SYL.Astrology
Added: 11/23/2006 |
The Star-Crossed World of Michel GauquelinPerhaps ironically, Michel Gauquelin was a starch critic of many aspects of the art, but to him, astrology came as naturally as breathing. According to urban legend, Michel Gauquelin was already able to compile birth charts by the age of ten. Michel went on to college at the Sorbonne, where he studied psychology and statistics. He then decided to devote himself to studying all about the characteristics of astrology.
His 1981 book, Dreams and Illusions In Astrology, help paint a more comprehensive picture of the life and work of Michel Gauquelin. A life and work that would be snuffed out by Michel Gauquelin's own hand as a result of a 1991 suicide. The French born psychologist and statistician, turned astrologer, was born on November 13, 1928, and became famous later on in life thanks to a partnership under the stars with his first wife, Francoise Schneider-Gauquelin.
Beginning sometime around nineteen fifty and continuing through the early nineteen nineties, Michel and his young wife Francoise began conducting statistical research on astrology. The work was grueling, but Michel and Francoise were researchers, and so they relished in it-although the birth of the computer, which subsequently made their work a lot quicker and easier, was greatly appreciated. The Gauquelins began their career in astrology by hand-calculating thousands of birth charts. Michel's and Francoise's research would go on to included more than sixty thousand such charts, and in later years, the angular positions of some of the planets.
Perhaps ironically, Michel Gauquelin was a starch critic of many aspects of the art, but to him, astrology came as naturally as breathing. According to urban legend, Michel Gauquelin was already able to compile birth charts by the age of ten. Michele went on to college at the Sorbonne, where he studied psychology and statistics. He then decided to devote himself to studying all about the characteristics of astrology.
The Work of Michel Gauquelin
The first literary glance into Michel Gauquelin's astronomically views came in 1951. The work, entitled The Influence of the Stars, featured a critical look at some of astrologies most famous predecessors, Choisnard and Kraft. Micheal concluded that the connection between professionally successful individuals and the position of the stars in the sky at the time of that success are predetermined-nothing is by luck, chance, or accidental, at least according to Michel Gauquelin. For example, Michel "discovered" that a connection existed between successful athletes and the planet Mars. And there were also recognized connections between Saturn and successes in the field of science. Actors found success with the proper alignment of Jupiter.
As a duo, Michel and Francoise penned a series of works throughout the 1950's and into the sixties. Some of the starry couple's most popular works included Studying the Allocation of Planets in Diurnal Motion (1957), Men and Stars (1960), and The Cosmic Clocks in 1967.
The Controversy of the Mars Effect
Of all of Michel Gauquelin's work, it is the Mars Effect that has continually stirred up the most controversy. The community of science was livid about the claims that the planet Mars was often within ten degrees of one of the angles of the chart of sports' champions. Some scientists even went so far as to discredit the Gauquelin's and their theory by falsifying data of their own. Michel and Francoise Gauquelin divorced in 1982.
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