Astrologically Predictable
Patterns in Work Related Injuries:
"Avert the Danger That Has Not
Yet Come"
by Sara Klein Ridgley, Ph.D.
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commentaries on this study.
This is a small sample from Sara Klein Ridgley’s Ph.D. thesis on the astrology of
accidents (her doctorate in Psychology, submitted to the University for
Humanistic Studies, Del Mar, California). It is the best piece of astrological research I have ever
read. Her hypothesis is that accidents occur more often when the
transiting Sun is in hard aspect to the natal Sun. She tested this by
sign, orb, and applying vs. separating aspects. She attained results that
exceed Gauquelin in statistical significance – less than one in a
trillion chance of it just being chance. Best of all, she also replicated
her work on multiple data sets gathered inclusively and systematically,
not anecdotally.
Every i is dotted and t is crossed. If any of your techno-science
friends have been giving you a hard time about your delusional belief in
the power of planets – send them here.
These results beg for replication. Is there anybody out there
willing to re-run the experiment with different data?
This one of over 20 tables and graphs from Ms. Ridgley's thesis. It is
a bar chart of the number of accidents for each month following
a person’s birth. Thus 1 represents the number of accidents in the the same month as the birth. Month 4
represents the number of accidents occurring 4 months after birth e.g. a Libra person
having an accident while the Sun is in Capricorn. Months 1, 4, 7, and 10
represent the conjunction, opening square, opposition and closing square.
It is plain to see that many more accidents occur when the transiting Sun
is in hard aspect to the natal Sun. The chance of this being “just
chance” is less than one in a trillion.
— Mark McDonough
Click here to read the entire study on Sara
Klein Ridgley's site. The following Abstract and Request for
Data come from her thesis home page.
ABSTRACT
In an effort to predict the occurrence of work-related accidents and to
provide further perspectives to accident prevention, astrological patterns
in work injuries were examined. Statistical results indicate that there
are distinct periods of time when individuals are more accident prone.
These periods involve hard aspects from the transiting Sun to the Sun's
position at birth. The study included 1023 injured people who filed a
Workers' Compensation claim and were disabled for at least three months.
It was hypothesized that people tend to suffer accidental injuries
significantly more frequently around the time of their birthday, three
months before or after, or six months after their birthday. The research
hypothesis was supported with a high degree of statistical significance.
It provides support for some of the basic concepts of both Western
Astrology and Jyotish (Vedic Astrology). The results also suggest possible
programs that might aid in determining the timing of accidents and thus
assist in their prevention, thereby contributing to the field of
industrial psychology. This study also provides a hope that the fields of
astrology and psychology can be bridged as both attempt to understand
human nature and to predict human behavior.
Epilogue
September 21, 1992 was the date this work was defended. At the end of
the presentation this researcher was presented with a newspaper article
that appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune that very same day. This
article announced findings from a totally unrelated study, which found
that people tend to die more frequently around their birthdays...
Request for Data
Research always needs to be replicated with new data. If any readers of
this dissertation have access to relevant data, please contact us. To
qualify for scientific research, the data has to be inclusive and
systematically gathered. Anecdotal data, that is a few cases from a
variety of sources, cannot be used. We need ALL cases which fit our
criteria from a single source for a specific period of time, such as a
year or more. The criteria needed are:
- Birthdate
- Accident date of a work-related accident which kept the
injured person off the job for 3 months or more.
- We do not want the name of the injured persons, but it would be
helpful to have the sex.
- If possible, it would also be helpful to have the body part that
was injured and the time of the accident in addition to the
date.
Ideally, we would have full data for the injured person, including the
time and place of birth, and the time and place of the accident, but to
protect privacy, we are not asking for that. This is a preliminary study,
using only part of the data required for a full astrological study. If
significant results can be obtained with additional data, it may be
possible to eventually interest science in a research project with full
astrological data to permit using all of the available techniques.
© 1992 Sara Klein. All rights reserved.
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