About

I have been reading charts for about ten years. I also work as a product manager, I like statistical and qualitative analysis, and I have a long interest in psychology and therapy. This site is where those things meet.

The starting point was Michel Gauquelin. His conclusions have been disputed for fifty years and I would not build on them, but his method is the one I want: he took a claim that had only been asserted and put it in a form that could be checked.

What he could measure was thin. Birth times, professions, categories you can tick on a form. The part of a life that carries the weight is qualitative: what someone was going through, what it felt like, what changed and when. It lives in prose, and prose could not be analysed at any real scale. That is where the field stopped.

So for several years I have been building products to collect that side of the data. Product work is my trade, and it is also the honest way to gather this material: people write about their lives when something gives them a reason to.

What has changed is that language models can now read qualitative material at a scale that was not possible five years ago. The bottleneck has moved, and this is a very interesting moment to ask the question again.

The products do two jobs. For the person using one, a chart works as a map rather than a forecast: where to look, what keeps returning, what might be worth taking to therapy. That is how I use it myself, in my own therapy. For the research, the same writing becomes the qualitative record that lets me ask whether planetary configurations correlate with anything at all in the human unconscious.

They may not, and that has to stay a possible answer. It is the reason the engine underneath everything calculates and does not interpret: numbers on one side, meaning on the other, and a visible seam between them.

Code: github.com/sisco128.