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EAC06 Speakers/Lectures
Guest Speaker: Demetra George, Oregon
Lecture: A Golden Thread: The Transmission of Western Astrology
Track how astrology followed a circuitous path through the cultures of Babylonia, India,
Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, the Islamic world, and Western Europe before arriving to the
shores of America in the twentieth century. How and when did each culture receive, adapt,
and pass on this ancient wisdom and mystery tradition that refuses to be denied and
forgotten? Enter into richness and profundity of the astrological tradition to which you
are now the heir and progenitor.
Lecture: Asteroids: Windows into Fate and Destiny
Can the very specific correlations of the asteroids to significant people, places, deities,
and themes in our lives be viewed as the motifs from the collective past that bleed through
into our current consciousness, inexorably leading us to encounters with our fate? 2006
marks the twenty-year anniversary of the publication of Asteroid Goddesses - join Demetra
for a lively discussion of her current views on this topic.
Speaker: Lia Breznay, England
Lecture: The Three Liliths - Our Feminine Principle and Its Evolution
There are three different symbols in the natal chart which are all called
Lilith. It can be a bit confusing. These are: Lilith the asteroid, Waldemath Dark Moon Lilith - which
is a debated dark shadow around the Earth or a hypothetical planet, and Black Moon Lilith which is a
focal point between the Moon and the Earth.
These three symbols correlate to our feminine principle and
strongly correlate to each other: They tell a threefold story of this aspect of our consciousness
within our unique individual soul history before and during the patriarchy. They also point the way
how to heal from its distortions. These symbols can be applied to individual and collective charts,
shedding light on the feminine principle and its evolution.
Speaker: Maurice Fernandez, Colorado
Lecture: The Nodal Axis in Virgo/Pisces - Understanding the Logic of Chaos
On June 23, 2006, the transiting Nodal Axis moved from the Libra/Aries
axis to the Virgo/Pisces axis, and will remain there until December 18, 2007. Pluto in
Sagittarius will be squaring those Nodes until early 2007; needless to say this is a powerful
and challenging configuration that impacts the fabric of our sense of meaning and destiny, on a
personal and collective level. Chaos, Order and Creation collide in order to re-program our
conditioning.
Lecture: Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter and the Spiritual T-Square
Saturn in Leo, opposing Neptune in Aquarius, squaring Jupiter in Scorpio
currently form a unique fixed T-square programmed to enhance our spiritual impulse; a fantastic
voyage into the abstract right brain dimensions where illusions intermingle with Truth realization.
Are you ready to fly? Are you ready to crash? Are you ready to stop knowing…
Speaker: Kristin Fontana, California
Lecture: Saturn: The Structural Nature of Consciousness
We will explore how Saturn correlates to the structural nature of consciousness
and why the soul structures itself in the way it does from life to life. The placement of Saturn by
house and sign explains not only the structure that the soul has chosen in terms of evolution but it
also defines the energetic foundation for all of the other archetypes in the birth chart. Kristin will
discuss the influence of Saturn giving examples of its placement through the different houses and signs,
natally and through transit. Kristin will also discuss the structure of consciousness as naturally defined
versus a consciousness conditioned by the nature of society, reminding us all of our need to reflect the
light of our own true nature.
Speaker: Laura Nalbandian Gerking, Washington
Lecture: The Moon: Emotional Coping Skills
Each and every person on the planet has developed a way of dealing with emotional stress.
These “Coping Skills” have been developed over many lifetimes and are re-stimulated in the
early life. The sign, house, rulership, and aspects to the Moon, as well as the sign and
rulership of the fourth house, give us a fairly complete picture of their emotional coping
skills. These skills help us “get through” life, they do not, however, bring us a true
sense of emotional well-being. Learn how to create emotional well-being in your life and
help others to do the same.
Speaker: Deva Green, South Dakota
Lecture: Pluto, The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul
Pluto’s aspects will be discussed from an evolutionary perspective (as described in the
book Pluto, The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, Vol. I). The dramatic impact that cooperation and resistance creates towards
achieveing the required evolutionary growth symbolized by all Pluto aspects is demonstrated
through specific, in depth case studies of well known individuals. The Soul’s evolutionary
condition is included and applied in the lecture through such case studies. The function
within consciousness that has come under Pluto’s evolutionary force is symbolized by the
planet which forms an aspect to Pluto. The core, bottom line intention of a Pluto aspect
to each planet is discussed. The nature of the asepct (stressful verses non-stressful) will
also be described.
Speaker: Mark Jones, England
Lecture: What’s Love Got To Do
with It? – An analysis of the Evolutionary Method within the Composite Chart
Ever wondered why you keep attracting a certain type of person? Or what brought you and
your present partner together? Ever felt with an intimate, we have been here before….?
Just as Jeffrey Green’s Evolutionary Method can illuminate the causes of the natal chart,
his methods applied to the composite chart can help us discover the reasons behind our
meeting key people again and again. In this talk I will be exploring the nature of the
prior life causes, or pre-existing desires that have seen the relationship form in the past
and that are therefore picked up again in the present. I take the view that if we understand
how we came to be with another person on a very deep level then we can work out what we are
meant to do with this person in the future; what we, as a relationship, are meant to become.
Lecture: An Examination of the Pluto in Virgo Generation in the light of the transit of Uranus in
Pisces
This talk will address both the purpose and the challenges implicit in the Pluto in Virgo
generation, a generation that are growing up under the glare of Uranus in Pisces. I will
attempt to show the impact of prior life conditioning on this generation and the potential
for altering or healing the negative impacts of such conditioning within the Uranus in
Pisces transit. I will focus on the importance of this generation as they grow into their
power at a critical time on the planet, when the potential for new ways of living meets an
ongoing crisis in terms of our relationship to our environment and resources. In a time
when perhaps only collective change can avert the destruction of war and widespread famine
I will show the burden of responsibility that awaits this generation, if they can accept
the challenge.
Speaker: Rose Marcus, Canada
Lecture: Pluto in Capricorn
Pluto’s entrance into Capricorn is just around the corner. Entering this sign (for the first
time in 240 years) in late January of 2008, Pluto will advance a new collective and personal
evolutionary mandate for each and everyone. What are some of the themes and core issues that we
are likely to confront? This lecture will describe the archetypical influence of Pluto in Capricorn
and will also examine the collective historical experience of Pluto’s previous visit to this sign.
Additionally, this lecture will examine the upcoming Pluto in Capricorn cycle as it makes dynamic
aspect to other significant planetary influences.
Lecture: Evolutionary Development through the Secondary Progressed Chart
The secondary progressed chart is a tool through which we can view and track the “background
schedule” of the soul’s evolutionary intent in the current life. This lecture will discuss
some of the significant progressed chart movements an individual may experience in the course
of a lifetime, such as sign and house changes of the progressed nodes and other progressed
planets, planetary phasal relationship developments, and the directional shift of planets from
direct to retrograde or vice versa. Additionally, this lecture will also examine the distance
that progressed Mars can travel over an average lifespan, which can provide further clues to
the soul’s evolving intentions for the current lifetime.
Speaker: Kim Marie, South Dakota
Lecture: Sexual Archetypes of the Zodiac – Natural vs. Distorted (Two Lectures)
Human-made religions have resulted in grossly distorted understandings and applications of
the natural sexual impulse. Much of this has been based upon false conditionings that there
must be a separation of spirit and flesh to be holy. In reality, sexuality is one of the
most sacred natural behaviors the human species can participate in. These lectures will
discuss the natural and distorted sexual principles through the twelve sign/house archetypes.
Speaker: Scott Wolfgram, Minnesota
Lecture: Astrology of Location - Mapping Your Evolutionary Journey
In this session, we will explore how the evolutionary journey of the soul can be energized
through employing the insights of the Astrology of Location. Learn how Astro*Cart*Graphy,
Geodetics and Local Space form a unified system of complementary maps, each representing the
planets of the birth chart in unique ways. Together these systems can reveal locations that
hold the key to energizing or even transforming your life and actualizing your evolutionary
intention. Whether you are or are not considering moving, you will learn techniques that
provide you with a series of opportunities to energize new potentials in your life.
Speaker: Steve Wolfson, Oregon
Lecture: Individuation and Self-Love: Pathways Back to the Self
Thousands of years of living in patriarchal societies under hierarchical religions has
left the majority of humans, male and female, feeling fractured, dissected into little
pieces, afraid and ashamed of their natural selves, feeling less-than and not-worthy.
Steve will look at the roots of how we got to this place in the first place and discuss,
with examples from his own unfolding process, how one can begin to turn all of that around
and reconnect with the natural, God/Goddess-given, self and life. Astrologically we will
look at the archetypes of Virgo/6th house and Aquarius/11th house, and their polarities,
Pisces/12th house and Leo/5th house.
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