Astro and Solar-terrestrial
This page includes both branches of my research on Astro and Solar-terrestrial subjects: the astro-cultural which includes a translation of a neglected interview with the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, and the solar-terrestrial which includes my published studies on birth data, the Gauquelin Effect and a new paper on possible lunar and solar rotation effects on longevity.
Solar Rotation - the images below - free to use from the Nasa website - show active regions on the sun; the butterfly effect and the Sunspot Cycle; and variations in Galactic Cosmic Ray Intensity and Solar Wind Velocity across the 27-day cycle
Culture and Cosmos
Two articles of mine appeared in this journal. The First was about my translation of a book by Luis Rodolfo Vilhena from Portuguese
Trystes cosmologiques: When Levi-Strauss met the astrologers.
Culture and Cosmos, Vol. 18, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2014, pp. 143-166.
https://www.cultureandcosmos.org/pdfs/18-2/18-2-Graham_Douglas_Levi_Strauss.pdf
Abstract: In October 1969 the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss gave an interview to the well-known French astrologers André Barbault and Dr Jean-Paul Nicola for the astrology magazine L’Astrologue. To the present author’s knowledge this interview has never been discussed in academic journals, and is here published for the first time in English translation.
It is considered in the context of its time, and of the issues discussed: the Surrealist movement, which had an important influence on Lévi-Strauss’s early work; the structure of the unconscious mind; and the question of causation in astrology. At the end of the interview Lévi-Strauss suggested a joint project with his interviewers to study the interpretations of serious astrologers as a way of understanding how their minds work. According to Dr Nicola, the suggestion was never developed because in his opinion there was no chance of getting astrologers to agree on how to go about it. In the last 20 years however, several theses have been devoted to similar projects.
In 1968 Lévi-Strauss gave an interview to the surrealist magazine L’Archibras, which is little-known among academic researchers today, but his interview with the astrologers the following year seems to have disappeared below the horizon – Emmanuelle Loyer who recently published a 900- page biography of Lévi-Strauss makes no mention of it, and Philippe Descola, one of Lévi-Strauss’s students and now professor at the Collège de France expressed surprise to me that he would have done such a thing.. The original interview in French appeared in the journal L’Astrologue 9 (Autumn 1970): pages 1–6.
I am grateful to André Barbault for permission to publish my translation, and to both interviewers for their replies to my queries.
