Astrology
This section of Astroblahhh.Com features various things which might be of interest to people interested in astrology. I and my site neither endorse nor disavow the objective validity (or lack thereof) of astrology.
Eventually, most of what was formerly hosted at Astroblahhh.Tripod.Com will be moved here. Yes, really. Yes, it has been over a year. But really, I mean it. I guess you could blame my Mars opposition Neptune for my sluggish lack of inclination to get around to it, but maybe you should really blame my financial situation for distracting me. :-)
At least I'm making some progress, though. With moving my old stuff here, I mean.
Birth Data
- DAT files for JigSaw 2.0, zipped (274 KB)
Info on the rather expensive commercial program JigSaw is here: http://alabe.com/jigsaw.htm - Plain text format with copy-and-pasteable Astrolog 5.40 command lines, zipped (294 KB)
Info on the freeware Astrolog 5.40 is here: http://astrolog.org/astrolog.htm
Anonymous LiveJournal User Birth Data, Collected in 2002
This data, harvested from LiveJournal, has been completely anonymized - I have omitted even the LiveJournal user names of the people they belong to. Nearly all the data (except one, if I recall correctly) has only month, day and year information, without a known birth location or birth time.
As for the manner in which I harvested them, I did an interest search on the LiveJournal site for people interested in various subjects for which I wanted to accumulate a ton of birth data. Then, with the assistance of this HTML form I made, with which one can easily go directly to the user profile page of any LiveJournal user, I almost indiscriminately saved the data of all the users who listed their birth dates that popped up that I looked at.
I mostly didn't do any picking and choosing amongst the results; I pretty much just saved every birth date I saw - with the small exception that I omitted obvious mistakes such as someone saying they were born in 1900 or 1922, when it was obvious that the person was not nearly so old. I know I should have made mention of that small exception years ago when I first put this data on the web (August of 2002), but, better late than never.
Gauquelin Data
I found some text files containing birth data collected by Michel and Françoise Gauquelin at this site, ARCHIVES GAUQUELIN - http://cura.free.fr/gauq/17archg.html. I wrote some scripts in the Perl programming language to convert the data to some formats I could actually use in various astrology software. Hopefully I didn't make any errors, but I might have, so don't completely trust this data. The scripts I wrote to convert the data are available below.
So far, I've only converted some of the data available at the ARCHIVES GAUQUELIN - http://cura.free.fr/gauq/17archg.html page. To be precise, only "Series A: 15,943 Birth Data: Professional Notabilities (without names)". It will take some modified scripts to convert the rest of the data. I guess someday I'll get around to it.
- Vol. 1-6, Series A: 15,943 Birth Data: Professional Notabilities (without names)
Etexts
- Speculation - A transcription I typed of an 8-page astrology booklet on the topic of financial speculation, published circa August 1930-Dec. 11, 1930, author unknown.
- The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article on astrology - the original text, with paragraph breaks added to improve readability.
Software
- AstroTally - a little astrology program I wrote in JavaScript, originally released in 2004, and last updated in 2005, though I still plan on returning to it. Seldom do I ever completely give up on any big project I've started... :-)
Scripts
Some scripts I wrote in the Perl programming language. I've placed them all in the public domain.
These are the Perl scripts I used to convert some of the Gauquelin data (available above) to a more useful format:
- gauqastro.pl - a Perl script for converting some of the Gauquelin data at ARCHIVES GAUQUELIN - http://cura.free.fr/gauq/17archg.html to Astrolog 5.40 command lines.
- gauqjigsaw1.pl - a Perl script for converting the same data into JigSaw-format files.
- gauqastro.pl - a Perl script for converting some of the Gauquelin data at ARCHIVES GAUQUELIN - http://cura.free.fr/gauq/17archg.html to Astrolog 5.40 command lines.
Web-Based Tools
Actually, though I'm calling these web-based tools (since you can use them in your web browser without actually saving anything on your computer), it's also possible to save the pages with the JavaScript calculators and use them offline too, and you're very welcome to do so.
- Aspect Significance Rating Table - info on a simple system for rating the (supposed) significance of aspects.
External Links
If you're looking for a large, free source of information about astrology, I recommend going to the AstrologyNotes.org wiki.
Here's useful little site containing links to free ebooks and software, a list of astrological ingresses for 2008, etc. Free Astrology Resources (FAR).
Discussion forums
If you're looking for message boards related to astrology in general, I recommend the Google Group All Astrology Moderated, which has a nice, relaxed, laissez-faire style of moderation.
There's also the Usenet group alt.astrology.moderated, which is more strict. Thank you to the wonderful Astrodienst site for rescuing aamod from closing in April 2007.
There are also a couple of alt.astrology.moderated Yahoo groups which aren't officially affiliated with the Usenet group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aamod/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alt_astrology_moderated/.
I also recommend The Bob Marks Astrologer Network.
If you happen to be interested in research of astrology - especially research involving statistics and large amounts of data, and which attempts to find out whether anything in astrology has objective validity or not - I highly recommend checking out the Tropical Astrology Research Google Group.
Commercial Link
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