Wednesday, November 19, 2008

November 18 Meeting

Announcements
Dec 19: Baltimore NCGR Potluck Holiday party at Kitty’s house, NCGR will supply turkey and dressing, punch and soft drinks; Please bring a dish and a friend
Dec 7: Annapolis Holiday party – speaker, luncheon and raffle
January meeting – Jeanie Mosier: Predictions 2009
Kitty presented Helmut Licht with a gift of appreciation for his service to our chapter.

Educational Session
Helmut Licht discussed the best and worst qualities of the signs and planets.

Featured Speaker
Georgia Stathis is a Pleasant Hill, California, USA based astrologer and popular international lecturer who received a BS degree from Northwestern University in Chicago and an MBA degree from Pepperdine University in California. Georgia is a first-generation Greek-American whose cultural roots are in myth, story, and trade. She is a regular contributor to the astrological community through books, articles, lectures and a series of learning tapes.

Georgia has been practicing astrology since the late 1970's and is the author of the book Business Astrology 101, which will be offered for sale at her lecture. Georgia’s lecture style is educational and entertaining. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is rarely on the East Coast and is delighted to be speaking to the Baltimore NCGR. Georgia has been a charter faculty member at Kepler College since 2001 and will be teaching Business and Financial Cycles in Spring 2009 for Kepler.

Georgia’s website is
www.starcycles.com offers over 100 tapes and MP3s and articles.

Link to Chapter 1 of Business Astrology 101
http://www.starcycles.com/pages/busastroch1.html

CD/MP3 Info
CDs ($10.00) and MP3s ($8.00) of this talk are available from Baltimore NCGR. Get order form online at
http://www.ncgrbaltimore.org/order_form.htm or order at meetings or contact Teri Taylor 443-794-9126 or teri2306@verizon.net.

Some highlights from Georgia’s talk on Financial Astrology and You.

Handouts
Outline – Financial Potential in the Horoscope

Also Note: Georgia will send a Cashflow excel worksheet to anyone on request: email Georgia at
georgiastathis@sbcglobal.net

Summary of Talk
Anyone can be successful. It’s a matter of overcoming the barriers that we impose upon ourselves that come from not only our conditioning as adults but our conditioning as children. Anything is possible. As much as people are screaming doom and gloom, in the next 20 years as we go through the transit of Pluto in Capricorn, we have some very innovative opportunities coming in.

Pluto at 29 Sag – 29th degree of any planet indicates too late to start anything new. Pluto has been void for the last 4 or 5 weeks. Scorpio is the banks. Pluto has been going through the galactic center (28th – 29th). The galactic center is an interesting place in the sky. You have the archer pointing at the scorpion’s heart. Between the point of the arrow and the scorpion’s heart is the galactic center. In five years between 1985 – 1989 lots of change took place technologically, also in Russia.

For the last 8 years, people have been placed in a position of fear. When you are frozen, you are not prosperous. Pluto, the rebirth of responsibility (Capricorn). Saturn and Uranus were conj in 1987 (issues with insider trading), a lot of careless investing went on at that time. An article about the Sat Uran conj and how erractic the stock market would become at that time. We have between Nov 4, 2008 to July 2010 for Sat/Uranus opp.

Saturn is the last planet that we see. To the ancients it was the limit and reality of the universe. Life changed when Uranus was found. Saturn/Uranus – the jackhammer on the concrete of the streets. The Uranus/Saturn opp about jack-hammering our perceived realities.

From 101 Book: Hierarchy of Needs chart.
One with God – Neptune
Self-Actualization – Uranus
Self-Esteem – Venus
Social – Sun, Mercury, Jupiter
Security – Moon
Physical – Saturn, Mars

You will get what you expect. If you believe you won’t have clients the way you want them, you won’t.
You want to see where Saturn is in a person’s chart to see where they feel limited and where they are confronted with survival issues.

The Saturn oppositions occurs at ages 14, 45 and 75.
Social security was designed so we would collect at 65, but at that time many people were dying at 60.
At 51 or 52 you’re at the same place as when you were 21. Many people in their 50’s and 60’s are now going back to school. Last quarter square is one of the most difficult. Often benefits by taking some sort of educational class. This is a way out of that square.

Saturn is the voice of judgement. The key to success is to find something you like. Don’t share ideas you are still developing with people who will discourage you.
Advice: go out exercise, walk, or hit a punching bag to get rid of the voice of judgment.

On the second rung is Mars. It is the motivation in the horoscope. If we’re motivated by something we do it. Mars square Neptune could be challenging. If you have a challenging Mars, every night make a list that is achievable. Mars can only do one thing at a time. It is task-oriented. Venus is the anti-dote to Mars. Venus allows you to receive. Every planet has an antidote. Mercury and Pluto work together. It’s important to look at the condition of someone’s Mars. Mars went retrograde in our country and will be retrograde via Mar’s progression for 90 years. Mars is spending. Another thing to look at – how you spend your money. Credit cards were developed in 1956. People spend 33 and a third percent more when using credit cards. Money management – Saturn/Mars, putting a budget together.

Homework: Every day make a reasonable request of someone, for example ask for a discount on an item with an past expiration date. Once a week, make an unreasonable request, for example pay for services up front for 1 year and ask for 25% off the total.

Venus is the natural ruler of the 2nd house (Taurus) and 7th (Libra - partnerships). Second house – value systems. You spend your money on what you value. Venus is what you value and how we value ourselves. Self-esteem.

Eight house working with other people’s resources (referring clients to others). Eighth house shows the occupation that will bring you income. The sign that’s on the eight house cusp is how you make your money.

Solar arcs – certain ages 42-48 around time of Saturn opposition, is the time when people are ready to make career or financial changes. Pay attention to when one of the planets is at the ends of its run. If it rules the 2nd house or 8th house, they’re about to change their value system or the way they engage other people for support.

Another issue is technology (3rd house), how do you use your time.

Eleventh house – 2nd house of your 10th house, the way you network to get your career going, groups, friendships, aspirations, your resources, the people that you know. Think about what you like to do, what’s fun for you (5th house), the house of taking risks and speculative ventures. The house of taking an avocation that becomes a vocation.

Most people make their career changes when Saturn leaves the 4th and goes into the 5th.
A lot of people don’t have careers, but do something in the world with which they are identified.

The Moon – there is a fogginess about it. The first seven years of your life, it is what you experienced (your security). Even if dysfunctional, it’s what you see as security. If it doesn’t get reoriented, it will be difficult for a person to make money if they don’t feel safe. Negative belief systems about making money can keep you from making money.

First step is to budget how much you’re going to give away. Give it first to the people who ask. You need to give money to make money. Quality is Saturn. People will buy a lot less, but quality. Sagittarius is about quantity.

There is a difference between early, less-developed Mars and the more developed Mars.. The challenge of a strong Mars is to learn to think before you act.

Chart: Quadrant distributions in the Horoscope from Ray Merriman’s book Evolutionary Astrology
Bottom left: Rogue, Bottom right: Mystic, top left: Global, top right Relationship

A strong rogue quadrant indicates a need to work independently. The Mystic is the toughest because it doesn’t fit well in the western culture. The person is always wondering what they’re going to do with their life, when they don’t realize that their life is a bridge for other people’s lives.
The ideal teacher creates a bridge over which the students can cross. They may never have enough money, but they always have enough to live.

Transiting planets through these quandants will affect this also. Relationship quadrant – dependent on people, Global – can make money by being in groups. The 12th house is the engine for the chart. The Vedics believe its the place of conception of the chart. It’s the unconscious stuff that drives the rest of you.

Outline of Planets and Vocations – in the book but will send outline for free if you contact her.

Unusual configurations. Per Kathryn DeJersey – when you have a strong Uranus in the chart, it is the sign of big concepts and big dealers. Uranus people, about every 7 years they will change direction. By all the work they’ve done, the work will find them. Do a treasure map or make a list of things you would like to. Uranus is also about working in groups collectively. Use new technology.

If there are a lot of conjunctions in their chart, they need to be working for themselves. A lot of planets in cadent houses, are people who connect people, if fixed houses want security, angular houses, don’t stay.

Planetary returns, moments of opportunity. The USA is having a Pluto return. The indoor planets, mercury, mars, sun, etc. If something is coming from behind they can’t see it. In the last pass, they can start to see clearly.

Look at the phased relationship in your natal chart between Saturn and Jupiter.
Phased Relationships between Natal Saturn and Jupiter. Then look at when Jupiter hits their Saturn every 12 years. When Jupiter hits your Saturn, you start a new career..1 ½ year cycles for the phases.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

October 21 Meeting

Announcements
Nov 16 – Our education department will present a workshop on Saturn Transits. The workshop is from 1-5 pm and will be taught by Lucky Sweeny; members $45, non-members $65. Proceeds from the workshop will be used to support our chapter.

Nov 18 - Our next speaker is Georgia Stathis: Financial Astrology and You.

Featured Speaker
Kelly Lee Phipps is the author of "Celestial Renaissance: A Revolution of Astrology" and the forthcoming "The Tao of Astrology". With over twenty years experience in astrology, he is actively involved in advancing the field of astrology based in Asheville, NC, interpreting birth charts for folks across the globe. He is also the co-host of The Cosmic Weather astrology podcast (www.cosmicweather.com) and a budding filmmaker with his debut film “Return of the Magi”, a documentary of authentic astrology.

Do you want to vastly improve your chart interpretation skills? Kelly teaches a creative synthesis of the archetypes and techniques of astrology to help you develop an integrated, dynamic, life-changing interpretation style. This method of working with the archetypes utilizes the wisdom of astrology, including the Hellenistic qualities, and blends it with the natural spontaneity and simplicity of Taoism as both a mystical search for the principles that govern life and a philosophy of rhythmic change. Your poetic, oracular, chart interpretation skills will never be the same!

CD/DVD and other Info
CDs ($10.00) and MP3s ($8.00) of this talk are available from Baltimore NCGR. Get order form online at http://www.ncgrbaltimore.org/order_form.htm or order at meetings or contact Teri Taylor 443-794-9126.

The October educational period was replaced with a movie “The Return of the Magi”. The Return of the Magi is the first ever documentary of authentic astrology, showcasing interviews with over 47 of the world’s top astrologers, interlaced with a simple story of a woman going through a crisis and finding an astrologer who changes her life forever.

The DVD of the movie can be ordered online at: http://astrologers-online.com/kelly_lee_phipps.php or
http://www.divineinspirationastrology.com or contact Kelly by phone: (828) 808-3512

Also see segments of the documentary online: Kelly on Youtube: http://au.youtube.com/user/KellyLeePhipps, Website: http://www.astrologyilluminated.tv/

Some highlights from Kelly’s Talk on The Tao of Astrology.
The Tao of Astrology is about inspiring people through astrology. Kelly likes to teach astrologers to visualize the solar system.

Handouts
Exploring your birth vision template
Symbols of Astrology
Modes and Elements
Qualities and Elements
Aspects: Dialogue of the Planets

Discussed technique for exploring your birth vision using a template he created. Talked about poetic astrology, that we are cosmic story-tellers. The four elements together give beautiful images that describe movement. The moon is the key to emotional contentment in the chart; where we find inner peace. For example, Barack Obama has Moon in Gemini – finds contentment through communication.

Kelly likes to use classical rulers of the chart. Look at the chart as a painting.

Discussed qualities and elements of the planets. Qualities: hot, dry, cold, moist; Elements: fire, earth, air, water. Chart shown comes from Hellenistic era.

Chiron is the key to your destiny. Uranus is the Divine Mind.
Dignity – how much strength or honor a planet has in a chart.

Buckminster Fuller geodesic domes – emergent properties: combining two simple things

Example chart: William Butler Yeats – Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived and a source of revelation. Emergent properties – humanitarian streak, power paradigm, wise elder, performer, law: became a senator in Ireland

Leonardo da Vinci – another grand air trine; also Steven Hawkins has a grand air trine

Waxing aspects – creating structures and building activities; waning aspects,
Applying – full of mystery and power; separating.

You tend to project your opposition.

Universe means the turning of the one. Conversation – the turning of another
Archetype – archane from archus – to govern; typos – the original governing images of the universe.

In Taoism – Five element theory describes the flow of change in any cycle. Fire, water, earth, wood, metal

Book - Tao of Astrology to come out in Spring of 09.