B1.0 Introduction

      This Appendix presents the concept of the "planetary complex", and presents the first two attempts by TAARP to find correlations between the PHENOMENON and patterns in the geocentric planetary configurations of the 60-Item Perdurabo/TAARP Data Base.

      In some of his writings Nelson indicates that RF interference tends to be higher when three or more planets are involved in an aspect relationship. For example, Saturn could be in a semi-sextile relationship with Jupiter and a square relationship with Neptune. Henceforth, we will use the term "planetary complex" or "complex" to refer to any group of two or more planets related to each other due to their angular positions being such that aspect angular relationships exist among them for some specified Orb Value. For heliocentric situations, the Sun is the apex of the angle formed by the two planets. For geocentric situations, a specific point on the surface of the earth is the apex of the angle formed by two planets. Recall that the six major aspects are (0°), (30°), (60°), (90°), (120°), (180°) and that for a geocentric frame of reference the Sun and the Moon are referred to as planets. In general, TAARP's investigation will not be restricted to the six major aspects. Various phases of the investigation, such as the two analysis efforts presented in this Appendix, will focus explicitly on the six major aspects, but in general TAARP is interested in identifying which aspects, if any, are pertinent to the PHENOMENON. For example, why is 150° so conspicuously missing from Perdurabo's work. Nelson and Perdurabo are the grand masters of planetary aspect analysis. Their work seems to be very independent. Perdurabo did his work decades before Nelson. Nelson never references Perdurabo directly. Both of them place great importance on the six major aspects and on multi-aspected planetary complexes. Also, they both emphasize the importance of tight orbs. So, for example, Nelson's work might indicate that more RF interference would be expected when :1° than when :5°.

      As discussed in Appendix E, Perdurabo's concept of the "astrological complex" is much more complicated than the definition of planetary complex given here. Whereas Nelson apparently restricts the requirements of a planetary complex to certain aspect/orb specifications, Perdurabo makes aspect/orb specifications only necessary conditions for "astrological complex" formation. Perdurabo clearly makes a distinction between necessary and sufficient conditions when it comes to the role of aspects in "astrological complex" formation.

      In Section B2.0, definitions are given for three different types of planetary complex, and in Section B3.0, even another type of planetary complex is defined. Note that all of these types of planetary complex deal only with aspect/orb specifications, and therefore they all fall short of Perdurabo's concept of "astrological complex".

      Using the three data sets currently available for analysis (i.e., the High PHENOMENON data set of 15 items, the Medium PHENOMENON data set of 18 items, and the Low PHENOMENON data set of 27 items), TAARP made two different attempts to find distinguishing characteristics in the overall planetary complex makeup of the geocentric planetary configurations corresponding to High, Medium, and Low manifestations of the PHENOMENON. Complexes manifesting in the first attempt are referred to at Technique 1 Complexes. Complexes manifesting in the second attempt are referred to as Technique 2 Complexes. Technique 1 and Technique 2 Complexes are simple-connected complexes. Definitions of simple-connected complexes, maximum density-connected complexes, and kernal-connected complexes are given in Section B2.0.