The interesting times in which we live are surely a result of the Age of Aquarius. The age is now, or soon to be, upon us. The Zodiac sign Aquarius has much to do with modern times, technology, information and the distribution of information via groups. It is good that we are living up to this Aquarian expression. Shrinking the globe, expanding our awareness, and sharing our knowledge with others through computing will result in a more intelligent global community.

Imagine - in the future for UAC - video conferences for those who are notable to travel. A live interactive session, right from your own home. Imagine.

In my own experience attending UAC's - from 1989 to 1995, I have observed the explosion of computing in the field of astrology for both provider and user. One lecturer in New Orleans (1989) asked his audience to raise their hand if they used a computer for astrology. There were about 10 responses in a packed room of about 50 people. The same question was asked at UAC 92 in Washington, DC. The response was the reverse. Three years later at UAC'95, a brand-new term for computer users has been born. Computing via modem, through a network, is commonplace and the NETHEADS are an established group. Over 35 netheads signed on at UAC '95, plus there are many, many more who did attend, and just as many netters who wanted to attend but were not able this year.

For those of you who would like to have an extended view of UAC '95, please read on. Many netters have taken the time to sum up their best experiences and the result is this digest. It is the next best thing to being there!

My whole-hearted thanks to all the contributors, and they are:

Dale Huckeby, Lisa Houle, Philip Levine, Shirley Prisco, Margot Peter, Christopher Stewart, Joakim, Mark Urban-Lurain, Anne Beversdorf, Stephen James, Vonnie, Sue Reiter, Madalyn Hillis, Kathryn Thinnes, John Halloran, Mary Downing, Jeff Jawer

Rick Levine writes:

For those who are not familiar with UAC, it is the UNITED ASTROLOGICAL CONGRESS, and it is held every 3rd year. It is jointly sponsored by three international astrology groups.

* ISAR is the International Society for Astrology Research.

* NCGR is the National Council for Geocosmic Research.

* AFAN is the Association For Astrological Networking.

These 3 organizations create an incredible conference by inviting 100 of the best astrologers on earth through a polling process that involves the thousands of members of the above organizations. Every UAC (this was the 4th!), at least 20% of the speakers are from outside of the U.S. and at least 20% of the speakers have not spoken at a prior UAC. The structure of the Congress is this: For 5 days, there are 4 classes each day. During each class period, attendees can choose between 20 classes running simultaneously. Each class is part of a TRACK, so there is a track for beginners, one for esoteric, one for delineation, financial, psychological, research, ancient, innovative, experiential, etc... All lectures are taped, and these tapes are available to UAC participants and the general public.

Also, during these days, there is much BUSINESS. The 3 sponsoring organizations all hold general membership meetings. There are board meetings. There are special meetings. This conference saw the birthing of the PRESIDENTS' COUNCIL, a group of representatives from local and regional astrology groups from all over the world. This COUNCIL discussed things of common interest.

There was a presentation by THE KEPLER COLLEGE of ASTROLOGICAL ARTS AND SCIENCES. This is a group of people in Seattle that are working on a 4-year Liberal Arts College fully integrating the astrological metaphor into the entire education!

There was an INTERNATIONAL NETWORKERS MEETING where representatives from over 30 countries shared what was going on in astrology in their respective countries.

There was the GREAT FATE DEBATE, of which I had the privilege of being a panelist, along with Dr. Rick Tarnas, Dr. Sandra Shuman, Dr. Bruce Lipton,Erin Sullivan, and Dr. Lee Lehman. We had fun, although we all pretty much agreed that it was not FATE VS. FREE WILL, it was fate AND free will.

For those of you familiar with Michael Lutin's work, he created and directed an "astrological nightclub" that was fun for all. Astrologers like Gloria Star, Demetra George, Susie Cox, and Kelly Hunter performed in it. The music was good, Lutin's lyrics were great, and everyone laughed a lot.

The highlight for many was the REGULUS AWARDS BANQUET. Here, astrology acknowledges its own outstanding achievers. It was a special night, and I will post all the "REGGIE" winners in the next week or so, as I have time. Rob Hand and PROJECT HINDSIGHT won a Reggie for their incredible work with translating ancient Greek, Latin, Arab and Hebrew texts into modern English. This is a gift to modern astrology, and I encourage all astrologers to support this important work. It was nice to see it so graciously acknowledged. Also, the AFAN SERVICE AWARD has been renamed to be THE JIM LEWIS MEMORIAL AWARD. It was awarded posthumously to Jim Lewis. The award was a beautiful piece of curved glass with the Astro*Carto*Graphy chart of the founding of AFAN on it. The whole night was quite elegant and meaningful.

But the real meat of this kind of conference for me, is the people. Hanging out with nearly 1,500 other astrologers, all speaking the same language, all understanding our place in the big scheme of things... this is what these conferences are all about. If you've never attended an astrological conference, they are the best place to take your education and experience one step farther.

Carolyn Egan writes:

Impressions - UAC '95

Too many things to do, see, eat, listen, drink, inquire, demonstrate, purchase. Ah, the senses were indulged. The conference took place in a sprawling resort complex which encouraged a sense of pleasure and the spirit of vacation. In 1992, Wash. DC, the conference was contained in one large hotel creating a sense of intimacy and of being more involved with each other asa group intent on learning rather than playing. Each site has its benefits and it's good that the conference rotates the sites around the USA. Therefore, as I sit here and type away, I'm listening to wonderful music as performed by the Andean people and produced on the CD I purchased while touring Cannery Row. "Markahuasi" is the music and flashes of the flowers, ocean, otters, boats, marinas, the strong breeze and brilliant sunlit sky pass before my eyes.

Personal Highlights

Even though I vowed to keep to the Mundane/Uranian track, I confess to doing the Gemini urge and attended a variety of lectures >smile<. Judy Johns held 2 lectures - MUNDANE IS NOT BORING and HOT SPOTS OF THE 90'S and both were excellent. The information is priceless about how to look at and work with an ingress chart and the latter, how to find the hot spots using the ingress chart. Excellent lectures, handouts and data.

Lovely Lois Rodden researched over 1,000 charts to find the perfect DIURNAL. She came up with 8 kinds of charts and through her research, found 3 that she recommends that give the most consistent good information. Lois's talk on the Dynamics of Death was not as grim as you might think. The tape and handout are very worthwhile. She is such a common sense lady.

The panel on Communications and Networking in Astrology served a worth while purpose as the questions now arising are "should the Astrological Community(the non-profits) join together on the Info Super Highway?" or "School teacher be competition or commercial interests on an individual level" ex:Matrix has contracted with Windows '95 to set up the new age forums. Our own Mark Urban-Lurain most excellently monitored the panel discussion which included Michael Erlewine of Matrix Software, Gary Christen of Astrolabe, Inc. (software) and Mark Pottenger, of CCRS fame (software). Many in the audience found that they knew each other through the network and had the pleasure of finally meeting a netpal.

One of the most outstanding lectures I attended came about as a result of being a volunteer room monitor. The assignments are preselected for you and this year I was linked with Geraldine Hatch Hanon - not a name I recognized, and now, a name I will not forget. A young in years person, she impressed me with her Astrological knowledge and research. One fact she disclosed that blew my mind was this as the transit of Pluto square the natal Pluto is occurring for all in their mid 30's there is a coincidence of early menopause. As this planet's population increases dramatically from year to year, perhaps nature is doing a self-depopulation through early menopause. You realize that of course we are talking about the Ur/Pl in Virgo 60's kids....

Noel Tyl, splendid performance, as usual, gave away several charts. Here are a few of interest. The Exodus chart: Apr 3, 1462 BC, 1:30am TZ2E12, 33E00 with 22:20 Libra midheaven. He believes the Gemini rising chart for the USA is good. Tel Aviv, Israel, use May 14, 1948, 4pm EET, 25:02 Cancer midheaven, Baghdad, IRAQ - Aug. 23, 1921, 6 am 2:22 Gemini midheaven. There is much, much more data and marvelous revelations, too numerous to mention. It's all on the tape.

Bernadette Brady is a wonderfully, forceful speaker. She is as clear as a bell and has good audience control!! I missed the in-person lecture but brought home the tape. On the first listen through, I can say this lady is a powerful thinker and researcher. Of all the things I'd like to pursue presently, the talk regarding her research on the Saros Cycle is without a doubt the most intriguing and innovative concept of interpreting eclipses. No more wishy-washing eclipses for me! I predict that this woman will be a star amongst the most well-known astrologers. This information is also available in her book "The Eagle and the Lark".

Dale Huckeby writes:

I thought "Communication & Networking in Astrology" was interesting, as were a couple of poster sessions by Mark Urban-Lurain and one by Francoise Gauquelin, and I wish I could have stayed around long enough to attend Ken Irving's "`Neoastrology' & Your Chart", so as to compare my thinking on the matter to his, but I didn't really go to the conference for the classes. I was there mainly in order to meet with another net astrologer with whom I've been having an enjoyable and thought-provoking e-mail correspondence. That's what I had hoped the internet would do, give me the chance to discover people with comparable interests and abilities. What UAC did was give me a chance to meet some of those people in person. I met Julienne and you, Carolyn, and Mark Urban-Lurain, with whom I've been corresponding, and Mark's wife Jan, and several others with research and/or philosophical orientations. It was great! And I met some old friends from my Denver days as well, including a student from a transit class I taught in 1975. Small world. I also became a subscriber to Project Hindsight, which is an absolutely wonderful idea. It's so nice to see us taking charge of our own history, instead of having others do it for us. Now my only problem is figuring out how to afford UAC '98. It's been fifteen years since my last conference. It won't be fifteen years until the next one.

Lisa Houle writes:

I drove up Fri. night from LA, slept in Salinas. Sat drove to Monterey, stayed till 5:30pm and drove all the way back to LA. It would have been nice to see Sunday's seminars too. But they didn't start till 2pm and it's a 6 hr drive back. Hubby didn't want to take a vacation day for Monday either.

I've never been to a UAC conference before and I was kind of worried that there wouldn't be much going on except for professional group management kinds of things. I was very impressed with the variety of speakers every session and the 2 tracks for beginner and novice! Had I known I would have taken an extra day off to stay. Now I know - of course in 3 yrs it won't be driving distance anymore! Ah, well.

Philip Levine writes:

The only talk I enjoyed was Rick Tarnas on the role of astrology in our paradigm crisis. His book Prometheus is extremely well-written.

There was, as always, very little respect or acknowledgment of the need for inner space. Even at the banquet (food was beyond identifying) Sandra Shuman stood up and called for a moment of silence and then never even paused in her speaking. The conference is badly out of balance. All data, techniques, information, no time for integration, etc. I did show a slide show of NASA photos of the planets and solar system which attendees seemed to enjoy. No data or facts, just take in the images, let them feed the soul.

I just wonder where the soul food is at UAC. In its attempt to be the biggest and the best, perhaps quality comes in second. I know as psychology track coordinator I lobbied hard for a track done by people with clinical experience and focusing on the soul of the client and of astrology, but in the end, my speakers were all chosen by non-psychological astrologers, and largely based on political reasons. It seems it will take a while for Uranus in Aquarius to break through our own conservatism.

Most of all I deplore the emphasis on deterministic prediction-oriented language and ideas, so prevalent in our field. (see my posting on the alt.astrology news group last night, if you wish; or my letter in the current NCGR member letter) I think there's too much knowledge and data and too little reverence for the mystery and sacredness of our art.

Shirley Prisco writes:

UAC '95 was a great experience. The highlight for me had to be Karen Hamaker-Zondag's lecture on the 8th house. The woman's light shines from within and she's brilliant to boot! One of the biggest thrills is to be in a roomful of people who all speak your language (astrology).

Margot Peter writes:

Hi Carol! I'm still floating in the euphoria generated at UAC. It's a great idea to post our impressions. It's difficult for me to sort out the outstanding experiences. They all seemed like high points - from the night I finally met you right down to the hugs good-bye from the new friends I've made there. I literally had the time of my life and you were right - I'll never be the same.

I've been trying to single out the high points of UAC. The lectures, for the most part, were wonderful. Kim Rogers- Gallagher provided new insights in using the composite chart. Michael Lutin on the 12th House had us laughing hysterically. The man's a born entertainer. Don't miss his lectures if you have the chance. Robert Hand gave a lecture on sect that even I could understand. It throws a whole new light on Hitler's chart that at first glance might seem too benign for the monster. But if I have to choose one thing - It has to be the astrologers. I don't mean just the luminaries that were there, but the wonderful people from Virginia, Maine, Japan, Russia, Australia, and on and on. The whole world had come together with a common interest.

It started in San Francisco waiting for the plane to Monterey. The women behind me were talking in "astrologese". There was an instant rapport and by the time we got to Monterey we were all old friends. It was that way all through the conference. We had our Sun, Moon and asc. on our name tags so it was easy to find a common bond or just a starting point for conversation. And we all spoke the same language! After a lecture by Maritha Pottinger in which she touched on

something she called the Cardinal Dilemma, a bunch of us crowded into the elevator. My new friend next to me asked where I was going next. I said I was getting pretty burned out and I thought I'd take my Cardinal Dilemma and just lie down. The whole elevator burst out laughing. On any other elevator an off the wall comment like that would have been met with puzzlement or stony silence.

I've been home for three days now, but I'm still floating in a euphoria generated by all these wonderful people. It was what we termed in the 60's, total good vibes. I'm hooked now and am planning for my next conference in '96. NORWAC anyone?

Christopher Stewart writes:

Bernadette Brady's program on the astrology of groups was great! Seeing how she used astrology to help the group dynamics of low income housing personnel was a great example of social change with astrological tools.

Caroline Casey of course was great. What a wonderful speaker and thinker as well as a very funny lecturer. I'd like to see and hear a lot more of this type of mystical anarchy at more astrology conferences.

The best UAC lectures for me:

* Caroline Casey

* Bernadette Brady

* Rob Hand

Worst lectures:

* Claude Weiss on Composite charts

* Banquet program was way tooooo long

Nice to have a vedic track

Joakim writes:

Hello Carol,

Thanks for the invitation to this sharing. I was only there one afternoon and the following morning, all together visiting 2 lectures. Although, I think I can reveal some blessed moments from within... So I will be back to you. I can read alt.a unfortunately, as my provider doesn't support that news group at the moment. However, I"m working on to make them change their mind...

I think this is a great initiative you take, good luck!

Stephen James writes:

I, and several of my associates spent most of our time at UAC '95 networking and presenting the developments of The Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences. We spoke to literally hundreds of people one-on-one and a variety of groups. People were thrilled to learn of the progress made with the State of Washington's Higher Education Board, which has approved everything we have presented to them. Kepler College will soon be a reality! Many people turned in pledges of $1000 towards the opening day, and others volunteered for developmental projects.

An exceptional workshop was Noel Tyl's lecture on the Middle East, and the charts of many turning points. There were audible gasps at the various charts presented for the most exciting times in Middle Eastern history.

The personal networking at various after hours gatherings is always memorable. The biggest names in astrology are so very approachable. My discussion with Rabbi Joel Dobin (author of To Rule Both Day and Night) was something I'll never forget.

Mark Urban-Lurain writes:

Christian Borup - speaker

Your Birth Myth and its Psychological Impact

Sunday, 16-APR, 2 - 3:15 PM, San Carlos I

I've never heard Christian before, which was one of my motivations for seeing him. He is a counseling astrologer from Denmark, where he reports there is a very active interest in astrology in the society and a large (for the 5 million person population) astrological community.

His main thesis is that the birth chart is a horary which represents the circumstances of your mother's life. Before birth, the intrauterine phase, is your water life, ruled by the moon. Birth is the transition from the intrauterine/lunar life to the solar/active life.

The moon/mother represents your habit patterns, the way you instinctively respond to life situations. The mother to whom you relate is not a "person" but rather an archetype; hence siblings experience the same "mother" differently because she is experienced as the archetype(s) appropriate to each person.

Christian asks his clients for the "story of their births." Most people have a story they hear over again at family gatherings, etc. about the circumstances of their births. These stories are the mythology which describes the circumstances (hence, the chart as a horary) of the first crisis in your life: your birth. For example, he often has seen moon oppose Pluto in charts of clients whose mothers were heavily sedated during birth. By understanding the client's original crisis, the astrologer can better understand the symbolic astrological meanings for that client.

I enjoyed Christian's presentation. He has obviously given the structural and symbolic aspects of astrology a great deal of thought. His example charts were well-chosen and thought-provoking. I'd recommend the tape.

Glenn Perry - speaker

Object Relations Astrotherapy

Monday, 17-APR, 2-3:15PM, San Carlos I

I've known of Glenn Perry for several years, seeing occasion articles by him in journals and receiving occasional flyers for his organization, the Association for Astrological Psychology. However, I had never heard him speak. Glennhas a doctorate in clinical psychology and integrates astrology with psychological theories and counseling techniques. This talk presented the basics of Object Relations Theory, and then his constructs for integrating this psychological theory with astrological symbolism.

I was most impressed with Glenn's well-thought presentation, though readers should be warned it was relatively academic. Personally, I found it refreshing to hear well-conceived and researched ideas presented in such a manner, but it certainly is a change from the "I've seen this in some of my clients charts" presentations.

He presented an overview of previous attempts to mesh psychological and astrological theories, followed by introduction of the concepts of Object Relations theory and how internal "objects" relate to external objects. Planets initially represent external objects, but then become internalized as images and psychological functions. He then presented his mapping of the planets to these functions and some example charts from his practice.

This man has certainly seen folks with bigger issues than "where are my glasses?" and it is obvious that he's trained and skilled in handling intense counseling situations. He discussed the role of the astrologer in a counseling relationship. I only wish that he'd indicated the training required to handle these types of counseling situations as you'd better be a licensed therapist if you're going to attempt to deal with them.

Anne Beversdorf writes:

In response to your question about best lectures, and etc... Oh--first, I wanted to comment on someone else's comment about the "mood" of the conference. I Do think that having the meetings so spread out, so that there was no place where everyone always passed through between lectures, really, played a part in not facilitating the sense of community. Several times I saw badges across the room and hoped to get back to that person (fellow netters)--and then never saw them again! It was frustrating.

The two lecturers that excited me most were our own Rick Levine, and Bernadette Brady. Rick talked about quintiles and tied them in to mathematical/esoteric traditions--actually tied mathematical and esoteric traditions together in the discussion, and showed bunches of truly amazing quintile patterned charts. He suggests setting a program to display ONLY quintile (or septile, or novile) aspects, and he allows wider orbs than we usually expect for these aspects. The resulting pattern displays are quite something. Try this for Emily Dickinson, for example.... And Bernadette Brady--using the Jigsaw research program from Astrolabe--is studying group dynamics. She asked the programs to show her, for a given group, all the planets and midpoints from individuals charts that fit in a xx harmonic pattern. She looks for 3rd, 4th, etc up to 12th harmonic patterns. The most striking example was the Kennedy Family's quintile pattern, where most of the quintile points were filled in by family and extended family members. The open point was at 0 Sag--which was transited by I forget what malefic when Patrick Kennedy died in infancy, and again when JFK was assassinated... I think also when RFK was--can't remember--but his assassination was also associated with malefic transits to one of the quintile points. The most recent activation of that point was when Pluto moved to 0 sag--the next day Rose Kennedy died.

Bernadette's other lecture, on eclipses, was also quite powerful. Most of that info can be found in her book, The Eagle and the Lark. She has the best eclipse interpretations I've ever seen, and they're based on calculating and delineating the chart for the opening eclipse of each Saros Series eclipse group.

Sue Reiter (Astrea) wrote:

I was just in checking urgent mail and saw your note. I don't really have time to put much into writing as I am leaving in a few minutes. I did want to say may be others like me out here...

I was very impressed with UAC 95 (my first). I could not believe how smoothly it seemed to go and flow. When I looked around me I felt awe about all the work that it must have taken to put such a production on. I tip my hat to those who put their life's blood into making this conference one of the best experiences of my life!

Over the past two years I have attended at least one all day workshop on Astrology every month but was ready to call it quits because all the lectures were directed toward those in the class with the least knowledge of Astrology....At UAC I was absolutely thrilled when I sat through at least two classes that went right over my head!! I have both of these on tape needless to say and intend to study them thoroughly. I never realized how much I have been longing for more in- depth knowledge and at UAC this was given to me...I learned a lot!!!

One of my interests is Horary Astrology and in taking that track I learned that no two Horary Astrologers practice the same way and even the interpretations of William Lilly differ greatly. The biggest difference I learned may exist is the terminology "Strictures Against Judgment" Or "Considerations before Judgment". Which is really correct I wonder? They can certainly imply something different. Sigh! I guess I'll have to get a copy of Lilly and figure it out for myself! The biggest thing I think I learned is that more and more Astrologers are getting away from using the outer planets as rulers of signs. Rob Hand said himself that both he and Lee Lehman are coming out saying they use outer planets but not as Rulers! That's a big change! Also Rob Hand's work on the Day and Night Sects could have profound impact on the way we do Astrology today. I for one intend to explore it. My biggest disappointment was the weather...I'm just sorry that our out of state and out of country guests couldn't have been blessed with a little more warmth and Sunshine...Monterey can really be a very lovely city!

Jeff Jawer writes:

UAC was a wonderful gathering of over 1200 astrologers on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula. It was a chance for me to connect with many old friends. These meetings were made more precious in light of the recent death of Jim Lewis. Jim was one of the founders of AFAN and a powerful and dynamic force in UAC as well. Without Jim this great event may never have come about. Jim was the creator of Astro*Carto*Graphy, but held a special position in the astrological community as a dedicated worker, source of ideas and challenge to those unwilling to move into the future. His idealism, intelligence and energy were present at UAC even in his physical absence. I was, therefore, especially touched by a small ceremony Easter morning at an herb garden close by the conference center. With Jim's friends and colleagues in silent tribute Noel Tyl made a touching statement about Jim for all of us.

Among the lectures it was Michael Lutin's on the 12th house which inspired me. Michael was, as always, humorous and profound, opening minds and hearts at the same time. If you've never heard Michael lecture you've missed one of astrology's best. My wife Danick and I led an experiential workshop called "Singing the Natal Chart." In a scant 75 minutes (starting at 8:45PM no less) people were singing as planets revealing astrology in ways no words could ever do. The person whose chart it we sang was deeply moved and discovered some new ideas about the workings of her horoscope. It's this kind of emotional astrological work which most touches my heart.

Madalyn Hillis writes:

Unfortunately, I did not get to see even one lecture. There are definite drawbacks to working a booth at the trade show and that is one of them. When I wasn't at the booth I was attending the political meetings of one organization or another.

I guess I came away from this UAC impressed with how rapidly this profession is growing. Gone are the days when our fate was in the hands of others. The media we've been getting lately (Ophiuchus aside) has on the whole been more positive -- 3 great articles in the NY Times in a six month span! Plus, the spread in people, the hour on the E (cable program, Entertainment channel)! network, etc. The other obvious change is the impact of this, the information superhighway. Finally, serious astrology and astrologers can have their say -- and millions, so long as they can find alt.astrology and other boards like it, will be exposed to a different understanding of what astrology is. All of this is very exciting as well as the possibilities that exploring techniques easily and accurately via computer programs offers will change the face of astrology in the next 20 years. It is especially exciting for me to be here at Astrolabe where I know Rob will implement all of his Project Hindsight findings for use by modern astrologers with the aid of modern technology. Anyway, even though I'm exhausted, I wouldn't trade places with anyone in the world.

John Halloran writes:

One man's perspective on UAC....Arlene Nimark and Carol Tebbs put together a well-organized conference.

The location in Monterey, California was beautiful and relaxing. We didn't want to return home. Now I know why conferences at nearby Asilomar are always so popular.

Halloran Software did not have a booth at the trade show because demand for booths was so high that they ran out of booths back in December. However, we had a stand holding literature bags and free copies of Astrology for Windows. The three hundred that we brought quickly disappeared. We could have brought twice that number.

I understand that 2,000 astrologers attended and required seven hotels. The manager at an excellent breakfast restaurant called The Poppy told us on our last morning that she had never seen such a large convention as the astrologers' convention.

One of the high points of the convention was the lecture that Rob Hand gave on Night and Day births in ancient astrology, otherwise known as planetary sect. This lecture started out in a normal size lecture room, moved to a giant size lecture room, and then had to move to the auditorium with 300 people flowing like a river through the conference center.

A frustrating aspect of the conference is that due to simultaneous lecture tracks, one was often forced to decide between equally interesting lectures. However, tapes were available.

In that Rob Hand lecture, while we were waiting for equipment to arrive, a man asked for a show of hands of people who had computers and were on-line. It looked like no more than a dozen hands were raised. (Rob Hand got a big laugh when he asked who was on-line without a computer!)

At the awards banquet, it was announced that astrologers from 23 countries participated (I think that's the right number). As we were leaving I met astrologers from Thailand and South Africa.

A big thanks to Maggie Meister of NCGR and the three sponsoring organizations:

NCGR, ISAR, and AFAN.

Kathryn Thinnes writes:

Since my interest is Esoteric Astrology I had a number of interesting lectures available on this topic. Alan Oken was wonderful. He did an overview of Rudhyar (my astrological guru) and Rudhyar's close connection to the Ageless Wisdom as presented in the Alice Bailey material (which I am currently studying). I am always awed by the synchronisity of it all! Here I have found Rudhyar's works to be very inspirational and he was a friend of Alice Bailey. Awesome.

I also learned so much from Lillian Huber on the esoteric sign rulers and the relationship between the exoteric and esoteric rulerships. I just wish we had more time on this topic!! She really did so well in bringing it all together practically.

My other favorite lectures were with Demetra George and Lynda Hill. I had studied the Earth Religions for a few years and had gotten away from the feminine energy when I started studying the Alice Bailey material. It was wonderful to be reconnected to the wonderful feminine energy again. At the end of Demetra George's lecture, an attendee stood up with an exciting theory. She said that never before had there been so many Crones on the face of the Earth at one time and never before was the Earth in so much need of this energy. It will take a "Critical Mass of Crones" to begin the transition to harmony and balance.

Another line I brought home with me came from Alan Oken, "Never use personal energy when spiritual energy is available." I thought that statement to be very profound for myself and need to have it pasted on my forehead!

Anyway, those are memorable moments unless you want to include the 17 mile drive and Aquarium tour which I also enjoyed so much.

I am trying to remember if possibly I sat next to you at the Regulus awards. I was wearing a hat. I talked to a netter and wouldn't be fun if it was

you!! (it was!)

Mary Downing writes:

Bill Meridian's lecture on the "Predictive Power of Eclipse Paths" was a superb demonstration of existing mundane technique combined with the lesser known material of L. Edward Johndro and Charles Jayne. He further incorporated Astro*Carto*Graphy maps to demonstrate how the eclipse paths played out for both individuals and countries, and how similar eclipses in Saros cycles tended toward large scale world situations. (I'd already heard his Planetary Trading Strategies material, and did the printing production on his book, *Planetary Stock Trading*, which contains 1000 "first-trade" charts of corps on the big board and NASDAQ). Anyone investing in stocks should buy this book and listen to the tape.

Lee Lehman's " Astrology of Sporting Events" had very precise material related to determining "Home Teams" (with examples). She tailored the methods to compensate for methods of determining who "receives" in different sports.

My lecture of "Business Elections and Horary" is a primer of *purely business* house and planet interpretation and the need for upward compatibility withperson to branch-office to mother corporation, etc.

No one is better at explaining the 90 degree dial than Maria Simms. Anyone who is having problems with a 90 should sit down with a dial and listen to her lecture while following along.

Rob Hand's "Sects: Day and Night" is an important reintroduction of lost classical technique that delineates planets differently according to diurnal or nocturnal placement. Mark Urban-Lurain's companion piece " Research Results on Sect" re analyses the Gauquelin professional data using these concepts.

I was handling the press throughout the conference, which had a few memorable moments. Rob Ryan, an astrologer from Santa Clara has a radio show "Your Stars are Calling" that broadcasts Friday nights in the Monterey Bay area. He did a UAC on-site 3 hour special interview broadcast from the Serra-Portola lobby. His guests were Alphee Lavoie, Marian March and Joan McEvers, Michael Lutin and chorus from Mikey's Place, myself, and Ronnie Dreyer.

The end! Until UAC '98

UAC '95 Tape address:

© Carolyn M. Egan, Astrologer