Sunday 12 May, 2002 at 12:59AM (Nereus)  ::  permalink  ::  comments (9)

A while back, IceQueen mentioned a theory about an extract from Linda Goodman's Love Signs book about pregnancy that was, well, kind of amazing if it's true. It goes like this:

There must be a way of controlling birth that's not harmful to health, is both religiously and aesthetically acceptable, costs nothing and is 100% dependable. There is. It's called astrobiology and it works like this:

As the ancients who planned the conception of Kings knew well, a woman can conceive only during a certain approximately two-hour period of each Lunar month, when the Sun and Moon are exactly the same number of degrees apart as they were at the moment of the woman's first breath at birth. Without exception, a woman can conceive at no other time than this approximately two-hour period, easily determined if her birth data are known. Each individual woman's 'cycle' is different, bearing no relation to the generalized, and consequentially inaccurate, so-called 'rhythm method.' It's absolutely foolproof. And awesomely profound.

First of all, 'aesthetically acceptable'? I would've thought morally would be the correct word to use here. Whatever. Now if this is true, it means the chances of a woman ever becoming pregnant are pretty remote, regardless of how often she gets it on. In fact, with only a two hour window in a whole lunar month (30 days), the chances are only a 0.277% probability of getting pregnant - that's 1 in 360. Hmmm, just realized that 360 equals one full revolution ..coincidence? *shrug*

If this is true, the contraceptive manufacturing industry is in deep shit.

Michelle, a good friend of mine in NZ, had a son back in December last year, so I got Michelle to send me her and Tamatoa's birth data (her son) and we worked backwards to figure the time of conception was on 21st March 2001 at around 11pm, which meant Tamatoa was born about two weeks early using this theory. Either that, or he was born late and conception date was around 22nd February. I emailed this info to Michelle earlier today, so we'll see if it could be correct or not.

I'd really love to know if this theory is true or not, so if anyone reading this is trying to conceive, please (I know it sounds a bit impersonal, but..) try this theory out and let us know how you go. If you need, email us your date, time and place of birth and we can work out the ideal time to go like bunnies, according to this theory.

Use the comments and tell us what you think. Interesting though, huh?