TALKS & EVENTS

September
NYC: Joyful Ritual for Interfaith Ministers: Sept 11 6:30 pm
- The New Seminary, 2672 Broadway, NYC 10025.Come learn and practice the basic components of ritual and ease into ceremony for the years ahead. We all do our personal ritual everyday, here we we bring this pattern to awarenss. We’ll cover how to clarify and focus our intention for the ritual, how to involve the senses and so bring ourselves fully present, what are the essential components of ritual and how to co-ordiate disparate ideas together to manage the flow of energy and create a cohesive whole.

Access Astrology Live: Sept 14, 6:30 pm- The Open Center. 22 E. 30th St., NY, NY 10016Three astrologers combine their talents to make real astrology accessible through information-packed, entertaining and interactive look at the week ahead. Heather Roan Robbins, Mark Wolz, Anne Ortelee

MN:Spiritual Crisis and Planetary Cycles:
Sept 26, 7:00 pm -Minneapolis STARS chapter of NCGR
When the dark, roiling clouds of Chiron and outer planet transits stir the soul, and the life we've been living- no longer fits: it is not a punishment, but a call to evolve. We'll explore how to understand the symbolic map of the spiritual crisis often triggered by the regular transits of these planets to our natal charts, and what tools we have to navigate them.

October
Oct 23-24, 2010: Women and Spirituality Conference,
Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN

Living Astrology: Using Astrodrama to make a chart come alive
Oct 23- 4:00 pm. All levels welcome. Be a planet and act out a chart. We’ll start with a walking meditation that embodies the medicine of each planet, then spread out the zodiac and let you become the Sun, Moon or planet as we walk through the phases of the Moon then act out the chart of the day. Once you experience what a trine, square or conjunction feels like, all charts come alive and begin to breathe. 1.5 hrs.

Transformation 2010-2012: an Astrological State of the Union Address
Oct 24: 11:30 am. All levels welcome. This is an amazing point in astrological history ripe with chaos and exciting potential as Pluto, Uranus and Saturn form a T-square in cardinal signs. We will debunk some of the 2012 hype and map out the major astrological patterns of our time in clear and accessible language and put these patterns into historical, political and mythological perspective. Together we will brainstorm ways of making the most of this wild time. 1.5 hrs.


Living Astrology Chart Clinic: Intermediate-advanced level: Ongoing, once a month. Starting Oct 2010: Two sections: 1. Minneapolis (Site:To be confirmed) -7- 9pm on the first Thursday of each month. 2. St Paul, at 353 Goodrich Ave. 55102 on the third Tuesday. $12 a class. Call or email to confirm. The best way to really learn astrology is to talk in this language and look at case history after case history. Bring your chart, questions, tough cases, or examples you’d like to share, or just come and listen. This is a great way to learn, refine you skills, or enjoy company of astrologers. Please call the day of the class to confirm.

Basic Astrology Intensive: eight weeks-Wednesdays, 7-9 starting week of Sept. 22. $200. ( Site To Be Confirmed) Learn astrology the easy way, through myths and stories, your own body and your own chart. For beginners and those are self-taught and want to be sure they have all the building blocks for good astrology. We’ll walk through the 4 elements, zodiac, and planetary rulers, use basic astro-drama to understand aspects and the phases of the Moon, as well as myths and stories to understand the planets, the major astrological players. After 8 weeks you will be able to look at a chart and have it come alive.



Advanced level: Family Dynamics in the Horoscope: First we study a natal chart to locate the emotional prime directives that call us to this particular life and call us into our family. We map how the child perceives its parents, their gender interaction, and how we were trained to parent our selves. Then take a look at the interactions between family members, and see how each child is trained to relate to the outside world, and their intimate relations. If we really see these patterns, we have more choice, and can offer more choice to our clients. How "the person in the horoscope" can break patterns that don’t work, be true to themselves in the patterns that do, and expand his or her capacity to love and grow. TBA

Relationship Astrology: Chart Comparison, Composite charts

INTUITIVE TRAINING

Nurturing Intuition: Intuitive training for businesses—Most major business players admit they use intuition everyday. It's the lightening bolt or quiet spark that comes to a prepared mind and tells them which way to look next. Then we need to back up those hunches with research and hard work-or prana- to make it a success. We all have intuition, it's a built-in animal survival skill, but it takes training to sift out our hopes and fears from real intuitive hits and to listen for opportunities as well as duck the bullets. This training is adapted to your businesses needs: a training to help you people hear the unique signals of their own intuition, listen to their instincts and inner information, and open up their sense of the possible.

Nurturing our Intuition, 8-week class or private tutoring—We all have intuitive potential: we use it every day whether or not we notice it. Here we'll bring our attention to how our unique intuition works, understand it, honor it, learn to protect it and exercise it. In each class, we'll study the phenomenon of intuition to bring our cognitive side along, share experiences to get used to it and integrate intuition as normal phenomena, and nurture our budding intuition through meditations, shielding practice and exercises.

Exploring Intuition: A Study Group— For those who have taken my Nurturing Intuition and want to keep exploring their intuitive potential in a supportive environment.

Palmistry 1- Reading personality in the hand—1-Day Workshop, - useful for dealing with the public. Learn to view character though the accurate, but non-judgmental view of palmistry, spot how a person takes in information, what their priorities are, all by watching their hands. This class is great for body workers, counselors, anyone who works with the public. We won't go into the predictive aspects of palmistry, but will cover this essential palmistry foundation, the personality.

IMMEDIATE ASTROLOGY; How to work with the transits of this perilous moment
in your own chart and your clients.
Intermediate-Advanced level
Mars makes its closed pass to earth in millennia, Jupiter opposes Uranus, Saturn trines Uranus and finished its opposition to Pluto, Uranus shifts into Pisces for the first time since 1920-28, we’re vibrating with planetary aspects this year. Instead of feeling caught in the cross fire, how can we work with these aspects to feel empowered. We’ll cover good, solid tools for working with transits in general, as well as this year’s events. Bring your own chart and progressions, or let me print them out for you.