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2010 AANSW Events
Workshop Saturday 31st July 2010
The ‘Auxiliary’ Angles -
Not Just Helpers in the Horoscope
Investment AANSW Members $80; Non Member $140 (inc 1 yrs membership)
Non Member Concession $122.50
(with Centrelink Concession Card inc 1 yrs membership)
Deposit: Members $40 Non Members $70 or Concession $60
(Non Refundable portion $20)
Plus the opportunity to see how these angles work in your chart!
Those who have heard Roderick Kidston talking about the asteroids know that he has a few astrological hobby horses – and they aren’t all about small planetoids between Mars and Jupiter and other odd places in the solar system. He is also a strong proponent of using all the angles of the horoscope. After all, the angles are the truly personal points in the chart, very time and space dependent and sensitive. ‘Your’ angles separate you from someone born even seconds apart from you in the same place – though such close astro twins are very hard to find!
Everyone knows about the Ascendant and the Midheaven. Some astrologers have some understanding of the Equatorial Ascendant and the Vertex. Hardly anyone knows about or uses the Polar Ascendant and the Co-Ascendant. So this workshop is a small step in addressing this situation.
Roderick tells me we probably won’t spend much time on the Ascendant and the Midheaven. But we will ponder what it means to enter into links with the Equatorial Ascendant, in the land where shadows lie, and where balance can be lost, or won. We will look upon the fateful vortex that ripples and eddies around the Vertex, and maybe dare to enter it, and discover we can come out of it again? We will think about what it means to deal with the energies of the Co-Ascendant, which is either the gift that keeps on giving, or the grit that never stops annoying (and sometimes both at once). And last but not least – maybe most of all – we shall honour the Polar Ascendant, the axis of vast power that shows – just maybe – the mightiest of all energy exchanges any being has with the world, and which can colour the individual horoscope more vividly and strongly than any other angle anywhere, and sometimes more than all the rest put together.
We shall look at the angles of the charts of the rich and famous, and perhaps a few infamous folk as well. There will be an opportunity to examine the charts of a few willing workshop participants**, seeing what new light the inclusion of all the angles might shed on personalities. (Probing the Equatorial Ascendant of workshop attendees is optional only. It can be kind of private there, and those with secrets may not wish to share. But it could be valuable, and fun, to look at the Polar Ascendant, and instructive to see what the Vertex yields.)
There’s an old rock song that tells us the power is in the passion. For astrologers the power is in many places, but there are no other places quite like the angles of the horoscope for serious power junkies. If you want to get with the power, then get with the program and come along!
** The willing workshop participants will be the first three people to register and pay for the workshop (if they chose to participate) PLUS two other people from the remainder of those who register and have paid in full by 21st July 2010. The deadline is in order to get overhead transparencies of your chart ready, so please provide your birth data information on your registration form or email Anita jonita11@bigpond.net.au.
Roderick Kidston
Roderick began learning astrology in 1974 at the age of thirteen, from his self-taught mother. An early fan of adding asteroids to the astrologer’s repertoire, he now finds it difficult to read a horoscope without the so-called ‘minor planets’. The study of harmonics has also been a passion, and for more than a decade he has been investigating how harmonic patterns may explain both material evolutionary potential, and the inner workings and drives of the mind and soul. He is interested in a more integral approach to astrology that links with developments in depth and transpersonal psychology, metaphysics and the new physics. This includes the new insights offered by the spiral dynamics theory of the evolution of consciousness. He wrote for the Wellspring AstroLog since it was first published (as the WellBeing Astrology Guide) in 1997 until it ceased in 2008, and he has been published in the FAA Journal and in two other small journals in Australia. He has taught astrology in Canberra, given talks and workshops in several cities, and he has been a speaker at the Marriage of Minds conference in 2003, and at the 2006 and 2008 FAA Conferences in Melbourne and Sydney. He gave an informal presentation on Iris at the NCGR Conference in Baltimore in 2007, and was most recently a speaker at the FAA Conference in Brisbane in January 2010.
AANSW Secretary - aanswsecretary@pacfic.net.au or
AANSW Treasurer - Anita Ings - jonita11@bigpond.net.au
AANSW is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to promote and further interest in Astrology in NSW.
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