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The Year 2021 and Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus Cycles QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF OPA Career OPA’s Quarterly Magazine Astrologer The THE YEAR and JUPITER 2021 SATURN UR ANUS cycles DECEMBER SOLSTICE The Organization for Professional Astrology V29 2020 04 V28-03 SEPTEMBER EQUINOX 2019 page 1 QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF OPA The Career Astrologer Features DECEMBER SOLSTICE THE THE YEAR 2021 V29 04 2020 9 OPA LIVE Introduction YEAR OPA LIVE Astro-Finance 10 Overview 2021 Christeen Skinner p. 9 2021 13 OPA LIVE Dance Between THE YEAR Darkness and Light Wendy Stacey 2021 18 Aquarius Times Öner Döşer Jupiter, Saturn, 20 Entering the Twelfth House of the Zodiac Age of Pisces Uranus Cycles Robbie Tulip 25 Jupiter, Satrun and Uranus Editors: Maurice Fernandez, Synodic Cycles Maurice Fernandez William Sebrans Alexandra Karacostas Change is in the AIR Proofing: Nancy Beale, 28 Jan Carter Seymour Jeremy Kanyo Design: Sara Fisk Cover Art: Sherri Lasko, see p.59 © 2020 OPA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written consent of OPA, unless by the authors of the articles themselves. DISCLAIMER: While OPA provides a platform for articles to appear in this publication, the content and ideas are not necessarily reflecting OPA’s points of view. Each Columns author is responsible for the content of their articles. 6 TRANSITS OF THE SEASON Deborah James p. 68 46 Forensic Astrology: The Watts Family Murders Britanie Leclair The Organization for 58 Astrology Research: Software for Professional Astrology Research in Astrology Mj Patterson 62 Working with Children’s Charts: “Zeus on the Loose” Alex Trenoweth OPAastrology.org p. 46 p. 6 Astrologer The Career Dear OPA Members, p. 68 e’re here—at the finish line—making it through one of the most W intense years we have experienced in our lifetime. Perhaps indi- vidually we have survived more challenging years, but 2020 is up there Articles with a rare level of global crisis and an equally unique potential for 68 Ruth Bader Ginsburg transforming our world. Linda Zlotnick It has been necessary to release our habits and beliefs, calling 72 Winning With a 12th House on inner strength, creativity and consciousness. We have created Maurice Fernandez restaurants on sidewalks and moved cherished activities onto virtu- al platforms. Our computers and smartphones now serve us almost 76 Intro: Dashas of Vedic Astrology Alan Annand exclusively for yoga and dance, teaching our children, and of course, offering and receiving astrological wisdom. And, we are just beginning… At this Solstice, a time of reflection, we are blessed to be guided by astrology, to understand there are patterns of truth and meaning to guide us individually and collectively. We know that the Jupiter/Saturn alignment of December 21st will launch us into a twenty year Aquarian cycle, the sign aligned p.72 with astrology. We had a truly inspiring OPA Live panel “The Year 2021” on December 21st with four brilliant astrologers discuss their perspec- tives on 2021 and beyond. You can read their articles in this edition, and get the recording of the live event. Then, our April Virtual Conference, “Astrology & The Great Awakening,” will deepen our knowledge and insights. If you haven’t registered yet, please do so soon to ensure your choice of Immersion Track and the lowest possible price. We want this conference to be accessible to all, so check out payment plans and scholarships if needed. p. 66 The Satellite events have brought many new OPA Members into our family, able to listen to amazing speakers in local languages. You can sign up for the Israel event, in Hebrew, scheduled for December 27. We are grateful for your commitment to our sacred art, and look More forward to the years ahead, deepening our wisdom and knowledge 34 INTERVIEWS with together as a diverse, aware community. OPA Conference Faculty 66 INTERVIEW with Kenneth Miller Much gratitude to those who contributed during 2020 to OPA’s continued quality and development: BOOK REVIEWS: 16 Astrology’s Higher Octaves • Gez Abel for media and video production. by Greg Bogart • Louise Edington for event promotion. 32 The Hare on the Moon • Grant Jensen and Dagan Ray for web management and design. by Joanna May • Sara Fisk for branding, design, and magazine production. 71 The Ultimate Book of Astrology • Nancy Beale and Jeremy Kanyo for proofreading the OPA magazine. Books by Michael O’Reilly In gratitude, Kay R PRESIDENT’S REPORT V29-04 DECEMBER SOLSTICE 2020 page 3 6 DAYS of Astrology Magic! April 22-27, 2021 OPA 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ASTROLOGY & The Great Awakening Join Us! Join Us! page 4 The Career Astrologer OPA’s Quarterly Magazine CHECK THE FULL PROGRAM AT OPAastrologyEVENTS.org Welcome to our December 2020 Solstice Issue by William Sebrans “Plus ça change, “Most Americans don’t live their lives solely as predictions!) is a well-meaning and understandable Democrats, Republicans, liberals or conservatives. illusion, yet illusion, nonetheless. plus c’est la même chose.” Americans live their lives more as people who are Perhaps, this reality of change (impermanence) just a little bit late for something they have to do...” is one of the deepest teachings from a study of plan- oughly translated into English, this While Stewart is addressing an English-speaking etary influence – that the more things change, the widely-recycled 1849 quote from French nov- American audience, the same humbling scenario is more they remain the same, and the only thing con- R elist, journalist, and social critic, Jean-Baptiste played out around the world (at least in the industrial- stant is change. Alphonse Karr, reads – ized version of it) as people everywhere just try to get From a non-dual, spiritual perspective, all of “The more things change, the more they through another working day. these constructs about the world as “reality” fall in remain the same.” on themselves, including the language that but- One could argue that the digital age, marked This issue of Career Astrologer is themed tresses them, —captured well by non-dual teacher by its extreme perks and perils, has so radically around the change cycle our planet is currently in – Adyashanti who writes: changed the game — that Monsieur Karr’s quote has namely, the ingress into Aquarius from Capricorn of “The silence within you is the sound of all essentially reached its expiration date. the two giant gaseous planets – Jupiter and Saturn, your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you That said and au contraire, astrological lore occurring on December 21, the day this issue is digi- who said you want to be free.” maps cycles, and then cycles within each other – tally released. where similar themes either frequently or eventually Their edgy interaction with Uranus in hard In this Solstice issue, we explore “Change repeat themselves. So, maybe our Frenchman’s mus- aspect and the ever-mysterious interplay with the in The Air” (borrowing the title from Jan Carter ing is indeed reusable fare, assuming our scale of North Node, in soft aspect, are part of this year’s rev- Seymour’s article) with contributions from... vision goes beyond the day, or the decade. eling in the planetary theatre. In the United States, there is unfolding a clear • Our excellent all-woman OPA LIVE panel of eminent Have there ever been epidemics before? change of guard, from a hyped, unpredictable style astrologers— Lynn Bell, Christine Skinner, Joni Yes, somewhat regularly. to a more moderated, measured one. For now. This Patry, Wendy Stacey—who explore the 2021 transits moderating effect will ripple across the world, and from their respective perspectives and traditions. Have there been before fierce divisions the world will ripple back. • For some needed comic smarts to antidote the within America, and in countries abroad? The operative phrase is “for now” – which funky times of 2020, we reprise an article, initially You bet. invokes another tried and true adage– “The only thing published in the Mountain Astrologer (2015), from Have there been in prior eras technological constant is change.” Frank Clifford on the various astrological bases of revolutions where, still, the same human On planet Earth, the play of duality dictates humor, — or humour (as they write it at the London aspirations, foibles, dramas, and comedies the see-sawing of polarities of experience, and to School of Astrology), if they’re laughing in Britain. played out? base one’s internal state on a hope for constancy in • We have the final installments of our regular col- Indeed, so. the outer world (or from any definitive astrological umns this year from Alex Trenoweth on Astrology As a family, we humans have a track record of of Children, and Britanie LeClair’s deep dive into getting cleverer in spurts—yet none the wiser, so forensic astrology, Deborah James for her inspired naturally, like Hollywood remakes that are updated illustrations of Transits for the Season, and Mj to the times— yet follow the contours of the original Patterson’s taking the torch for the last installment of film— our history unfolds as echoes of recurrence. our Research Astrology column. While the current pace of change, on the scale of an individual human life, would appear to have As we look at these well-articulated astrologi- cal perspectives on change for the year 2021 and at accelerated, that is, changed – the fundamental emo- “Red and tions, needs, and exigencies, have remained largely other compelling starry-related topics, we can hold Orange Streak”, the same, as have their corresponding belief sets, set- the reminder and vision of what does not change Georgia backs, resurrections, and plays between actors. – the healing power of kindness and goodwill, the Comedian and social commentator, Jon O’Keeffe, compelling force of creative aspiration, and the neutral, Stewart (b.
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