E 7.0 Future Plans

          Psychological tests need to be conducted and the results used for inputs into an expanded version of the adaptive mechanism presented in Appendix D. The expanded adaptive mechanism will take into account the qualitative characteristics of natal horoscopes, such as how Neptunian or how Jupterian a person is. So, the results of the psychological tests must demonstrate the degree to which a person is Neptunian or Jupterian. The final results of the psychological evaluation tests should prioritize the various planetary influences manifesting in a person. These results will be used to train the expanded adaptive mechanism to correctly prioritize the planets.

          In order to prepare for the eventual development of the expanded adaptive mechanism, it will be necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of what Crowley means by "astrological complex", because "astrological complexes" deal explicitly with how important each planet is relative to the others in terms of defining the makeup of an individual.

          What follows are some ideas for a somewhat different and in some sense for a more thorough investigation of Crowley's "astrological complex" than what has been presented previously in this report. There is a significant degree of overlap between these ideas and those already presented. We will start with an hypothesis, and two questions:

• Hypothesis: A complex can only manifest if there is a planet which serves as the kernel around which a process can percolate. For example, if Mercury is lord of the rising sign and has numerous close aspects to other planets which reinforce its natural mode of operation, and the Sun is in Gemini, and Uranus, which determines the true will, is in the 3rd House, then it would appear as if a complex existed that has mentality as its central essence. Now, consider two questions, vis-a-vis the hypothesis.
• Question 1: Would a mentality complex manifest if Venus was lord of the rising sign, the Sun was in Capricorn, Uranus was in the 4th House, and the same set of aspects to Mercury existed as is the case with the example in the hypothesis?
• Question 2: Would a mentality complex exist if Mercury was lord of the rising sign, Mercury had no aspects from other planets, the Sun was in Gemini, and Uranus was in the 3rd House?

          The investigation of the hypothesis will proceed under the constraint imposed by the following assumption:

• Assumption: A planet can only serve as the kernel of a complex if the comprehensive weight (see above for the meaning of "comprehensive weight") of the planet is significant.
• It is to be determined if "significant" will operate in an absolute mode and thus "comprehensive weight" will be compared to a specific threshold, or if "significant" will operate in a relative mode and thus the "comprehensive weight" of a given planet only makes sense relative to the "comprehensive weights" of each of the other planets in the natal chart.

          Adaptive computer algorithms will be developed in order to try to establish various parameter values and weights, which will permit the automatic classification of an individual as "famous" or "regular" based on the "astrological complex" makeup of the individual's natal horoscope.

          Note that the investigation will initially proceed under the constraint imposed by the assumption presented above. Therefore, initially no specific attention will be paid to the possible existence of a complex unless there is a planet whose comprehensive weight is significant enough to permit it to function as the kernel of a complex. So, for example, the Sun in Gemini and three planets in the 3rd House are not enough to insure a complex based on mentality.

          Task A will involve the design, construction, and exercise of an adaptive computer algorithm to select a set of weights for each of the six major aspects and various orb intervals for each of the aspects such that the mean values of the cumulative weights for the "famous" is adequately separated from that of the "regular". Once this is done, then it will be possible to calculate "realistic" cumulative weights for Column I of Table E-2 and Column II will be deleted from the table. (So, Task A is identical to Task 1 of Section 7.1.)

          Task B will involve the design, construction, and exercise of an adaptive computer algorithm to determine how each column of Table E-2 (with the exception of Column II) should be "handled", "weighted", and "integrated" with the other columns in order to arrive at a "realistic" method of determining the "comprehensive weight" of a planet.

          It will be necessary to determine the relative importance of each column with respect to the other columns and to determine how to set an adjusted value for each column. For example, if it turns out to be the case that the lord of the rising sign is the most important attribute of a planet, then based on a weight scale of 1 to 100, all of the rows in column VII would be assigned 0s except for the column corresponding to the lord of the rising sign and it would get a value of 100. The problem is then how to set "corrected" or "normalized" weights for the other columns so that this value of 100 would carry the correct degree of importance. Take column I, for example. If the "raw" cumulative weight for the highest cumulative weighted planet is 440, how should this number be normalized to both represent the fact that this planet is number one vis-a-vis cumulative weight, but yet cumulative weight is not in general as important as lord of the rising sign weight. One way would be to normalize the cumulative weight of each planet by dividing each planet's cumulative weight by the largest of the nine cumulative weights and then multiplying each of the normalized cumulative weights by 50 in order to get an "adjusted" or "standard" cumulative weight, if it was thought that cumulative weight was only half as important as lord of the rising sign designation, which was given a value of 100. Then, maybe, the "comprehensive weight" could be calculated by simply adding up the "adjusted" values of the various columns.

          Task C will be involved with the design, construction, and execution of an adaptive computer algorithm to automatically determine a set of features by which a complex may be defined. This task would in effect be an effort to redefine the essence of the summary table, of which Table E-2 is an example. All of the features in the current summary table were created by human intuition and knowledge. For example, Column I is a function of the six major aspects, , , , , , . But maybe what is really important in a natal horoscope are aspects of 10.2°, 21.6°, and 155.8° with corresponding orbs of influence of ±.1°, ±2°, and ±3.5°. This task involves the very basic search for what constitutes order and pattern in a natal horoscope. Maybe what really distinguishes "famous" from "regular" is the degree to which the spatial layout along the ecliptic of , , , , and approximates a perfect pentagram.