CONCLAVE SCHEDULE
Monday afternoon: – welcome, general announcements
- Babylonian antecedents, with emphasis on concepts used in
Hellenistic
astrology
- Solar phase cycle, lunar phenomena, etc.
Monday evening: - Pre-Hellenistic Egyptian astrology's contribution to Hellenistic astrology
- Hermetic medical astrology
Tuesday morning: - Basic Hellenistic astrological concepts; comparison with related Indian
and Medieval concepts
Tuesday afternoon: - Practical techniques tutorial
- Basic concepts continued; Indian and Medieval comparisons
Tuesday evening: - The introduction of Hellenistic astrology into India and its development
Wednesday Morning: - optional pre-breakfast tutorial / Question & Answer session
- House systems; comparisons; the Thema Mundi
Wednesday Afternoon - Practical techniques tutorial
- Preliminary natal analysis (determination of planetary condition);
continued
comparisons with Indian and Medieval traditions
Wednesday Evening: - Origins of the horary tradition
- Classical (Stoic) conception of happiness
Thursday Morning: - optional pre-breakfast tutorial / Question & Answer session
- Universal techniques: central planets, nautical metaphor,
rulers of the nativity
Thursday Afternoon: - Practical techniques tutorial
- More on universal techniques: rulership modes, trigon lords
of the sect light
- Topical methods: House meanings, Indian and Medieval comparisons
Thursday Evening - Hellenistic Fate concepts; Fate and Free Will
Friday Morning - optional pre-breakfast tutorial / Question & Answer session
- The system of Lots; Hellenistic aspect doctrine, witnessing & testimony
Friday Afternoon - Practical techniques tutorial
- More on testimony in topical analysis; house meanings
Friday Evening - unscheduled - Windsor Hall will be open for discussions, socializing
Saturday Morning - optional pre-breakfast tutorial / Question & Answer session
- Introduction to Hellenistic timing methods
- Direct timing with ascensional times and planetary periods
- Annual profections, zodiacal releasing from Fortune and Spirit
Saturday Afternoon - Zodiacal releasing continued; Circumambulations
Saturday Evening - Delphic Oracle Hellenistic software tutorial
- Livy's history of the Roman kings and the Hellenistic meanings of
the planets
Sunday Morning - Panel discussion with Bob Schmidt, Demetra George, Ben Dykes,
Bill Johnston, Michael Erlewine, Ken Johnson, Ken Bowser, Alan White:
Issues and modern developments
in astrology
Sunday Afternoon - Question and answer session
- Panel discussion continued, with audience contributions
(Among the topics covered in the Sunday discussions: The search for a theoretical basis for
modern astrology; Dane Rudhyar's reformulation of the tradition in the 20th century; the use
and understanding the trans-Saturnian planets; concept transformation & astrological techniques;
internalizing astrological techniques to make them your own; tropical and sidereal reference
systems; Hellenistic astrological metaphysics; theoretical frameworks, empirical evidence, and
the role of the astrologer's experience)