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The Career Happy New Decade! Astrologer DECEMBER SOLSTICE Holiday Blessings and Happy New Year to the OPA tribe. V28 2019 We complete the year 2019 and look forward to 2020 with great anticipation (I mean palpitation). 2019 was a wonderful year for OPA, and even though we did not have any event on location, many developments and processes took place this year: • An expanding committed membership with well above 700 members from The Year 2020 across the world, and new members from Chile. • First OPA event in Australia, along with first Peer Group launched in President’s Report P.2 Turkey and Greece. The Year 2020 P.3 - 41 • OPA East Bay chapter launched in California. • The launch of the 2020 OPA Retreat, uniting astrologers in the most Interview: Lee Lehman P.22 community-oriented conference format, in the beautiful natural setting of Tribute: Andre Barbault P.42 Zion National Park. • OPA Articles translated into several languages. 2020 Horary/Electional in Practice P.44 • A newly active INSTAGRAM account, with ongoing video updates. Transits of the Season P.54 • More than 3000 members on our ASTROLOGY DISCUSSION Facebook Group. • A new Fundamental Astrology Online Course. The Communicating Astologer P.60 You can find out more about these items on our website: opaastrology.org. Yantra P.62 Keeping the OPA wheel spinning is a monumental effort that requires immense Goal Setting P.64 dedication from our board and from our satellites. We can really be so grateful for this super-productive team working on a voluntary basis. Thank you all. US Presidential Candidates P.68 I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the lesser seen agents who con- tribute just as much to making OPA amazing and interesting: Editors: Maurice Fernandez, Donna Young SARA FISK – our branding and Career Astrologer designer who works on tight Proofing: Nancy Beale, deadlines and always delivers formidable results. Jeremy Kanyo, Donna Young GEZ ABEL – Our video and Instagram wizard who is always available to provide the Design: Sara Fisk best recommendations and remind us how late we are with our submissions! Cover Art: Deborah James, see p. 52 JEREMY KANYO and NANCY BEALE for their laser eye proof reading of the maga- © 2019 OPA All rights reserved. No part of this publication zine under tight deadlines! And Nancy again for making sure subscribers get their may be reproduced without the written consent of OPA, unless by the authors of the articles themselves. printed copies. DISCLAIMER: While OPA provides a platform for articles to GRANT JENSEN – Our website helper who, with Maurice, is on top of updating our appear in this publication, the content and ideas are not necessarily eflecting OPA’s points of view. Each author is website and fixing all bugs. responsible for the content of their articles. And then, all of you, UNITED RAINBOW COLORS OF OPA! United in different approaches to astrology, united in different levels of expertise, united in different cultures and time zones. We are a committed membership basis that supports the organization, and more globally, astrology as a practice. As we march into the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in Aquarius, astrology will undoubtedly gain tremendous presence in the mainstream. To meet those demands, we must continue to raise our standards and provide reliable refer- ences. Our work becomes critically important, and we thank you for your par- ticipation, support, and dedication.
A peak into OPA 2020 The Organization for • New model for the Career Astrologer magazine, with exclusive Professional Astrology “member only” section • The 2020 OPA Retreat in April 2020, Zion National Park. • OPA’s next book release, Essential Astrology • The launch of our next I-Astrologer event in Europe
And much more… stay tuned! OPAastrology.org With blessings, Maurice Fernandez , OPA R
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WELCOME TO ASTROLOGICAL MILESTONES 2020 Dec 26, 2019 June 20, 2020 South Node Solar Eclipse Solar Eclipse on Solstice at 4 Capricorn, conjunct degree - 0° UCancer Jupiter July 5, 2020 Lunar Eclipse at 13° he universe has January 10, 2020 Lunar Eclipse at 20° Cancer plans for 2020, the Cancer T year where “everything happens” September 9 – November – from dramatic cycles, to Solstice January 12, 2020 13, 2020 Eclipses, and both Venus and Mars Saturn/Pluto conjunc- Mars Retrograde in Aries retrograde cycles. tion at 22° Capricorn, along with the Sun, Ceres, October 14, 2020 The HOT DEGREE ZONES – 20-28 Chariklo, and Mercury. Mars Retrograde Cardinal and 0-3 Fixed opposes the Sun at 21° April 1, 2020 Aries/Libra Mars/Saturn conjunction Mark your calendar for a at 0° Aquarius. December 21, 2020 powerful celestial activa- Jupiter/Saturn tion coming to your town! April 4, 2020 conjunction at 0 Jupiter/Pluto conjunction Aquarius at 24° Capricorn January 20, 2021 May 5, 2020 Mars/Uranus conjunction Nodal Axis shifts to at 6 Taurus square Gemini/Sagittarius Jupiter in Aquarius May 12 – June 24, 2020 Venus RetrogradeZ in LMGemini TRQ DECEMBER SOLSTICE 2019 page 3 DECEMBER SOLSTICE 2018 page 3 OPA LIVE SPECIAL
THE ASTROLOGY FOR ROY GILLETT CHRISTOS ARCHOS CHRISTEEN SKINNER THE YEAR 2020 LYNN BELL
cumnavigation of the World, developing The material shape of modern society trade to the Far East, the expansion of Islam was seeded from the 1762-92 CE Pluto into Eastern Europe, India and further east, transit, which saw rapid expansion of 2020: as well as the publication of Copernicus’ On colonialism and industrialisation, leading the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies immedi- to radical upheaval in the way nations, Pluto/Saturn ately after his death. These developments and societies within nations, did business spearheaded the Enlightenment. with each other. European nations, led by Conjunction Britain, mapped and recorded the world, as if creating an 18th/19th century ‘Doomsday The cycle for the in Capricorn Book’ of assets to exploit. Out of all this, twenty-first century today’s capitalism and the struggle for Leading to below, shows the democracy were born. period 2017-25 to Jupiter/Saturn have the most extreme The Cyclic Index is based on the com- in Aquarius shift from bottom to bined total of the exact angular separations top throughout the for each of the ten pairs of outer planets. two-hundred-year It shows the major events of the twenti- eth century occurring at extremes of the period. cycle. The cycle for the twenty-first centu- ooked at from a long, medium, and L short-term historical perspective, 2020 marks a remarkable historical turning point.