Study with one of the world's Greatest Living Astrologers!

Robert Hand ... in person or live on-line

....COME FOR A DAY OR THE WEEKEND

DATES: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday, July 11, 2010, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

TUITION: You may register for the whole weekend or for only Saturday or Sunday.

Early Registration Special for BOTH days is $165 until 7/2/2010
Late Registration Special for BOTH days is $195 after 7/2/2010

Early Registration: $95 for each day until 7/2/2010
Late Registration: $125 for each day after 7/2/2010

For the first time, You have the option to take this class with us at the Fellowships of the Spirit, OR, you will be able to participate on-line from the comfort of your home. Click here for more information and system requirements before registering.

An Introduction to Medieval Natal Chart Analysis
Saturday morning
After several years of working with techniques of medieval natal astrology, it is now becoming clear exactly how to organize the examination of the natal chart and to reach conclusions regarding an individual's health, earning capacity, career, relationships and all of the other issues that modern astrologers want to look at. The medieval approach is extremely systematic but not difficult to learn. Participants will have hands-on experience with their own charts. All participants should have a reasonable knowledge of basic modern natal astrology.

Introduction to Electional Astrology
Saturday afternoon
This is the astrology of picking times to do things or to start enterprises. While modern astrologers attempt to do this on a regular basis, they do not in fact know the traditional methods that make it relatively easy to do this. These are systematic methods that can give even the relative beginner a leg up on doing "elections." While the complete lore of elections is very complex, the basic principles are not. In this workshop there will be time to go into special topics, and the general methods for finding good times for doing particular things. Traditional methods will be stressed throughout except where modern astrology has something useful to add.

Astrology and Location
Sunday morning
This is an introduction to four techniques used to evaluate where one might live for the best results from the natal chart. 1) Indications in the natal chart concerning the kind of place one might want to live in, and whether one should stay near one's birthplace or go far away. 2) Astro-mapping which is placing one's chart on a map and seeing what parts of the earth benefit oneself the most and in what way. 3) Relocated charts, which are natal charts re-erected as if one lived in a different place. 4) Local Space Charts which show directions in which one might want to move for various purposes or which show how one can arrange one's immediate environment.

Ancient Philosophy and Spirituality and Their Impact on Astrology
Sunday afternoon
This workshop will deal with the interaction of astrological ideas and ancient philosophy and show how it affected them, drew upon them, and became in fact completely integrated with them in a grand synthesis, much of which extended into the Middle Ages. But as a result of the later stages of this synthesis Astrology became a "science" in the medieval sense of the world and in doing so lost something of its mystical and spiritual foundation; it split in two, into "scientific" and "magical" branches. In the latter was preserved the original spiritual nature of astrology which can be used to build a new philosophy of astrology so that once again astrology can be, as ancient astrology was, thoroughly involved with, and rooted in, the philosophy and religion of its day. Using those ancient philosophical principles still found in modern Western philosophy and religion, I believe that we can rebuild a proper foundation for astrology which will reach back to its ancient roots with a new structure upon them, one that is neither alien to the West, nor which turns astrology against its own inner logic.

Robert Hand, began his work in astrology at the age of 17. Rob learned the basics of casting charts for these applications from his father, Wilfred Hand, who successfully applied the astrological techniques of his day to forecasting the stock market. Rob is an honor graduate from Brandeis University, with honors in history, and went on for graduate work in the History of Science at Princeton. Rob began an astrology practice in 1972 and as success came, he began traveling worldwide as a full-time professional astrologer.

Robert Hand was known in his early career as the first practicing astrologer to write astrology programs for microcomputers so that the benefits of computers would be available to astrologers. From this effort, he founded Astro-Graphics Services in 1979, which later became Astrolabe, Inc.

In his professional practice Rob uses tropical, heliocentric, sidereal, uranian, cosmobiological and in mundo techniques with ancient and mediaeval methods now being uncovered and translated. In 1997 Rob established a formal archive, library and publishing company for continuing his lifelong work in the history and science of astrology ... ARHAT.

Robert Hand's library now houses the original texts and translations of over two dozen ancient and medieval astrologers. Books that he has authored to date include: Planets in Transit: Life Cycles for Living, Planets in Composite: Analyzing Human Relationships, Planets in Youth: Patterns of Early Development, Essays on Astrology and Night and Day: Planetary Sect in Astrology.

Robert Hand is a former chairman of the National Council for Geocosmic Research. He is a member of AFAN, ISAR, and is a patron of the Faculty of Astrological Studies. Rob lectures in conferences, seminars and workshops worldwide. Robert Hand offers professional astrological services to astrologers and the general public. He can be reached at ARHAT (703) 758-7150 USA or through email to robhand@starpower.net.

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Open Seminars

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• Spiritual Insight Training I

• Spiritual Insight Training Part II

• BREATH~BODY~MIND WORKSHOP

• MYSTICISM & THE BIBLE