2-day Virtual Summit
astrology + WORLD EVENTS 2020-2021
Challenges and Opportunities
LECTURE DESCRIPTIONS
Lynn Bell
Cracks in the System: Saturn Squares Uranus
Tectonic shifts, cracks in the system, often appear when Saturn and Uranus come into tense aspects. Sometimes change goes too far and opposition forces rise up. We can see this as an archetypal battle between past and future, between control and freedom. A new energy is moving through the world and the old forms may not be able to withstand the upsurge.
There are many ways we already see the hard edges of these archetypal energies, since the aspect has been forming since early 2020. As the square becomes more exact, early in 2021, tensions rise up in our personal lives. We may feel we have lost control of events, but this aspect also brings renewal, giving birth to new ideas, and a longing for freedom from the old ways. As the old and the new wrestle and fall and rise again, where will we find ourselves?
Dreaming The Future Panel
With Kirah Tabourn, Mychal A. Bryan, Vanessa Montgomery, and Stormie Grace
Join us for a panel discussion where we look at the current societal trends as reflective of world transits and consider how we can work with these energies to create the future we want to see.
Dreaming the future begins by imagining what is possible. In this lively talk we’ll put some of our favorite ideas on the table for the year ahead based on the planetary shifts.
Lilly Falconer
Where is the Knife? Mars Movements in Late 2020 (An Archetypal Perspective)
A sharp knife is useful for cutting away the bindings of time, habit, and oppression. It can be necessary when freeing ourselves from our own fear or complacency. In this time of mounting overwhelm, remember the red flame of Mars: courage and compassion that shines like the well-loved knife or the well-tended flame; what can it tell us? In this talk we will explore Mars in the context of late 2020 with an archetypal take on the retrograde cycle and square to Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto.
Hadley Fitzgerald
Keeping the Ghost Light On: Neptune and Our National Narrative in 2020 and Beyond
In the theatre there’s a tradition that someone leaves one light on near center stage so that a theatre is never completely dark whenever it’s empty.
While there are many stories about the origins of this “ghost light,” in essence it can be seen as a promise that everyone involved in a production will return with their skill, knowledge, imagination, and passion to light up the theatre again.
While the developmental pressure of the current Saturn-Pluto cycle has emptied our actual theatres and demanded a restaging of our personal and collective dramas, the oceanic power of transiting Neptune has also become very apparent in requiring us to come together by remaining separate.
In the USA Sibly chart, the tightest aspect is Mars square Neptune, and transiting Neptune in Pisces, aided and abetted by a solar eclipse in December, will continue to aspect that square well into 2023. Among the many manifestations of Neptune, at this time the light of imagination is central as an antidote to gaslighting, as we are being summoned to image-a-nation amidst both a pandemic and the most consequential election for generations to come. Pandemic and democracy both contain the Greek root demos—“people.” History has its eyes on us, the people, and the story we’re about to tell.
STEVEN FORREST
The Age of Eris
Growth doesn’t come easily. That is true for individuals, but it is true for nations as well. When humanity discovers a new planet, we are pressing out in the direction of new collective frontiers. Invariably, events arise synchronistically which push us toward our limits. We can see that reality reflected in the social changes around the discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. We are seeing it now. Eris was discovered in 2005, and ever since it was detected, the world has been in chaos. Eris’s current square aspect to Pluto has intensified the drama. If there is any single 100% reliable principle in astrology, it is that every planet has both a higher purpose and the deep shadow. What is humanity stretching to learn now in the Age of Eris? All the noise, violence, and hatred in the daily headlines derives fundamentally from our struggles – and our failures – to integrate the higher possibilities of this new planet. How can we get it right? How can astrologers help? What will it take to save the world?
KAREN HAMAKER-ZONDAG
Dancing The Choreography of the Collective Cycles
In 2020 the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto is mirroring a rapidly changing world in which nobody knows where we are heading to. The unfolding events are not caused by these planets, but by humans, countries, companies and organizations. My research has shown that those who have charts that resonate with the collective cycles tend to be part of the process, some as active, others as passive actors. As a researcher you have to step back and just look at both the astrology involved and what happens in the world, without any prejudice or judgement. In doing so you start to see fascinating connections and developments, and that is what I want to show you in this lecture.
Jessica Lanyadoo
Astrology and the Voting Rights Act
Join Jessica for a look at the chart for the start of the Voting Rights Act. We’ll talk about the dynamics of the chart itself, considering its moment in history. We’ll also consider the current transits to this chart and what they have to tell us about the future of this particular impulse towards voting equity in the United States.
Ray Merriman
Super-Charged Degrees and Pandemics
This presentation will explain the concept of “Super Charged Degrees” as one of several Mundane Astrology tools in identify major changes in the course of human activity throughout world history. One of the areas of focus will be on pandemics, global health crises, and their astrological correlations, both by the position of transiting planets and their relationship to “Super Charged Degrees.”
CHRISTOF NIEDERWIESER
The Corona Crisis as a Bridge Into the Air Age
The Corona Crisis has brought a radical disruption to the world economy and our social systems. Extraordinary political measures aim to stabilize the situation and to slowly bring us back to normal. But the world will look completely different after the crisis. Currently we only see the constraints and reductions of the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn, indicating a new cycle of power.
But soon the royal gathering of Jupiter and Saturn will follow, shifting our society from 200 years of conjunctions in Earth elements to the Air Age. This will bring the transformation from the capitalistic consumer society to the postmodern knowledge society. How will spheres like work and economics,
technology, education, health care or art & architecture look like in the year 2050? And what role does the Corona Crisis play in this transformation process? The grand cycles of astrology give fascinating answers…
SAM REYNOLDS
Tectonic Shifts: A Look at the Challenges of 2021 through the Eyes of Uranus
As the putative planet of revolution and unpredictability treads beyond the first decan of Taurus, what can we expect? What’s the special message for those born between 1981-1988? Uranus in Taurus also makes three powerful squares with stodgy Saturn in 2021 while in Aquarius, a sign said to be ruled by both planets. What are some specific issues and challenges that we might face at that time? Reynolds will address these questions and more in his hour-long talk.
CHRISTEEN SKINNER
An Astro Forecast for Europe
The countries that make up the continent of Europe have altered many times in the last thousand years. The Treaty of Rome in 1957, marked a defining moment in Europe’s development as a bloc of friendship and understanding. As Pluto moves into Aquarius in 2023, and Neptune moves to Aries (2025) , whilst both Sedna (2024) and Uranus (2025) move into Gemini, that chart is under considerable pressure. In the wake of Brexit – and perhaps other ‘exits’, new deals will be necessary. Meanwhile Solar Cycle 2025 heads to maximum. As many people from sub-Saharan Africa seek better lives to the North, what will this influx of human energy bring to a continent already struggling to navigate the challenges of these ingresses? This talk acknowledges the legacies of past ‘Europes’ and considers what lies ahead.
Kelly Surtees
Astrology of the 2020 US Election
Join Kelly for a discussion about the upcoming 2020 US election in the context of larger, major astrological cycles, especially those of Saturn and Jupiter. We’ll look at a few of the charts related to the 2020 US election, including:
- Select candidate charts
- US Sibly chart
- Election day astrology
December 2020 is a pivotal time of transition and the 12 months before and after this time bring forth unrest and instability, which is common when major astrological cycles form and emanate their influence out into the world. Amidst this turmoil lies you the individual. A co-creative process suggests your active engagement with external circumstances and influences. You have a super power that can help change the future and that is your willingness to participate in the present. Given all you understand about current and upcoming astrological cycles, what will you do? Brief tips on where to find inspiration and tips on how you might contribute based on Aries, Capricorn and Aquarius in your chart will be provided.
Alexander von Schlieffen
12 Possible New Kingdoms
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“Birth chart equals character, and character equals fate. And our relationships are our fate because they reflect back to us our own character.”
-LIZ GREENE
