Special ASA Event - Dr. Nicholas Campion

Special ASA Event!!!!

ARIZONA SOCIETY OF ASTROLOGERS
PRESENTS THE WORLD’S FOREMOST AUTHORITY ON THE HISTORY OF ASTROLOGY

DR. NICHOLAS CAMPION

SATURDAY - MAY 2, 2009

1:00 – 4:30 pm
Vision Quest Bookstore, 2225 N. Scottsdale Rd.,
Scottsdale, Arizona, 85257. [masked].

Cost: $10 for ASA members and $15 for non-members. All are invited and welcome!

* The Speaking Sky: the evidence for the use of the sky as a source of wisdom in the old stone-age, including 30,000-year-old calendars carved on ancient bones, cave paintings, and mysterious moon-goddess images. Nick has compiled this material for the first time.

* Omens and Auguries: We will take a fresh look at the earliest Babylonian astrology, and the evidence for its practices and development. We will consider the Dream of Gudea, the tablet of stars owned by the goddess Nanshe (the first astrologer?), and ask just why did birth charts develop – and what exactly did the first known chart say?

* 2012: What Would Kepler Say?: Doom-sayers are relying on both the imminent Uranus-Pluto square and the Mayan Calendar to predict upheaval for the early years of the next decade. The genius of modern astronomy, Johannes Kepler, would disagree. We will examine what Kepler said, his brilliant insight into the psychic fabric of the cosmos, and the advice he offered. Come along for an optimistic view of the future!

Nick Campion is the head of the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and course director of the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is the author of The Book of World Horoscopes, Mundane Astrology, and The Dawn of Astrology. His newest book, The Golden Age of Astrology, will be published later this year.