This feature allows you to visually explore the relationship of the angle between two planets and the score on a test or some kind of performance score. Included with Sirius 1.2 are the scores of 941 people on a personality assessment of how extraverted or introverted a person where a larger score indicates greater extraversion and a lower scores indicates greater introversion. The test administered is the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and the score is on the “E scale”(extraversion-introversion measure) of the EPI. Using this feature of Sirius you can look at a line graph of the distance between two planets to see if there is a relationship between the angular distance and the planetary pair. For example, many astrologers regard Jupiter as being inclined to be more expressive and extraverted than Saturn so we might want to look at the graphs of Sun-Jupiter, Moon-Jupiter, Sun-Saturn, and Moon-Saturn, and other planets with Saturn to see if there is a relationship to the extraversion-introversion scores. The graph of Sun-Saturn with angles measured from 0 to 180 shows low scores at around 120 degrees, the trine aspect. This suggests that introverted people are more likely to have Sun trine Saturn than extraverted people, which is a very interesting finding.
You can look at the angles from 0 to 360 and find that it is particularly the waxing trine aspect that is important indicator of introversion. In other words, it is particularly a Sun trine Saturn waxing trine aspect that inclines towards introversion among the 941 people who took this psychological test.
You can also group together more than one degree at each point that is graphed. By grouping up to 10degrees for each point, you can see the graph become smoother and the pattern of low scores on the extraversion- introversion score is evident regardless of the level of smoothing.
Whether the waxing Sun trine Saturn aspects are peculiar to this group of 941 people or whether it would generalize to a new group of people is unknown, so we have not proven astrology by making this observation, but it is very interesting nevertheless. There are also selections for orbs in harmonic charts from 0 to 180 instead of the angular distance between the planets, and the alternatives of heliocentric, right ascension, or Gauquelin sectors for calculating the positions of the planets.
This research feature requires having scores for individuals. Because the 941 birth charts and scores for a group of people are provided with Sirius 1.2, you can “play with” this feature without having to collect data. The scores are assigned to a particular AstroSignature; the extraversion-introversion scores are assigned as scores for the “Need for solitude, quiet, retreat” Astro-Signature. The AstroSignature formula is not used in the Quantitative Analysis of Natal Angular Distance, but the scores are assigned to an AstroSignature so that you can have as many different scores for individuals as desired.