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brennie
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Wombat140, i am really looking forward to the results of this research, i am a great believer in the star signs and astrology.... its great that you have had a good responce from a lot of sufferers who believe in the star signs / astrology.

Good Luck , hope it all goes well for you dear

love brennie x

Mon Jun 8 2009 22:40:12 #
Wombat140
Member

I'm just digging up this thread again because I've got a few results to pass on. I've now got over 50 birth charts of people with OCD, 36 of them with times. I'm still hoping to have these comprehensively analysed with a computer program that could check all features and see which were significantly over-represented. So far it hasn't happened, but I recently installed a program called ZET, which will search a set of charts for those with a specified feature. So I've been doing a little piecemeal research of my own.

One of the most marked and puzzling features I've stumbled on so far concerns Moon signs. 21 charts have the Moon in Leo, Virgo or Libra, including 15 of the timed charts. The chance level, of course, would be 9 timed charts and 12.75 altogether. A friend of mine spotted this last year; but the same feature shows up in the charts collected since then. I admit that it conveys nothing to me at all!

The numbers of charts with the Moon in each individual sign are: Leo 8, Vir 7, Lib 6, Sco 5, Sag 5, Ari 5, Can 5, Tau 3, Gem 3, Cap 2, Pis 1, Aqu 0.

Other oddments: Pisces is the commonest Sun-sign, with 10 out of 51. This makes some sense, given that, supposedly, most people with OCD are quite self-sacrificing and concerned about other people's welfare, and this often
becomes the theme of their OCD.

I found out in how many charts each planet made more 180 and 90 degree angles with other planets (traditionally "difficult" angles) than 120 and 60 degree ones (traditionally "good"). Venus was the worst by some distance, with 38 charts out of 51. The other figures for this were (Moon 30), Jup 29, Sat 29, Mer 28, Ura 28, Mar 27, Sun 24, Plu 16 and Nep 13.

I've seen an association between Venus and OCD mentioned before:
http://kenoath.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/obsessive-compulsive-signs/
In fact I came across another feature involving Venus: 16 of the charts had
Venus in Earth signs, 17 in Water, making 37 out of 51 with Venus in a "feminine"/"yin" sign. I must say I don't really understand that one either!

Would anyone else like to contribute to this study, either here or by private message? A lot of new members have joined since this thread was last seen. It really would be a great help - anything statistical always takes tons and tons of data to work well!

Thanks to everyone.
Wombat140

Thu Nov 18 2010 21:06:21 #
Wombat140
Member

Whoops - the beginning of this thread seems to be missing, so just to recap:

This is an experimental study to see whether there are any astrological signs of OCD.
I would like as many of you as possible to let me know, either on here or by private message:
1) Your date of birth, including year.
2) Time and place of birth if possible.
3) Brief note of anything unusual about your OCD. For example, no anxiety, or no physical compulsions. If your OCD is hoarding only, it would be useful to mention this too, as there is some suggestion that this may be a different condition.
When enough dates have been collected, my idea is to analyse them by computer and see if any astrological features occur more often than would
be expected by chance. I don't intend to examine any horoscopes individually, and will not record who the birth dates, etc. belong to, so it is more or less anonymous.
Please note I have asked this on other forums and newsgroups as well, so please don't reply more than once.

Thu Nov 18 2010 21:28:48 #
Wombat140
Member

Some people have asked me about "star signs". Just to clarify: the thing commonly known as a "star sign" is more correctly called the Sun sign, it's the Zodiac sign the Sun was in when someone was born. It's one of the most important things in an astrological chart, but there are plenty of other things to consider too.

Anyway, here's how many people with each Sun sign have replied so far:
Pisces 12, Capricorn 9, Scorpio 8, Gemini 7, Leo 5, Aquarius 4, Libra 3, Taurus 3, Cancer 4, Aries 3, Virgo 3, Sagittarius 0. (That means that Pisces, Capricorn, Scorpio and Gemini all have more than their fair share, and the others less.)

Whether this is more uneven than you'd expect by chance I really couldn't say just now. I've realised that I don't really know as much about statistics as I thought. I'll post whether it is or not as soon as I know.
Wombat140

Mon Dec 13 2010 20:30:29 #