February 9 Relationships
Claire Morriss will be presenting a talk about relationships just in time for Valentine’s Day. Relationships are one of the most intriguing from an astrological perspective. Details to follow.
March 2012 Lee Lehman
March 8-11 2012 with Lee Lehman
Lee is author of The Ultimate Asteroid Book (1988), Essential Dignities (1989), The Book of Rulerships (1992), Classical Astrology for Modern Living (1996), The Martial Art of Horary Astrology (2002), and a translation from the French of Papus’ Astrology for Initiates . Her latest book on mundane will be published in 2011. Her correspondence courses, Classical Studies (horary, natal, electional, medical, gaming, mundane and advanced horary), bring classical astrology to the forefront as an astrological system. Read more about Lee Lee will be our guest lecturer in March 2012, read are the topics, dates and times and register for this event. Read more »
2012 Annual Overview, by Rose Marcus
A recording of my January 10, 2012 public lecture “Collective Awakening and the 2012 Momentous Planetary Alignments”, is available for purchase.Please visit my website for more information: rosemarcus.com/astrolink or email me directly if you would like a copy. rose_marcus@shaw.ca
Annual Overview for 2012
2012 begins with Mars on an extended tour of Virgo. The transit began mid November and will complete by July 3. Mars is usually a quick transit, averaging 6 – 8 weeks through a sign. Due to its retrograde cycle, Jan 23 to April 4, Mars will spend almost 8 months on its current target practice. While lack of jobs remains critical to each nation’s economic wellbeing, Mars will keep each one of us hard at work on our own fix-it programs. With great precision, Mars in Virgo will target the weak, vulnerable, or damaged. The transit serves to uncover what’s lacking, what’s flawed, what isn’t working. In so doing, we’ll get to the core of what needs to be corrected, fixed and healed.
When Mars tours Virgo, the common complaint from the receiving end is often one of “too little, too late”. This or other growing dissatisfactions will set the groundwork for the Mars retrograde, pull-back-and-shift-target cycle. From the end of January through the beginning of April, circumstances shift, we shift. Mars retrograde serves to redirect attention and to refortify ambition. Rather than focus on the external objectives or goal posts, we transfer attention back to self and to personal reconciliation. By creating an added degree of separation or disengagement, Mars retrograde sharpens objectivity and perspective. Mars in retrograde is an internal “heating” influence; a specific momentum builds more steam. Although it may not be in your range of vision, know it is firing up all the same. Certainly this is so for Kim John-Un and the North Korean military machine, Iran’s nuclear program, etc. Read more »
Rose Marcus 2012
Collective Awakening – a look ahead 2012
Are we at the end of time? The Mayan Calendar may end on Dec 21, 2012 —or on one of the other dates tossed around out there —but we stars gazers certainly know it won’t be the end of the Uranus/Pluto transit! Neptune and Chiron are just getting started in Pisces, Saturn will advance into Scorpio, and the nodes of the moon will also make a sign change. Additionally, in the first half of the year, Mars and Venus will both do retrograde tours. The big evolutionary agenda continues! Rose will share her thoughts on how to best navigate the 2012 celestial tides.
Rose Marcus, Evolutionary Astrologer/Teacher, editor & contributing author: Insights into Evolutionary Astrology”, (Llewellyn World Wide Publications, released in 2010). Rose has written for numerous publications and projects over the years, most notably, SELF, Vogue, NY; and The Mountain Astrologer (she was the daily forecast columnist in 2006/07). In addition to her popular in-depth monthly forecasts (read them on Rose’s website, or sign up to receive them emailed to you), Rose currently writes a weekly astrology column for The Georgia Straight, Vancouver. The column is published on Thursdays: www.straight.com/lifestyles. Every last Wednesday of the month, Rose discusses the upcoming transits on Guiding Stars Radio with Kirstin Fontana, on www.HealthyLife.net. Archived podcasts are posted on Rose’s website. For more information on Rose’s private consultations, classes, and public appearances: rosemarcus.com or email rose: rose_marcus@shaw.ca
Annual Potluck
This will be our 21st annual potluck. Members are invited to bring finger food and other Xmas goodies to share. This event is about socializing, chatting about astrology without an agenda.
Some of our members bring along Tarot cards, others are willing to do quick chart readings and we even have a palmist in our mix. Rebecca, the Guild’s newly-elected secretary and long-standing member, reads palms…yes, she is bringing her magnifying glass. She had a line up last year…
We always have loads of fun and it is an opportunity to get to know members better.
So bring along a plate to share, your cards and other fun things… See you there…
PS 20 years
We had a wonderful three days with Rob Hand to celebrate our 20th anniversary. Our newsletter is in the works and should be out in the next ten days or so. Next month we are talking about Mars at our roundtable…it is the top post on this page. The recordings of Rob’s presentations and associated handouts will be in our lending library at the November meeting. These are available to members only. The annual dues are due now for 2011-12. We are also accepting registrations for Lee Lehman. The payment links for registering with your credit card will be posted soon.
Take a moment to post a comment about Rob; contemplate if you would like to write a mini-blog on our site…see you at the AGM next month.
What kind of warrior are you?
In November following our AGM we will have an interactive roundtable about Mars. Mars spends six weeks in a sign is what we learn. However, once every couple of years he is retrograde and at the same time spends up to eight long months in one sign. This time just like back in November 1964-end of June 1965, Mars will be in Virgo from November 10 until July 3, 2012. We will be talking about Mars in the natal chart and Mars in action or ‘inaction’. We want to hear about what kind of warrior you are, the one that battles with words, prefers a gun, knitting needles, surgical knife, hand to hand combat, or simply engages in wishing something to be a certain way. Anne will bring a sheet of data about the travels of Mars…you bring your thoughts and ideas about Mars, it will be interesting as our round-tables (sans the table) tend to be.
This is an image of a bronze statue of Mars, found it on Wikipedia. No armour, and quite the pose, appears almost genderless or actually more effiminate…
Rob Hand at the Guild
The Guild celebrates its 20th anniversary on October 17. For our program in October we are delighted to have Rob Hand presenting two talks and a workshop. We have spots available for all three events, our meeting place easily accommodates about 70-80 attendees. Read Anne Massey’s interview with Rob Hand
Thursday October 13, 2011 at 7:30PM
Interrogatory Method of Natal Chart Analysis
In modern astrology it is often stated that one must look at the chart as a whole. This is appropriate for obtaining a general overview of a chart. However, when examining the chart for specific areas of life, most systems become unstructured and imprecise. Ptolemy’s method offers a highly structured approach in helping us make specific statements about a natal chart. Not only do these procedures tell the astrologer what to look at; more importantly, they also tell the astrologer what NOT to look at. This lecture will include a general introduction to this method, strategies on which to focus and guidance on how to gather vital information to assist in the final intuitive synthesis. The overall result is a more reliable assessment of the natal chart. Attendance free for members, non-members $10 drop-in fee. We meet for dinner prior to the event at about 5PM at Stephanos, next door to our meeting place. Read about the Friday lecture and Saturday workshop, and use PayPal to pay for talk(s) and workshop, by clicking on the link Read more »
A chat with Rob Hand
June 28, 2011 and July 20, 2011
Interview conducted by Anne Massey
“Astrology is a discipline which is rooted in a pre-modern, in fact pre-medieval concept of the world. It very strongly implies, that we consider the universe an aspect of a living, conscious, and sentient being. “—Rob Hand
It is interesting to think of a historian, computer software writer, author, lecturer, professor, philosopher, translator and a scholar with the Sagittarian bent for the truth—realize how complex that sounds—and then identify the person as Robert Hand. At a recent conference Rob was introduced as the Stephen Spielberg of astrology, and I asked him how he felt about that. “I don’t like being regarded as the Spielberg of astrology, I am just a human being who has a deep interest and understanding of astrology”, was Rob’s comment during. In fact he might prefer be likened to Johann Sebastian Bach, ‘whose work was revered for its intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty’ (comment about Bach sourced from Wikipedia—AM). On second thought just a human being, who happens to be a well-versed and learned.
The origins of words and the history of astrology and how it applies to our lives hold Rob’s interest in astrology after six decades of enquiry. The topics fly by, and I lose track of time as Rob talks equally passionately about the dignities in astrology, his belief system, his recent weight loss (30 pounds is a lot) and paints vivid imagery about the tree of life, Neo-Platonic philosophy and definitions of words…even my usually reliable digital recorder failed to keep track chopping the actual interview portion into 99 separate files each about 2-16 seconds, only one was measured in minutes. Read more »
Guild News
The August-September 2011 issue of the Guild News is ready for your reading pleasure. We have moved the links to current and other digital versions of our newsletter to www.astrologyguild.com/newsletter –there is menu item on every page for this. The publications are without password protection, as we wish to promote the Guild and to encourage people to join us. The latest issue is 12 pages and filled with wonderful writing–enjoy. All of our newsletters are in pdf format. Also check out our new facebook page!
