Hi rakesh singhal - intersting idea using the asteroids.
I have not checked for any of them like Ceres...

But Rishi - I have a new version of my research program
and I will be able to check out anything with Mercury
like aspects, midpoints and what not.  Associated rulers as well...

Let me get going on this tomorrow - a little snowed under with
other research today... but hopefully in the next day or so
I will get some results...

Again if anyone has a natal chart with date, place and
especially time of birth that is associated with an autistic
patient we can include this in the research and then
add to research. Charts without time of birth are still
useful for aspect analysis though and we can include a
special subset of analysis for these charts.

Ideally, at least a few hundred charts would be perfect
the more the better to give some statitistical certainty
of each combination would be really good.

Currently, I was only able to expand the charts to about
20 or so...

Has anyone ever got charts of people with exceptionally
good health during their lives ? We can compare these
charts to those of the autistic ratehr than just using
computer generated random charts.

Airgon, my oldest son is autistic. Here's some details for you:

Jonathan
DOB: Oct. 17, 1988 @ 5:35PM
Pensacola, Florida
30° 25' 16" N / 87° 13' 0" W

Mom
DOB: Dec. 31, 1968 @ 11:40pm
Milton, Florida
30° 37' 57" N / 87° 2' 23" W

Dad
DOB: Feb. 4, 1961 (time unknown)
Long Beach, California
33° 46' 0" N / 118° 11' 17" W

There's no way of finding out what time my ex was born. Both of his parents are deceased and none of his living siblings have any idea.

I ran the 21 charts with ( time of birth ) that I have
and used aspects:

Conjunct, sextle, square, trine, opposition and
30, 150, 45 and 135 degree aspects.


Planets used where Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto,  South Node, North Node,
Ascendant and MidHeaven

aspects where the orb is 10 degrees in Geo Longitude.

I still have a long way to go with this especially as per
Rishi I only looked at Mercury and no asteroids ( as of yet ),
but if you observe the diagram there is a list of charts
on the left, followed by a visual representation of the
factors used as a bar. This is followed by the number of
factors that matched the particular chart - each 10 count
representing one aspect that was used - so if there is a weight
of 30 ( the minimum I would use to predict with being three factors
then the chart would have three aspects that match.

Of course, if there are more aspects as in 40 ( being 4 aspects )
then I think we are really getting somewhere. Deep red, Red and
purple bars are probably good...

Now observe the model for the BacharachLea - this has 40 for the
weight - meaning there are 4 of the models 16 factors matching.  
The model being used has these four factors matching

Moon squre Mercury
Mercury trine MC
Mercury semisextile Uranus
Mercury semisextile Venus

So the first conclusion is that there is no one overwhelming
repeating Mercury aspect that can describe the potential
for autism - but on the other hand we can find from a set of
16 rules ( 16 so far with this first version of the Mercury
aspects only, perhaps we can get more with additional
research and of course there are the other planets besides
Mercury ) those rules that are matching - at least two or three.

At least an interesting start to this issue.

AyeCantSeeYou sons Jonathan only has two rules that seem to
match which are

Moon square Mercury
Mercury trine Jupiter

But as there are only two of the 16 factors this model does not
yet accurately describe Jonathans situation - only an indicator
at best with only two factors.

Its a start :)

Acknowledgement
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This analysis was done using research software from the
company AIR.