At the Lodge - 21st February 2005

Lodge Lecture | Class | Charts Discussion

Lodge Lecture

This week's speaker Judith Levy had to cancel her lecture at the last minute due to illness. Her scheduled talk will now take place in the Autumn.

Her place was taken over at very short notice by Adam Smith. It was a pleasure to welcome him. His talk was intriguing. Adam's work in astrology has been varied and in his chart reading he said that he liked to go to the local cafe and meet his clients there. Apart from looking at their birth horoscope he found himself doing a 'chart of the moment' - a Consultation Chart. To his amazement he found that this worked really well at getting to the point and pinpointing the trouble or pressing concerns of the Client and this inspired him to carry on working in this way. It reflected the intention of the Client at that time.

He then proceeded to demonstrate by putting up example charts and showing how, by using the ascendant ruler to represent the client, in a similar way to Horary, one could read the aspects etc. to the planet and assume a situation, which turned out to be correct. How does it work? Well just to throw a spanner in the works, he elected a wrong chart by accident, by making a mistake in the location, and the chart still worked! So now we do not even have to put up a birth chart........

Adam has a website so you can check out his details.

Class

The second class of this series of Transits dealt with the Global issues. Again we were asked to look at the Astrological symbols. In this case the planets represent trends. We looked at the chart of the United Nations. All the indications in the chart matched with its purpose, but with Mars conjunct Saturn in Cancer in the fourth house meant that none of its resolutions were enforceable. Then there was the Pluto transit, which often brings corruption - oil for food maybe?

We also looked at the charts of Iraq, which showed a strong reform with even a possible name change! The USA and the charts of George W Bush and Tony Blair all with transits indicating exactly what was happening.

Next week will deal with the Horoscope.

Carole West

Charts Discussion

Hot off the press and faster than the speed of light. Cruz Beckham. The third son of the Beckham dynasty has Libra rising, and Moon conjunct Saturn, and as both these planets ruled the Mother/Father axis, this indicated that this new-born may glue the marriage together. With Mercury conjoined Uranus and other planets in the 11th house. We all agreed that he would be a bit of a charmer, but underneath a very serious deep person.

We also looked at the chart of Richard Gere. Scorpio rising with Moon of the Ascendant described this deep person. Pluto the co-ruler lies on the Midheaven on the 9th house side. The Planet ruling the 9th house cusp is the Moon which lies in Scorpio. Again showing a deep spiritual persona. Venus conjunct Neptune in Libra shows a very idealistic personality and doesn't harm his sex symbol image either (neither does Scorpio rising).

See you next week.

Gill Dorren

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