angular cusps themselves, with least frequency falling

just 45 degrees from the angles. If my faith in astrological verities

were in the least diminished proper to this knowledge, though of

course

it wasn't these scientific facts would have restored it to full bloom.

How about you pumpers for other ayanamsas, with whom I now conclude my

first and last argument on this particular subject? Here's a faith

restorer. Help yourself.

* * * *

***The three degree displacement Bradley mentions here refers to the

fact that an ayanamsa three degrees different than the SVP would

create a lunar position for an ingress that would have angles

approximately 90 degrees away from those set with the SVP position.

 

Sidereally yours,

Matthew