WO2007092141A2

WO2007092141A2 - Method and apparatus for calculating and downloading biorhythms and celestial aspects to a calendar system

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Publication number: WO2007092141A2
Application number: PCT/US2007/001477
Authority: WO
Inventors: Vladimir Savchenko
Original assignee: Tarleton, E. Russell
Priority date: 2006-01-20
Filing date: 2007-01-19
Publication date: 2007-08-16
Also published as: WO2007092141A3

Abstract

A method for calculating and downloading to an electronic calendar biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects that includes creating an individual user profile, calculating biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects based on the user's universal date, time, and geographical location of birth and converted to the local time for the current location, downloading the biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects to an electronic file in an electronic storage medium, and importing the file into an electronic calendar system. An apparatus includes software in a circuit or on a computer device that is configured for creating an individual user profile, for calculating biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects based on the user's universal date and time of birth (UT) and converted to the local time for the current location for downloading the biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects to an electronic file in an electronic storage medium and for importing the file into an electronic calendar system.

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING AND DOWNLOADING BIORHYTHMS AND CELESTIAL ASPECTS TO A CALENDAR SYSTEM

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Field of the Invention

The present invention pertains generally to a method of accurately calculating personal biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects and an apparatus for downloading and presenting biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects in a calendar computer system.

Description of the Related Art

Definitions

Biorhythm - an innate, cyclical biological process or function.

Physical Cycle - a biorhythmic cycle of about 23 days, starting at 50% from the moment of birth and rising, reaching 100% in about 5.75 days then falling, reaching 50% in about 11.5 days, and 0% in about 1.7.25 days, then rising again finishing cycle at 50% in about 23 days;

Emotional Cycle — a biorhythmic cycle of about 28 days, starting at 50% from the moment of birth and rising, reaching 100% in about 7 days then falling, reaching 50% in about 14 days, and 0% in about 21 days, then rising again finishing cycle at 50% in about 28 days;

Intellectual Cycle - a biorhythmic cycle of about 33 days, starting at 50% from the moment of birth and rising, reaching 100% in about 8.25 days then falling, reaching 50% in about 16.5 days, and 0% in about 24.75 days, then rising again finishing cycle at 50% in about 33 days;

PEI — abbreviation of described above 3 cycles: Physical, Emotional and Intellectual;

Critical time - the time when either of Physical, Emotional, or Intellectual cycles reach 50%; Fertility Cycle - A biorhythmic cycle of about 29.5 days starting from a maximum fertility (100%) at the moment of birth, falling down to 0% in abouM4.75 days and reaching the maximum 100% again in about 29.5 days;

Celestial body - The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Ascendant (rising sign on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth), Descendant (setting sign on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth), North Node, Midheaven (Medium Coeli), Equatorial Ascendant, Polar Ascendant, Co-Ascendant, Vertex, Chiron;

Natal chart or birth chart - based on each individual's birth date, time and place or geographical coordinates on earth, comprised of either geometrical positioning of celestial bodies within a circle (wheel) or its numerical values in degrees of arc from starting point of the birth chart, usually the Vernal Equinox;

Transiting celestial chart or transiting chart- based on current, past or future date, time and any geographical location, comprised of either geometrical positioning of celestial bodies within a circle (wheel) or its numerical values in degrees of arc from a starting point of the chart, usually the Vernal Equinox;

Celestial aspect - certain angular difference between a pair of celestial bodies within a degree of orb, which includes: a) Personal celestial aspect — a celestial aspect between a pair of celestial bodies from the natal chart within a degree of orb; b) Personal returning celestial aspect — a personal celestial aspect repeated in time in a transiting celestial chart within a degree of orb; c) Personal transiting celestial aspect - a celestial aspect between a celestial body of the transiting celestial chart and a celestial body of the natal chart within a degree of orb; d) Global or mundane celestial aspect — a celestial aspect between a pair of celestial bodies of the transiting celestial chart within a degree of orb; Orb - an angle of a certain degree used to calculate a celestial aspect. Each combination of a celestial aspect and a pair of celestial bodies may use different orbs. Usually the orb is within 1 to 9 degrees of arc;

• Conjunction - the celestial aspect between two celestial bodies when the angular difference between these celestial bodies is within 0 (zero) degrees plus or minus the orb;

Opposition - the celestial aspect between two celestial bodies when the angular difference between these celestial bodies is within 180 degrees plus or minus the orb;

Trine - the celestial aspect between two celestial bodies when the angular difference between these celestial bodies is within 120 degrees plus or minus the orb or within 240 degrees plus or minus the orb;

Sextile - the celestial aspect between two celestial bodies when the angular difference between these celestial bodies Is within 60 degrees plus or minus the orb or within 300 degrees plus or minus the orb;

Square - the celestial aspect between two celestial bodies when the angular difference between these celestial bodies is within 90 degrees plus or minus the orb or within 270 degrees plus or minus the orb;

Quincunx - the celestial aspect between two celestial bodies when the angular difference between these celestial bodies is within 150 degrees plus or minus the orb or within 210 degrees plus or minus the orb;

Universal Time (UT) - is a timescale based on the rotation of the Earth. It is a modern continuation of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), i.e., the mean solar time on the meridian of Greenwich, England, which is the conventional 0-meridian for geographic longitude; and, iCalendar - is a standard (RFC 2445 - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt) for calendar systems data exchange. The standard is also known as iCal or vCal. iCalendar allows users to exchange calendaring events between different software, devices, or web services. Many websites are embedding iCalendar data in web pages using hCalendar. iCalendar is based on the earlier vCalendar (vCal) industry specification by the Internet Mail Consortium (IMC). Also, new standards are emerging using XML (extended Markup Language) as per the World Wide Web Consortium (W3.orq) specifications or open source community.

Research in the human biorhythms began in the late 1800's and continued throughout last century. The biorhythm theory postulates that there are certain rhythms that have a constant cycle time in the human body. Originally, biorhythms have been identified as a 23-day cycle related to physical vitality, endurance, and energy (hereinafter P cycle); a 28-day cycle that corresponds to sensitivity, intuition, and emotional outlook (hereinafter E cycle); and a 33-day cognitive or intellectual cycle that relates to mental alertness and judgment (hereinafter I cycle). The biorhythm theory further postulates that all three cycles start upward and in a positive direction from birth and continue with the aforementioned periodicity throughout a person's life.

Research in this field has indicated that for each cycle, there are "critical days." These critical days occur for a particular cycle when that cycle is making a transition from positive to negative or negative to positive. It has been found that humans will lack endurance and energy on critical days of their P cycle, and are more likely to have accidents or make poor decisions on critical days of their E and I cycles.

More recently, the use of biorhythm computations has gained wide popularity in health controls, sporting programs and public transportation. For instance, the biorhythm is widely used in Japan to make sure that drivers of public transportation vehicles and airline pilots do not work on days on which their E and I cycles are in a critical period. Likewise it has been found that key "upsets" in sporting events involving individual athletes have occurred when the expected winner was experiencing a critical day in one or more of his or her biorhythm cycles.

Since the mid -1950's, several theories of fertility have emerged based on the cyclical rhythms. The fertility generally applies to women as "high fertility" when woman can conceive and "low fertility" when woman is unlikely to conceive. Later studies confirmed that men have similar fertility cycles when they produce more than normal amount of sperm. The fertility cycle is another biorhythmic cycle of about 29,5309 days. However, it starts from high fertility at the moment of birth, falls down to 0% in 14.765 ±0.5 days, reaches maximum 100% again in 29.5309 ±1 days.

Prior methods for calculating biorhythms used only a date of birth as a starting point for calculations. More over, prior systems generally have not converted the resulting biorhythmic values to the local time of the inquiring individual. In addition, the fertility cycle has not been generally calculated as a part of the biorhythmic activity.

By using only day of birth for calculating biorhythmic cycles and not converting those to a local time, the error in determining high, low and critical days for each biorhythmic cycles could be up to 2 days.

For example, based on prior methods, if one person is born at 00:01 - one minute after midnight, and another at 23:59 - one minute before midnight of the same day both of them would have identical biorhythms even though their birthdays are almost 1 day (23 hours and 58 minutes) apart. However, the other pair of people who are born at 23:59 of the same day and 00:01 of the next day would have biorhythms that differ by one day even though they are born just 2 minutes apart.

More over, if one person is bom in Hawaii, U.S., at 23:59 on December 20, 2005, but later moves to New Zealand and the other person is born in Hawaii at 00:01 on December 20, 2005, and stays in Hawaii, US, then the biorhythms for a given day using a biorhythm calculator of the prior methods for each of the persons could be different by almost 2 days (1 day 22 hours 58 minutes). This is because the date and time in New Zealand at the moment of birth for the first person is December 21, 2005, 22:59. This illustration assumes that the biorhythmic calculator the first person would use will not take into consideration the time zone change between place of birth and the current location of the person.

Clearly prior calculation methods for biorhythmic cycles are not accurate and therefore not acceptable based on the examples above. Personal celestial aspects are widely used, like biorhythmic cycles, to forecast positive and negative trends in one person's life. Some forecasting methods based on these celestial aspects are well described in the book "Planets in Transits : Life cycles for living" by Robert Hand (ISBN 0- 924608-26-9).

The celestial aspects between the celestial bodies within the transiting celestial chart are also used to forecast global trends that affect everybody at the same time in a given geographical location on earth. These celestial aspects are called global or mundane celestial aspects.

The prior methods exist to calculate personal and global celestial aspects. However, none of the prior systems are able to calculate and present personal or mundane celestial aspects in standard electronic calendars like Microsoft® Outlook®, Palm® Calendar, Google® Calendar or other computerized calendar systems. The disclosed method and the system describe the process of creating personal and mundane celestial aspects in iCalendar or vCalendar formats for importing and presenting in standard electronic calendars.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The disclosed embodiments of the present invention provide a method for accurate calculation of personal biorhythmic cycles, and personal and mundane celestial aspects, based on a person's date, time, and place of birth and a current geographical location, and a system for calculating, compiling, and downloading or importing the personal biorhythmic cycles and personal or mundane celestial aspects to computerized calendar systems, devices or web services based on a geographical location of reference and converted to a local time at the geographical location of reference.

In one embodiment, a method for calculating biorhythmic cycles uses not only a date of birth but also the time and place of birth. The time and place of birth help to determine universal date and time of birth for each individual and calculate biorhythmic cycles for a given location and the local date and time at this location. The result of this new method for calculating biorhythms provides a substantially higher level of accuracy.

In another embodiment, a system calculates, compiles, and downloads the user's own and the user's friends' or partners' biorhythrnic cycles and personal and mundane celestial aspects to a computerized calendar system, device, or web service. This presents a new way for users to obtain and view their own and their friends' and partners' biorhythmic cycles and personal or mundane celestial aspects to determine compatibility, plan activities at a favorite time, or avoid potentially dangerous times from any scheduling or calendaring computer systems.

In accordance with a method of one embodiment of the invention, the steps include creating an individual user profile; calculating biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects based on the user's date, time, and place of birth and converted to the local time for the user's current geographical location; downloading the biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects to an electronic file in an electronic storage medium; and importing the file into an electronic system.

In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, an apparatus is provided that includes a means, such as a circuit or computer device for creating an individual user profile; means, such as a circuit or computer device, for calculating biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects based on the ^' user's universal date, time, and place of birth and converted to the local time for the selected current geographical location; means, such as a circuit or a computer device, for downloading the biorhythmic cycles and celestial aspects to an electronic file in an electronic storage medium; and means, such as a circuit or a computer device, for importing the file into an electronic system.

In accordance with a further embodiment of the invention, a method is provided that includes obtaining data, comprising date and time of birth, geographic location of birth, and a current location; calculating at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle using the data; converting the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle to a local time for the current location to obtain at least one converted biorhythmic cycle; and displaying the converted biorhythmic cycle to the user.

In accordance with another aspect of the foregoing embodiment, calculating the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes converting the date and time of birth to a universal date and time, and wherein converting the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes converting the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle from the universal date and time to the local time for the current location.

In accordance with another aspect of the disclosed embodiments, the method includes comprising downloading the at least one converted biorhythmic cycle to an electronic file, and ideally importing the electronic file into an electronic calendar program.

In accordance with a further aspect of the foregoing embodiments, the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes a physical cycle, an emotional cycle, an intellectual cycle, and a fertility cycle.

In accordance with yet another aspect of the foregoing embodiments, the method further includes granting a second user permission and presenting the at least one converted biorhythmic cycle to the second user who has been granted permission to view the at least one biorhythmic cycle, and presenting the at least one converted biorhythmic cycle to the second user includes converting the at least one converted biorhythmic cycle to a local time for the second user.

In accordance with another embodiment of the disclosure, a computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by a computer, implements the methods described above and herein below.

In accordance with another embodiment of the disclosure, a system is provided that includes a calculation engine configured to generate at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle based on received information for a user, the received information including a date, a time and a place of the user's birth, and current geographical location; and an output module configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle to enable the user to view the outputtecl at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle in an electronic calendar program.

In accordance with another aspect of the foregoing embodiment, the system includes a profile manager configured to manage a user profile generated from the received information for the user; and a memory configured to store at least one of the user profile and the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle. Preferably, the output module is further configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle to a second user; and the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle using the electronic calendar program.

In accordance with yet a further aspect of the foregoing embodiments, the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle by outputting an electronic file of the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle to the user, the electronic file configured to be used by the electronic calendar program. Ideally, the received information for the user further includes a specified location, and wherein the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle converted to a local time for the specified location, and the calculation engine is configured to calculate a fertility biorhythmic cycle using the received information for the user.

In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, A computer-readable medium having instructions thereon to cause a computer processor to display calendar data for a biorhythmic cycle calculated from a user's date, time and place of birth, wherein the calendar data includes times for at least one of a physical biorhythmic cycle, emotional biorhythmic cycle, and an intellectual biorhythmic cycle. Ideally, the calendar data is converted to a user's current local time before being displayed.

In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, a system is provided that includes a calculation engine configured to generate at least one celestial aspect based on received information for a user, the received information including a date, a time and a place of the user's birth and current geographical location; and an output module configured to output the at least one celestial aspect to enable the user to view the outputted at least one calculated celestial aspect in an electronic calendar program. Ideally, the system also includes a profile manager configured to manage a user profile generated from the received information for the user; and a memory configured to store at least one of the user profile and the at least one calculated celestial aspect.

In accordance with another aspect of the foregoing embodiments, the output module is further configured to output the at least one calculated celestial aspect in an electronic file for download to a calendar system by a second user, and the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated celestial aspect using the electronic calendar program. In addition, the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated celestial aspect by outputting an electronic file of the at least one calculated celestial aspect to the user, the electronic file configured to be used by the electronic calendar program.

In accordance with a further aspect of the foregoing embodiments, the received information for the user further includes a specified location, and wherein the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated celestial aspect converted to a local time for the specified location.

In accordance with another embodiment of the disclosure, A computer-readable medium having instructions thereon to cause a computer processor to display calendar data for a celestial aspect calculated from a user's date, time and place of birth, wherein the calendar data includes times and dates for at least one of a celestial aspect. Ideally, the calendar data is " converted to a user's current local time before being displayed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING(S)

The foregoing and other features and advantages of the present intention will be more readily appreciated as the same become better understood from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 shows that, in one embodiment, the method can be implemented in an Internet based system. Included are a means for allowing a client to communicate with a main server. Such means can include a Client Workstation with Internet Browser or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or Digital Cell Phone, and other equivalents. The system further includes a Server with a Profile manager, a Calendar Export Engine, Date & Time conversion component, Biorhythms Calculation component, Celestial Aspects Calculation component, Data Storage and Messages server. As will be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art, the system may further include other components to enhance functionality.

Figure 2 shows a high-level use case diagram demonstrating few of many ways how users could use the system;

Figure 3 shows an input screen format and sample input data for establishing the individual profile of a user in accordance with one embodiment of the system and method of the present invention;

Figure 4 shows an example screen to preview biorhythms and celestial aspects via a web browser in accordance with one embodiment of the system and method of the present invention;

Figure 5 shows content from a biorhythms calendar data file generated by the described system for 5 days in iCalendar or vCalendar format;

Figure 6 shows content from personal and mundane celestial aspects calendar data file generated by the described system for 5 days in iCalendar or vCalendar format; and

Figure 7 shows an example of biorhythms, personal and mundane celestial aspects in Google™ Calendar downloaded and imported from the files shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is directed to a method and system that implements a computerized apparatus enabling an individual to download accurately calculated biorhythms and celestial aspects in a data file to be imported to any calendaring software or systems running on a web server, desktop, PDA, digital cell phones, digital watch or any other device and supporting standard calendaring data exchange formats such as iCalendar or vCalendar.

Figure 1 shows that, in one embodiment, the method can be implemented in an Internet based system. The system includes:

110) Client Workstation — a computer with an operating system running Internet Browser. E.g. IBM ThinkPad with Windows XP running Internet Explorer.

111) Main System Server - a computer configured to provide remote services for Client Workstation and coordinate other servers. It contains a Profile Manager module, which provides user ability to create and modify personal profile. E.g. SUN Blade server with Solaris operating system running Apache and Tomcat modules for Internet Services.

112) Biorhythms and Celestial Aspects Calculation Engine - a . computer system's component that can be deployed on a dedicated server or co-deployed on Main System Server. Provides calculation logic for biorhythms and celestial aspects, according to the birth date, time, and geographical place of birth of a user and converting date and time of the biorhythmic cycles and transiting celestial aspects for a time zone of the user's current geographical location.

113) Data Store — a database for storing all persistent data. This includes personal profile, list of countries, cities and towns with their respective geographical co-ordinates, timetables of time zone changes in the past and current time zone rules. The database server can be deployed on a dedicated computer or co-located on the Main System Server. 114) PDA or Digital Phone or Digital Watch - an eiectronic device with a calendar capable of connecting via Internet or any other means to the Main System Server or to the Client Workstation (110).

The system suggests but not limits to the following communication media:

Standard Internet (115) protocol such as HTTP between Client Workstation (110) with an Internet b rowser and the Main System Server (111);

Standard wireless protocol such as WAP (117) between PDA or Digital Phone or Watch and the Main System Server (111);

A peer-to-peer connection, wireless or wired using various means such as WiFi®, BlueTooth®, Infrared, USB or other local connectivity means between PDA or Digital Phone or Digital Watch (114) and the Client Workstation (110)

A communication between the rest of the system's components is implemented via LAN or on a single computer with variety of available interprocess communication protocols;

Figure 2 shows how users can access and use the systems. The following use cases are available for User X (220) and User Y (225) — two potential users. Clearly, for diagramming purposes, only two users are present, however the number of users who can use and share each other biorhythms is not limited to only 2 users. Either of the users can create profile (221). User X (220) can view biorhythms and celestial aspects (222) for own profile as well as for profile of User Y (225), providing User Y (225) grants such permissions to User X (220). User X (220) can download biorhythms and celestial aspects (223) in a data file for import to an electronic calendar for own profile as well as for profile of User Y (225), providing User Y (225) grants such permissions to User X (220). Either user can change current location (224) in the profile allowing the system to convert time of biorhythms to the new location.

Figure 3 demonstrates on one example how a user can create a Profile. Each individual personally or with the help of another (representing agent) creates one or many profiles. Each profile data includes: I. General information: a) Profile Name - The nickname selected by a user to identify his or her profile. b) Gender - Male or Female.

II. Birth Data section contains the following fields: a) Date of Birth: date of birth as recorded in birth certificate or known otherwise. b) Time of Birth:_time of birth as recorded in full birth certificate or known otherwise. c) Universal Date:_date of birth in Universal Time (UT), calculated by the system, based on date, time and place of birth. Provided for user's verification and adjustment. d) Universal Time:_time of birth in Universal Time (UT), calculated by the system, based on date, time and place of birth. Provided for user's verification and adjustment. e) State or Country: Provides list of States in the US and countries in the world. f) City: the city name or partial name for search. g) Confirm City:_AII cities that match the search criteria are listed here. User needs to select the city or town where he or she was born from the list. If the city or place of birth is not listed, then the nearest larger city in the same state or country can be selected. h) Geographical coordinates: co-ordinates of the confirmed city. Provided for user's information and verification. i) Time Zone: Time zone where you were born, calculated by the system, based on date, time and place of birth.

III. Current Location section contains the following fields: a) State or Country of Current Location: provides list of States in the US and countries in the world. b) City of Current Location! the city name or partial name for search of the user's current location. c) Confirm City of Current Location: All cities that match the search criteria will be listed here. User needs to select the city or town where he or she currently resides or wants to use as a reference point for date and time conversion. If the city or place of birth is not listed, then the nearest larger city in the state or country can be selected. d) Geographical coordinates of Current Location: co-ordinates of the confirmed city. Provided for user's information and verification.

The biorhythms and celestial aspects are calculated based on date, time and place of birth of the individual and his or her current location as indicated in the personal profile. The calculating method takes into consideration not only date of birth as it is used in biorhythmic calculators today but also time of birth and geographical location of birth. Geographical location can be specified by selecting country or state, county and city, town or hospital from a database of available places on earth with associated geographical coordinates. Alternatively, geographical coordinates of birthplace can be entered or altered directly into the profile as shown in Figure 3. Profile manager attempts to convert local birth date and time to universal date and time (UT) based on birth location and time zone changes which were officially in effect at the date and time of birth. When the universal date and time is calculated, user may alter it if needed. Finally, user chooses current location by selecting country or state, city or town from a database of available places on earth with associated geographical coordinates. This could be user's actual location or the location the user wants to use as the target or reference location for biorhythmic and celestial aspects calculations.

Once a user's profile is created, the user can view biorhythmic values and celestial aspects for a selected day of the year converted to a local time of the user's current location, as shown on Figure 4, using standard Internet browser. The calculation of biorhythmic cycles such as Physical, Emotional, Intellectual and Fertility is based on the user's universal date and time of birth (UT). The values of each biorhythm are calculated for a requested local date and time, converted to the Universal Time. Upon calculation of biorhythms in UT, the time is converted to the local time of the user's current location. The results are shown for a selected time of the day (in this embodiment at noon local time) at the current location as a percentage value from 0% to 100%, where 0% is the absolute minimum and 100% is the absolute maximum of the biorhythmic cycle. In addition, critical time for each of the Physical, Emotional and Intellectual (PEI) cycles is shown when the cycle reaches 50%. All dates and times are converted to the local time of the user's current location.

The following mathematical formulas are used to calculate the value of biorhythmic cycles in a percentage point for each day, hour and minute of individual's life:

Physical = 50 + 50*Sin(2 * Pi * DaysLived / 23.0) Emotional = 50 + 50*Sin(2 * Pi * DaysLived / 28.0) Intellectual = 50 + 50*Sin(2 * Pi * DaysLived / 33.0) Fertility = 50 + 50*Cos(2 * Pi * DaysLived / 29.5309)

Where Sin(X) and Cos(X) are standard mathematical functions for sine and cosine with parameter X in radians, Pi = 3.14159, DaysLived - actual number of days lived since the moment of birth. The accurate Universal Time of birth is used as a starting point of human life, therefore DaysLived = 0 is actual moment of birth, DaysLived = 1 is at the same Universal time next day after the birth. Of course, Dayslived could be a non-integer value like DaysLived = 1.5 (1 day and 12 hours) or any other value between 0 and infinity.

Critical times for PEI cycles (when cycle reaches 50%), and time for any other value of either biorhythmic cycle (like maximum - 100% or minimum - 0%) are found for a given date range using the same formulas. First, an approximate date is calculated for the desired biorhythmic cycle value. The date is converted to DaysLived for the time of birth in UT. Then, DaysLived are adjusted to match the desired biorhythm value. Finally, DaysLived are converted to the local time and presented to the user.

The values for biorhythmic cycles at a given local date and time are calculated first by converting the local time to universal time (UT). Then calculated DaysLived since the moment of birth in UT and, using the above formulas, calculated the value of each biorhythmic cycle.

The user can download biorhythmic cycles for a selected period of time to any calendar software running on a web server, desktop computer, PDA, digital phone, digital watch or any other device. The time range in the current implementation is between 100 years in the past or the future to 100 years in the past or the future. Current implementation uses iCalendar and vCalendar standards for events interchange between various calendaring systems, however it is not limited to only these standards should new calendar interchange standards emerge in the future.

Upon the user's action to download, as shown in Figure 4, the system calculates biorhythmic cycles according to the rules for each cycle and creates a file in the Data Store or on the Internet Server. The user can download this file as shown in FIGURE 5 and import it into any calendar systems, software or device. Alternatively, users who use web-based calendars can instruct the system's server to automatically upload the file to his or her account on a web based calendar. Upon import into a calendar software or device, the biorhythmic cycles are represented as events for each day within specified time range as shown in Figure 7. The biorhythmic cycles are shown in a calendar as an event at noon local time of the user's location and contains the following information in the description of the event: the name of the cycle, the value between 0% and 100% (some implementations can use values between -1 and +1 making 0 corresponding to 50%), trend (rising or falling), description of the cycle, and the interpretation of the associated biorhythm value.

Special events such as critical, maximum and minimum times for each biorhythm are displayed for a particular time of the day as shown in Figure 7. The special event can be the minimum (0%) or maximum (100%) value for each rhythm, or the critical time for PEI rhythms (when the value of a rhythm reaches a critical point (in this method 50%), or the range of values (e.g. when physical cycle is more than 75% or fertility is less than 20%). The duration of the event is determined by event type and the user's preferences, and it is always calculated from an accurate time of the event.

Personal celestial aspects are calculated between transiting celestial bodies for a selected day, month, and year and natal celestial bodies of the user. The exact time of each celestial aspect is converted to a local time of the User X or User Y based on a selected user and its current location as defined in the user's profile. These celestial aspects are shown in Figure 4 in the section "Horoscope for Bob on Dec 28, 2006". The celestial aspect "Transiting Venus sextiles Natal Moon at 05:52 AM" is shown as the default celestial aspect for this day. Other celestial aspects are listed below.

The mundane celestial aspects are calculated between transiting celestial bodies for a selected day, month, and year at the exact time for the current location of the user. These celestial aspects are shown in Figure 4 in the section "Horoscope for Bob on Dec 28, 2006," below the personal celestial aspects separated by the horizontal line. The list of mundane celestial aspects for Dec 28, 2006, starts with "03:44 AM Transiting Moon sextiles Transiting Neptune." Other mundane celestial aspects for a day are listed below. The user can download the celestial aspects for a selected day, month, and year or any other period of time as a data file suitable for importing to a calendar software running on a web server, desktop computer, PDA, digital phone, digital watch or any other device. The time range in the current implementation is between 100 years in the past or the future to 100 years in the past or the future. One implementation uses iCalendar and vCalendar standards for data interchange between various calendaring systems. However, it is not to be limited to only these standards should new calendar interchange standards emerge in the future.

Upon the user's action to download, the system calculates personal and mundane celestial aspects using ephemeris tables for celestial bodies and creates a file in the Data Store or Internet Server. The user can download this file in iCalendar or vcalendar format as shown in Figure 6 and import it into any calendar systems, software or device. Alternatively, users who use web-based calendars can instruct the system's server to automatically upload the file to his or her account on a web-based calendar.

Upon import into a calendar software or device, the celestial aspects are represented as calendaring events as shown in Figure 7. The duration of the event for each celestial aspect can vary between different celestial aspects and a pair of celestial bodies. The duration depends on the selected orb for each celestial aspect (such as trine or conjunction) and the two celestial bodies involved. For example, the duration of celestial aspects between transiting moon and other celestial bodies are generally within a few hours, whether the celestial aspects between Transiting Pluto and some other transiting celestial bodies or natal celestial bodies could span over several months. A current example of a downloaded data file is shown in Figure 6 and has a duration of each event of 0 or 1 minute. This enables the showing of an exact time of the celestial aspect and leaves the user to interpret the duration of each celestial aspect. In addition, the description field can include various interpretations and advice from professionals in this field. Clearly, this method is not restricted only to currently used electronic data exchange formats for calendaring systems and could be applied to emerging electronic data exchange formats in the future.

From the foregoing it will be appreciated that, although specific embodiments of the invention have been described herein for purposes of illustration, various modifications may be made without deviating from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the invention is not limited except as by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method comprising: obtaining data, comprising date and time of birth, geographic location of birth, and a current location; calculating at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle using the data; converting the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle to a local time for the current location to obtain at least one converted biorhythmic cycle; and displaying the converted biorhythmic cycle to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein calculating the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes converting the date and time of birth to a universal date and time, and wherein converting the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes converting the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle from the universal date and time to the local time for the current location.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising downloading the at least one converted biorhythmic cycle to an electronic file.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising importing the electronic file into an electronic calendar program.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes a physical cycle.

6 The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes a emotional cycle.

7 The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes a intellectual cycle.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle includes a fertility cycle.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising granting a second user permission and presenting the at least one converted biorhythmic cycle to the second user who has been granted permission to view the at least one biorhythmic cycle.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein presenting the at least one converted biorhythmic cycle to the second user includes converting the at least one converted biorhythmic cycle to a local time for the second user.

11. A computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by a computer, implements the method of claim 1.

12. A system comprising: a calculation engine configured to generate at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle based on received information for a user, the received information including a date, a time and a place of the user's birth, and current geographical location; and an output module configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle to enable the user to view the outputted at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle in an electronic calendar program.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

• a profile manager configured to manage a user profile generated from the received information for the user; and a memory configured to store at least one of the user profile and the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the output module is further configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle to a second user.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle using the electronic calendar program.

16. The system of clam 12, wherein the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle by outputting an electronic file of the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle to the user, the electronic file configured to be used by the electronic calendar program.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the received information for the user further includes a specified location, and wherein the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated biorhythmic cycle converted to a local time for the specified location.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the calculation engine is configured to calculate a fertility biorhythmic cycle using the received information for the user.

19. A computer-readable medium having instructions thereon to cause a computer processor to: display calendar data for a biorhythmic cycle calculated from a user's date, time and place of birth, wherein the calendar data includes times for at least one of a physical biorhythmic cycle, emotional biorhythmic cycle, and an intellectual biorhythmic cycle.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the calendar data is converted to a user's current local time before being displayed.

21. A system comprising: a calculation engine configured to generate at least one celestial aspect based on received information for a user, the received information including a date, a time and a place of the user's birth and current geographical location; and an output module configured to output the at least one celestial aspect to enable the user to view the outputted at least one calculated celestial aspect in an electronic calendar program.

22. The system of claim 21 , further comprising: a profile manager configured to manage a user profile generated from the received information for the user; and a memory configured to store at least one of the user profile and the at least one calculated celestial aspect.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the output module is further configured to output the at least one calculated celestial aspect in an electronic file for download to a calendar system by a second user.

24. The system of claim 21, wherein the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated celestial aspect using the electronic calendar program.

25. The system of clam 21, wherein the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated celestial aspect by outputting an electronic file of the at least one calculated celestial aspect to the user, the electronic file configured to be used by the electronic calendar program.

26. The system of claim 21 , wherein the received information for the user further includes a specified location, and wherein the output module is configured to output the at least one calculated celestial aspect converted to a local time for the specified location.

27. A computer-readable medium having instructions thereon to cause a computer processor to: display calendar data for a celestial aspect calculated from a user's date, time and place of birth, wherein the calendar data includes times and dates for at least one of a celestial aspect.

28. The computer-readable medium of claim 27, wherein the calendar data is converted to a user's current local time before being displayed.1. A method, comprising: creating an individual user profile with date time and place of birth and user's current location; calculating user's universal date and time of birth (UT); calculating high precision biorhythmic cycles for a period of time in the past or in the future based on the user's universal date and time of birth (UT); presenting biorhythmic cycles to the user, converted to the local time for the user's current location; allowing user to view biorhythmic cycles of other users who grant such permission, converted to the local time for the other users' current location or the requesting user's current location; downloading the biorhythmic cycles to an electronic file in an electronic storage medium for importing into an electronic system.

29. An apparatus, comprising:

A server equipped with a database containing a user's data; the server equipped with a database containing timezone conversion rules of the past and present years; the server or a computer component calculating out results of the biorhythmic cycles; the server delivering the results to the user by his operation of a client. means for creating an individual user profile with date time and place of birth and user's current location; means for calculating user's universal date and time of birth (UT); means for calculating high precision biorhythmic cycles for a period of time in the past or in the future based on the user's universal date and time of birth (UT) means for presenting biorhythmic cycles to the user, converted to the local time for the user's current location; means for allowing user to view biorhythmic cycles of other users who grant such permission, converted to the local time for the other users' current location or the requesting user's current location means for downloading the biorhythmic cycles to an electronic file in an electronic storage medium for importing into an electronic system.