What is www.parasharplus.com (PP) about?

Parasharplus is an Astrology community portal that provides a platform to facilitate Astrology Research. The portal caters to both, the serious minded astrologers as well as a lay person who wishes to understand the subject better.

Why another site on astrology?
There are currently mainly sites in the cyberspace. They cater to a wide variety of subjects related to astrology. There are sites dedicated to teaching astrology, creation of charts, downloading of software for creation of charts, articles on the subject, astrology information of luminaries etc.. Numerous social networking sites have communities that discuss astrology. At the outset, there is an abundant of sites on the subject and therefore another one on the subject would only appear to crowd the place.

All the above sites currently in the cyberspace support only a part need of an astrologer interested in research. Hence the need for a portal to address the complete needs of an astrologer interested in research.

How does parasharplus.com fill in the needs of a researcher in astrology? How is parasharplus.com unique and the first of its kind for astrology in the cyberspace?

Astrology Needs

The current sites allow the astrologer to create horoscopes by feeding in data on the Time, Place and Date of birth. Some of them allow the storage of the charts generated by the astrologer. Some other sites allow an astrologer to download software to generate horoscopes to be stored in the astrologer’s computer. This is a very basic need and parasharplus.com caters to this need of creation and storage of horoscopes.

Each of these charts relate to an individual who has been through life and experienced/experiencing events. Astrology is supposed to give an explanation through the horoscopes on how those events have come to pass. The occurrence of the event is a reality while the astrology data points ( time, place and date of birth) are assumed to be correct. Unless the astrologer is able to correlate the two, prediction (the primary purpose for which the subject is used) is a meaningless exercise. Hence, it is vital to capture and store the events that have come to pass in an individual’s life along with the astrology data points. Parasharplus.com provides the facility to capture data related to life events along with the astrology data points.

The next facility a researcher looks for is the ability to query the data base. The query could be either related to astrology ( Eg. Get all charts where Pisces is the ascendant and the moon is placed in Virgo) or to events ( Eg. Get all charts of individuals who have changed more than 4 jobs in 5 years). There is no software or website that caters to this requirement and parasharplus provides this facility.

The absence of this above facility has hampered research in no small way. Typically an astrologer doing research ( on a subject) today would go after charts that pertain to that subject and draw conclusions that may not be statistically valid. Eg. An astrologer wishing to understand from the horoscopes on the parameters that contribute to an individual becoming a doctor would go around collecting charts of doctors. He would study different combinations (patterns) of planets in the charts and set forth a hypothesis. The validity of this approach is questionable for it fails to answer the question – “What about those charts that have the combinations as listed by the astrologer and have not become doctors?” It would be exceedingly difficult ( let us say impossible) for the astrologer to get sufficient number of those charts to study and as a result the model/hypothesis put forth does not give a complete picture. To put it differently, the current research methodology goes about saying that all crows are black but is silent on the issue whether all black things are crows. It is here that many an astrologer has stumbled and mumbled his way into and out of trouble. The query facility, as listed in the previous paragraph, allows the astrologer to get past this significant hurdle by being able to query both on events and astrological data stored in the database. This feature of parasharplus has no parallel in the world and the utility of this feature cannot be overstated.

Social Networking Needs

A point that is stressed in research is the principle of statistical validity of a hypothesis. The sample size on which the astrologer draws his conclusions about the population is very important. An astrologer engaged in research in his life time collects charts through various means. At the end of the day the number of charts he is able to put out on a subject is limited. This along with the problem (listed in the previous paragraph) makes the outcome of the research have limited value.

Parasaharplus.com’s social networking suite aims to overcome the problem of availability of charts for research.

It provides facility for astrologers to form communities and share data. Let us say a community with 20 members with each member having 50 charts in his bank would enable the community to have 1000 charts for research. The identity of the individual charts in the community data base is protected and hence there would be little problem for an astrologer to share his charts and leverage the potential of a large data bank.

Charts are added to this community bank on an ongoing basis either by the existing members or by new members joining the group. The hypothesis put forth by the astrologer is continually tested on an ever increasing data base. This enables the astrologer to continually tweak his model based on the new information that keeps flowing into the database.

Parasharplus provides a place for the community members to post research and there are tools in the site to classify the research as the community members wish.

Other familiar features such as chat, inviting members, and discussion forums etc as in other social networking suites also exist in parasharplus.com.

How is all this going to be useful to the common man?

At the end of the day, a good astrologer identifies patterns from a horoscope to events that have happened or that could happen. Astrology is an indicative science and the prediction an astrologer gives is only a probability of an event occurring. The website aims to enable the serious minded astrologer to improve this probability.

Please explore www.parasharplus.com, use it to help collective serious research in astrology.

Parasharplus.com has been developed and is maintained by Persistent Systems, Pune (: Persistent Systems Limited : Innovation in software product design, development and delivery - outsourced software product development (OPD)).