The Fundamental Things Apply as Time Goes By:
Astrology and the Fixed Stars
presented by Roderick Kidston
Sunday 18th September 2016
10am – 4pm
(Register at 9:30am for a 10am start)
South Melbourne Community Centre
Corner Park St and Ferrars Place,
MEL 2K B4 —– Trams: 1, 96 & 12
Members $35*
Non-Members $90
BYO Lunch — tea and coffee provided
Bookings & enquiries to Kath Bajsar
(03) 9783 3047 or 0409 400 047
astrologyworks@bigpond.com
* Through a generous donation, this workshop is subsidised for VAA members, reducing the price from $70 to $35. The donation was made by a mother in memory of her daughter, an excellent student of astrology who sadly passed away before her time. In giving the donation to the VAA, her mother saw in astrology the ability to bring hope, boost confidence and empower people in shaping their own lives. The young lady was part of a group of people our past President, Glorija Lawrence, taught astrology to for many years. Glorija and the VAA hope you will attend this workshop and enjoy this special day.
Long ago, William Lilly stated that ‘Fixed stars give great gifts, and elevate even from poverty to an extreme height of fortune; the seven planets do not so’. This is perhaps the most useful, succinct statement any astrologer has made about how the stars provide an additional power surge or turbo-charging, which is not found solely with the various planetary symbols.
So today we go back to astrological basics – because the stars are truly the most basic part of our arcane art – and look anew at the stars, at their varied helps and occasional hindrances. We’ll look at some of the well known – either well regarded or well and truly feared – and consider whether and how it is time to revision the old fears. We’ll also look at stars that nobody has investigated before, finding new meanings in strange places. There’ll also be a behind the scenes tour of how one crazy cutting-edge astrologer goes about taking on unattested stars, and looks for meaning in them.
It’s not just show time, it’s show and tell time!
About the speaker
Roderick Kidston was an early fan of adding asteroids to the astrological repertoire and now regards a select group as essential for horoscope delineation. He has had a long interest in harmonics as well as a more integral approach to astrology linked to depth and transpersonal psychology, metaphysics and the new physics.
In recent years, Roderick has returned to older work he did on the fixed stars, which is coming together in a forthcoming book The Magic of the Stars. He has published on astrology in several places, taught it, given talks and workshops in several cities and he has spoken at several conferences since 2003.
Contact Roderick
through his website yinyangastrologer.com
on Facebook www.facebook.com/YinYangAstrologer
and Twitter twitter.com/yinyangastro