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Research and Contributions to the Field of Astrology
Ongoing Research Projects
Chaos Theory and Astrology
While undertaking a Masters degree
at Bath Spa University, UK in Cultural Astronomy and
Astrology Bernadette focused her master's dissertation into the implications of
chaos theory for the practice of astrology. This work was then expanded and
published in 2006 by Wessex Astrologer, UK.
This subject is now the focus of
further research.
Visual Astrology
Since January 2005, Bernadette has be a co author of the Visual Astrology
Newsletter, a free monthly publication. This newsletter is focused into
researching the whole sky and its astrological implications based on the
translations of letters from the Mesopotamian priest/astrologers to their kings.
This research work
has lead to the inaugural
Visual Astrology
Conference in South Africa to be held in 18 - 22 May, 2007.
 Fixed Stars
Since the early 1990's Brady has been working on the role of Fixed
Stars in modern astrology. Her work began by researching the original methods
used when linking the Fixed Stars to a natal chart. Once this was established,
she then rejected the simplistic and
fatalistic meanings of the stars of earlier writers and studied the ancient
meanings and myths linked to the stars and the constellations. This work was published
in Brady's Book of Fixed Stars. This work was further enhanced in the
development of the software Starlight, with Sarah Ashton of Barnswood
Ltd. Using the research facility of Starlight, Brady has done extensive work on
the meanings of the 64 main stars of the sky when in paran with each planet.
This work is available through the natal report facility of Starlight.
This work has been
expanded to include the outer planets and the nodes in her book -
Star and Planet Combinations (Wessex Astrologer 2008).
Eclipses 
In the early 1980's, in the pursuit of understanding the role that eclipses
played in predictive work on a natal chart, Brady researched every Saros Series
by establishing the commencement date of each current series, then calculated
every eclipse in every series. Based on this data, Brady then considered the
"natal" chart of each Saros Series and its impact through history.
This work was published in 1992 in The Eagle and the Lark - a Textbook of
Predictive Astrology. In this work, Brady suggests meanings for each Saros
Series and each solar eclipse occurring between 1900-2050. This work has now
been accepted throughout the astrological community and the book has become a
classic.
Research
Projects:
The Australian Parent-Child
Astrological Research Project – published in Correlations 20 (2),
July 2002.
Brady designed this research project in 1990
in Australia and proceeded to collect parent-child birth data from the
Australian population over the next 7 years. The full results of
this research project (still ongoing) were published in Correlations
July, 2002.
Sport and Guido Bonatti's Medieval Battle
Astrology
In the mid-1990's, Brady successfully applied Guido Bonatti's methodology for
predicting the outcome of a Castle Besiegement chart to Test Cricket. From original
records, Brady researched and found the starting time of every Ashes Test
cricket match (cricket played between Australia and England) since the
commencement of the sporting endeavour in 1877. This data was then analysed
using Bonatti's methods and the results - in which she successfully predicted
not only the outcome of the forthcoming Test series in England but also at which
Test match the Ashes would be won by Australia - were published in the AA
Journal, UK May 1997.
The Astrology of
Galileo Galilee - a detailed study of the horoscopic work of Galileo.
She is currently
conducting research into determinism with Western astrology for her doctoral
studies at Bath Spa University, UK.
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