From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
Subject: Astrology and lotteries
Organization: clearer than blir
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:45:48 GMT

I have been playing around with using astrology to pick winning numbers
in the Washington State Lottery. Before I get toasted by skeptics let
me just say I mostly do this to add some spice to the selection process
and am not necessarily a slave to astrology or lotteries. (A little
fun never hurt anyone.)

In fact, I've been using astrology to answer the questions who, what,
when and where. I will outline the procedure below for those interested.
Those not interested please kill this thread.

(Okay now we're alone. Good!)

Who in the family should buy the ticket?
When should they buy it?
Where should they buy it?

The answer to these questions all come from the same event chart, so I
will cover how to get the answers all together. First, do a chart for
a time that you would likely buy a ticket whether you were using
astrology or not. Do a chart for that time and place and see how it
inter-relates with your own chart, paying particular attention to the
Moon (timer of all events), Jupiter (which I use as the designator for
good luck and gambling), the 5th house cusp and 5th house ruler
(gambling again) and the 8th house cusp and 8th house ruler (other
people's money--after all it ain't yours yet!). Perhaps you see that
there's no clear indication that this is a good time, so you choose
the next day. Now you see that if only it were a few hours earlier
the moon conjunct the 5th house cusp would be completing a grand
trine for your spouse. Okay, so now you know who (your spouse)
and when (the time of the chart!).

All you need from this chart now is where. But where is actually two
questions: which direction and how far? I use a horary astrology
technique for finding things to determine where to buy. Visualize the
chart as a map with you facing south (south not north at the top of
the map), go in the compass direction corresponding to the house
placement of Jupiter (the designator). For example, if Jupiter were in
the 10th house you'd go SSE. How far?  Find the difference in degree
(sign doesn't matter) between Jupiter and the Moon. This will be the
number of miles you need to go.  (For you horary experts I've
simplified this because the explanation gets ridiculous when you get
into looking at Jupiter's altitude.)

2. What numbers should the person select?

You could conceivably use the chart above to do this, but astrology
can be mean sometimes. If you ask "Which numbers should I select?",
astrology is likely to give you a string of numbers (all losers)
because it would be telling you the numbers you would've used anyway.
The real question is: "Which numbers are going to come out of that
machine at the time of the drawing?" Aha! That's pretty specific, and
exactly what we want.

Do a chart for the time and place the drawing will be held. Try to be
as accurate as possible because one indicator depends on the ascendant
(which can change in minutes). You should know, if possible, the exact
(to the building if possible) longitude and latitude of the place and
the exact local time there. (Not wall-on-the-clock time!)  In general,
real local time is plus or minus four minutes for each degree the
location is from the center of the time zone it is in.  In the case of
Olympia, Washington the longitude is 122deg53. The center of the time
zone is 120deg. So real local time is 11min30sec earlier than Pacific
Standard Time. If you're having trouble seeing this I don't blame you.
Look at it this way, if it's noon PST the sun really has 11min30sec
more to move before it's directly overhead (equidistant from the
eastern and western horizons). This is because it's really only
exact noon at any given time on a single longitude of the globe.

Use degrees of three indicators I have found to be fairly reliable:

The degree of jupiter
The difference in degree of jupiter and the moon
The degree of "The Part of Gambling" (my own invention)

The Part of Gambling (or Extra Good Luck or whatever) is defined as:

  The Degree of the Ascendant
 +The Degree of the 5th House Ruler
 -The Degree of Jupiter

(Remember signs count here. Do it just like a Part of Fortune.)

Now, you don't really use these degrees as the numbers you pick, what
you do is is add the digits in the degree (yah, numerology) until you
get a 1-digit base. For example, if Jupiter is at 15Ari23, the degree
is 16. (Because it's the sixteenth degree in that sign, otherwise what
would you do with zero and the lack of a 30?) So that's 1+6=7.  In the
lottery any other numbers that add to 7 are good. I use all three of
these indicators and play numbers from the large pool you get using a
system of combining numbers to maximize the chances of matching winning
numbers. I've played with this over the last three lotteries. Of the
18 numbers this represents only two were in no way related to the indicators
I've given here.

Two points:

1. I've matched more numbers than ever before :-) BUT
2. I'm still behind :-(
   (=I'm using the right pool of numbers but the combinations
   I've used never have enough on the same ticket to be worth
   more than $3. E.g. last time I was playing 4 of the numbers
   that actually came up, but no single ticket had more than
   3 of theme together at once. If it had, I'd be ahead.)

One last disclaimer. This is all fun and games. So:

1. Don't get on me about how astrology is bunk. (It is!)
2. Don't get all excited about being a millionaire and
   flood my mail box, this is all the information I'm giving.
   A thank you, if you liked the information or found it interesting,
   is always appreciated however.

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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