This is an announcement about an ongoing project. The project started in 2015.

The project is about:
- Collecting the charts for purchasing lotto tickets with a win equal to or larger than the purchase amount
- Performing statistical analysis on the resulting election chart collection
- Performing statistical analysis on the progressive aspects to the buyer's birth chart from the resulting election chart collection
- Creating a neural network (artificial intelligence) application capable of detecting winning or profitable election charts in the future
- Establishing a new branch of financial astrology based on observations rather than on astrological tradition

There is nothing new about the idea to use astrology in order to improve ones material conditions in life. The new thing is the observational approach to realize the idea.

Just like with birth chart analysis there is nothing simplistic about electional charts. For instance, you cannot rely on the Sun sign or Moon sign alone. Instead finding the right moment for financial gain is like a jigsaw puzzle with a hundred pieces or rather like a mathematical set with one hundred elements, where at least 50 or 60 of the elements should be in place, before there is even the slightest chance of gain.

As I mentioned, the project is still ongoing, but feel free to ask questions about this project in this thread, and then I can explain or describe at least some of the pieces in this giant jigsaw puzzle. I look forward to the day, when it is easy to post images at skyscript, because right now it is too bothersome. Then I can illustrate my findings with bar diagrams and curve diagrams.

NB! The more I research astrology, the more my astrological practice is distanced from traditional astrological practice. I know the French astrology researcher Michel Gauquelin went through a similar experience. On the one had I feel sad that I alienate myself from my astrological colleagues in this manner. On the other hand I feel happy to finally being able to practice astrology with results that are acutally measurable.

Hello Bymidten,

Little literature (I mean serious one) has been published on the subject. And it it is true you can alienate colleagues with this interest.
One day, with a comprehensive understanding of each individual birth chart and Artificial Intelligence able to process mega database, winning the lottery will be solved.
And understanding how to win does not mean you will win all the time... if it is not your turn! Take a ticket and go online please!
Winning is not an 'external' thing like picking up 'lucky numbers'. It is an 'internal' process where you humbly recognize that the Gods have elected you for a moment in time. I have a joke where I say to someone who did not win that there is a simple reason 'You did not pick the right numbers!' And the question comes right away 'Yes but how do you pick up the right numbers?'
Heaven will do that for you, don't worry.

I am curious about your research. What do you look up at? And what have you found so far?

Thank you,
Ouranos

First of all - I consider the public lotteries to be the perfect laboratory for astrological research. I know exactly what the chances are for winning, which is 20%, meaning that on average 1 out of 5 tickets will result in a win, small or big. For this reason the main purpose of my purchases of lottery tickes is actually not to make a big win - but rather to harvest knowledge about astrology.

I could not harvest similar knowledge from speculation on the stock market, because the chances of making a profit is not known precisely, and because many other factors play a role, e.g. the buyer's knowledge about the market or economy in general. In a public lottery only one factor matters: Chance - or: Lady luck - which can be translated to: Astrological influences.

You asked: "What do you look up at? And what have you found so far?" And the answer is that I have already written an entire manuscript to answer these questions - to be published in 2024, when I have favorable aspects with Jupiter in my progressive chart. So it is impossible to answer your question in this forum, except in small pieces.

So, here comes the 1st piece, which stems from rectification theory, and which may seem completely alien to Anglo-Saxon astrology - by which I mean the astrology practiced in the English speaking world:

The electional chart must be erected for the purchase's previous Kündig cut. Let's look at an example: The next favorable electional time for Copenhagen is July 10th 2023 at 17:16:22, time zone 2E. This chart covers the period from 17:16:22 until the next Kündig cut, which is 17:55:18.

The Kündig cuts can be calculated by the astrology programme ARGUS, and the table for the above mentioned moment looks like this:

10 Jul 2023 AD Man17 16 22 2 00 Ø DK (DST)
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7 15 32 57 - MC 21 27 Leo ASC 5 38 Sco
8 15 52 29 - MC 26 30 Leo ASC 8 51 Sco
4 16 37 23 - MC 8 21 Vir ASC 16 16 Sco
5 17 16 22 + MC 18 52 Vir ASC 22 46 Sco
6 17 55 18 + MC 29 29 Vir ASC 29 21 Sco
2 18 26 43 + MC 8 03 Lib ASC 4 48 Sgr
3 19 37 00 + MC 26 58 Lib ASC 17 45 Sgr
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With the selected time, the chart will have the MC 18:52 Virgo and the ASC will be in 22:46 Scorpio.

The Kündig calculation was first described in the German book "Astrologische Prognose" (1956) by the Swiss astrologer Heinrich Kündig. You can actually test, if and how the Kündig calculated election chart works, but then again: I could write an entire book about this subject. For now I recommend that you trust my word.

The 2nd piece in this giant jigsaw puzzle is that Mars shall always be in a Gauquelin sector. The Gauquelin sectors are:
- 5th house
- 9th house
- 12th hous
- 1st third of 1st house
- 3rd third of 3rd house
- 3rd third of 6th house
- 1st third of 10th house

When I initiated this project, I never expected Mars to play a significant role in the election chart for winning lottery tickets. Michel Gauquelin discovered that the above described Mars position in the diurnal circle is found with statistically significant frequency in the birth charts belonging to winning athletes. So, you might consider the birth chart belonging to a wnning lottery ticket to be similar to the birth chart of a winning athlete, right? I mean, after all the idea isn't all that far-fetched after all.

I should mention that the Mars effect is increased, if Mars also forms aspects to the MC and/or the ASC. In the selected time you will see that Mars forms no such aspect, but in the next "lucky" chart on my list at 23:16:29 the same date, Mars forms an opposition to the ASC.

OK, I will make a break here. Now I have described the 2 most important observations in this research project. When you ask very specifically, I can make specific answers. It's harder to answer broad and general questions. As for your question: "What have you found so far?", the list is actually rather long!

OK, here comes the next 2 pieces from the jigsaw puzzle.

Piece 3: Avoid placing the Sun in a Gauquelin sector! The Gauquelin sectors are:
- 5th house
- 9th house
- 12th hous
- 1st third of 1st house
- 3rd third of 3rd house
- 3rd third of 6th house
- 1st third of 10th house

As you can probably see, the Gauquelin sectors comprise of approximately 1/3 of the diurnal circle. Placing the Sun outside the Gauquelin sectors means placing the Sun somewhere in the remaining 2/3 of the diurnal circle.

NB! Also avoid to have the Sun forming aspects to the ASC or the MC - because such aspects have the same effect as having the Sun in a Gauquelin sector.

In the previously mentioned charts for July 10th 2023 you will see that
- in the chart for 17:16:22 Danish time and time zone the Sun is placed in the 8th house, which is outside the Gauquelin sectors.
- in the chart for 23:16:29 the Sun is placed in the 5th house, which is a Gauquelin sector. In this case I have made a compromise in order to have advantages in other areas of the electional chart.

I had absolutely no idea in advance that the Sun was a malefic in electional charts for ecnonomical issues. I had to discover it the hard way - through statistical counts in the charts belonging to winning lottery tickets. Why is the Sun a malefic in this context? Maybe the Sun has a tendency of "burning" money? Your guess is as good as my guess.

Piece 4 is about Venus' position in the diurnal circle. Apparently Venus does not submit to the Gauquelin sector pattern. Instead the love planet's pattern looks like this - where the initial number in the below list signifies a Placidus house in the electional chart:

1: -16%
2: -33%
3: 16%
4: -43%
5: 0%
6: 76%
7: -16%
8: -33%
9: 16%
10: -43%
11: 0%
12: 76%

If you fill in these numbers in a curve diagram, you will see that the numbers form a symmetric pattern - oh, this is so typical for Venus! - Venus loves symmetry! This symmetric pattern is obtained by 2 harmonics, the 2nd and the 4th.

The conclusion is that if possible, Venus should be placed either in the 6th or in the 12th house in order to obtain maximum profit. I don't know why this is the case - it's merely my observation.

In the previously mentioned electional chart for 17:16:22 Venus is in the 9th house, rendering +16% or +16 points.

In the other election chart for 23:16:29 Venus is placed in the 12th house rendering the maximum score of +76% or +76 points.

I think by now you get the system. The points or percentages are used in order to give a certain weight to a selected astrological influence. And such weights are a central concept in neural networks - which is the most used kind of artificial intelligence.

An other angle to electional charts for financial purposes is to compare traditional astrology with the findings in my research. Take a look at this site:

Aphorisms Concerning Wealth - Compiled by Deborah Houlding
https://www.skyscript.co.uk/wealthelect.html

#1
"It is favourable for the buyer to have the Moon in the Ascendant, even though this is generally an unfortunate position for the Moon in elections."

My comment: In my research there are no indications, which confirm the above claim.

#2
"Look for a strong 11th house, which gives benefit and gain, and a favourable Mercury, the natural ruler of buying and selling."

My comment: I have not checked out the 11th house in my research. And I did not check out, if Mercury is favourably aspected in the election charts for purchases of winning lottery tickets, because it is too hard to calculate the expected values with Mercury aspects due to its retrograde movements.

In every statistical count you must have two values: O for observed and E for expected. Mercury always forms a strong 3rd harmonic due to its retrograde movements - and this 3rd harmonic, which in a circular curve diagram looks like a three-leaf clover, moves slowly backwards. As a consequence you'll have to make counts for the E-value with a huge number of random charts in each research project, where you include Mercury in electional charts. I will probably do so some time in the future, but it is a time consuming task.

However, I have observed that Mercury is favourably aspected in the progressions (i.e. transits and primary and secondary directions) in my personal chart for the days I purchased winning lottery tickets.

#3
"It is best to sell when the Moon is in Taurus, Cancer, Virgo or Pisces, free from affliction, separating from the fortunes and applying to the aspect (not conjunction) of the infortunes. Under no circumstances buy at such a time."

This claim about lunar positions in the zodiac is wrong, at least when it comes to buying. The Moon in Cancer is the absolutely best lunar position with +96% in the counts. The Moon in Taurus seems to be a neutral position, while the Moon in Virgo renders -33%. The question is: Are these observations only true for me and the dynamics with my personal chart - or are they true for everybody?

My purpose with this comment is to demonstrate that determining if an electional chart is favourable or not for financial purposes is not as simple as the ancient astrological tradition makes it look like.

In traditional astrology the most important factors in a chart are:
- The Sun sign
- The Moon sign
- The ascending sign

Let's take a look at the Sun sign, shall we?

An American female astrologer, who researched lotteries and astrology, told me many years ago, that you shall only buy lottery tickets or gamble with money, when the Sun is in the same element as the Sun in your birth chart. I didn't believe her then, because it sounded too simplistic, but my research has proven her right: I am Capricorn by Sun sign, and Capricorn is an earth sign. The (transit) Sun in my winning electional charts forms a 3rd harmonic with peaks in earth signs and "low wave valleys" in the opposing water signs. The peaks are +20%, the lows are -20%.

What about the rising sign? The ascendant is always a problem in statistical counts because it forms a misleading 1st harmonic for charts erected for geographical positions in the northern hemisphere. The peak is in Virgo and Libra, the "low valley" is in Pisces and Aries. Conclusion: Instead of counting the ascendants, it is easier and better to count the MCs, which are evenly distributede among the 12 zodiac signs.

Here is the interesting observation: MC in Sagittarius and Aquarius are the most frequent in my collection of charts for purchasing winning lottery tickets - with +87% and +104% respectively. Why is that? I can only answer that question with a hypothesis: When an axis conjuncts my natal or progressive Jupiter, my chances of winning increase.

Radix Jupiter: 12:31 Aquarius
Progressive Jupiter: 27:02 Aquarius

Please note that when the ascendant is in Aquarius in Denmark, where I live, the MC is in Sagittarius most of the time.

How about obscure observations? I.e. observations in the fringes of astrology. Yes, I made a few ones of theese too.

#1
Lilith, the Black Moon - astronomically known as "the mean Lunar Apogee" - makes an interesting choice of position in the diurnal circle of election charts for purchasing winning lottery tickets. In the 9th house the Lilith positions have +188% observed positions - and if transformed to harmonics, we are talking +67% formed by a combination of a 1st, a 4th and a 6th harmonic. The difference between the +188% and the +67% is that the first instance is merely an observation, the second instance is the result of a harmonic analysis, i.e. a search for "a system" behind the observation.

Conclusion: I would certainly look at Lilith's distribution in the diurnal circle, if I was about to make a replication of my present research!

#2
From researching birth charts belonging to creative people like musicians, fiction authors, painters, etc. I have observed that the 5th harmonic and the 10th harmonic are the most dominant harmonics in all 3 astrological circles:
- Zodiac
- Diurnal circle
- Aspect circle

For this reason it was interesting to find out, if the 5th harmonic plays any role in the electional chart for purchases of winning lottery tickets. I have only made one such observation so far: The Moon in quintile / biquintile to the dwarf planet Eris has +100%. I use Eris as the ruler of Taurus, which signifies money in astrology, so it seems logical that I should find statistically signficant 5th harmonic aspects with Eris in a chart collection consisting of "financial" charts.

OK, that's all for now, folks. You've been presented with the most important discoveries in my research project so far. There's much more, but I guess it can wait until my book is published next year. I hope that by now you've got a general idea about both my methods and my research results.

Thank you for sharing Bymidten,

However, I have observed that Mercury is favourably aspected in the progressions (i.e. transits and primary and secondary directions) in my personal chart for the days I purchased winning lottery tickets.

By itself Mercury is the God of Trading. But we need a statistical count from a database of charts.

This claim about lunar positions in the zodiac is wrong, at least when it comes to buying. The Moon in Cancer is the absolutely best lunar position with +96% in the counts. The Moon in Taurus seems to be a neutral position, while the Moon in Virgo renders -33%. The question is: Are these observations only true for me and the dynamics with my personal chart - or are they true for everybody?

Yes. Like flipping a coin. By itself the Moon indicates change, up or down. But a research would seem more valuable with the Harmonics than the signs.

What about the rising sign? The ascendant is always a problem in statistical counts because it forms a misleading 1st harmonic for charts erected for geographical positions in the northern hemisphere. The peak is in Virgo and Libra, the "low valley" is in Pisces and Aries. Conclusion: Instead of counting the ascendants, it is easier and better to count the MCs, which are evenly distributed among the 12 zodiac signs.

Why not use the sidereal time which is universal and look up for any astrological systems available to see why at this location for this person this sidereal time is luckier?
Something that always puzzled me is that in Uranian astrology, the MC seems to represent the person itself while the AS is the environment. I had cases in my database where I put the AS in a very favorable position and found myself in a joyful environment... without winning. Between the 2, my preference goes to the MC.
At this point, I cannot deny the influence of Jupiter in winning.
Let me know when your book is published.

Thanks for the reply. Here are my responses:

As for Mercury you are absolutely right, Mercury is the god of trading. But when it comes to lottery wins specifically most of the astrological claims I have encountered have focused on the 5th house and its ruler(s) (speculation) or the 9th house and its rulers (luck). So it came as a surprise to me that beneficial aspects with Mercury are as prominent, as they are, in my personal progressive charts on the days, when I purchased winning lottery tickets. However, you should know that I am still improving the E-value for these counts - what I have been communicating here is merely the preleminary results so far. It's always a huge task to calculate the E-values (expected values) in every statistical astro-research project.

As for the lunar positions in the zodiac I have indeed made the harmonic analysis as well. It turns out that the curve diagram is made up of a combination of a 1st and a 2nd harmonic. But again: Is my result valid for all people - or only for me? When my book is published, I can include the curve diagrams, and you will see things more clearly. An image speaks volumes - like a thousand words. Deborah Houlding has promised that skyscript will be updated, so that in the future it will be easier to upload images than it is now.

I am not sure about what you mean with the section about the sidereal time.

And in traditional western astrology MC does not represent the person himself / herself, MC represents the person's career and goal in life. It is the ASC, which represents the person himself / herself. The environment is represented by the IC, which is opposite the MC.

I am not sure about what you mean with the section about the sidereal time.

This refer to the section where you look at the MCs evenly distributed among the 12 zodiac signs.
The premise is that looking at the MCs, you define the container (MC) before the content.
What if nothing is happening over that MC but you find out that you consistently win when this position shows up in your database.
Is is because of the MC or some other position in your natal chart. Maybe, it is your natal Jupiter conjunct the 2nd House.
Keep in mind that the MC might be one element of the whole. Thus my suggestion to choose the Sidereal Time as a reference and then look at all potential house systems to widen your approach.

No, I am definitely not going to look at other house systems than Placidus. That's because I have already spent years researching and testing various house systems with celebrity birth charts. The conclusion was unambiguous: The Placidus house system passed the tests, the other house systems did not. I have passed the stage, where I research and test house systems. Live moves on.