{
  "_meta": {
    "version": 1,
    "updated": "2026-07-10",
    "note": "Single source of truth for the Verdict Ledger (/ledger). Every figure here is verified against published site content or the pre-registered test record. The page renders from this file — do not hand-edit the page table.",
    "verdict_classes": ["SURVIVED", "NULL", "FALSIFIED", "UNRESOLVED", "RETIRED", "SPLIT", "REAL", "CHARACTERIZATION"]
  },
  "featured": {
    "id": "gauquelin-eminence",
    "title": "The test we most wanted to pass, and didn't.",
    "body": "We aimed our hardest pre-registered question at 21,165 timed births from the open Gauquelin archive — physicians, scientists, athletes, military — asking whether the Moon's breath sorts human lives into destinies. It lit up: p = 0.003. The confirmation this tradition has waited a century for, on our screen. Then the confound control we had committed to in writing, before a single number was computed, did its job. The signal was a calendar coincidence. It collapsed to p = 0.83.",
    "verdict": "NULL",
    "published_first": "Launch day, above everything else.",
    "link": "/articles/an-astrology-that-can-say-no"
  },
  "entries": [
    {"num": "1–11", "test": "Hidden φ / Flower-of-Life / Fibonacci / clean resonances", "question": "Do privileged constants live in the real Sun–Moon–galaxy corkscrew?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "SPLIT", "finding": "Real geometry plus nulls; no privileged constant found."},
    {"num": "5", "test": "Nodal / apsidal resonance", "question": "Is there a 2:1 nodal/apsidal resonance?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "Ratio 2.1015 — 5.08% error; not a resonance."},
    {"num": "6", "test": "27/28 register structure", "question": "Do the 27/28 registers interlock?", "layer": "ARCH", "prereg": true, "verdict": "REAL", "finding": "Coprime (gcd = 1), realign at 756 steps. An arithmetic property of consecutive integers, noted as such — not a discovery."},
    {"num": "7", "test": "Lunation count", "question": "Are there 13.37 lunations per year?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "Real value 12.3683."},
    {"num": "8", "test": "Metonic cycle", "question": "Does the 235:19 recurrence hold, and how tightly?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "REAL", "finding": "235:19 confirmed; residual +2.083 h/cycle. A property of the sky's geometry, not of persons."},
    {"num": "9", "test": "Eclipse-season period", "question": "What is the eclipse-season recurrence?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "REAL", "finding": "~173.3 days, as computed."},
    {"num": "10", "test": "Node as soul vector", "question": "Does the node carry signal in ecliptic longitude?", "layer": "ARCH", "prereg": true, "verdict": "SPLIT", "finding": "NULL in longitude (r ≈ 0.000); the real action lives in declination — a measured 10.3° envelope. Astronomy recovered; influence not demonstrated, and not claimed."},
    {"num": "11", "test": "Corkscrew handedness", "question": "Is the helical handedness deterministic?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "REAL", "finding": "Earth–Sun L·â = +0.80 right-handed; Moon–Earth −0.047, near-degenerate."},
    {"num": "12", "test": "Harmonic stack (music of the spheres, cymatic form)", "question": "Do the orbital periods form a commensurable standing-wave stack?", "layer": "ARCH", "prereg": true, "verdict": "FALSIFIED", "finding": "Periods are LESS commensurable than chance. The claim is dead in its cymatic form."},
    {"num": "13", "test": "Minimal invariant basis", "question": "How many scalar invariants does a chart carry?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "REAL", "finding": "≈13 invariants, not 35 — the test caught its own rank-35 artifact."},
    {"num": "14", "test": "Breath-spectrum structure", "question": "Which bodies breathe on human timescales?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "REAL", "finding": "The Moon is the only human-timescale breather."},
    {"num": "15", "test": "Physical channels", "question": "Can any physical channel deposit a planetary wave at Earth at the required amplitude?", "layer": "ARCH", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "Every candidate channel dead by ≥1,800×; the one apparent hit was a Venus tautology. Consequence: planets-as-wave-sources is filed as a chosen axiom, permanently, in every footer on this site."},
    {"num": "16", "test": "Biological resonance", "question": "Do chart invariants correlate with timed births?", "layer": "INTERP", "prereg": true, "verdict": "UNRESOLVED", "finding": "Every primary statistic null, but the positive control was underpowered — the test could not decide. An unresolved verdict shields nothing; a successor is owed."},
    {"num": "17", "test": "Moon-breath vs vocation / lunar standstill", "question": "Does the Moon's declination breath sort vocation?", "layer": "INTERP", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "Clean null — controls passed; the one hit was a calendar coincidence."},
    {"num": "18", "test": "Lunar cycle and births", "question": "Does the lunar cycle modulate human births?", "layer": "INTERP", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "70.5M births, 20 years, 4 candidate mechanisms — none survive."},
    {"num": "19", "test": "Handedness vector across bodies", "question": "Is there a privileged handedness constant across all bodies?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "Tilt bookkeeping; no privileged constant."},
    {"num": "20", "test": "Scalar curvature of the corkscrew (The Opening)", "question": "Is the corkscrew curvature a property of the real path?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "A thin surface cannot carry open-vs-closed; the curvature split is a fixed property of any thin tube — identical for real and random paths. An artifact, named as one."},
    {"num": "21", "test": "Node coupling strength", "question": "Where does node coupling actually live?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "REAL", "finding": "Coupling is out-of-plane, in declination, not longitude."},
    {"num": "22", "test": "Ji Planckian distribution — chart invariants", "question": "Do the chart invariants fit the Planckian Distribution?", "layer": "ARCH", "prereg": true, "verdict": "SPLIT", "finding": "Hub: clean null (Gaussian wins). Pairwise separations: a controlled surprise — fits the small-angle tail."},
    {"num": "22B", "test": "Ji fit — inner-planet driver", "question": "Is the tail fit just inner-planet clustering?", "layer": "ARCH", "prereg": true, "verdict": "RETIRED", "finding": "Partial refutation: inner planets drive the tail, though not monotonically the fit. Claim narrowed accordingly."},
    {"num": "22C", "test": "Ji fit — parameter stability", "question": "Are the fit parameters stable enough to attribute to the sky?", "layer": "ARCH", "prereg": true, "verdict": "RETIRED", "finding": "Parameter degeneracy: what remains is a flexible three-parameter long-tail fit whose parameters cannot be attributed to the sky. We say so."},
    {"num": "23", "test": "Planckian hub over a real birth population", "question": "Does realistic natal sampling create a PDE-favoring hub?", "layer": "ARCH", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "Null, as expected — it does not."},
    {"num": "W", "test": "Winter Test", "question": "Do declared chart pairs co-occupy structures beyond chance?", "layer": "INTERP", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "Pair co-occupancies at chance; held when re-run at 21,000-chart scale."},
    {"num": "C", "test": "Gauquelin census", "question": "How is the human hub distributed against epoch-matched random skies?", "layer": "REAL", "prereg": true, "verdict": "CHARACTERIZATION", "finding": "21,166 verified humans (1800–1950): indistinguishable from epoch-matched random moments (KS p = 0.45); no occupational signal after epoch adjustment (p = 0.41); mean 4.04, p95 = 6.84, observed human ceiling 9.06. Births sample the sky fairly — the instrument describes architecture and does not select for eminence."},
    {"num": "G", "test": "Gauquelin eminence", "question": "Does the Moon's breath sort vocation across 21,165 timed births?", "layer": "INTERP", "prereg": true, "verdict": "NULL", "finding": "p = 0.003 uncontrolled → p = 0.83 under the pre-committed confound control. Featured above; published on launch day, first.", "link": "/articles/an-astrology-that-can-say-no"}
  ],
  "survivors": [
    {"name": "Frame invariance", "statement": "The hub, the winding, and the chorus are identical across every house system, both zodiacs, and every ayanamsa — verified against roughly 290,000 charts.", "scope": "The instrument cannot choose the frame that flatters it. This does not mean the numbers describe a life."},
    {"name": "The Metonic characterization", "statement": "The 235:19 recurrence structure is real, with a measured +2.083 h/cycle residual.", "scope": "A property of the sky's geometry, not of persons."},
    {"name": "The vertical breath", "statement": "The node's real action lives in declination — a measured 10.3° envelope.", "scope": "Astronomy recovered. Influence not demonstrated, and not claimed."},
    {"name": "The minimal basis", "statement": "A chart carries ≈13 scalar invariants — the test caught its own rank-35 artifact and corrected it.", "scope": "A structural fact about the mathematics, and an instance of the apparatus catching itself."}
  ],
  "doctrine": [
    "The instrument measures architecture, not destiny — and 21,165 charts agree.",
    "Claims of the form \"exceeds all known charts\" are retired below hub 9.06 — the observed human ceiling in the census.",
    "No reading may predict vocation, outcome, or fate. The tests that could have licensed that speech came back empty, so the speech is forbidden — in the product, in the marketing, in the footer.",
    "Planets acting as wave sources is a chosen axiom, not established physics (Test 15). Every footer on this site says so.",
    "The 'scalar' in Scalar Flower means a frame-invariant number. It does not mean a torsion/aether scalar field — unsupported, and in its cymatic form falsified (Test 12)."
  ],
  "open_instruments": [
    {"name": "The Test 16 successor", "note": "A properly powered re-run with the positive-control failure repaired. An UNRESOLVED verdict does not protect the interpretive layer; it schedules its own replacement."},
    {"name": "The Mars diurnal re-test", "note": "The historical Gauquelin claim was diurnal position at the birthplace, not ecliptic longitude. Our eminence null tested the ecliptic flower only. The pre-registration will appear here, in full, before the data is touched."},
    {"name": "The blinded reading study", "note": "Can a person identify their own reading against matched decoys at better than chance? Design and thresholds to be pre-registered here first."}
  ]
}