ISBA Newsletter April 2005


Dear ISBA Member

Here are the March headlines:
1) Members Corner
2) Congress Amsterdam – Astrological Boat Ride
3) New Speakers at the ISBA Congress
4) Workshop – Vladimir Gorbatceivich
5) Judith Levy – Assignment, Bath Spa
6) ISBA Web Materials


1) Members Corner
In February, 4 new members joined us. Welcome to:

§ Judith Levy – UK
§ John Hayes – UK
§ Mathew Rajamohan - India
§ Robert Doolaard – The Netherlands


As usual we greet all four new business astrologer colleagues warmly, and we hope that you will benefit from your membership of our society.
Furthermore we look forward to seeing you at the upcoming Astrological Congress in May in Amsterdam.


2) Congress Amsterdam – Astrological Boat RideDuring the congress, after the hard work in the sessions on Friday, there will be a relaxing canal trip. The boat will pick us up from outside the hotel and take us around the canals to show us "Astrological Amsterdam". Selma Schepel, who lives and works in Amsterdam, comes from a large family where water and boats have always had a significant role. She has a passion for astrology and has recently translated a Babylonian text into Dutch. So Selma is the perfect person to show us Amsterdam at its astrological finest.

This trip is an extra, but you are not required to attend the entire congress to take part. If you attend any of the congress, from one lecture to the entire congress the cost will be 25 Euros. The boat trip can also be taken separately at a cost of 30 Euros. To make your reservation please contact local organiser Faye Cossar at fcossar@bizzo.nl.


3) New Speakers at the ISBA Congress
As we have announced in a separate communication, Mary Downing is seriously ill. Therefore we have arranged for two Dutch astrologers to cover for Mary’s lectures.
The astrologers and their subjects will be introduced in the April newsletter. We are saddened not to be able to meet Mary and listen to her lectures. She is among our most experienced astrologers globally. However, we are convinced that our two new speakers will meet our expectations.

4) Vladimir Gorbatceivichs workshop continued – step 9
At the end of this newsletter you will find step 9 of Vladimir Gorbatceivichs Workshop on the Average Chart. Thia workshop is free for ISBA members, but will be published at the end of 2005 as an ISBA e-Book and available to the public. Once again thank you, Vladimir, for your impressive work!
5) Judith Levy – Assignment, Bath Spa
Judith Levy studies at the Bath Spa in England, and she has written a most interesting paper on business astrology, which is available in the Members area on our site. The paper has a small questionnaire regarding our client base, which to my (Karen) knowledge is the first of it’s kind. Generally, there is very little literature on business astrology available, which causes us to jump on any new material!
Judith’s work is - as well as all other material in the Members Area - copyrighted.

6) ISBA Web Materials
I receive quite a bit of web information from members with new e-mail addresses etc. for the member list and our web site. I am happy to receive more of the kind in the future, but please Cc our webmaster, Klaus Johansen. It saves time J.
Thanks! You will find contact information for Klaus on the web site under: Contacts.

The best regards,
Karen & Hannah


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Vladimir Gorbatceivich: Workshop on Average Chart: Step 9

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GROUP AND ITS MEMBERS

1. A sinastry between AC and charts of members of a group.

Sometimes it is very useful to find a personification of some group's functions. For example - who is a personification of Mercury in AC? To answer this question we may try to find some strong aspect to Mercury from some very important planet (luminary, as a rule) in a chart of some group's member.

Some other approach – to compare an astrological description of some member’s chart and AC. If some planet is very strong in this individual chart, so we may suppose that this person is a personification of the corresponding planet in AC. For example, if this person has a lot of planets in Aries (Sun, Mars, Mercury), so he is a candidate for a personification of Mars in the group’s chart AC. But nevertheless, in this case some strong aspects between this person’s planets and Mars in AC have to be found.

2. A redistribution of duties in group of employees.

Sometimes in a business group (or in any other group) some main functions are distributed with some faults. Using AC and aspects to AC from member’s charts, we can find some better distribution of these functions.

We may use approach from point 1 above to give some advices about such redistributing.

3. A choice of a candidate for some vacancy in a group.

First of all, it is necessary to formulate group's problem, which we want to solve by means of adding some new member to this group. Then we have to reformulate this problem astrologically and to find some planets in AC, which are connected with this problem. And then we investigate aspects to these planets from charts of candidates.

So we can find, that some candidate is more appropriate, than others - his chart is more appropriate to solve the posed problem. But after this conclusion it is useful to calculate a new AC – AC for all members of the initial group plus this candidate. If there are no new negative factors in this new AC, we may suppose that this candidate is appropriate.

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