Gauquelin Findings

See, for example, Michel Gauquelin, Cosmic Influences on Human Behavior… For a thorough discussion of the Mars effect, see Suitbert Ertel and Kenneth Irving, The Tenacious Mars Effect… For an insider’s account of the scandal of the attempts by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) to discredit the Gauquelin results

Tarnas frames the Gauquelin findings as empirically robust evidence for celestial-terrestrial correlation and documents the institutional suppression of the Mars Effect data by CSICOP as a cautionary episode in the politics of scientific knowledge.

Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2006thesis

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it would not be appropriate to discuss the 12th house without mentioning again the research done by Michel and Francoise Gauquelin. They analysed the careers of successful sportspeople and found a correlation with Mars in the 12th house sector of the chart.

Sasportas invokes the Gauquelin research as direct empirical support for the astrological significance of the twelfth-house sector, specifically the correlation between Mars positioned there and professional achievement in sport.

Sasportas, Howard, The Twelve Houses: An Introduction to the Houses in Astrological Interpretation, 1985thesis

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the nature of our contribution to society and our status and place in the world are shown by the sign on the Midheaven, planets in the 10th house, and as the Gauquelin studies suggest (see pages 118-19) any planets on the 9th house side of the MC.

Sasportas draws on the Gauquelin studies to extend the astrologically significant zone of the Midheaven beyond the conventional tenth-house cusp into the ninth-house sector, revising standard interpretive practice.

Sasportas, Howard, The Twelve Houses: An Introduction to the Houses in Astrological Interpretation, 1985supporting

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the possibility of a more physically causal determinism produced by the celestial spheres… this gradual process of ‘rationalization’ (in Weber’s sense) was combined in later antiquity and the medieval period with an increasingly mechanistic view of celestial causality

Tarnas contextualises the broader historical tension between causal and participatory models of celestial influence, within which the Gauquelin question of planetary mechanism versus symbolic correlation is implicitly situated.

Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2006aside

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