The Astrological
Society
of Princeton, N.J., Inc.
2022-2023 Meeting Schedule:
Our monthly meetings start at 2:00
PM.
Location:
Currently, all of our meetings are
being presented online via Zoom.
Sunday,
October 9th, 2022
NOTE:
This meeting will be conducted as a
live online presentation via Zoom.
Daisy and Barry Orr,
"The Astrological Life of an Organization: A 50th Birthday
Retrospective"
Do
the natal charts of organizations really work? On the occasion of the
Astrological Society of Princeton’s 50th birthday in October, we will
examine the chart of A.S.P. and look at the critical events that shaped
the organization. First, we will discuss how A.S.P.’s horoscope
was elected by its founder, Ken Negus. Then we will
retrospectively test a variety of predictive tools (including solar
returns, transits, and annual profections) to determine which ones most
accurately depicted actual events.
This is a FREE lecture. Zoom links will be sent to all on
our mailing list before the talk.
Sunday,
November 13th, 2022
NOTE:
This meeting will be conducted as a
live online presentation via Zoom. Once you register for the
webinar (see below), you will receive email instructions providing
details on how to access the talk. These will be sent on the day before
the meeting.
Ronnie Gale Dreyer,
"The Predictive Power of Eclipses"
Eclipses
have always been the best predictors of events that affect you and the
world at large. Focusing on current eclipses, we will see how they
activate your natal chart and impact humankind. Eclipses are potent for
several months before and after they occur depending on the degrees
they cross. We will be paying special attention to the eclipses
of October 25 and November 8.
Bio:
Ronnie Gale Dreyer is an internationally-known consultant, lecturer,
and teacher based in NYC. She has written numerous books and articles
including Vedic Astrology and Venus. Ronnie holds ongoing classes and
an annual Sensitive Degrees webinar for the year ahead. She received
her M.A. in South Asian Languages from Columbia University. Her
website is https://ronniedreyer.com/.
You must register in advance to attend this
lecture; cost is $5 for A.S.P. members/students, and $20 for non-A.S.P.
members. You can register for this online meeting
webinar by pressing the button below:
Sunday,
December 11th, 2022
The annual A.S.P.
Holiday Party.
Sunday,
January 8th, 2023
NOTE:
This meeting will be conducted as a
live online presentation. Once you register for the
webinar (see below), you will receive email instructions providing
details on how to access the talk.
Members's
Day. Lecture by Ellen Zucker ("2023: America at the Tipping Point"); group discussion of 2022 Winter Solstice chart
You must register in advance to attend this
lecture; cost is $5 for A.S.P. members/students, and $20 for non-A.S.P.
members. You can register for this online meeting
webinar by pressing the button below:

Sunday, February 12th, 2023
NOTE:
This meeting will be conducted as a
live online presentation via Zoom. Once you register for the
webinar (see below), you will receive email instructions providing
details on how to access the talk. These will be sent on the day before
the meeting.
Kim Farnell, "Simon Forman's Astrology"
Simon
Forman (1552-1611) wrote multiple versions of his astrological manual -
none of which saw their way into print. History remembers him as an
incompetent quack; astrologers as a highly skilled practitioner,
especially of medical astrology. This talk examines his work (focusing
on MS Sloane 99, which Kim has transcribed and published in an
annotated and modernised version), and looks at Forman's sources,
techniques and contribution to astrology, as well as his own
interpretations of charts.
Bio:
Kim Farnell has been an astrologer since 1990 and has taught astrology
and lectured extensively in the UK and overseas. Kim was President of
the Astrological Lodge of London for twelve years and is currently
pursuing a PhD focusing on the history of the horoscope column and
women's relationship to astrology. Her primary focus is the history of
astrology and she has published a number of books including a biography
of the astrologers Alan and Bessie Leo.
You must register in advance to attend this
lecture; cost is $5 for A.S.P. members/students, and $20 for non-A.S.P.
members. You can register for this online meeting
webinar by pressing the button below:

Sunday, March 12th, 2023
NOTE:
This meeting will be conducted as a
live online presentation via Zoom. Once you register for the
webinar (see below), you will receive email instructions providing
details on how to access the talk. These will be sent on the day before
the meeting.
John Marchesella,
"Synastry: Conventional and Not So
Conventional Techniques of Relationship Dynamics"
There are some basic techniques of
synastry that we will review, but we’ll also explore
some indications of attraction that are not in many
astrologer’s toolkits. We’ll also take a look at
the astrology of some very conventional
relationships and some not so conventional
relationships.
Bio:
John Marchesella is an old friend of A.S.P. He has been practicing
astrology for 46 years in New York City. He has been very involved with
NCGR, serving as Chair of the National Board, President of the New York
Chapter and Director of Education there too. He is fully certified by
NCGR-PAA and a frequent speaker at conferences and contributor to many
astrological publications. He may not be an expert on relationships but
he knows the art of synastry very well. His website is http://www.astrojohn.com/index.html.
You must register in advance to attend this
lecture; cost is $5 for A.S.P. members/students, and $20 for non-A.S.P.
members. You can register for this online meeting
webinar by pressing the button below:

Sunday, April 2, 2023
NOTE:
This meeting will be conducted as a
live online presentation via Zoom. Once you register for the
webinar (see below), you will receive email instructions providing
details on how to access the talk. These will be sent on the day before
the meeting.
John Townley,
"In His Own Image"
Says Genesis I:27: So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
In more worldly/temporal times, it is now often considered what
actually happens is the other way round – each culture creates its
god(s) in the image of itself.
Has astrology done the same thing? Faced with a plethora of
newly-discovered trans-Neptunian objects we struggle to name, and then
interpret proposed meanings in our horoscopes, who or what is leading
the game? Are we getting it backwards, sideways, or not at all? Worse,
with the already-accepted recent additions to our pantheon (Chiron, the
four main asteroids, even the admittedly-useful “hypothetical” planets)
not to mention relative historical newcomers Uranus, Neptune, and
Pluto, have we already made enduring mistakes of judgment? Or even the
original seven – whose “meanings” arose in the very periods we
most challenge for anthropomorphizing cosmic beliefs to begin
with, in a time when the Sun revolved around the Earth.
A look at some of the dumb mistakes, near-disasters, and suspicious
factors associated with how we have come to interpret what we’ve got,
leading to some hopeful suggestions for a more consistent job of it
without just throwing up our hands in despair at the rampant
uncertainties at the heart of astrology.
About John Townley:
Early in his astrological career, John Townley introduced the composite
chart technique for analyzing relationships in his book The Composite Chart, and twenty years later wrote the definitive work on the subject, Composite Charts: The Astrology Of Relationships.
He has pioneered techniques for astrological cycle analysis and
proposed a new, physical basis for astrology. He is also the author of Planets in Love, Dynamic Astrology, and Lunar Returns, has been the president of the Astrologers' Guild of America, was the editor of The Astrological Review,
and is a contributor to professional and popular astrological
magazines. His books have been translated into seven languages. John
has been featured on the BBC, CBC, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNET and Granada
radio & TV, Polish National Radio/TV, Voice of America, Armed
Forces Radio, and cable TV. His website is https://www.astrococktail.com.
You must register in advance to attend this
lecture; cost is $5 for A.S.P. members/students, and $20 for non-A.S.P.
members. You can register for this online meeting
webinar by pressing the button below:

Sunday, May 14, 2023
NOTE:
This meeting will be conducted as a
live online presentation via Zoom. Once you register for the
webinar (see below), you will receive email instructions providing
details on how to access the talk. These will be sent on the day before
the meeting.
Robert Hand,
"Astrology, Platonism, and Modern Science (or, Undisproving Astrology)"
What
are the main barriers to the general acceptance of Astrology? There are
two. The first is that Astrology is considered by many, if not all, to
be incompatible with the main religions of the West. Second, it is also
generally believed to be inherently incompatible with the principles of
Modern Science, especially Physics and Astronomy. However, in this
lecture we will not discuss contemporary Astrology vis-a-vis Religion.
The religions of the West, for the most part, are all about belief and
opinion. Astrology, on the other hand, is actually experienced, even if
the experiences do not follow the methods of the modern scientific
method. Astrology has also been rejected by most schools of modern
philosophy. This was not always the case. In ancient world, as well as
the early modern period (15th and 16th centuries), many important
philosophers had little difficulty with Astrology in some form at least.
In this lecture we will examine the relationship between the Platonic
tradition of the ancient and early modern periods, and see how this
philosophical system enabled the possibility of Astrology or something
like it, even when philosophers expressed disapproval of its popular
applications. We will discuss how, according to this tradition, Nature,
as a concept, needs to redefined in order to accomplish this.
Second, we will discuss ideas current in modern Physics and Cosmology,
that seem to reinforce the Platonic worldview, and replace modern
materialism with a potentially rigorous philosophy of Science that at
the very least, enables the possibility of systems like Astrology that
put living energy and consciousness at the center of not only Science
but Philosophy.
About Robert Hand:
Robert Hand, PhD has been a student of astrology since 1960 and a full-time professional astrologer since 1972. His books include Planets in Composite, Planets in Transit, Planets in Youth, Horoscope Symbols and Essays on Astrology,
and a number of shorter works on traditional astrology. He received his
Doctor of Philosophy in Early Modern and Medieval Studies from the
Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Rob is a Patron of
the Faculty of Astrological Studies and a former Chairman of the
National Council for Geocosmic Research. He has been has been a
translator of traditional astrological texts from Latin in connection
with his company ARHAT and also has an active astrological consulting
practice. His website is https://www.arhatmedia.com.
You must register in advance to attend this
lecture; cost is $5 for A.S.P. members/students, and $20 for non-A.S.P.
members. You can register for this online meeting
webinar by pressing the button below:

Sunday, June 11, 2023
NOTE:
This meeting will be conducted as a
live online presentation via Zoom. Once you register for the
webinar (see below), you will receive email instructions providing
details on how to access the talk. These will be sent on the day before
the meeting.
Bruce Scofield,
"Hot Topics in Astrology"
In this talk, Bruce will consider some major issues, historical and
contemporary, that have been debated in the field of astrology. These
topics include the following: tropical vs. sidereal zodiac, the choice
of house systems, is astrology an art or a science?, does astrology
work by signs or causes?, is astrology fatalistic? These topics, and
possibly others, will be presented in part as a discussion to allow
those who attend a chance to participate in the arguments central to
these issues of great importance to the future of astrology.
Biography: Bruce Scofield began studying astrology in 1967 and
has earned a living as an astrological consultant since 1980. In the
early 1980's he passed astrological certification tests from both the
American Federation of Astrologers (AFA) and the National Council for
Geocosmic Research (CA-NCGR) and during the 1990's was the national
education director for the latter organization for five years. He is on
the faculty of Kepler College (www.kepler.edu) and maintains a private
practice based in Amherst, Massachusetts, working with clients by
telephone and email. Bruce often speaks at astrology conferences and
meetings and is the author of numerous articles and eight books on
astrology. He is a frequent writer for the Mountain Astrologer magazine
and the Llewellyn Moon and Sun Sign books, and has had articles
published in the NCGR Journal, Dell Horoscope, American Astrology and
many other astrological magazines and journals. Bruce has several other
interests including science, hiking, photography, music, and
archaeology and has had articles, books and creative works published in
those areas as well. He holds a BA in history from Rutgers University,
an MA in social sciences from Montclair University and a PhD in
Geosciences from the University of Massachusetts where he has taught
cosmic evolution and Gaia Theory. His website is www.onereed.com.
You must register in advance to attend this
lecture; cost is $5 for A.S.P. members/students, and $20 for non-A.S.P.
members. You can register for this online meeting
webinar by pressing the button below:

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