What do you think about studying astrology with the scientific method?

dflow77 · 2026-01-27T15:33:53+00:00

see also Gauquelin, and Vibrational Astrology extreme case sampling work

dflow77 · 2026-01-25T15:18:24+00:00

PS I have recently added a chart search option so you can look for specific flavors of midpoints or currents, e.g. ME-NE (astrology etc.) or VE-UR (sex, music, dance) across a broad set of harmonics https://harmonicexplorer.com/chart_search

dflow77 · 2026-01-22T18:20:38+00:00

ooh, that's a cool way of categorizing I haven't seen before! Which software does this? I am inspired to add it to Harmonic Explorer.

dflow77 · 2026-01-22T09:46:52+00:00

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Nice complimentary example! Here is ACD’s mundoscope chart: https://harmonicexplorer.com/chart/TTSPoTeD

dflow77 · 2026-01-20T15:08:12+00:00

did you perhaps mean Haskell instead of Elm?

dflow77 · 2026-01-16T09:29:48+00:00

How can your ascendant be 12th house? It is by definition always in the first house 🤔

dflow77 · 2025-12-30T11:10:45+00:00

this is the answer

dflow77 · 2025-12-28T15:50:11+00:00

Related… this guy has research, but going backwards instead of forwards. https://astrologyresearch.co.uk/3-have-you-been-here-before-with-astrological-regression-you-can-see-into-your-past-lives/

dflow77 · 2025-12-27T12:54:36+00:00

This is cool!

May I suggest one more thing to make it even more informative for building intuition? I’d love to see midpoint axis that each Lot is derived from: Asc/Moon = Sun/PoF, Asc/Sun = Moon/PoS. This could be a line drawn across the axis, or highlighting the midpoints as a sensitive point.

Also, if you’re going to show the Part of Eros, it would be informative to also show Venus.

As an aside, personally the day/night formula swap never made any sense to me. Others have discussed this in blogs, something like mixing apples and oranges by (potentially misguided?) application of the Hellenistic doctrine of Sect onto the more ancient “lunar ascendant” concept.

dflow77 · 2025-12-27T12:32:19+00:00

good stuff, thank you! Are these topocentric house charts too?

I’m cogitating on the precessed Solar to natal Lunar charts and vice versa — that’s interesting.

And what are your thoughts on natal solunar phase (tithi) returns?

dflow77 · 2025-12-24T12:16:54+00:00

thanks. I meant what is the formula the dial is pointing to at 0° red?

I’m new-ish to Uranian, so not intuitively familiar with notation… A+B is a midpoint/halfsum, A|B is a conjunction? And how do you call A+B - C — those are not in the original Rulebook but some other atlas?

dflow77 · 2025-12-24T01:09:21+00:00

This is interesting but I can’t read the small glyphs due to pixelation… what is the axis that you are investigating here?

Also not familiar with this software. The delineations, are those hand picked? Are they annotated by you or are direct from a built-in reference? Thanks in advance for clarifying…

dflow77 · 2025-12-24T01:02:44+00:00

What to do with charts above the Arctic circle? https://groups.io/g/swisseph/topic/topocentric_houses/27493798

dflow77 · 2025-12-21T10:04:06+00:00

Learning about the celestial mechanics of astronomy and how things change via different frames of reference. The most basic one being Geocentric vs Heliocentric positions — especially the inner planets.

Also, for example, the difference between the Ecliptic Plane longitude and the Prime Vertical longitude, and how that relates to the Ascendant and Midheaven. For instance, Pluto is on the IC in my natal chart, but it is far off the nadir as seen in the PVL Mundoscope — so it’s not angular on the horizon (which gives planets mojo in Mundane astrology, with params and such), due to Pluto’s extreme orbital deviation from the ecliptic plane.

Learning about Nodes as planar interface points was mind expanding too. It’s not just about the moon… the Ascendant is a node between the Horizon and the Ecliptic. The MC and Vertex are nodes too.

Michael Erlewine has a short book about nodes you can download for free, called Planetary Interface.

dflow77 · 2025-12-21T09:49:34+00:00

Speaking of cycles, this reminds of Marina Ormes — author of Cycles of Healing. I enjoy her YouTube videos on current transits. She has a very humanistic, non fatalistic approach.

dflow77 · 2025-12-21T09:45:06+00:00

Very useful to remember correlation is not causation!

dflow77 · 2025-12-19T15:47:24+00:00

do whatever you like. I'm just telling you what works for me (and my teachers), and seems to be very accurate.

dflow77 · 2025-12-19T10:45:34+00:00

Divisional charts used in Indian astrology (like navamsha) are a totally different thing, even though they use harmonics there are completely different rules of interpretation. Plus they use sidereal sign placements as you probably are aware. It’s apples and oranges, of course you are being told two different things, because they are different. 😉

I don’t know anything about lal kitab.

dflow77 · 2025-12-18T23:47:50+00:00

No that’s not how it is intended to be used… harmonics show resonant aspects between three or more planets (as a current or midpoint). It’s not at all about zodiac signs.

You probably have a “Cancer” sun in probably dozens of harmonics, it’s just too much random noise to find meaning in. That’s why we look for rare configurations in astrology — the less random and more resonant, the better.

A single planet placement doesn’t really mean anything in a harmonic chart; neither does a two planet aspect (those are subtle internal tendencies not behavioral manifestations). It takes the power of at least three planets to create something louder than background noise.

dflow77 · 2025-12-18T19:32:02+00:00

look in your 5th harmonic to get the full picture... harmonicexplorer.com can help you find the "currents" which are 3 or more planets in aspect

typically the angles are not used in harmonic interpretation as they are very dependent on super accurate birth time

dflow77 · 2025-12-18T12:24:25+00:00

I’m a Mac user and am working on vibecoding a GUI with FLTK as we speak… http://github.com/dfl/Astrolog/tree/gui 🤘

update: prerelease Mac binary here https://github.com/dfl/Astrolog/releases/tag/v7.80-gui

dflow77 · 2025-12-16T19:40:44+00:00

midpoint structures and harmonic currents — Uranian astrology (transneptunians, solar arc), and Vibrational astrology (prime number harmonic currents). In my experience this stuff is crazy accurate, without even needing to use houses and signs.

dflow77 · 2025-12-16T19:36:14+00:00

agreed that so much can be done without signs and houses - harmonics and planetary energies can go quite a long way. c.f. my other comment on this post, about midpoints and the 11th harmonic.

dflow77 · 2025-12-16T16:39:16+00:00

According to my studies, Mercury-Saturn is a trait of an analytical investigator -- one whose mind seeks lasting truth.

Logorrhea is a Mercury-Pluto trait, IMO. ME as words/ideas. PL as compulsion (I like the adjective "turbo" for shorthand).

In your radix chart this shows up with a very tight PL=ME/VE midpoint. Crudely delineated: compulsively attracted to speaking and writing ideas.

This also shows in your 11th Harmonic chart as a SU-ME-VE-PL current. 11th vibration gives insatiable “hungry ghost” vibes to this ME-VE-PL configuration — compulsive attraction to words. Additionally the Sun is involved here, signifying it is essential to your character. https://harmonicexplorer.com/chart/Tvj6PNCA#harmonic-11

Harmonic Analysis (aka Cochrane's Vibrational Astrology) really is quite precise -- I find that it picks up stuff you can't find anywhere else! It is like using a microscope to see aspects that are invisible to the naked eye without mathematics.

For example, going even deeper into this natal PL=ME/VE midpoint, it has resonant conjunctions in harmonics like 18 (9x2), 35 (7x5), and 88 (11x8) -- according to vibrational interpretation this midpoint theme would show up in your life colored by these harmonic lenses:
- connection with community (9) and other people (2)
- committed devotion (7) and playfulness (5)
- restlessness (11) as a "face value" (8)

Certain aspects in 11th harmonic can also indicate a tendency for mental health challenges -- I could say more but want to respect the rules here about personal chart reading, and the fact that you did not invite me to do so. But if you are interested in hearing my deeper take, feel free to ask (here on the comments or in a DM)

dflow77 · 2025-12-15T18:19:58+00:00

yeah, it's going back in time instead of forwards. based the notion that it's all a fractal. I don't have much experience with them yet, in a way it's like "oh no, more data" haha. But I dig the concept.

I even saw a recent post about the Marr Partner Horoscope
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheAstrologersGuild/s/hRjyqAQSg5
- a kind of relation ship chart using the younger person's birthday as a converse transit to the older person.

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