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download NEWSLETTER: Orbits OCTOBER 2008

This Newsletter is published 11 times a year February –December.
Contributions from members are most welcome.
Contact Cecily: the Orbits Editor

Editors Report

TThe Christmas Lunch is probably foremost on my mind this month. Those of you who came last year would remember how delicious the food was – well we are having the same menu this year, as it was pleasing to everyone. We did consult with a vegan and vegetarian regarding the menu last year and I do believe we got it right for everyone. If you weren’t there last year why not come and join the festivities on December 6 – visitors are also welcome.

The cost for the day to AANSW members is the usual door fee of $7 – the association will cover the rest – it’s our way of saying thanks for your continued support. The cost for non-members is $25, which covers the cost per head for the meal plus the speaker presentation. We don’t supply the drinks but the bar will be open in the auditorium as it was last year. Because of catering requirements, I will need to know who is coming and any special dietary needs – see me at the November meeting or send me an email cecilyb@tpg.com.au just to say put me on the Christmas Lunch list stating any special dietary needs please – I need to have numbers for the club restaurant no later than 15 November – so if you don’t want to miss out on the festivities let me know before the close off date.

Astrologer Kira Sutherland is our guest speaker at the November meeting. Kira is a Naturopath/Astrologer/Nutritionist and Head of Faculty at Nature Care College where she lectures in various courses including Medical Astrology. Kira also runs her own Private Practice. Try and come to this lecture, as it will be, as always, a great experience.

The next thing I would like to let you know about is our current venue. At the moment we are paying $100/month for hire of the half auditorium. The club has informed us that if we stay next year we will have to pay for the full auditorium, which is $330 for the day. The committee have discussed this issue and we are not prepared to pay this amount on top of the $200 we are charged for the paltry afternoon tea they have been providing. We simply cannot afford $530 per/month plus the speaker fee as we don’t take in that kind of money at the meetings so we are currently searching for a new venue for 2009. If anyone has any ideas or knows of a place that will seat around 60 people please let us know. We would like to keep it around the same area or within the region if possible. This will mean a return to our previous afternoon teas including the cake of the month – whoopee.

We have a new contributor this month – Amanda Voets has joined our writing team and will be writing some snippets for Orbits over the next year or so. I am still working with Amanda on what her actual role will be. Amanda is an astrologer and has achieved her degree in Journalism. She has written columns and articles for ‘Your Star’ and ‘AMR’ over the years. I want to take this opportunity to welcome her to our very professional team of writers. I have included (page 12) some information on a course, Vic Ketis is presenting in Brisbane next month on the ancient I Ching. That’s all from me this month – see you at the November meeting.

Cheers Cecily

Maureen’s Musings CD REview

The Veracity of the Vertex Anne Button
Sydney Conference 2008

Anne’s lectures are always well constructed and full of information.

She starts the lecture with a myth, which she relates to the Vertex, then gives a little of the history of its ‘co-discovery’, followed by definitions and a quick reference to how it is calculated. The vertex is related to turning points in our lives, according to Anne’s research, and it is a point over which we have little or no control – a fated or destined energy, essentially involving OTHERS. She discusses how the vertex is used in natal charts, solar returns, and with transits and progressions. She then goes on to give personal examples from her own life story and uses the charts of others to further explain her findings.

Anne admits that we, as astrologers, have so many things to examine in a chart that we are sometimes overwhelmed; she goes on to say that unless the Vertex (or Progressed Vertex) is actually being triggered it will lie dormant, and does not need to be investigated at these times. However, we should keep it in mind, and check for any action each time we look at predictive work. For those interested in the Vertex, this lecture is invaluable.

Please Note:
In view of the fact that we have so many cassettes and CDs now in our library and the sheer weight of carrying them to the meetings each month is enormous, the committee has decided to archive the older ones, and those less popular.

There will be a list of those archived available from Maureen or Chris, and the items can be ordered for borrowing at the following month’s meeting. I hope to get the list up on the website so that you may order before an upcoming meeting. Thank you for your understanding.

Maureen Maloy

AstroView - September 2008

BLast month’s New Moon in Scorpio (October 29) probably set the scene for this months introduction to some of the major world changing events that are about to be unleashed. On a personal note Scorpio New Moons are notorious for plunging us into the depths to reveal some personal secret, embarrassment or shame. Dreams are often the catalyst for reigniting an uncomfortable truth about ourselves or we meet someone who throws us off balance. But invariably the result is the same - a button is pushed and we are confronted with an aspect of ourselves that needs to be bought out into the light and dealt with. Scorpio is about death, dying, rebirth and at the start of this month, a month which is predominately ruled by the sign of transformation, we find Saturn and Uranus in exact opposition on 5 November (00:05am) setting up its own version of transformation. Saturn is about the established and traditional ways – it is earth, it represents old respectable tried and true leadership and from a mundane point of view rules governments and heads of major corporations. On the other hand we have Uranus who is the great change agent of the chart, who represents air, who detests rules and regulations (the domain of Saturn) and who holds no regard for authority. With these two in opposition we see the possibility of the old being overthrown by a driving force of new and radical ideas leading to a changed society. (Interesting to note than that this opposition takes place in America on the day of the presidential election when we have the old man (Saturn) in opposition to the younger man who may become the first black American President – a radical shift – Uranus maybe ???….).

On a personal note, once again, we as individuals cannot escape the energies, which are currently being played out on the world stage. It is likely that a Saturnian figure may enter our life in some guise or other and we may find ourselves rearing up, wanting to change a system that has paid homage to undeserving authority personages for too long. It may
happen on a one-to-one basis or it may happen in a general sense. Let’s look at our attitude to the heads of certain banks and stock broking firms who have walked away with millions in their pockets while we watch our superannuation funds dwindling on a daily basis.

Now back to the New Moon – have we found someone to take the blame for our possible financial and/or social standing woes or are we responsible enough to acknowledge that we now have to face the consequences of our collective overspending. Here is the death of the old ways – regular pay packets being spent twice over – and the inevitable change (hence transformation) in our relationship to money, power and authority. I dare say we are all having buttons pushed at the moment. Fear of the truth being revealed is quite real. A transformation will have to occur in our personal lives as much as in a global sense.

Mercury enters Scorpio on the same day as our Saturn Uranus opposition. We will need to keep a watch on our thoughts and imaginations to ensure we don’t look for a scapegoat – someone to whom we can give a tongue-lashing. Our own individual fears, secrets, shame will be bought to mind. Again they will need to be acknowledged.

Other significant events this month include the change of direction by both Uranus and Neptune. Neptune is the first to go direct, stationing at 21° Aquarius 28' on 1 November whilst Uranus stations direct on 28 November at 21° Pisces 50'. With Chiron, who changed direction last month, we now have all planets moving in a forward motion until 31 December when Saturn heads off in a retrograde movement in time to start the New Year. Pluto re-enters the land of the corporate giants on 27 November and will now stay in this sign in preparation for the T-square meeting with Saturn and Uranus in July 2010.

The Full Moon this month lies across the Scorpio Taurus axis at 21° 15' and occurs on 13 November. At the New Moon we were faced with some inner truths. Now with the Full Moon in Taurus we are asked to ground ourselves, to work in a tangible way with those revelations.

Neptune sits in a tight T-square to Sun Moon opposition lending a spiritual or intuitive slant to the Full Moon and with any luck dissolving some of our fears. The New Moon closes this month’s story. Sun and Moon meet at 5° Sagittarius 49' on 28 November at 3:53am. As is always the case when we have travelled through Medusa’s cave, the relief of the Sagittarian freedom is almost palpable. As mentioned before, Uranus goes direct on the same day, so the freedom factor is accentuated. Freedom with responsibility though as we face some major challenging aspects in the months ahead.

I leave you with this thought: “There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.” ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

Clementine

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