Sunday August 16th I had rectified the charts of 500 solo athletes, 250 of each gender. The 500 charts are used to test the AstroMate concept, and the test results are published continuously on this page.

The AstroMate concept is a way of determining the astrological signature for a given group, in this case solo athletes, by use of Kündig rectification, harmonics and neural network technology. Harmonics are also known as Fourrier analysis or Fourrier transform in the mathematical world. Neural networks are explained here.

August 19th: The randomized charts had been created, and all the charts had been set up to the AstroMate format (a manual process).

January 19th: The project came at a halt due to lack of resources. In short I had to devote my time on making money on other activities in order to pay the rent and other expenses.

Below is the actual test result. It is not final, it changes over time as more and more of the test is performed.

This is how the test was performed: One data set consists of the 500 athletes' rectified charts. Another data set was generated with random dates +/- 10 years from the 500 athletes' rectified charts but keeping the times and the geographic locations. These randomized charts are run against the 500 athletes charts. Each comparison or run will produce a score for that individual chart telling how much the chart ressembles the collection of (in this case: athletes') charts. When a number of charts has been run, a diagram with 6 swimming lanes divided by the following 5 numeric values are created:

• The uppermost score
• The third quartile
• The median (= the second quartile)
• The first quartile
• The lowermost value

Each of the 500 athletes' charts are now run against the other 499 athletes charts, and their scores are distributed between the 6 swimming lanes:

1. Above the uppermost score
2. Between the uppermost score and the third quartile
3. Between the third quartile and the median
4. Between the median and the first quartile
5. Between the first quartile and the lowermost value
6. Below the lowermost value

The distribution of the athletes' charts in the 6 swimming lanes expresses how precise the AstroMate concept is in determining a chart's affiliation with the athletes category. If AstroMate performs as expected, most of the scores from the athletes' charts will be in lane 1 and 2.

This project with the 500 athletes has been criticized for being too broad. Astrologers like David Cochrane and Courtney Roberts have claimed on their web pages that it is better to do research on a more specialized group like e.g. tennis players or swimmers, because each sport demands different skills from the people engaged in it. I believe that is true, if the purpose of the research is analytical - i.e. to find astrological elements, which show statistical significance. An astrological element could for instance be a sun sign or a particular aspect between two planets.

But the research with neural networks is never analytical. When combining astrology and neural networks, you always work with entire charts rather than chart elements. Furthermore I am not trying to establish ways to predict preferences for a particular profession or branch of sport, instead I am trying to establish a link between astrology and the super categories described by Howard Gardner as multiple intelligences:

• Bodily-kinesthetic
• Musical-rythmic
• Visual-spatual
• Verbal-linguistic
• Logical-mathematical
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalistic
• Existential

I believe such super-categories are much more useful and generic than a specialization within a profession or athletism. Furthermore, multiple intelligence theory is broadly accepted as "good science", and establishing a general link between astrology and multiple intelligence theory is the same as establishing a link between astrology and science.

Such a link is being established - here and now! Even though I have only carried out 44% of the planned test, and even though only 79% of the athletes have placed themselves among the 25% highest athletic scores in the random data (= swimming lane 1 and 2) these results cannot be ignored, they can be repeated whenever wanted (for instance in a blind test), and they can still be improved, since I haven't taken all the methods of improving the the neural network's performance and capacity into use yet.

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