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Description provided by AstroDatabank Company - the developers of AstroDatabank
Lois Rodden's AstroDatabank is a breakthrough astrology learning and research tool.
Key Benefits
- Learn astrology concepts by example.
- Delineate client charts within the context of similar notables.
- Validate astrology theories; debunk invalid myths.
Lois Rodden’s AstroDatabank contains over 30,000 birth records, carefully documented and coded for accuracy with the popular Rodden Rating system. AstroDatabank includes intriguing biographies, revealing personality traits, important life events, and significant relationships. All the data is searchable using over 860 categories- 660 personal characteristics, 125 event types and 45 types of relationships.
Beginners use AstroDatabank to learn the basics of astrology by example. You can import the charts of the people you know best. Then by sorting your friends’ planets by sign, you can see how each planet’s meaning is affected by its placement in the zodiac. And you’ll nail down the concept of houses by sorting your relatives’ planets by house, comparing similarly influenced relatives and their ways of dealing with home, relationships, career, etc.
Professionals use AstroDatabank to improve their delineations. When you’re unsure of your 'read' on a particular configuration, you can call up a list of historical figures, family members, and past clients with the same configuration. And think of the richness you can add to your client readings by referring to known historical figures who’ve grappled with configurations similar to theirs. With our new web features, you can share comments online about any of the data in AstroDatabank, you can keep your data up-to-date with Web Update, and you can quickly create email to share data with friends and colleagues.
Researchers use AstroDatabank because it is the largest source of high quality data. Each one of the 660 personal characteristics, 125 event types and 45 relationship types is a potential research study. AstroDatabank also has a uniquely easy-to-use AstroSignature feature that is an important breakthrough for astrology research. With AstroDatabank, researchers can create their experimental group, and have AstroDatabank automatically generate a statistically accurate control group, then use AstroSignatures to check for statistically-valid Only through an AstroSignature approach that looks at multiple chart factors can we hope to show that astrological theories work.
AstroDatabank 4.0 introduces a breakthrough in multi-factor astrological research with its Factor Analysis Report (FAR). This powerful new feature automatically compares over 309,000 independent factors and tells you the number of times each factor is found in the experimental and control group. You can then sort the results to show which factors showed the most difference. The factors compared include: planets, house rulers, planet dispositors, and the major asteroids. For each point the FAR analyzes:
- Positions by sign, element, mode, hemisphere, house, degree and declination.
- Dignity using essential dignity, accidental dignity, motion and speed.
- Aspects using 144 rules to compare 16 aspects based on nine attributes (opening, closing, applying, separating and combinations of these).
The Preeminent Astrological Data Collection
AstroDatabank is delivered on CD-ROM. You can learn from, browse, and research the entire databank, as well as transfer records out of AstroDatabank to your favorite charting program's file format.
Some of the most popular selections from the AstroDatabank are:
- Top 5% of Profession
- Historic figures
- Lois Rodden's books, including Profiles of Women and The Crime Collection.
- Entertainers
- Politicians
- Various vocations and nationalities
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This Full Dossier report (click to enlarge) is a great example of a typical AstroDatabank report: attractive, informative, and rich in content.
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Learn more Astrology Faster
The best way to learn astrology is to do charts. AstroDatabank has more charts of fascinating lives with biographies than any other source. Remember the kid in the candy store? That's you hopping from one record to another peeking in on the charts of the celebrities for whom you've often wondered, 'What does his/her chart look like?'
Your astrology knowledge will go to a new level will go to an new level when you start sift through persons with similar backgrounds and experiences, looking for common astrological influences. Alternately, you can gather a group of astrologically similar people, looking for patterns in their ways of dealing with common planetary influences. You can select charts using
- Signs
- Houses
- Aspects
- Dignities (rulership, fall, etc.)
You can filter data with Western or Vedic calculations; using famous people or people that you know well. No matter how you slice the data, you will improve your delineations, observing actual effects that are only summarized in textbook definitions.
AstroSignatures - A Breakthrough Research Tool
AstroDatabank's AstroSignatures take filters to a new level; they are much subtler than filters. Filters are very strict; they can only select charts based on whether they fit a pattern or not. AstroSignatures are more forgiving; they score charts on how well they fit a pattern.
If you use a filter to find people with lots of earth in their chart you have two choices:
- An overly restrictive AND filter: 'Show me only people who have all personal planets in earth signs', or
- An overly inclusive OR filter: 'Show me all the people with any personal planet in an earth sign.
I call this the 'Goldilocks problem.' Filters are either too tight or too loose.
With filters, you can’t ask questions like 'Show me people who have three out of four personal planets in earth signs.' You would use an astrological filter to find everyone with the Moon in Taurus. You would use an AstroSignature to find out who has the strongest Moon by using sign, house, speed and aspects to score the strength of each person’s Moon.
AstroSignatures are not a totally new concept in astrology. When you count planets by element you are doing an AstroSignature calculation. AstroDatabank has taken this concept and generalized it so you can count anything in the chart. For example, suppose you were looking for the person with the most Piscean signature in the AstroDatabank. You might count planets in Pisces, planets in the 12th house, and aspects to Neptune for a 'Pisces Prominent' score. That's what we have done on the screen below:
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| Notice that we can also give more weight to some factors. In the example above, each planet in Pisces is worth one point and aspects to Neptune are worth 3 points.
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There are lots of fun things you can do with AstroSignatures. Here are just a few suggestions:
There is also a serious side to AstroSignatures. AstroSignatures are the breakthrough required to build a science around astrological knowledge. AstroSignatures allow astrologers to put more rigor into their models. We all believe in the basic astrological theory that planetary patterns are correlated with patterns of behavior. We may even be able to agree that Saturn in the 2nd house gives fear of not having enough material resources. But we do not have a consensus on which is more important in determining a person’s ease with money: aspects to the planets in the 2nd house or aspects to the rulers of the 2nd house. What is the most important consideration in aspects: the planets, the signs, the houses, the angle, or the orb? After years of practice, expert astrologers develop gut feelings about these considerations, but we still don’t have a way to compare one person’s expert opinions against those of another.
AstroSignatures allow expert astrologers to express and refine their expertise. The ability to measure and test hypothesizes that describe which planetary patterns correlate with which behavior patterns is the breakthrough we have been seeking to establish a scientific basis for astrology. Before AstroDatabank, it took years to conduct an astrological study because of all the hard work in collecting and tabulating the data. Now this work can be done in hours.
- Pentium chip based IBM-compatible computer with at least 32MB RAM or PowerMAC with Virtual PC;
- Windows ME. 2000, NT4, XP or higher;
- Hard disk with at least 600 MB free;
