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Programme 2015 CONTENTS the Address of the Venue Is: the Executive Centre Page 02 Wyboston Lakes, Great North Road Conference Chart Wyboston, Bedfordshire, MK44 3AR 2 Conference Programme 2015 CONTENTS The address of the venue is: The Executive Centre Page 02 Wyboston Lakes, Great North Road Conference Chart Wyboston, Bedfordshire, MK44 3AR Page 02 SHUTTLE SERVICE Venue Map The shuttle will be running back and forth between the Executive Page 04 Centre and the Training Centre (Accommodation blocks) at the President’s Welcome Message following times: Page 05-11 Friday 11th September 2014 Conference Itinerary 13.00 - 15.00 16.15 - 17.30 Page 12-16 Conference Speakers 00.15 - 01-15 Page 17-19 Saturday 12th September 2014 Charles Harvey Award 08.00 - 09.00 18.30 - 20.00 00.15 - 01.15 Sunday 13th September 2014 08.00 - 09.30 EVENING ARRANGEMENTS Friday Night The Charles Harvey Award this year will be announced during dinner. The bar will be open until 1am. Saturday Night We invite you to attend the Saturday Night Dinner, dressed or representing ‘The Edwardian Era’. This is to help celebrate the Lodge’s centenary. Prizes for the best dress or idea will be awarded on the basis of mass acclamation. After dinner — a chance to socialise in the courtyard or talk with friends in the lounge bar or cafe down the hall. A DJ will be playing in the main lounge after dinner. The bar will be open until 1am. The Astrological Association BCM 450, London WC1N 3XX Tel: +44 (0)20 86250098 Fax: +44 (0)20 86250097 offi [email protected] www.astrologicalassociation.com Programme is subject to change Conference Programme 2015 3 2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE APPRECIATING THE PAST AND CREATING OUR FUTURE Welcome to our 2015 Annual Conference! Just over 100 years ago, Alan Leo’s founding of the Astrological Lodge of London seeded interest and rediscovery of the roots of astrology’s many traditions. Formal education in these, alongside advances in modern consulting, mundane and other new methods make up the high standard of contemporary astrology. Founded from the Lodge in 1958, the Astrological Association has held a major annual astrology conference for the past forty-seven years. This year the ever-expanding potential of our knowledge is represented by 36 expert speakers, as well as the wisdom every delegate brings to our time together. The chart for our opening appropriately focuses on tradition by having ascendant-ruler Saturn on the MC. With just eleven days left in Scorpio, the challenge is to marshal everything we value from the past to focus understanding for Saturn’s final ingress (this cycle) into Sagittarius. The packed seventh house shows that there will be many wonderful companions offering a strong impetus for change (Venus and Mars in Leo trining Uranus in Aries, opposed by Mercury in Libra) and meticulous attention to detail (Sun in Virgo). Standing out in the seventh is Moon conjunct Jupiter in Virgo opposing Neptune rising in Pisces; the first Jupiter/ Neptune opposition since the Leo/Aquarius one that drove the Iraq War. Can determined attention to detail cut through to clarify and find solutions to problems faced by us and the planet in the years since? Then there are some fun plans and a disco on Saturday night, to sleep through the dark late lunar phase and awaken rejuvenated by the new moon at 0742 BST Sunday morning. All delegates at this year’s astrology conference could not be at a better place at a better time to remember (or learn for the first time) important knowledge and make plans for a important future. Have a wonderful time together! Roy Gillett – President September 2015 4 Conference Programme 2015 CONFERENCE ITINERARY Note: Complimentary tea, coffee and refreshments are available throughout the day at various stations and in the coffee shop in the Executive Centre. FRIDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 9.30 – 12.30 Cambridge Tour FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY Prudence Jones Roman, Saxon and Viking Cambridge: Come and explore the pivotal border site of Cambridge history, with its strange legends, ghostly tales, and almost as unbelievable chronicles. This route covers the meeting point of some of our earlier astrological walks – including some more recent archaeology and some ghosts as yet unvisited – so whether you’ve been on all of the tours or only one or two, you’ll gain even more by coming to this one. Here is the historical hinterland of the Cambridge scholars, familiar to astrologers, Dr John Dee, Isaac Newton, and John Flamsteed. 14.00 – 16.30 Choose between: FRIDAY AFTERNOON MASTERCLASSES Wanda Sellar Room 3 Spiritual Consciousness, the Zodiac and the Body: The zodiac signs, as seen from the esoteric viewpoint, hold the key to our health, complexes and wellbeing. We will examine each of the signs in terms of the lessons inherent in them, and consider their Personality and Soul Rulers. We will also compare and discuss the meanings of these rulers. Faye Cossar Room 4 Vocational Astrology – The Right Career Path: Imagine waking each morning wanting to go to work! Faye will focus on identifying a truly fulfilling profession for you and your clients by using a career counselling framework. Case studies will demonstrate how to create a lasting career profile from the birth chart. 16.30 – 17.15 Greetings - first time conference attendees Training Room 1 16.30 – 17.15 Speakers Meeting Coffee Shop 17.30 – 17.45 Conference Opening Conference Room 1 17.50 – 18.35 PLENARY Lee Lehman Conference Room 1 The Astrology of Sustainability: In order to understand the coming events of the next fifty years, we have to also understand the environmental stresses of Pluto going through Saturn’s signs. This lecture presents a history of those events, and how it will apply as we move forward. 18.35 – 19.10 Light refreshments Lounge Foyer 19.15 – 20.15 PLENARY The Carter Memorial Lecture Claire Chandler Conference Room 1 When an Astrologer Speaks…: Power surrounds the astrologer, and an understanding of the nature of power is essential. We must recognise the constraints that frame our practice; we cannot choose to ignore them for they will not ignore us. Knowledge is Power. 20.15 Dinner Restaurant The Charles Harvey Presentation. The bar will be open until 1am Conference Programme 2015 5 SATURDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER 07.00 – 10.00 Breakfast Restaurant 09.00 – 10.00 Choose between: Geoffrey Cornelius Room 3 The Other Side of Saturn: The Trans-Saturnian Showing of Astrology. Beyond Saturn is not more of the same, and a halfway house of theory is not enough. Just as our symbols show modernity, so must our practice be transformed. For the modern astrologer this is shocking, inspiring and profoundly disturbing. Illustrated with examples. Nick Kollerstrom Room 4 SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY Eureka and Mystic Moments – When Inspiration Strikes: Somehow the great Eureka moments in the history of science seem to have ended in the 1950s, and instead the universe is now giving us mystic-type moments of illumination. These seem to have a similar astrological signature of quintiles and septiles, so in this talk Nick will discuss both together. Alan Ayre Room 2 Astrology and Giant-Killers: In this talk Alan explores how teams composed of so-called ‘average’ players can beat teams with ‘superstars’. For example, at the 2014 World Cup Finals, Costa Rica beat Italy and out-performed England. Find out how compatibility, transits and astrocartography all play their part in a team ‘over-performing’. Jadranka Coic – speaking for The Astrological Lodge of London (APAE Student Track) Room 6 The Lunation Cycle and Eclipses: The lunation cycle between two new Moons is the most obvious astrological cycle to notice and follow. But is it an easy one to explain? In this talk I will be discussing lunations, with an accent on the traditional meanings of Moon phases and eclipses. 10.15 – 11.15 Choose between: Nicholas Campion Room 3 Is the Self – our Soul - in the Horoscope? Many astrologers talk as if astrology is a universal language which describes the entire life. All answers to all questions are then in the chart. But there are traditions which challenge this, asserting the primacy of the individual will, and challenging notions of astral fate. What are the implications for the practice of astrology? Darby Costello Room 4 Neptune and Longing: Neptune is considered a ‘transpersonal’ or ‘generational’ planet by many astrologers today. And yet it describes a dimension that is very much part of our personal lives. In this talk we shall look at how we can get lost in Neptune’s realm without ever knowing it, and how Neptune mixes up our intimate and even social needs and desires with its ever-mysterious call. Eve Dembowski – speaking for The School of Traditional Astrology (APAE Student Track) Room 2 Considerations Before Judgement – What Makes a Chart Radical? This lecture will explore, through chart examples, the astrological rationale behind ‘considerations before judgement’, and trace the meaning and importance of a chart being radical. It will also unveil the magical connections between the horary chart and natal chart. Sheila Harrison Room 6 The Quest – The Past is the Passport to Our Future: The discovery in a Scottish attic of an embroidered silk square sewn by a First World War soldier, who died in Alexandria, Egypt, sets off a search that unravels a whole Sagittarian family saga — and leads right up to a descendant born with the Sun in Sagittarius in December 2014. 11.30 – 12.15 PLENARY Brian Clark (via satellite) Conference Room 1 Day and Night: Our past has bequeathed us the notion of planetary sect, opening a panorama of ways of thinking about the horoscope from a diurnal or nocturnal perspective. Astrology offers us a simple, yet complex 6 Conference Programme 2015 and profound approach to reflect on images of day and night.
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