The Least Known Side of the Moon

JONAS METHOD - FACTS AND DETAILS

I've got a copy of "Astrological Birth Control" by Scheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder, the book which was published by Prentice Hall in 1972. It is out of print, but still available from some booksellers in the Internet.

What I am going to present here is mostly a number of facts and important details about the achievements and ideas of Dr. Jonas taken from the above mentioned book. Sometimes I might add comments of my own. And of course you can get a calculation according to this method for yourself or anyone else by visiting my free Jonas Method Calculator.

This will be work in progress, and it will go forward faster if I will be receiving an interested feedback from the visitors of Lunarium.

Astra Research Center in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, also known as Center for Planned Parenthood, was created to scientifically test the ideas of Dr. Jonas and its work was very successful until the Center was closed down as a result of the Soviet invasion into Czechoslovakia in 1968.

According to its scientific board, Astra aspired to:

• Provide safe, reliable birth control without pills, contraceptives, or operations;
• Help many seemingly sterile women conceive children;
• Help women who have a history of miscarriages deliver full-term babies;
• Help ensure a healthy baby, possibly eliminating some birth defects and mental retardation;
• Help hold abortion treatments to a minimum by making them necessary only when suddenly unavoidable for reasons of health;
• Allow parents to choose whether they will have a girl or boy.

After dispensing more than 30,000 "prescriptions", after its board announced that 1,252 women had used Astra's form of birth control for a year with 97.7% success, Astra and its founder, physician-psychiatrist Dr. Eugen Jonas, dropped from sight in February of 1970.

Here is some feedback from the patients of Dr. Jonas:

"It is with great joy that we take the liberty of advising you that I gave birth to a healthy child, in accordance with your calculations. Prior to that, my children had been stillborn. As long as I live, I will be grateful to you for your kindness..."

Dr. Orosz Balazsne, Budapest

"Words do not suffice to express the joy with which I inform you that after futilely longing for many years to become pregnant and have a child of my own, I have given birth to a son. Wholehearted thanks for this joy go to you, not only in my name, but also in the name of those other women to whom your researches have brought happiness".

J. Bobcekova, Levice

"Dear doctor, please be advised that the February 1966 date which you specified led to us having a son, Tomas, as wished for. Considering my lack of success in pregnancies, my inability to complete a full pregnancy term, everything turned out successfully and the birth was concluded without complication. Surely these results will please you. Please accept again our thanks for your patience and accuracy and our regards and wishes for continued success."

Dr. J.D., 1st Maternity Clinic, Prague

Here are the three rules that make the foundation of Jonas Method:

1. The time of a woman's fertility depends on the recurrence of the angle of the sun and moon that occured at the woman's own birth.
2. The sex of the child depends on the position of the moon at conception.
3. Certain configurations of the nearer celestial bodies at the time of conception can affect the viability of the embryo.

Jonas took the rule easiest to check statistically - predetermination of sex - and worked through the records of 250 births at a local maternity clinic. By chance, he should have been able to predict the sex of a baby about half the time. Jonas was 87 percent correct. In 217 cases, he was able to determine the sex of the child without prior knowledge.

Jonas tried to attract the attention of academics to his discoveries, to test them thoroughly and objectively. But that was perhaps the most problematic part of his project. Here is how Jonas himself remarked on this:

"Gynecologists usually know absolutely nothing about astronomy. Astronomers usually know absolutely nothing about gynecology. Both recoil in horror at the thought of astrology."

The first person who approached the discoveries seriously was Dr. Jiri Malek, a university professor and gynecologist of international standing. At least, Jonas received a permission to test his ideas experimentally, although nothing else in the way of help.

Jonas tested his ideas under senior doctors at a Bratislava maternity hospital.

Could he calculate backward with this new method and tell the doctors the time of conception and therefore the sex of fifty infants? Jonas came up 94 percent right in both categories.

Gathering steam, he checked through 8000 births recorded in four hospitals and separated out 112 nonviable infants (those that die at or shortly after birth).

With no other knowledge but the mothers' birthdates, Jonas again calculated the sex of the infant and time of conception with high reliability. His main concern in this sample, however, was to test his third astrological rule - that unfavorable distribution of gravitational forces of the nearer celestial bodies at conception can cause complications for mother and child.

Actually, most of these calculations appear to be much more complex than the rule indicates and, unlike birth control and sex selection, depend somewhat on astrological interpretation. Jonas supposedly found a complex planetary pattern that showed up at the time the 112 nonviable babies were conceived.

(to be continued)