STAR 2011: Medieval Natal Chart Analysis with Rob Hand
About the retreat
Friday Night Lecture: What Are We Doing Anyway?
What are we doing anyway? Are we trying to predict the future, change the future, achieve control over our lives? There are many purposes for which people use astrology for and astrologers themselves have differing objectives. In this talk I will discuss some of these and especially the more traditional views. In the end we will look at what may be the most important and positive change in this respect to occur in the 20th and 21st centuries and show that it has roots in ancient thought.
Saturday and Sunday Workshop: Medieval Natal Chart Analysis
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. This workshop will include the ancient Greek doctrines of Form and Matter, which were very important in medieval astrology and go a long way toward explaining such things as the relationship between planets and houses versus their rulers, when various patterns in the chart manifest, and what it means for a planet to be dignified. Many of Astrology’s most important features derive from this philosophical distinction and the consequences of these are as important practically as philosophically. Participants will have hands-on experience with their own charts.
About Rob Hand
Robert Hand, began his work in astrology at the age of 17, learning from his father, Wilfred Hand, who successfully applied the astrological techniques of his day to forecasting the stock market. Rob began his astrology practice in 1972 and after publishing his best seller, Planets in Transit, he began traveling world wide as a full-time professional astrolger. Rob is an honor graduate from Brandeis University, with honors in history, and he completed some graduate work in the History of Science at Princeton. Rob holds an MA in history from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he is currently working towards his Ph.D.
In his professional practice Rob uses tropical, heliocentric, sidereal, uranian, cosmobiological and in mundo techniques with ancient and medieval methods discovered anew in the Hebrew translations by Meira Epstein, the classical Arabic by Dr. Charles Burnett, and the classical Greek by Dr. Dorian Greenbaum — as well as Rob’s own Latin translations. In 1997 a formal archive, library and publishing company, ARHAT, was established for continuing Robert Hand’s lifelong work in the history and science of astrology. For more about Robert Hand visit: www.roberthand.com.
