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How Tempora differs from existing astrology surfaces, what the underlying framework actually measures, and why the methodology is reproducible. These articles document the comparisons that practitioners and skeptics actually want. Tempora vs AstroSage, Co-Star and The Pattern. Alongside the foundational pieces on falsifiable astrology, calibrated lift and Swiss Ephemeris precision. Read these to understand what Tempora is and is not.

Articles in this cluster

What we measure

2026
Calibrated lift in astrology: what it means and how Tempora computes it
Standard astrology has no calibration. A configuration is interpreted as significant or not by the practitioner; whether it actually fires above what random chance would produce is rarely tested. Tempora publishes per-chart, per-signature lift figures that are reproducible…
17 min read · Article · Published 2026-05-09
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How we build the engine

2026
True Pushya Paksha vs Lahiri: why Tempora picked the Pushya-anchored ayanamsa
Lahiri Chitrapaksha is the Indian government's official ayanamsa. True Pushya Paksha is the alternative championed by P V R Narasimha Rao. The two differ by about 0.10 degrees in 2026. Small difference in absolute terms, operationally significant for nakshatra-boundary cases…
13 min read · Article · Published 2026-05-12
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2026
Swiss Ephemeris and Vedic astrology accuracy
Beneath every Vedic chart Tempora computes is the same astronomical engine: Swiss Ephemeris, the gold-standard library derived from NASA's JPL ephemeris. Tempora pairs it with the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsa for sidereal alignment and Whole Sign houses per Indian convention.…
17 min read · Article · Published 2026-05-09
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2026
Reproducible Vedic astrology backtesting
Every lift figure on the Tempora calibration page is recomputable from public files. The calibration engine, the natal-chart records and the labelled event sets are all open. A reader who clones the repository can rerun the pipeline and obtain the same numbers. This is…
15 min read · Article · Published 2026-05-09
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2026
Open-source Vedic astrology data
Tempora's methodology, calibration code, natal chart records, lift table and forward-call receipts are all published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. A researcher with access to the public files can rerun the calibration, extend it to new charts, replicate at stricter…
16 min read · Article · Published 2026-05-09
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2026
How to verify a Tempora forward call
Verification walkthrough.
Method article · Reference
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2026
Why Tempora won't read a chart over WhatsApp
Method discipline boundary.
Method article · Reference
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2026
Calibrated lift in astrology
The lift-figure methodology.
Method article · Reference
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2026
Reproducible astrology
The reproducibility framework.
Method article · Reference
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2026
Reproducible Vedic backtesting
Backtest method.
Method article · Reference
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2026
Does Vedic astrology predict the stock market?
Method response to the search query.
Method article · Reference
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2026
Research-grade vs commercial Vedic astrology
What separates a reproducible method from interpretive practice.
Comparison
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2026
Vedic labelled event-set construction
How Tempora builds and labels the historical event set for calibration.
Method article
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