The Career Astrologer summer 2013

Volume 22

Number 2

Summer 2013

THE CAREER ASTROLOGER The Newsletter for Professional Astrology

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10 February 2013

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BY ALEXANDRA KARACOSTAS

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hope this finds you all well, enjoying summer and using the harmonious energies of this season’s water element dance mindfully — an opportunity not to be missed!

All of us at OPA are happy to report that the OPA family is growing and healthy. In the last few years our membership has increased! Our treasury now reflects a strong and dynamic organization. We couldn’t be more pleased — and we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you!

We are diligently working to make our next retreat an excellent experience. Along with your feedback and some new available resources we are confident that this will be the best retreat yet. We are limiting the size of our groups and providing a social gathering space where we can all meet and mingle. We realize this is one of the most rewarding aspects of participating in re-

treats and are delighted that we can make this happen at Ocean Creek Resort.

Our theme for the next retreat is “Compassion and Wisdom through Cardinal Times.” The times we live in are unprecedented and uncharted. With appropriate tools and skills, we can navigate these exciting aspects together, individually and collectively.

OPA seeks to develop the profession of astrology to its highest potential. We know this begins with each one of us! Join us March 20-23, 2014 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for another opportunity to share, grow, and evolve our practice and ourselves!

The complete program is available on our website and you can download the brochure as well. Reserve your place now as we anticipate many tracks selling out early. — Alexandra

IN THIS ISSUE President’s Report ..................................1 The Year of the Snake..............................1

A Step in the Right Direction ............................................12

An Interview with Hal Bahr ......................................................4

Book Review: In Search of Destiny ........................14

The Fourth Quadrant & Responsibility ......................................8

The 2013 OPA Retreat in Myrtle Beach ..............................15

Dvora’s Journey ......................................9

OPA Members Contribute to Transpersonal Astrology ..................16

OPA’s Wonderful Retreats: A Retrospective ....................................10

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Poetry by Barbara Hadley ..............16

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30 January 2014

BY PAULA SHERWIN & MONICA DIMINO

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he Chinese Zodiac consists of 12 different animals whose rotating 12-year cycle is the basis of the Chinese lunar calendar. These animals include the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. The cycle begins with the Year of the Rat and twelve years later ends with the Year of the Pig. This year is the Year of the Snake. The Snake Years since 1900 are 1905, 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, and 2001.

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which simply means that the experiences that come in the year of the Snake are very karmic in nature. The Western world often fears the Snake, but in the Asian culture, the Snake is revered for its wisdom. The incidents in the year of the Snake are those which force us into circumstances that we may not have anticipated or solicited. The most important thing to remember about the Snake is that it is a silent animal with no arms and no legs. You know that this is not going to be a weight-lifting animal or a beast of burden. Its most important feature is its head and its sensitivity. It is going to operate well in areas that are invisible, subliminal, and not easy to access. The Snake tends to be very quiet until it senses something, then it is very quick to point it out.

In the Year of the Snake, therefore, we should expect stretches of silence, a lack of activity, and often a lack of visible input.

But when the Snake senses something of importance, it is quick to create circumstances that are in harmony with the underlying trends or the zeitgeist of the time.

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Going back in history briefly, we can see some important manifestations during past Years of the Snake.

In 1929 the stock market crashed after a long period of supposed prosperity. That crash informed us about the flaws in the financial system that had been building up for years. The crash of 1929 made the financial instability visible.

In 1941, once again, we were awakened by unexpected circumstances. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor which propelled the United States into WWII. The United States could no longer remain distanced from the war across the ocean.

1953 was the Year of the Water Snake.

Notable changes include Stalin’s death that lead to changes in the Eastern bloc, the be-

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ginning of the buildup of hostilities in Vietnam, and the introduction of the Salk vaccine. Also, 1953 saw the first climbers to reach the top of Mt. Everest. This Year of the Snake brought relatively subtle manifestations, but they changed our course of thinking.

1965 was a Snake year where Russia and the United States raced against one another toward space. It was also home to the Selma to Montgomery marches which were instrumental in changing conditions within the United States regarding the American Civil Rights Movement. Again, changing the way we viewed the world.

In 1977, we became more aware of the oil and energy crisis. President Carter told us to lower our thermostats and warned that the oil embargo that preceded his declaration was going to be the big problem for the United States in the upcoming years. He wanted to increase the price of gasoline and was not welcomed with this kind of news.

Whether the Snake brings good news or bad news, we usually don’t want to hear about it. That is probably why Snake energy brings about great eruptions--so that we don’t ignore him.

1989 was the year when the Iron Curtain fell. It was not expected. Not a shot was fired, but literally within a month, the Berlin wall was down. The countries in Eastern Europe were freeing themselves. The surprise was so great that it unsettled everything in the Soviet Union. And it marked to some extent the end of the Cold War. The 2001 Year of the Snake marked a turning point in the world. 9/11 was a nasty wakeup call. Once again, it was a situation where everything seemed to be quiet. Then, all of a sudden, all of the rumblings that were building up in the Middle East for years were declared with the 9/11 twin tower attacks. Events were so great that no one could ignore this Year of the Snake and his message.

One can quite easily see that the Year of

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the Snake brings us into areas of awareness that we have been neglecting. It is not always bad news. The Snake is a psychic animal. The Snake isn’t worried about small areas of concern or the mundane as much as it is concerned about the zeitgeist of the planet at a given time. It is about the deeper current frame of thinking or feeling of an era. The Snake bundles all these subliminal forces and brings things to a tangible manifestation.

One can envision a snake resting in the grass, not paying a lot of attention to the rumble that is going on knowing that much of human activity is meaningless, but at the same time the Snake is gathering themes that are collecting almost like water in a pond. When the theme is clear enough, the snake pops his head up and says, “Look, this is where things are happening now. This is where you need to put your attention.”

Almost every Year of the Snake since 1929 has increased our awareness that something is wrong and created a manifestation that draws our attention. Sometimes it is a financial instability such as in 1929 and sometimes it is international instability as in 1941 and 2001.

This year is the Year of the Water Snake.

So it is quite possible that this is the time that the Snake is gathering themes more on the emotional level than on the structural level. Maybe the Snake is gathering information regarding long term unresolved emotional situations that can lead into some kind of crescendo and could possibly take us into a new consciousness about the times ahead.

It is worth pointing out that Water years are always years that bring things to an end or some kind of a closure. In astrology the sequence of the elements is extremely important. First there is fire, next earth, then air, and finally water. Each of the preceding elements is about movement and activities

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that are happening in a more or less structural or tangible way. But water is the end of the road. In one way or another this Year of the Water Snake is taking us into some kind of an end zone of which we may not be aware. Maybe the end zone is related to active war. Maybe the end zone is related to the current economic situation. Maybe it is the end of any kind of compromise in the Congress or the political parties. Perhaps things that seemed permanent will be washed away in this year of water. It is quite possible that the serpent will let us know what those areas are and perhaps alert us to important areas we have overlooked.

In this year things may or may not erupt, but the tone will probably be the tone of water. Water is always washing things away, bringing things to an end; somehow creating an end of an era. Perhaps this year we don’t need to pay so much attention to the small details. The Snake may be telling us that some important things are over and finished.

In addition to the Water Snake year of 2013, this year is especially wet beginning in July. Wet energy is Yin. Yin energy is receptive. Yin energy is like someone sitting complacently in a chair letting things happen, absorbing whatever is going on.

Because of the strong emphasis on water signs in 2013, this year may not give us a lot a new ideas or fresh starts. Instead, this water year may wash away the remains of systems and ideas and policies that are no longer working.

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It is also worth mentioning that after the water years, we move into the fire years.

Fire means initiation, new ideas, and new possibilities. Instead of feeling worried about the “Snaky” year that may wash away that which is no longer viable, it might be worth our while to follow that thought with the knowledge that the fire year will bring us new projects, systems, and ideas that will improve our quality of life and perhaps assist us in viewing the world from a new perspective.

Paula Sherwin, a practicing astrologer, has a Master’s Degree in Education and a love of teaching. Paula has been teaching internationally for both industry and universities for the past 25 years. Her instructional background includes Customer Skills Communication Training, Midrange and Mainframe Technical Training, Business Training, as well as Total Quality Management Training.

Monica Hable Dimino is a professional astrologer from Boston, Massachusetts with a large international clientele. She taught nursing at Bellevue Hospital in New York before moving to Caracas, Venezuela in 1958.

Her astrological studies began in 1960 with a French tutor. In 1970 she started working professionally. In 1980 she designed a teaching program for astrology in Spanish. In 1988 she returned to the US where she became an active member of the American astrological community. Her focus is professional astrology, to bring better astrology to the general public and thereby gain greater respect as a helping profession.

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BY BOB MULLIGAN

From the start of my life, certainly before I was able to read for myself, I was inspired by mythic stories of archetype first read to me by my parents and then later on my own. These stories had a profound effect on my life, first pointing me toward acting and then to theater arts in general and on to the transformational art of healing theater and finally on to doing one on one healing and consulting work with clients. I got my first paid acting job when I was 8 and my last one, so far at least, in January of 2009. I’m 54 years old as I sit and write this and in between 8 years old and now I’ve written, directed, produced, choreographed, and acted and/or danced in too many theater and independent films, commercials, or videos than I can count or remember. Some for pay and many for non-profit community dance, theater, or political companies in Northern California. I was a dance teacher for most of 3 decades too, also ending in 2009. The adult part of that time, from age 21 to roughly 48, was a wonderful life, mostly inspired by my 27-year relationship with a delightful and very charismatic man who had been a professional figure-skater, dancer, and athlete before I met him. Along with theatrical endeavors we participated in together we also lived 3 miles up a dirt road on 200 acres of woods and meadow at the top of a fantastic ridge only a few miles from the ocean in Humboldt county. The place was off grid, a garden of eden, and made working in town or out-of-town on productions quite an adventure at times. His death in early 2007 and my Chiron return/Pluto on the IC square Ascendant and late 6th house Pisces Moon transit

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combined to present me with an opportunity to die and be reborn again myself moving my part-time astrology practice to center-stage and my onstage activities off into the wings. I have not regretted a moment of this quirky, off-beat, heartbreakingly delightful journey and continue to be amazed at the magical opportunities that life keeps tossing my direction by the handful. Can anyone say Sun conjunct Neptune, Jupiter AND Mercury in the 2nd house?

It was those stories of the gods and goddesses which then lead to gazing at the Minnesota night sky with more than casual interest that lead to trips to the planetarium which became another place more beloved than any church. I still often find the planetarium in the cities I visit and take time to go to sit in the darkened dome, watching this generation’s teachers teach our future

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about one of the things that has fascinated Humankind since we ventured out of the caves at night, lit fires and gathered round to tell each other stories. I’ve always been more than a bit the detective and tarot and astrology were two frames of reference from which I learned a great deal about people while still young.

I was self-taught until the year after I became a professional. Up in my bedroom as an adolescent or in the reading room at the ridge top many authors were my close imaginary friends, a few of whom are actually my friends these days, Caroline Casey, most importantly. I believe it was through her book Making the Gods Work For You, and listening to her speak that I really got inspired with a vision of how I could work with astrology, and later Human Design, to

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be an agent of transformational change and progress in my own life, the lives of my clients, and society as a whole. Visionary Activist is how she refers to herself and that kind of aspiration sits well with me too.

There are other astrologer/author/teacher/ friends who have had more influence on the techniques I employ as an astrologer, Antonia Lamb, Demetra George, Daniel Giamario, Chris McRae, Benjamin Bernstein and Lynda Hill are names that come to mind immediately for me. I probably spent the most time actually studying with Benjamin Bernstein when I first wanted to improve my language and client skills, then later with Daniel Giamario and Cayelin Castell of the Shamanic Astrology Mystery School whose basic outlook and techniques have strongly flavored my current work. I still continue to study and investigate new and old techniques with much interest. The last couple years much of that has involved Chris McRae and Demetra George. Oh yes, and another wonderful astrologer and human being who I loved at first sight for his beautiful spirit; a fellow by the name of Bob Mulligan. Wonderful guy just finished writing a very provocative and thoughtful book about spiritual astrology as much as I’ve been able to read so far. Perhaps you have heard of him?

2007, kicking and screaming, dragged out of the closet by my friends who demanded I get an office in town and start charging money for what I was doing with people.

It was through another man who was on his way to becoming the object of my affections, Christopher Emmer, an astrologer who let go of astrology to allow himself evolve into the clearest spiritual counselor and psychic channel I’ve ever encountered.

He is a longtime scholar of the Mayan system and originally I found him while I was doing my own investigation of Mayan Astrology. He does a fusion reading called

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Cosmic Design where he places channeled Mayan phrases into the energy centers depicted in a person’s Human Design Chart.

That was the first time I saw my Human Design chart and I had quite a reaction that first time seeing it. I had a jolt of “knowing”, not from my mind but from within my body that this system was one that was new profoundly important and that somehow I was going to be important to it as well. Once I had that first exposure I dived right in and pursued a route of committed investigation studying under a couple of the great teachers. Chetan Parkyn and Zeno Dicksen, once a couple before either had discovered Human Design but had gone on to lead separate lives and develop and teach quite different versions of Human Design.

What I discovered when I came to Human Design was a system that could get to some very basic, powerful, and practical answers for people in a way that astrology isn’t able.

The combination of the two together has given me a depth and breadth of insight for myself and my clients that just is not available from either system on its’ own. That ability to look at cycles, timing, and relationships from very different perspectives and deliver practical steps to re-evolutionize a person’s life also has served to provide me with an extremely large and successful business for someone who has been doing it professionally for as short a period of time as I have been.

Human Design has it’s own version of the 4 elements, Fire, Earth, Air, and Water.

They are based on the insight provided by four systems: Chakra energy centers, IChing, Astrology, and Kabbalah, being fused together.

Using that correspondence to describe what a person is looking at when they see a Human Design Bodygraph Chart the

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hal bahr Fire element in the system is Astrology the standard set of planets from Sun out to Pluto and including Moon, Chiron, Lunar Nodes, and the Earth which is 180 degrees from the Sun- combined with the dynamic neutrino stream of energy that is emitted from the heart of the stars, our Sun chief among them that blasts outward and penetrates everything on its way to the Earth including the planets and marks or fixes what is touched and imprinted at two different times. (This part optional)Two astrological measurements are taken and listed in two separate columns, the first of which at the moment of birth usually listed in black and labeled Personality representing the conscious side of the chart and the second is a calculation measured 88 degrees of solar arc before the moment of birth usually listed in red and labeled Design representing the unconscious, inherited, and physical side of the chart. The astrological wheel is one of two concentric circles the entire chart is set within and is balanced on the cardinal points.

The Earth element, or structure supporting and housing the others, is a visual representation of a body with 9 energy centers. (this part optional) - These centers from top to bottom are the Crown pressure center which begins above the body and focuses Inspiration from outside down into the

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head. Next, the Ajna mental awareness center works to focus input into Conceptualization and Thinking, Below that the Throat manifestation center which can receive the awareness of the 3 awareness centers, impulses of the 4 motors or motivation centers, and direction of the 1 identity center for expression/manifestation in words or deeds in the outside world. Directly below the Throat is the Ji or self center governing sense of individual identity, direction, and connection to higher self, higher love and sense of placement in space and time. Below and slightly right of the Ji center is the Heart motor center which represents the motivational force of willpower, courage, defense, and ego. Further down and directly below the Ji center is the Sacral generating motor center which carries consistent sexual, life-force, pro-creative force. To the right of the Sacral is the Solar Plexus emotional awareness and motor center housing the strongest motivational energy force and power of emotions along with the potential of emotional awareness. To the left of the Sacral is the Spleen body awareness center which takes the input of the senses touch, taste, and smell and translates those into body awareness of health and wellbeing. Directly below the Sacral is the bottom center called the Root motor center which carries the motivational pressure to grow, to penetrate, or to contain.

The Air element the centuries of insight and stored experience represented in the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching and translated into the Gates of the Human Design Bodygraph Chart. These 64 gates are placed in the same locations within the same energy centers in every chart. One can make a definite analogy between these and the human genetic code comprised of 64 codons and amino acids; A Gate is activated by the imprint made by planetary activation/placement at the time of measurement. The ancient wheel image of hexagrams typically referred to as Early

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Heaven is the second wheel that the chart sits within. Every I-Ching hexagram is made up of two 3-line trigrams, one at the base and one on top. This wheel is divided according to the 8 trigrams that comprise the base of the 64 hexagrams. This results in a wheel that has one 180 degree side where each hexagram begins with a yang or solid line and the other half where each hexagram begins with a yin broken line. When this wheel, is set within the astrological wheel you see that it is balanced on the fixed points. In it you see the yang/creative half corresponding to the northern hemisphere’s summer/Summer season of warm, growing, bright, outward flowing season from mid-Taurus to mid-Scorpio while the yin/receptive side corresponds to the cool, dark, internal and yielding Fall/Winter seasons from mid-Scorpio back to mid-Taurus.

The Water element is seen in the Channels running from one gate in one center to another gate in an adjacent center. Channels are pathways, conduits that allow fluid exchange of energy to interact, transfer and transmit information. These channels are activated when the Gates on both ends of a Channel are activated by planetary imprint/placement.

When a channel is activated the two centers it connects to become Defined and represent a ‘turned on”, stable. and fixed flow of energy constantly running between these two defined centers. In this way one can see that, like the water element in astrology, Channels are about connection and no center is able to be activated and defined without being in relationship through the channel with another center. This flow and fusion between centers through channels is the contribution of the Kabbalah and the integration of the Kabbalah’s branches of the Tree of Life.

Human Design charts can be generated consisting of the same basic choices as astrological charts; natal, transit, synastry, composite, progression etc although the accumulated

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knowledge base for many of these charts is not nearly as well established as in astrology.

That is part of what is very exciting and also potentially frustrating about interpreting Human Design charts.

Human Design can provide very quick indications of possible energy flow issues which are related to the state of each center in the chart and may provide equally quick and very practical advice. One can use the understanding of yin and yang to talk about the general flow of energy and the likely issues in a life corresponding to this status within each center. When you look at a Human Design chart you will know immediately where there are likely issues of insecurity and the need to identify that area as one where a person is always being imprinted and conditioned from the outside environment and where they are the force conditioning everyone they meet.

This leads very quickly to identifying power issues in relationship, and career, guidance for rearing a child, proper living environment, and ways of becoming more independent, flexible, understanding, insightful, successful, happy...it’s endless and very different from the types of things seen in an astrological chart. The Human Design chart indicates the mechanics of energy flow. The way each person is likely to deal with this flow is often better, or more deeply, revealed using the astrological archetypes and aspects. One basic division in the Human Design chart is whether the person and body is wired to be yang in expression which means initiating and outward flowing “to Do”, while slightly more than half the population is actually wired for yin expression of being receptive before doing and therefore “to Wait”. Imagine how differently a person with strong Pisces vs a person with strong Aries might feel and work with this setting. In one you have a resonance which might emphasize peace and harmony or sloth an lethargy with attendant guilt due to the conditioning of

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cultural messages that tell us we are all supposed to “go out and get em” while the other, more dissonant combination is much more likely to experience issues with frustration and pushing, exhaustion or burnout, but also have a potential to understand their energy, attune to it, and not care what others think.

Here I will use a bit of my own Human Design chart to answer. In my chart I have a single activation in the Ji center of identity. It is Uranus in the highly adaptive and experimental 3rd line (each hexagram is comprised of 6 lines. Each line covers a bit less than 1 degree of solar arc so there are highly specific interpretations possible) of Gate 7 called the Army. The specific line is sometimes referred to as the Anarchist. That Uranus activation connects directly to the Throat and my Design, or unconscious inherited, Sun in line 1 of Gate 31 which is called Influence. So to string that up into a sentence one might say I express myself in a Uranian way of electric insight that encourages experimentation, freedom from dogma, reform of rigid structures, rebellion against authority, having a vision of self and the potential of others that is far outside the box and well-suited to igniting or guiding this potential in others. All of this expression is often successful and always noticed and listened to because the quality of tone and frequency in my voice carries a penetrating and foundational influence to it and is the carrier wave for the connected Uranian flavor; This channel is a channel of leadership but is about drawing people together in expressing in a logical way so it is leadership of those whose logic agrees with my expression.

People tend to listen to me even if they don’t want to. I always sound like I know what I’m talking about even if I don’t at times. But ultimately only those who like the map I draw are going to follow me on the journey. I also have Uranus in Leo in the 11th house so yes, in every group I participate with, every system my Virgo rising sifts through and the expression and results of any career I should O P A

decide to take on I will examine it, look beneath the surface (many planets in Scorpio in the second house, many first lines in my HD chart), experiment, have new insights and the courage or stupidity to express them publicly, be seen as an innovator, rebel, or anarchist and express the resulting new techniques with a surprising or shocking clarity. Or the expression will be so unstable and far out that nobody understands what is being said and I myself will appear to be unstable. Both things have happened in my life; The insta-

bility less often as I grow older and hopefully wiser but one place it still expresses with consistency is in the electromagnetic disruption my body sometimes creates with proximity to electrical devices and communications devices and the physical disturbance I feel when in a field of higher level EMF which I can actually hear. There are many many other specific things I can say about that single activation and how it influenced the way I see myself, am seen by others, express myself and do things. There are 50 other bits in the Human Design chart that carry as much information. It is truly vast in terms of what can be detected and expressed. I perceive and express it in highly original, unorthodox, challenging and hopefully inspirational ways.

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The first time I saw my Human Design chart I had a revelation. Not in my mind but in my body. That revelation indicated very strongly to me that this system was for me and I was for it. That somehow I had to learn all I could about it because I was going to be instrumental in bringing something new through about it. In only a few years of beginning to learn it I use it very successfully in one on one client sessions, teach 3 different online classes a week to groups of 30 who commit to 22 week long series am often interviewed and sought out for opinion, advice and insight by other Human Design professionals and I have already put forth highly challenging theories and techniques that are very helpful to the client and also showing great promise when used by others. For me astrology alone is wonderful but not enough and then Human Design came along but also was not enough on its own. The combination is very powerful but there will always be more to learn, to try, to experiment with, and to grow. I have literally, with the help of my great friend and former partner Christopher Emmer actually re-drawn a small detail in the chart which changes many basic definitions and has been called revolutionary, radical, heretical, blasphemous and divinelychanneled; just another day in my life when I’m doing it right. I am here to be a transformational agent of change and growth, promoting the idea that our only job here on earth is to be the most authentic version of ourselves as possible and that the single greatest gift we have to give is our ability to communicate and share our unique truth.

We are each the answer to an energetic question that was posed at the time of our birth. At this point in my life I am clear about what mine is and I am here ready to share it with anyone who is willing to travel the path less taken to the beat of their own inner drummer.

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Written as Part of Arlan Wise’s Writing Track at the 2013 OPA Retreat

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he fourth quadrant is the traditional point associates with responsibility. Commitment, accountability and aspirations are usually assigned to this place. In this article, we’ll take this a little further and explore how the other quadrants tie into it.

The fourth quadrant starts off with the 10th and is undeniably tied to duty and service, as well as destiny and life purpose.

Planets in the 10th often ask us to go beyond our usual behavior, relating to a higher purpose than simply maintaining a personal career or reputation. Looking at it this way, the connection is more one of listening to our higher self and taking action, rather than bending to society’s demands. Any disconnect between the two results in crisis, a common theme for all the angular houses.

Society, complex and contradictory, is rarely in alignment with our deep sense of what we could be doing. Aristotle would describe action spurred by this type of knowledge as Praxis. The Sanskrit word is Karma. This is where the necessary intuition for our life contact finds its greatest expression. The fourth quadrant is social, but at a high level.

It points to a role we play in some greater context, such as professional network, community or family. It’s intuition that guides us here, getting past the desire for control or accolades. At its best, it pushes us to achieve something that aligns with our life contract, whatever that may be.

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like the fourth. Yet, it is in the second that we bond ourselves to the world, building loyalties and the emotional capacity to engage in deeply meaningful ways. If the fourth represents intuition, it is the second that meets experience head-on and knows what it’s like to engage at the material level.

No wonder the crab, symbol of the fourth house, is shielded by her protective shell.

This awareness of being separate and unique will culminate in the fifth house where sensitivity becomes strength and personal conviction. It is in the fifth house that responsibility takes the form of the enlightened king, whose creations actualize the aspirations formed in the fourth quadrant.

This connection between responsibility and the second and fourth quadrants is mirrored again in the Lunar Nodes, the North Node pointing to life purpose and dharma.

The Nodes tie both the Sun and Moon together in an attempt to break with past and actualize that higher purpose, much like the nature of the fourth quadrant. At the same time, the Nodes represent the lessons of the second quadrant, for without the strength of a positive and life-affirming personality, all attempts to move into the unfamiliar and uncharted realms of the North Node quickly unravel. Both the second and the fourth quadrants need to work together, making their contributions to fulfilling the life contract, although in very different ways.

So, if responsibility is recognized in the fourth and actualized in the second, the roles of the first and third are to do the work of engaging and activating, not in terms of our own conscience or creative self, but with the world. These quadrants point

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to experiences that demand that we engage, sometimes in dramatic ways, setting our course and taking our stand on the values and aspirations formed in the second and fourth. The ascendant defines the beginning of the first quadrant and symbolizes the face we put on to portray the mission we agreed to in the fourth. The first quadrant executes the plan, translating pure intent into action.

The more conscious our behavior is in the first quadrant, the more chance we have of aligning with our aspirations, which explains why the ascendant is subject to maturity and growth. A look at the progressed ascendant will provide insightful clues as to how that growth is going. A longer look would include all the progressed house cusps, touching on all quadrants and the changes that impact each one.

The third quadrant will build the emerging sense of social responsibility that feeds the revelations of the fourth. In this transition, the personality formed in the second will be seen not as an end in itself, but as a means to engage and understand the issues of co-existence and trust which will be raised in the third. Here, responsibility is shared and the contacts and arrangements are more specific and local as compared to the major life contract represented by the fourth quadrant. The third quadrant deals not with the organic connection to the world formed in the second, but to the world of ideas, opinions and perceptions, essentially important to our nature as social

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creatures. Ingenuity flourishes in both the first and the third. In the first, as original thought and strategies. In the third, as inclusiveness and out-of-the box problem solving, digging deep into our human potential and recreating ourselves in the process. If the responsibility of the first is to create, the responsibility of the third is to renew.

And so all four quadrants must pull together if we are to become authentic and live up to our potential in both material and spiritual realms, for they do not contradict each other.

I’m reminded of the words of Gregory Corso, an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers, like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. He spoke of the voice of Spirit which animates us and connects us to something beyond us, and yet even our earthly existence, with its responsibilities, is part of it.

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n 2003 I wrote an article for the Boston NCGR newsletter entitled “Evolution of an Idea”. It described the first OPA retreat, which was held at the Ghost Ranch in Abique, New Mexico. I explained how the seed idea of doing peer group work came from Michael Lutin. He came once a month to Monica Dimino’s house in Watertown, Massachusetts to teach us lessons in the unconscious communication that takes place between astrologer and client and also takes place between members of a group. After two years he left us on our own to continue peer review work. We discussed different issues we encountered during consultations with clients. We also learned about group dynamics. At that time OPA

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held Astrology at Work conferences. They were terrific, but were in the standard conference mold. It was time to try something different.

The OPA board of directors took the peer group model and merged it with the idea that it was important for working consulting astrologers to do something for themselves. We wanted to provide a space to get away from work and responsibilities, which is why we decided to call it a retreat instead of a conference. The first OPA retreat took us away from our cell phones, computers, and civilization. We were up in the mountains of New Mexico in the midst of natural beauty and not much else. We worked in small groups and all did the three-day

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process of helping each other dissect a difficult consultation, give a chart reading to a colleague, and discuss our business plan.

This work has now evolved into the OPA certification program. We made some mistakes and had some problems, but knew that we were on to something important. I see that first retreat as the first pancake in the batch, the one that doesn’t come out well while the pan heats up to the right temperature to make perfect ones.

Some of the problems came from the venue being too rustic and uncomfortable so we tried out the retreat concept at a big hotel in Marco Island, Florida We were on the beach for our nature fix but stayed in rooms that had phones and Internet access.

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We did peer group work and the board designed the groups based on synastry. The next year we went back west to Santa Fe, New Mexico and continued with the same model, modifying it by composing the groups according to the degree of astrological knowledge of the participants. We added a beginners group.

These first retreats were small and intimate. We weren’t getting many participants to this new concept so we decided to add another component, specialty tracks. We invited astrologers who were known for their work in specific fields, i.e. Glenn Perry for psychological astrology, Dennis Harness for Vedic Astrology, Gary Christian for Uranian astrology. We came back to the east coast and we set up in the same hotel on Marco Island. A couple of months before the retreat the hotel called us to say that it was being turned into condominiums. The hotel management honored their contract by finding us a place on Sanibel Island. It was a nice place but plagued by the red tide, which made it difficult to breathe when outside. The beach was covered with dead fish which affected enjoyment of natural beauty. We did go back for the next retreat

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and decided to mix our original conference material, which we called Astrology at Work, with small peer groups. This time we were besieged by no-see-ums that kept us indoors.

It was time to leave Sanibel and we went back to the west coast to Asilomar, a retreat center in a California state park in Pacific Grove near Monterey. We had two successful retreats there, and returned to having only small specialty groups. That is where I started the writing workshops. We thought OPA had found it’s place until California sold the managing part of Asilomar to a big hotel firm bringing the prices out of our affordable range. Once again we were homeless.

Bob Mulligan found the Ocean Creek hotel at Myrtle Beach where we have had the past two retreats. We are again by the ocean, a great place to be. We have made another change by adding a certification track so that anyone interested in becoming an OPA certified astrologer can do one of the three required sessions at the retreat. We now have 10 astrologers who have passed certification and have more on the way.

Why do we do retreats? They provide a

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safe container for personal growth. They give a sense of closeness and intimacy. The chart of OPA’s founding as ProSig, an NCGR special interest group, has a Cancer Sun. We are a family. We make sure that we eat at least on meal a day together at every retreat to foster this Cancer feeling. There is no hierarchy and each group leader is available to all the participants at meals and in the morning general sessions. We feel we are offering something unique, and valuable to the astrological community.

Five of the original group leaders have attended every retreat. Honors go to Bob Mulligan, Monica Dimino, Chris McCrae, Sandra Leigh Serio, and myself, Arlan Wise, for loyal dedication to OPA and to the retreats.

As we enter our second decade, OPA will continue to hold retreats, learn from what works and doesn’t work and make changes so that the next one is better. It is an ongoing evolution of the original idea.

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Written as Part of Arlan Wise’s Writing Track at the 2013 OPA Retreat

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decision to register for the OPA retreat in Myrtle Beach was a no brainer. The hard part was selecting a track. Show me a Taurus woman content to choose one entree from a menu of ten mouth watering choices and I’ll show you a woman who has solved one of the more difficult, if delicious, riddles of her nature. Raise the bar on her sensory overload by tossing in a few of the most talented astrologers on the planet to complement each one. Each of the track choices sounded positively Divine. I wanted to experience them all, but had to choose just one.

The beginner’s track was tempting as a means to fortify my astrological diet which, to that point, consisted almost entirely of books and independent study. Delicious as this diet was, it was heavy on my own subjectivity and thin on intuitive substance.

Books do have nutritional value, so to speak; they are repositories of technical data and make great reference tools. They are also conveniently at hand when you have a half hour to spare. But a book can’t address every possible combination in a chart, personalize chart data, or interpret fluid factors, such as how a person is expressing tendencies shown in a chart. In the hands of a competent astrologer, the chart becomes an animated treasure map with clues to the assets of a breathing, experiencing, evolving life.

The only way to interpret a chart responsibly is to interface with the person who belongs to it. The path to competence is found through trial and error, repetition and accu-

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mulated experience—in other words, practice, practice, practice. I was long on data and short on practical application. I knew what the chart symbols represented, but not how to encourage them to speak to me. Because each chart is different, houses so much data, and holds the potential for so very many permutations, just looking at one made my eyes cross. I thought the beginner’s workshop might start me in the right direction.

I would have headed in that direction except that another track caught my eye. The thought of an Astrological Writing workshop stirred my long and unrequited desire to write. Writing was the reason I studied English in college, and I had the best of intensions...just as soon as I no longer had to work full time, just as soon as my kids were old enough to take care of themselves, just as soon as my kids were mature enough not to get into trouble while they were looking after themselves, just as soon as I could afford a housekeeper and a gardener and a cook and an accountant...well, I’m sure you get the idea. The point is, I long ago paid the karmic career path debt for that English degree, but had yet to reap the perceived benefit.

Truth be told, I started a few writing projects over the years, but only developed them to a certain point. They fell short of the finish line. I couldn’t figure out why. I tried reading ‘good’ books hoping to uncover the missing dimension on an intuitive level. I attended writing workshops where I received positive feedback on my writing style

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and confirmation that my stories seemed incomplete; things I already knew. I took a couple of creative writing classes at the community college level, reworking old stories and writing new ones. I four-pointed every one—apparently they didn’t have very lofty literary expectations of their writing students.

These attempts to identify what I couldn’t see failed to illume the holistic path that I sought, and so I remained unable to help my stories over their humps. I revisited these stalled works in progress occasionally, always with the intention of moving them forward. I took them from the top...and slipped effortlessly into the words: adding, subtracting, shifting, experimenting with their sequence. I would ‘come to’ hours later having not moved past the first few paragraphs or gained any ground. I loved to think of writing as painting—only with words instead of pigment. Playing with the words was akin to working a portrait, trying on different noses or repositioning beauty marks. This exercise did nothing to advance my subject or to impart the nearly imperceptible layers of depth that have an allure beyond what the rational brain knows.

Writing was at once fun and frustrating: fun while I was writing, frustrating when I tried to take it to the finish line.

I realize now that I wasn’t distinguishing between the arrangement of the words and the movement of the story. It wasn’t until I landed in the astrological setting of the OPA workshop that I saw the suspiciously familiar dynamic restraining my astrological

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progress as well, and stranding me somewhere short of fluency in both pursuits.

It began to dawn on me that writing and astrology share synchronous links. I am fascinated by human nature, which ultimately both disciplines must address. What are writing and astrology but languages that arise from and speak to human nature?

They demand achievement in both technical proficiency and interpretive application.

Writers and astrologers must then package their pearls in a way that underscores value to the audience.

When our track leader, Arlan Wise, handed out an assignment to write an article for the Career Astrologer, I began to feel stirrings of unease that were difficult to put my finger on. The vague quality of the unease was a clue that it probably emanated from my unconscious. Interestingly, the unconscious is a realm I only began to understand through my recent astrological studies (and was but one of the many reasons astrology so fascinated me), so I already had a heads up that unconscious stirrings are not easily understood by the conscious mind.

The dynamic of the unconscious is mysterious. You can’t just read a book and understand it. It takes serious time and observation (along with retraining entrenched perceptions) to explore concepts such as projection, trigger, and exaggerated response—at least it did me. The unconscious is paradoxical; you have to be conscious of the unconscious before you can begin work with it. Meanwhile, confusing this effort, the world looks entirely different to the unconscious mind than it does to the conscious mind: each has a different way of processing experience and information.

The conscious mind is rational, and verbal in nature. The unconscious mind is symbolic, and non-verbal in nature. Like its rational counterpart, the unconscious mind is a powerful intelligence in its own right.

When they form a harmonious partnership they hold the key to alchemy. To actualize potential a person must learn to synthesize these incongruous intelligences and then

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funnel the resulting wisdom through a conscious filter. Otherwise, a conflict arising from the unconscious remains an invisible roadblock to conscious expression. I assumed that the unease I was experiencing was synonymous with my insecurity over being the only student in the workshop who could not call herself an astrologer.

After all, the assignment was to write about astrology, a subject for which I had a limited understanding. The others in the room would have no trouble writing about astrological topics. I felt stranded at a level where anything I might contribute would be like playing chopsticks at a rock festival. However, this assumption was little more than my usual path of least resistance and enabled the real cause of my unease to remain hidden in my unconscious.

This is a good example of how once you identify that something is trying to swim up from the unconscious realm, there remains some distance to go before you are able land it. After you have identified the clues you must go on to locate the nature and source of your discomfort so that your conscious mind can work to diffuse it by directing it toward an appropriate outlet.

When you are able to transform what is unconscious you have a powerful tool with which to remove the roadblocks to your highest levels of expression.

Just as characters in novels and planets in charts can represent an archetype along the continuum between higher and lower forms of expression, so too can the work produced by authors and astrologers present along such a continuum. It is true that the ways in which a story might be written or a chart interpreted are virtually limitless. My problem was that the more data I accumulated the less I knew, something I now recognize as a major clue for why I was falling short in my efforts to bring a story, or an astrological

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chart, to a definitive conclusion. Following this lead, I realized that the seemingly bottomless well, summer of connections, and permutations available to the writer and astrologer do not exist in a vacuum. If we wish to ply our craft successfully, we must visit the well with conscious intention, consider our choices carefully, and then link them together in a way that makes meaningful— and conscious—sense.

I have begun to look for astrological clues, from the well of my own chart, to explain for me why grasping this concept had been so nearly out of my reach. I am still playing around with my choices, testing the various theories they add up to. One that makes sense to me is the condition of my Mercury. On the surface my Mercury is comfortable in Gemini. I had looked there before and already imagined that my challenge could have something to do with its 12th house placement. During the OPA experience I received some additional insight during a breakout session with the ever so talented Chris McRae, who has mastered the art of transforming data. She mentioned that one of the things she looks for in a chart is out-of-bounds planets.

Upon arriving home, I looked at the declination tables for my own planets and there, sure enough, rocking along outside the Sun’s ecliptic reach, was my merry little jester.

I might have stopped there, and been sufficiently satisfied with the additional layer of information, were it not for my budding enthusiasm for this newfound investigative approach. Sure enough, I managed to uncover yet another layer of the plot. In addition to swinging out-of-bounds in my 12th house, my dear Mercury is also conjunct my South Node. You literates will have already seen the punch line in this but I’ll deliver it anyway. My Mercury/South Node conjunction

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A BOOK REVIEW BY BOB MULLIGAN

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t is not usual for a western tropical astrologer to review a vedic astrology book. But like most of my colleagues, I have read a few dozen Indian astrology books, explored the system, and have some opinion on the literature….And trust me, this is truly an astounding work and a very good read. I recommend it for every practicing astrologer, regardless of background or system.

The front material: Acknowledgements, Forward, and Preface (which can be a “toss off” in many books) merit careful study.

I truly recommend starting here so you understand the underlying premise and structure of this work. The foundation is laid out in a manner that only an earth sign could accomplish.

The first two chapters: “Historical Context and Collective Destiny”, and “Introduction to Vedic Astrology and Philosophy” are full of fascinating ideas and quite insightful. They are worth careful study, even for those versed in mundane astrology and already familiar with the Vedic system and terminology. Each of

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these chapters should be expanded to become a book in their own right.

The first chapter is an attempt to establish a timeline of history and place events and people within this framework. Without the use of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (which most mundane astrologers use for their vast descriptive powers) Edith gives a long exposition of the Jupiter/Saturn cycle and the mutation from one element to another to describe big movements in human history.

This work, like the rest of the book, is encyclopedic and scholarly.

The second chapter would be very difficult to follow if you are new to Vedic astrology because there are so many terms that are introduced in a short amount of space. However, there are adequate books listed in her selected bibliography that can be used to bring newcomers up to speed, especially those by Braha, Frawley, and Raman; these contemporary astrologers are easy to read, and are able to speak to the western mind as well as the seasoned eastern practitioner.

The next seven chapters are arranged by rising sign, each sign having between four and six case histories. (The fact that this massive book only makes it from Aries to Libra leaves us guessing that there will be a second volume.)

The case histories are well thought out, assiduously researched, and absolutely fascinating to read. For tropical astrologers, you will have to do what Dennis Harness referred to in his lectures as “hold the contradiction”.

When you look at pictures of Martin Luther King, you instantly recognize him as a person with Taurus Rising; in the Sidereal zodiac he has Aries. But, there is value in

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hearing how Edith interprets this in the context of her system.

Even where I have studied their charts before I found new and unique information on every single case history; i.e. Hitler was born on a Saturday, thus strengthening his 10th house Saturn. The time of his first Saturn return was the day that England promised the Zionists Palestine … and Saturn returned by Retrograde motion just prior to his injuries in WWI. His Second Saturn Return came just after D-Day. Even if you have no interest in exploring the vedic system there are enough tie ins with the way we work in western astrology to make the book worth the time to study.

Edith’s background in the performing arts prior to her career in astrology and her own spiritual quest gives her carefully crafted case histories some really interesting twists and there is much to discover. Case in point, the study of Martha Graham and Ammachi showed not only Edith’s scholarship but also her deep interest in the subject matter.

There are dozens of well thought out comments in each of the 31 case histories.

Each chapter ends with a little exam making this appropriate for use as a class textbook.

Even the addendum – Glossary, Bibliography, charts for, the United States and India, and Index are clear, well thought out, and useful. Edith Hathaway has written a book that is destined to be a ‘must read” classic. I recommend this book to any astrologer western or eastern who has a basic grasp of astrological concepts. You will be absolutely amazed by the number of things you will learn about astrology and about the world. It is worth the effort to read and re-read.

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About the same as astrology views the future of us; Great change ahead; certain of that.

As to whether that change is “good” or “bad”, greater acceptance or greater ignorance I can not say for certain but I do suspect something.

The less we “know” the more freedom we give the future to express itself in ways that allow us to thrive rather than die, join together rather than isolate, understand rather than ignore. I am ready and willing to be part of the vast silent conspiracy of life, potential, and BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN & THOUGHTFUL A delightful and nicely written book that places astrology in the broad context of society and human evolution. Each chapter is a small gem in itself. A pleasure to read. — Allan L. Combs

great spirit; Quoting my favorite theme and saying from the movie “Shakespeare in Love” when, at various times the theater owner would demand the theatrical company director explain how each seemingly insurmount-

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able trouble and complication in the writing and completion, plot line, staging, and denouement of the current play would be resolved. “Everything turns out well in the end.” “But how?” the owner asks again.

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By BARBARA HADLEY

I’m independent, can’t you see – No one is responsible for me.

I come and go, and with ease.

Stay out all night, if I please.

I buy what I want – don’t compare.

Eat what I want, don’t have to share.

Don’t have to communicate at all.

By myself, I have a ball.

I read astrology books ‘til three.

No one to bug or bother me.

The only thing I seem to lack— When I reach out – no one reaches back.

This was written in my single days, many years before I met my wonderful husband, and married April 8, 1984

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in the 12th points (dare I say like a flaming arrow?) to my North Node in Sagittarius in the 6th! Oh, but wait—there’s more. On top of that, at 9 degrees my North Node makes a wide conjunction to my Saturn at 0 degrees. Ouch! This tells me in no uncertain terms that it is high time I learn to relax my hyper-focus on the words themselves and get busy setting them to meaningful tasks.

Despite my relatively hamstrung approach, astrology began opening doors for me before the OPA retreat: it directed my awareness to some facets of human nature, such as the conscious and unconscious realms and higher and lower planes of expression. My experience at OPA opened a door to the puzzle of my writing dilemma, one of the more nagging riddles in my nature. Astrology provided a framework for me to understand the logic behind the riddle. In my case you could say that one art informed the other. I look forward to taking a new (and more conscious) approach to my writing now. When the day comes that I feel confident enough to call myself a writer, I hope to be well along my way to finding the astrologer in me. Sounds pretty exciting if you ask me, so I had best heed my Saturn/North Node tag team and get to work.

OPA truly is a family, for it was in the environment of that secure and supportive embrace that I was able to work my way through the growing pangs that had been gnawing at me.

From Planets in Therapy

by Greg Bogart The lunation cycle symbolizes an eternal cycle of inception, action and momentum, harvest, and reorientation. Following this cycle each month, we tune our actions to the pulsing of the cosmos.

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