Saturday 21st November
2-5pm
South Melbourne Community Centre
Corner Park St and Ferrars Place
(MEL 2K B4)
Members $7.50 – Non-Members $15
The Annual General Meeting commences at 2pm and will be immediately followed by the lecture presentation.
2020: A New Era Begins
Lecture presented by Charles Jameson
Long before the transpersonal planets were discovered, astrologers looked to mundane 20 year Jupiter-Saturn conjunction cycles to understand big-picture planetary influences on human affairs.
They noticed that, for continuous periods of several hundred years, every Jupiter-Saturn conjunction would occur in a sign of the same element (or triplicity): fire, earth, air and water … and then back to fire and so on. It was considered a significant turning point when the conjunctions ended their long run in one element, and began in another. it was seen as the beginning of a new ‘era’. In 2020, Jupiter and Saturn conjunct in an air sign. This marks a departure from the earth sign conjunctions that have occurred roughly every 20 years since the early 1800s. While there was an air sign conjunction in 1980, it was followed by one in earth in 2000. So, while we are still under the influence of that final earth sign conjunction, a new era is not far away, as the long series of air sign conjunctions gets truly under way in 2020. But what does all this mean?!
In this presentation, Charles will review the era of earth sign conjunctions during the last 200+ years. He’ll then focus on recent times, particularly 1960 onwards, and examine how these conjunctions might reflect recent world history, and what might lie in store for us from 2020 onwards.
About the Speaker
Charles Jameson has been studying astrology for about 22 years. He was originally taught by Kay Raymer, and gained his F.A.A. Diploma in the late 1990s. He later completed John Frawley’s Horary Apprenticeship and Robert Zoller’s Foundation of Medieval Astrology course. More recently, Charles was co-founder of the Regulus Conference for traditional astrology, and has previously presented to the VAA on Elizabethan astrologer Simon Forman and the astrology of death cult leaders Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite. This year he also ran an astrology workshop at Qi Crystals in Elsternwick. Although trained in modern astrology, Charles gravitates towards the traditional approaches (Saturn in the 9th!) and has a keen interest in astrology of the 17th century and history in general.
His blog can be found at www.astrologyschool.net
Next Lecture and Workshop:
Presented by Lynn Bell
Saturday 6th February 2016 – Lecture From Anger to Joy: Mars and his Aspects
Sunday 7th February 2016 – WORKSHOP Listening to the Daimon: the 12th House
NOTE: The dates for the February and March VAA Lecture Meetings will be as follows:
February Lecture — Saturday 6th
March Lecture — Saturday 12th
From April to November the lectures will be held on the 3rd Saturday of the month, as usual.