ZELENTEST
Of the various attempts to demonstrate astrological influence by statistical means, the
large-scale studies by Michel and Françoise Gauquelin have been the most successful.
The Gauquelins uncovered correlations between vocation and the position of specific
planets, the most significant of which were those between athletes and the position of
Mars. The Zelen Test was part of an extended attempt to disprove this Mars effect by
The Humanistmagazine. The original study had compared the birth data of athletes
against statistical probabilities. Confident that an empirical challenge would demolish
astrology, The Humanistchallenged the Gauquelins to test their findings against a con-
trol group of nonathletes. Contrary to the expectations of critics, this test, conducted
by Marvin Zelen (hence the name), confirmed the Gauquelins’s original findings.
Sources:
Curry, Patrick. “Research on the Mars Effect.” Zetetic Scholar9 (March 1982): 34–53.
Melton, J. Gordon, Jerome Clark, and Aidan A. Kelly. New Age Encyclopedia.Detroit: Gale, 1990.
Rawlins, Dennis. “sTARBABY.” Fate34, no. 10 (October 1981): 67–98.
ZENITH
The zenith is the point in the heavens directly overhead at any given location on
Earth. It should be carefully distinguished from the midheaven (with which it is often
confused).
ZEUS
Zeus is both an asteroid and one of the eight hypothetical planets (sometimes referred
to as the trans-Neptunian points or planets, or TNPs for short) utilized in Uranian
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