ISBA Newsletter June 2006
1. Member’s Corner
2. Villa Tauro – The astrological park
By Maarit Laurento
3. Cycles Research ranked number one
By Bill Meridian
4. New userid and password for website
5. "find astrologer"
By Robin Manteris
1.
Member’s Corner
It is a great pleasure to welcome three new members to ISBA:
Ellen Zucker
Associated member, USA
Shashank Deshmukh
Supporting member, USA
Eva Stylliani Avgerinou
Professional member, Greece
If you have any questions regarding ISBA, its members, financial astrology or business astrology,
please do not hesitate to contacting us.Once again: Welcome to ISBA! We hope the membership
will be fruitful for you all.
2. Villa Tauro – The Astrological Park
By Maarit Laurento
We had a dream of an astrological café where you could drink coffee and have an astrological
analysis without having to make an appointment, you could just pop in. A place where you could
think about your life over a cup of coffee eating tasty pastries and enjoying social life around
you. What could be nicer than to be able to reflect and analyse your life situation with an astrologer
in the same way that you would visit coffee houses with your friends and talk about your relationships
and life in general? It took seven years (!) to make the idea actually work out. But the idea
was already in the making in 1997 when Astro Bar was founded. Its office at the street level was
designed to be a café with a bar. Then we didn't offer coffee from our bar, we offered
astrological analyses.
But the original dream of a café did not leave us in peace. In 2002 we found a farm 100
km from Helsinki, and when we moved there we knew that now our dream had a chance to become true.
Villa Tauro was opened for the public next summer, in 2003. It is located in idyllic traditional
farm surroundings close to the historical Ox Road in Somero, in the western part of Finland. The
farm has been at the same place for 500 years and was an inn already in the 18th century and was
an inn still in the 1920's. Now Villa Tauro is keeping up the tradition but with fresh ideas.
The name could not be better. Taurus refers to tradition, farms and enjoying life's good side.
Villa Tauro is, of course, also a language game: Ox Road is the oldest road in Finland (from the
era of Vikings, 162 km long road crossing the western part of Finland from Turku to Hämeenlinna
- and Somero is the centre of it). Villa Tauro is one of the oldest farms in the area. Curiously,
when you drive from Helsinki to Somero you pass a village called, very appropriately, Ram Lake
('Aries lake').
Villa Tauro is a perfomance. The personnel is dressed up in an old farm style, hence Villa Tauro
is a true experience, an ongoing summer theatre in fact! Yes, it all started as a summer café,
a cosy place to make a spontaneous visit for getting a cup coffee and an astrological analysis.
Sitting under the old oak trees, sun shining glitteringly through the leaves and a gentle wind
blowing when people from all walks of life were analysed. The most amazing thing was that the
clientele was so heterogeneous. Families, men, women, people of all ages, everybody could come
in and with a cup of coffee enter the exhibitions or have a reading. People who only were familiar
with magazine horoscopes stepped into a new astrological world and had a personal experience.
We still have a dream, we hope that Villa Tauro will become an experiential astrological park,
and for that purpose we make enlargements every summer. In 2004 Leo Pavilion was reconstructed
in the barn. Leo Pavilion has an exhibition of horoscope symbols and the solar system. Leo is
referred to the Sun, hence the Sun Signs are shown as installations so that people could experience
their own or their friends' horoscope signs and find new ideas to their lives. In addition, every
summer a new exhibition is held there: in 2004 artist Puppi Caselius brought her planet paintings
and last summer we had Malla Pohja's astrological clocks. This summer's exhibition is about traditional
Finnish calendars, wooden sticks with Moon Phases from Anne Pöyhönen. Leo Pavilion provides
also lectures and workshops. Every Saturday we have New Moon Afternoons where astrological ideas
are reflected in a workshop. Renaissance events and other experiential happenings like horoscope
dances have also been held in Leo Pavilion, since Leo is the sign of performers and performances.
Last summer Capricorn Chamber was reconstructed in a cowshed. The funniest thing was that because
the cowshed has thick walls the chamber stayed fairly cool which fitted well with the nature of
Capricorn. The exhibition held in Capricorn Chamber is of course about Cronos, time eras and calendars.
The exhibition answers questions like why is Friday a Venus day, what happened when ten days were
moved from the calendar in 1582 and what is the meaning of the Bethlehem Star.
This summer a new exhibition hall, Gemini's Yellow Cabinet, will be opened. As you might guess,
there will be astrological magazines, a gift shop and many colourful jolly ideas.
Our dream does still not leave us in peace, the astrological park continues to grow. One day there
will be a planetary garden, an observatory and a dark mystic cave for all Scorpions! You are warmly
welcome to visit Villa Tauro in July - but you can already have a peek online at www.villatauro.com
Please see the pictures below:
1. See you in July
2. Coffee is ready!
3. Planetary Paintings Exhibition
4. The Lady of the House and the Parlourmaid
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3. Cycles Research ranked number one
We have received the below from Bill Meridian, USA. Congratulations Bill, we are proud of your
expertise!
Dear Investor,
Timer Digest, a Greenwich, Ct. rating service, has ranked Cycles Research as the number one gold
market timer for the last 12 months.
CR had predicted a correction that would end in mid-March to be followed by a rally that is still
underway.
Best Regards,
Bill Meridian
4. New userid and password for ISBA website
In connection with our new website, we have decided to implement a shared userid and password,
which we will change periodically. This is the easiest way to administer access codes for our
Webmaster.
The current access codes are:
Userid: april
Password: spring369
Remember to use lower-case letters only!
5. www.findastrologer.com
Robin has sent the below text in which he asks ISBA’s members to consider to register:
Hello,
This is Robin here from findastrologer.com, the online astrology directory. I have had your organization
and conferences on the site since its inception in 2000 and I know you have a very impressive
group of professionals in your membership. I would like to invite them to a free trial listing
in the directory and was wondering if you send out a newsletter or announcements periodically.
If you do and you find it appropriate, I would love to post my offer in it. If you are not familiar
with site take a look and of course write with any questions.
Best Regards,
Robin Manteris
http://www.findastrologer.com
FINDASTROLOGER.com
Findastrologer.com is the web's most complete astrology resource center. Find astrologers by name,
location or specialty. Find astrology organizations, conferences, classes and an excellent selection
of astrology products.
findastrologer@hotmail.com
Kind regards,
Karen & Jeannie