In Sirius the research features are easily accessible.

• Produce an Astrosignature Forecast Graph, just as you could in Kepler, but in Sirius you can also produce a graph of financial values (such as a market index like the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or a commodity value such as gold prices) or other performance values, obtain the correlation value between the actual values and the predicted values, and whether the correlation is statistically significant!
• This feature, combined with some of the new research features in Sirius to find patterns in data, was used to create the Gold Forecast option that is an optional add on to Sirius,. The Gold Forecast forecasts short-term (3-month) gold prices with statistical significance!
• Also, stock price data for a number of companies is already included with Sirius so you can start researching financial astrology right away, and other financial data can be imported from web sites.

Ability to select AstroDatabank categories in Data Entry Screen

The online AstroDatabank available at AstroDatabank.com has a very extensive categorization of charts, which allows a person to be categorized many ways. For example, an actor who is an alcoholic is classified as both an actor and an alcoholic. You can now access charts that are in the AstroDatabank using the AstroDatabank categories. This provides the ability to find all people who have a particular trait regardless of what they are best known for. This is a tremendous help for researchers and people who love to explore people with similar traits.

This feature is accessed by clicking the “Flexible Search” button in the data entry screen, and then clicking the “Select ADB Categ.” Button. Then you can select the AstroDatabank category desired and you can also select an accuracy rating. This feature combined with the other Flexible Search features to search the Notes field, to limit charts to be from a particular year, search the first name, etc. gives many ways to find the data that you are interested in.

There is also an Artificial Intelligence feature, which is an analysis of an AstroSignature to determine which factors in the AstroSIgnature are most effective and which ones are less effective, or possibly even reducing, the accuracy of the AstroSignature.

You can also correlate an AstroSignature for birth charts with scores. For example, you can correlate psychological test scores or other performance scores with the AstroSignature scores and even perform a t-test (a statistical test) to determine if the correlation is statistically significant, all right within Sirius without ever having to export the data to a statistics program! Of course, you would first have to have performance scores for the charts and assign a score to each chart in order to do this, and this capability is provided in Sirius.

When doing AstroSignature Research, the Details WIndow appears in the upper left corner automatically, without having to manually select it. A panel next to the Details Window makes it easy to select a particular chart and even view a popup wheel of the chart!

In addition to the assumptionless research that are in Kepler, we added more this feature in Sirius. From the "Midpoints and Harmonic Patterns" button in Sirius, you can now select "Midpoint Aspects Midpoint", "Midpoint Structure Analysis", and "Harmonic Pattern Analysis" to identify the midpoint and harmonic patterns that occur most often in a group. A window with several tabs for viewing the results in different ways makes this a powerful feature for serious researchers.

Details

AstroSignature:
With this feature you can see what astrological factors are used to produce the AstroSignature and you can easily change the astrological factors. For example, one of the AstroSignatures is "Logic, Technical Detail, Mental Concentration". There are dozens of astrological factors that contribute to this AstroSignature, such as Mercury-Saturn aspects, Mercury in Virgo, etc.

The AstroSignature Research feature not only provides sophisticated features for research, but also provides superb features for consulting businesses or any other consulting where you want to compare people.

Match Making(Compatibility AstroSignature):
This feature is identical to the AstroSignature Research feature, except it shows scores for pairs of people. You can, for example, compare a group of charts of single males with a group of charts of single females that you have collected, and obtain a sorted list of scores on "Romantic and Sexual Attraction" and several other categories.

The Match Making research feature allows you to produce AstroSignature scores for pairs of people. It is very similar to the AstroSignature Research feature, except it analyzes the compatibility between two charts instead of one chart. You can also analyze astrological influences in the composite chart.

Forecast Research of 1 Day:
This research feature allows you to compare a group of charts to find out which chart is most strongly activated on a given day. For example, you can create an accident-proneness AstroSignature and see which charts are most inclined to accidents on a given day according to the AstroSignature that you have created.

For any single date, you can produce a list of forecast scores for a group of charts. For example, suppose you have the birth charts of all basketball players on a particular basketball team, and you have assigned a specific research category to this group of charts. On the date that the team is playing, you can run the Forecast Research for this group of charts and obtain a list of scores for athletic performance for all of the basketball players. As with the other research features and also with the AstroSignature Forecast feature described above, you can also view the specific astrological influences that contribute to the total score, and you can select a variety of different progressed methods as well as transits.

Pairs (Relationships/Events) Research:
is similar to Match Making research in that two charts are compared, but in Pairs Research, you specify which two charts should be paired. Suppose, for example, that you want to compare birth and death charts, or birth charts and accident charts, or husbands and wives. You want to know what happens at the time of an accident, at the time of death, or what brings two people together and become married. Pairs research allows you to do exactly this kind of research.

Suppose you want to do research on accidents or on happily married couples. In this kind of research, you do not want to compare all people with all accidents. You want to compare Joe Smith's chart with his accident, and Sally Jones's chart with her accident. For each person there is a paired event, or possibly more than one event if the person has had more than one accident. Similarly, for research on happily married couples, you want to research each couple, not all people who are in particular categories. In the Pairs Research feature of Kepler, you can form pairs of charts specifically for this kind of research.

Assumptionless Research:
This research features allows you to explore what planetary angles occur in a group of charts. Rather than research, for example, the occurrence of a Mars trine Jupiter aspect in the charts of athletes because you suspect that successful athletes are more likely to have a Mars trine Jupiter aspect than other people, you can look at the distribution of the Mars-Jupiter angle in the charts of athletes to see what angles show up. You can even include a graph of the random distribution as well, so that you can compare your findings to a random distribution; this is very helpful because a Mars trine Jupiter angle or any other angle is not likely to be equally distributed around the zodiac by chance.

The Assumptionless Research feature is powerful, allowing you to see what relationship two planets have to one another in a group of charts. You can use the Assumptionless Research to casually observe what planetary angles occur in a group of charts, or you can use this information to build your own AstroSignature that can be tested in research. These tools are fun as well as being so powerful that you can conduct research at a very sophisticated level. This research menu item is very powerful, and can be used to determine what astrological factors occur most frequently in the group of charts being studied. Rather than specify specific planets and angles, you can let the program search all planets and all angles (or harmonics) to determine what astrological factors occur most frequently.

Midpoints and Harmonic Patterns:
This research feature allows you to research a specific angle or harmonic, or to view the distribution of harmonics or the distribution of the angle of one planet to the midpoint of two other planets. This research feature therefore provides more Assumptionless Research features for exploring distributions of harmonic patterns and midpoint patterns as well as researching a specific pair of planets or midpoint structure. The range of kinds of Assumptionless Research that you can do is tremendous.

A "midpoint structure" is an aspect of one planet to the midpoint of 2 other planets. Select the planets, angle, and orb you want to research. If you select "All Harmonics" you will obtain a listing of the most commonly occurring patterns, which are also called "harmonic triangles" by some astrologers. An example of harmonic triangle is Sun 1/10 Moon, Moon 2/10 Venus, and Venus 3/10 Sun. All three planets aspect each other in 10th harmonic.

If you select "Lowest Harmonic Only" then only the lowest harmonic triangle of a 3 planet combination is shown. For example if Sirius discovers that Sun, Moon, and Mercury are in 5th harmonic, then Sirius will go on to the next 3 planet patterns rather than see if any higher harmonics also occur. This speeds up processing as well as removes data that may be less important.

This research feature allows you research a specific angle or harmonic, or to view the distribution of harmonics or the distribution of the angle of one planet to the midpoint of two other planets.

Specific Astro Factors: This research feature allows you to find out which charts have a planet in a particular sign or house, or other factors like a planet in particular degrees. It also provides a handy way to see which charts have a particular astrological factor in common. Analyze a combination of two astrological factors is also possible.

Specific Astro Factors for Compatibility:
This research feature allows you to find out which pairs of charts have a particular aspect between two planets or a particular planet in a house.

View Birth Data Sorted by Date:
This research feature produce list of birth data sorted by Year-Month-Day, Month-Day, any planet positions using zodiac longitude, zodiac latitude, heliocentric longitude, heliocentric latitude, right ascension, declination, daily speed, and heliocentric speed.

Electional/AstroSignature Forecast of 1 Chart:
This feature allows you to see a graph of an upcoming time period for one chart or for the transiting planets in the sky. You can obtain a line graph of athletic performance for the next 6 months, for example. This allows you to pick the best date for an athletic competition for this person by simply looking at the graph.

When you select this option, there are several options to choose from; Main Electional Forecast, Classical Electional Forecast, Classical Electional Houses, Finacial Forecast, and 6 users.