Results: Historical Predictions

Overview

This analysis evaluated 39 famous astrological predictions from 1555 to 2022.

Key Findings

Performance by Category

Category N Accuracy
Personal 1.0 100.0%
Financial 5.0 80.0%
Mundane 25.0 60.0%
Electional 8.0 25.0%

Performance by Time Horizon

Horizon N Accuracy
Short Term (<2y) 20.0 45.0%
Medium (2-10y) 12.0 58.3%
Long Term (>10y) 7.0 85.7%

The Dataset

Source Year_Made Target_Year Event_Description Result
William Lilly 1651 1666 Great Fire of London Success
William Lilly 1651 1665 Great Plague of London Success
Nostradamus 1555 1789 French Revolution (Vague) Success
Nostradamus 1555 1999 King of Terror from Sky Failure
Jeane Dixon 1956 1960 Democrats win election (JFK) Failure
Jeane Dixon 1956 1963 President dies in office Success
Jeane Dixon 1958 1958 World War III Failure
Jeane Dixon 1968 1970 Communism collapse Failure
Evangeline Adams 1914 1917 US enters War Success
Evangeline Adams 1899 1899 Windsor Hotel Fire Success
Evangeline Adams 1931 1944 US at War (WWII) Success
John Gribbin 1974 1982 The Jupiter Effect (Earthquakes) Failure
Indian Astrologers 1962 1962 World Doom (8 Planet Cluster) Failure
André Barbault 1974 1989 Collapse of Soviet Union Success
André Barbault 2011 2020 Great Pandemic Success
Susan Miller 2016 2016 Hillary Clinton Win Failure
Various 2012 2012 Mayan Apocalypse Failure
Kepler 1595 1595 Peasant Uprising Success
Kepler 1595 1595 Turkish Invasion Failure
Tycho Brahe 1572 1632 Period of Wars (Gustavus Adolphus) Success
Elizabeth Teissier 1999 1999 Solar Eclipse Disaster Failure
Joan Quigley 1985 1986 Challenger Disaster (Warned) Success
Sydney Omarr 1968 1969 Moon Landing Success Success
Henri Gouchon 1940 1945 End of WWII Success
Count Louis Hamon 1926 1929 Market Crash Success
Arch Crawford 1987 1987 Black Monday Crash Success
Raymond Merriman 2008 2008 Cardinal Climax (Crisis) Success
Financial Astrologers 1999 2000 Y2K Collapse Failure
Dangereuse 2019 2020 Saturn-Pluto Reset Success
Various 2020 2021 Trump Reinstatement Failure
Richard Tarnas 2006 2008 Uranus-Pluto Crisis Success
Various 2011 2011 Comet Elenin Doom Failure
Robert Zoller 1999 2001 Threat to US Soil (9/11) Success
Noel Tyl 2000 2000 Bush Win Success
Vedic Astrologers 2020 2020 Trump Win (Majority) Failure
Psychics/Astros 2022 2022 Red Wave Midterms Failure
Grace Morley 2000 2000 Dotcom Crash Success
Samuel Brittan 1980 1987 Astrology Market Study (Crash) Failure
House Astrologers 1649 1649 Victory for Charles I Failure