Sunday, February 2, 2020

Horoscopes of 1100 Doctors

My Parashar21 python application was recently put to a good use in the search for common patterns in the horoscopes of similar people. My good friend Raghuram Hebbar, who is one of the inspirations and champions for this pattern matching approach, has some ideas on what is common to the horoscopes of doctors. If this is established, it would lead to a whole new perspective on astrology.

The first challenge in this case, is to get horoscopes of a large number of people who share similar characteristics. After a lot of effort, we located the Astro-Databank Wiki that contains the birth details of nearly 60,000 people along with -- and this is most crucial -- their profession and brief biodata. Unfortunately, the charts available in this database are based on the Western system of astrology and hence of little value to Indian astrologers.

So we have done the arduous task of taking only the date, time and place of birth data along with timezone adjustments from this database and generating the corresponding Rashi, Navamsa and Dasamsa charts as per Indian astrology, using the pythonic version of our chart casting software Parashar21.

Out of this 60,000 horoscopes, only about 40,000 are reliable as per the Rodden Rating of accuracy of birthtime. From these 40,000 we have taken birth details of about 1100 people whose vocation has been identified as 'Medicine' in the database. The actual charts of these doctors are now available in the public domain. If you have an interest in such matters, please download this file from this link.