It was tricky to choose from all the possible contributing factors to compose an AstroSignature of 20 rules. Often, I was surprised at what the factor analysis indicated to be contributing factors in alcohol abuse. For example, when I evaluated the report on sign analysis, I found a surprising number of indicators in Capricorn, yet none of them were a planet! Instead, the dispositors of specific planets or the rulers of specific houses were the contributing factors. Additionally, the asteroids, Ceres and Vesta, often showed up as contributors to alcohol abuse when involved in particular aspects or placed in particular houses or signs. It made sense when their symbolism was considered: Ceres, the Earth Goddess, associated with the principles of nurturance and unconditional love (most importantly of the self), and Vesta, seen to preside over support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous and the principles of personal integration and spiritual devotion. Furthermore, both Ceres and Vesta are felt to be linked to the Virgo archetype. Nonetheless, it would never have occurred to me to consider their potential influence if the factor analysis report hadn't suggested that I do so.
There were other conundrums to address when combining factors into a single workable rule. Following is an example of the process I followed to determine combinable factors using the factor analysis report. In one instance, the report indicated that Venus' dispositor sesquisquare to Venus, Mars, Jupiter or Saturn occurred five percent more frequently in the charts of the alcoholics than it did in the control group. However, only eight of the alcoholics (9.4 percent) had this particular aspect in their charts. Therefore, I needed to find some other factors to combine with it before it could be included as a signature rule. The factor analysis report offered no other aspects from Venus' dispositor to this group but it did offer two receivers of the sesquisquare aspect from Venus' dispositor that occurred with higher frequency in the charts of the alcoholics. One was Neptune's dispositor and the other was the ruler of the MC. The conundrum was this: what was the likelihood that either Neptune's or the MC's dispositor was one of the original four planets involved in the sesquisquare to Venus' dispositor? In other words, what the factor analysis report doesn’t show is whether Venus, Mars, Jupiter or Saturn are also the dispositors of Neptune or the MC in the 9.4 percent of charts in question. If they were, it would skew the results for this particular group and likely not be significant. Here is where both logic and astrological common sense come into play. Logically, if we assume the factor analysis report shows that the Venus sesquisquare is occurring to both Saturn and the dispositor of Neptune at identical percentages, then there's a good chance that Saturn is also the dispositor of Neptune and including both in a signature rule might achieve good results with one experimental group but not be replicated with another. At the same time, astrological common sense dictates that Venus' dispositor sesquisquare to either Neptune's or the MC's dispositor could very well contribute to alcohol abuse. This particular issue came up frequently as I worked to combine factors and in several instances, I adopted some very interesting combinations into one rule despite the fact that I risked not having my results replicated with a different experimental group.
THE ASTROSIGNATURE
In the end, I adopted 20 rules to compose an AstroSignature for Alcohol Abuse and tested the signature with both the Anonymous group and the Performers group of data sets. Table 3. shows the results for both groups. The average signature score achieved for the Anonymous experimental group was 12.59 and 8.28 for the control group. The average signature score achieved for the Performers experimental group was 10.88 and 8.00 for the control group. Overall, the signature works with greater effectiveness with the Anonymous group than it does the Performers. All of the rules worked with greater frequency in terms of both distribution and variance for the experimental groups. The Anonymous group consisted of 85 experimental/850 control and the Performers group consisted of 100 experimental/1000 control.
Table 3. New AstroSignature for Alcoholism (Only modern rulers were used) *Disp = Dispositor; NN=North Node; SN=South Node
AstroSignature Rules
ANONYMOUS EXPERIMENT
% Non Zero
ANONYMOUS CONTROL
% Non Zero
FAMOUS EXPERIMENT
% Non Zero
FAMOUS CONTROL
% Non Zero
1) Asc Sesquisq or quincunx Moon, Sun, Merc, Uranus, Sun Disp*, Merc Disp, Venus Disp, NN Disp, MC Disp
34.1
22.9
29.0
24.7
2) Sun Disp, Merc Disp, Venus Disp, Jup Disp, Nept Disp, ruler of house 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, or 12 in Capricorn
17.7
9.3
34.0
31.2
3) Venus, Jup, Nept, NN, SN, Merc Disp, Jup Disp, Nept Disp, NN Disp, SN Disp, Vesta, ruler of house 1, 2, 4, 8, 11,12 in the 6th house
64.7
54.1
57.0
51.4
4) Moon, Nept, Sun Disp, Venus Disp, Mars Disp, Pluto Disp, NN Disp, ruler of house 5, 8, or 12 in 5th house
45.9
36.7
47.0
38.5
5) Ascendant in Aries, Taurus, Gemini or Virgo
48.2
29.6
32.0
27.7
6) Moon in Virgo, Gemini, Scorpio, Capricorn or Pisces
51.8
42.5
45.0
40.2
7) Sun, SN, MC, Sun Disp, SN Disp, MC Disp, ruler of house 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6 in Aquarius
54.1
39.3
50.0
46.1

Ceres square Moon, Neptune, Ascendant, Chiron, Nept Disp
45.9
29.2
37.0
26.3
9) Jup Disp contraparallel Sun, Uran Disp, Pluto Disp, Chiron, or ruler of 6th house
28.2
10.4
14.0
12.3
10) Moon or Moon's Disp sextile Uranus or Uranus Disp.
29.4
12.0
16.0
10.9
11) Saturn conjunct Neptune, MC Disp, or Ruler of house 6, 8, 9, or 11
35.3
24.8
34.0
26.8
12) Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, MC, Ceres, Ruler of house 5 or 12 at 28 degrees of any sign
29.4
20.4
19.0
16.3
13) Jupiter conjunct, semisq, or quincunx Moon, Sun, Asc, or Asc Disp.
38.8
33.2
41.0
31.1
14) Neptune sextile, quincunx, or parallel Moon, Sun, Asc, or Asc. Disp.
42.4
29.2
39.0
28.4
15) Sun, Merc, Sat, SN, Moon Disp, Mars Disp, Pluto Disp, NN Disp, Asc Disp, Ceres, Ruler of house 3 or 11 in 4th house
49.4
44.9
50.0
46.9
16) Moon opposition Venus, Neptune, Moon Disp, Nept Disp, Vesta or Ceres
27.1
18.8
25.0
18.8
17) Merc, Uranus, MC, Sun Disp, Merc Disp, SN Disp, Vesta, or Ruler of 4th house at 1 degree any sign
29.4
22.9
26.0
19.0
18) Any planet, NN, SN, Asc, MC, Ruler of 4th or 7th at 11 degrees Aries, Cancer, or Capricorn
18.8
12.8
13.0
11.7
19) Mars trine, semisextile, sextile or parallel Neptune
21.2
14.7
19.0
13.1
20) Moon angular AND semisq, sesquisq, square or quincunx Merc, Sat, NN or SN
17.7
15.8
19.0
14.5
SIGNATURE SCORE RESULTS
The average signature score for the Anonymous group (12.59) appears to vary more greatly from the average score for the Performer group (10.88) than it actually does, because the highest score achieved in the Anonymous group was 33 in contrast to the highest score of 22 in the Performers group. A perusal of the Anonymous chart that scored 33 quickly revealed the reason it scored as high as it did--it held an Aquarian stellium containing Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and the North Node in the sixth house. This also explains at least some of the variance in percentages achieved between the Anonymous experimental group and the Performer group for rules three and seven (which address Aquarius and sixth house placements).
The 60/40 distribution that I sought was achieved with the Anonymous group. Fifty-one of the 85 charts (60 percent) in the Anonymous experimental group scored at or above the median experimental group score of 11, while only 219 of the 850 records (25.8 percent) in the control group scored that high. Therefore, 74.2 percent of the control group scored 11 or below. The 60/40 dividing score in the Performers group was achieved by those in the experimental group with a score of nine or greater, whereas sixty two out of 100 (62 percent) of the Performer experimental group scored similarly. The 60/40 split was nearly achieved but 451 out of 1000 (45.1 percent) of the control group scored nine or greater as well.
The Performers control group had four records which received a signature score of zero and the Anonymous group had one such record. There were a total of 19 records in the Performers control group and 15 in the Anonymous control group with a signature score of one. A signature score of three was the lowest score earned in both experimental groups. Each had two records which received a signature score of three. An examination of the lowest scoring charts in both experimental groups revealed similar types of focalizers. For example, all four of them contained a stellium, and two contained singletons. (I was unable to figure out a way to account for singletons and/or stelliums with the AstroDatabank software). Here is a list of some of the dynamics found in the four lowest scoring charts:
1) A singleton stationary Mars in Gemini in the tenth house (the only planet in the southern hemisphere) square Moon conjunct Pluto in the first house. There was a stellium involving Sun, Mercury, Venus, North Node, and Neptune in Libra in the second house.
2) Eleventh house Virgo stellium (involving Sun, Moon, Neptune with Moon conjunct Neptune), Saturn stationary Rx in the fourth house in Aquarius at the handle of a bucket pattern, in exact quincunx to Moon/Neptune.
3) A tenth house stellium (predominantly Taurus) as well as an eleventh house Gemini stellium, Mars in Cancer conjunct North Node in the first house in mutual reception with Moon in Aries in the tenth house.
4) A singleton stationary Rx Saturn in the tenth as the only planet in the southern hemisphere, a second house Pisces stellium involving Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Chiron with Sun also in the second house in Aries and an exact Pluto conjunct Venus in Taurus in the fourth house.
Additionally, while three out of four of these charts contained a focal stationary planet, no particular planet, dispositor or house ruler demonstrated stationary status with greater frequency in the experimental groups as compared to the control group. In fact, Saturn was found to be stationary or retrograde more often in the control group than in the experimental group.
SUMMARY
A workable AstroSignature was developed with practical application for identifying a tendency toward alcohol abuse in the horoscope. That is, if upon evaluation a horoscope receives a score of 11 or above using the criteria outlined in the AstroSignature, there is a risk of alcohol abuse. While this AstroSignature has set forth guidelines for identifying the tendency for alcohol abuse, it fails to answer some other very important questions. For example, if the behavior does surface, what factors in the chart represent strengths to draw upon to offset the behavior? How could those strengths best be tapped and cultivated? I feel this information is as equally important to identify, for it enables astrologers to empower their clients with options and choices. The great blessing of astrology is that it not only provides us with a means for understanding the dynamics underlying unhealthful behaviors, it also offers guidance about the means for healing such behaviors.
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