Richard Pellard

The charlatan siderealist from Mumbai Before diving a little deeper into this new failure of astrological predictionism, let’s start by laughing a little: on 15th October 2008, a week after the crash, AFP broadcast a communicated that an Indian astrologer from Bombay predicted this catastrophe, under the title “The global financial crisis was written in the stars”. Which is totally false. The (...)

Thème écliptiqueThème de domitudeHiérarchie des PlanètesVictor Hugo 26/02/1802 à 22 h 30 TL (26/02/1802 à 22 h 06 TU) Besançon (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France) Latitude +47° 14’ ; Longitude +6° 01’ Under the Sign of Pisces, dominant in Victor Hugo’s Chart, this pair of opposites that are the diurnal universe and the nocturnal universe confront each other by getting closer. We find ourselves at the (...)

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Thème écliptiqueThème de domitudeHiérarchie des PlanètesFrançoise Gauquelin 19/06/1929 à 04 h 00 TL (19/06/1929 à 03 h 00 TU) Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Suisse) Latitude +46° 59’ ; Longitude +6° 56’ Richard Pellard: What is your assessment of your statistical surveys on astrology, after nearly half a century of research? You have had to face up to skepticism, the sometimes honest, sometimes tendentious (...)

Thème écliptiqueThème de domitudeHiérarchie des PlanètesSuzel Fuzeau-Braesch 10/01/1928 à 05 h 00 TL (10/01/1928 à 05 h 00 TU) Paris (Île-de-France, France) Latitude +48° 51’ ; Longitude +2° 21’ 1970. The first computers offering chart studies appear in England. S. Fuzeau-Bræsch is in London on a mission with a scientific delegation. Curious, she obtains the computerized astrological portraits of some (...)

Thème écliptiqueThème de domitudeHiérarchie des PlanètesJean-Pierre Nicola 08/05/1929 à 07 h 45 TL (08/05/1929 à 06 h 45 TU) Nice (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France) Latitude +43° 43’ ; Longitude +7° 16’ Brief excerpt: “At the end of Neptune’s half-loop in sector X (Representation of Object Repository, in conditionalist definition), moods are of little interest. The straw that breaks the camel’s back (...)

The following interview was recorded. Here is his transcript. Your birth sky is characterized by the following elements: ▶ a Pluto-Uranus-Moon opposition in the Virgo-Pisces axis on the horizon line; ▶ an opposition from Saturn in Gemini to Neptune-Jupiter in Scorpio-Sagittarius in the axis of the culminations, linked by sextile and trine to Pluto; ▶ a Sun-Venus conjunction in Cancer, the (...)

Astro-profile of Marc Gemini Ascendant Taurus 12/06/1994 at 02:30 UT in Paris ▶ Conflict between “Extensive Transcendence”, “intensive existence” and “Intensive Power” ▶ Internal conflict within the family “extensive Existence” ▶ Weakness of “Extensive Representation” ▶ Dominant signs: Taurus-

Astro-profile of Catherine, the mother Taurus Ascendant Leo, 29/04/1964 at 11:30 UT in Paris ▶ Good relations between families “Extensive representation” and “Extensive Transcendence” ▶ Good relations between families “intensive representation” and “extensive Existence” ▶ Weakness of “intensive power” and some “intensive transcendence” ▶ (...)

Astro-profiles of Rémy and Pascal Libra ascendant Gemini, 23/09/1983 at 21:20 and 21:24 UT in Paris The problem of twins in astrology Rémy and Pascal were born four minutes apart, from the same egg and the same mother (of course…): they therefore have exactly the same genetic heritage and practically the same astrological sky. However, they are noticeably different in their behavior: if (...)

Astronomical definition Like the Signs of the zodiac, aspects are characteristic phases of a cycle (aspects of a planet at its native position) or intercycle (aspects between two stars). One aspect is the angular distance that separates or connects the positions of two celestial bodies with respect to the center of the Earth. Geometrically, an aspect can be represented in the form of a (...)

Definition - Astronomically, an Aspect is a specific angle (or angular distance) that two or more stars form with respect to the center of the Earth. It is expressed in degrees and minutes of arc. All the angles (from 0° to 360°) that the stars can form between them are not Aspects. ▶ Astrologically, an Aspect is a connection between two or more psychological poles represented by two Planets. (...)

A drop of solar water in the cosmic ocean To begin, let’s locate the solar system within the cosmos. The cosmos is made up of billions of billions of stars, that is to say bodies that shine with their own light. Due to the laws of universal gravitation, every celestial body revolves around another. These stars thus group together in galaxies, and revolve around the center of these galaxies. (...)

Astronomical definition The Moon’s orbit is not circular, but elliptical. Unlike a circle which has only one, an ellipse has two homes F1 and F2 being equidistant on either side of the center of the ellipse. In its course around the Earth, the Moon passes through two extreme points of its orbit: ▶ the perigee: the Moon is then closest to the Earth ▶ the apogee: the Moon is then farthest (...)

You will find a detailed presentation of the main physical characteristics of the Sun, the Moon and the Planets of the solar system in this section dedicated to them. Note that in astrology, we group under the term “Planets” (with a capital ‘P’) both the Sun, the Moon and the planets that revolve around the Sun. The use of this word with a capital letter does not mean that astrologers are unaware (...)

The astronomical phenomenon of retrogradation The apparent motion of a planet results from the interaction between its real motion and that of the Earth. Demotions are therefore not “optical illusions”: they are induced by the different angular velocities of the Earth and the planet. As Jean-Pierre Nicola points out, “a little astrometry and kinematics is enough to understand the inseparability (...)

Media planetary alignments This astrolatric and superstitious frenzy touched the highest peaks of the French state. Thus, in an article published on 6th January 2017 in the business magazine Les Échos, of course titled “Should we fear the end of the alignment of the planets?”, can we read the following sentences: “It was in 2015. François Hollande congratulated himself on a perfect “alignment of (...)

These ten videos represent the geocentric cycles of the Sun, the Moon and the planets. The ecliptic is the plane of the Sun’s apparent orbit around the Earth. The trajectories of the Moon and the planets are carried out on orbits more or less inclined on the ecliptic plane. In this ecliptic frame of reference, a planet is thus characterized by two coordinates: its ecliptic longitude (...)

“You can’t force people to like what they hate (here, astrology), you can’t even force them — and you shouldn’t force them — to learn about it. But our scientists, our rational and objective scientists, only express their likes and dislikes. They act as if they have arguments and use their considerable authority to give them weight. But the arguments they actually use demonstrate their pitiful lack (...)

Results of research in astro-statistics The most numerous statistics are those relating exclusively to the Sun Signs and most have been driven by anti-astrology illusionists Barnum effect enthusiasts or of Carlson’s pseudo-experiment. These have almost all produced results invalidating any probability of a correlation between the Sun sign and the character of an individual or his profession. (...)

“Mars Effect” and anti-astrologer cheats “More or less avowed, scientism implies the following postulates: that the world is a given whole, that the phenomenal game is included in a closed circuit, that everything is therefore calculable, that the scientific mind must not despair of capturing in its formulate the apparent enigma of the universe, that there is no unknowable” (Jules de Gaultier, (...)

The Suitbert Ertel case, a cumbersome ally of the Gauquelins In 1992, Suitbert Ertel published in the Skeptical Inquirer a study confirming the statistical reality of the “Mars effect” and who more revealed a very interesting new element. She has indeed shown that the “Mars effect” was independent of all astronomical variations such as the distance between Mars and Earth, its apparent size and (...)

Geoffrey Dean, Saturn and the 2101 London Twins This study was conducted in 2003 by Geoffrey Dean and his sidekick Ivan Kelly. On an unprecedented scale, it was based on 5,591 births, recorded by the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and having occurred between 3rd and 9th March 1958 in the Greater London conurbation, the choice of this restricted space making it possible to minimize (...)

Astrological balance sheet of Gauquelin astro-statistics “Statistics, made by pro- or anti-astrologers, are devoted to the verification of traditional or modern assertions. The material is vast, unlimited, and the tool is not always up to the problem. If, in addition, the user is a novice or ill-intentioned — a little a priori is enough — the results are immediately felt” (Jean-Pierre Nicola, (...)

A bit of history about the Houses “If the base is solid, the house is solid” (Yi King). “When fraud has built a house, it destroys it” (Malinké proverb). “The sage has no home, no kinship, no country” (Philo of Alexandria, philosopher). Since the advent of computers, which allowed the creation of astronomical calculation software for use by astrologers, it also goes without saying that you can (...)

This study in 7 chapters brings together, documents and criticizes the main serious statistical studies devoted to astrology among the hundreds that have been carried out during the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st. These statistics relate either to the traditional astrological knowledge itself, or to the validity and reliability of the judgments of the astrologers who put it (...)

Introduction The planets are the first effector astrological. The Aspect is therefore an essential astrological entity, since it defines both the key frequencies of a cycle (Aspects of a planet to itself during its geocentric period) or an intercycle (privileged relationship that is periodically established between two or more planets). In contemporary sky charts, the Aspects appear in a (...)

The original notion of Aspect among the Babylonians In the joint beginnings of astrology and astronomy a few millennia ago, Babylonian scholar-priests paid attention to only one Aspect: the conjunction (≈ 0°), major celestial phenomenon because the most visible. The astronomico-astrological tablets of the 18th to the 16th century BCE that have been found attest to this. This interest in (...)

From disuse to the Renaissance Two hundred years after Ptolemy, astrology had gradually fallen into disuse in the Roman-Christian West, serious European astrologers and researchers became extremely rare between the 4th and the 13th century, and have hardly left any traces. There was now more concern for the salvation of his crucified soul than for the status of the astrological Aspects. So (...)

Astrology in full swing The work of the German astronomer-astrologer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) is one key moment in the history of science, a century after the Copernican revolution: with Copernicus (1473–1543), we went from geocentrism to heliocentrism and Kepler discovered that planetary orbits were not perfect circles, but ellipses. Faced with this revolution in our conception of the (...)