Future Events

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May 8 - Roxana Muise Speaking On:

The Dark Night of the Soular Return

In Astrology, this is associated with the month before your birthday - 30 Solar degrees prior to your yearly Solar Return. Based on the last phase of the Lunar cycle, it is a time for re-evaluating the past year, and see how it has contributed to your life path. You can use this time to locate and understand the gifts of the coming Solar Return and how best to develop them. To earn the knighthood offered at the Solar Return requires courage, tenacity, and conscious awareness. At this time you may feed and nurture your essential nature and (to borrow a term from computers) defrag your life path.

About Roxana Muise Ord., BSc, C.A.P.:

A consulting astrologer since 1970, lectures, tutors and works with clients to discover and embrace their life patterns using basic astrological techniques and practical metaphysical principles. She defined the Retrograde Shadow, and developed practical techniques for the graphic ephemeris. Roxana is an award-winning author, with two books, articles in ISAR’s International Astrologer, and is featured on many web sites, including her own: www.roxanamuise.com. Roxana writes on science, spirituality, health, mythology and astrology. She is advisor to ISAR and AFAN, and a co-founder of Kepler College.

June 12 - Antero Alli Speaking On:

Planetary Forces as Sexual Realities

Astrology and astrologers seem to shy away from addressing specific sexually related issues. Why is this? I think it stems in part from culturally conditioned misrepresentations about the human sexual experience itself.

This confusion is understandable when you study the way our limited language attempts to label complex human sexual realities.  Labels such as heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, pansexual, ambisexual, asexual, transsexual, do not refer to sexual realities as much as political ones that help categorize specific needs for security, status, sociopolitical identity, and a sense of tribal belonging. These labels also refer to various sexual tribes, each claiming their own distinct customs, rituals, fetishes, icons, codes, and overall force of culture--or subculture--as the case may be.

In this lecture I will not address specific sexual orientations but how specific forces and dynamics, as symbolized by the planets, can reveal the nature and purpose of a great variety of sexual experience regardless of orientation.  I will present novel ideas on how each of the planets can be seen and interpreted as specific colors in the vast spectrum and mystery of human sexual response.  From the Moon's sexuality of deep emotional involvement and co-dependency to the electrically charged sex magick of Uranus, we will visit all the planets as legitimate sexual realities with their own integrity.  We will also examine them all through a humanistic lens beyond the judgments of imposed moralities to better understand their true nature.  -- Antero Alli

June 14 - An Interactive Transit Workshop with Antero Alli -

                              Bring Your Charts!:

The Transit Clinic

Consider that astrological transits measure the timing of change but not its causes.  Though our interpretations of the transiting planets can coincide with certain changes we experience in our lives, consider that the transiting planet itself may not cause those changes or control our fates but instead, act as a measurement for tracking the cycles of change in our lives.  This outlook reinforces a choice-centered astrology where astrologers, and the clients they serve, can achieve a greater sense of responsibility for their lives and destinies.  This unique experiential workshop examines transits from Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto as it applies specifically to the natal charts of those enrolled. - Antero Alli

About Antero Alli:

 "...Antero Alli is the architect of a rowdy and iridescent system of astrology that liberates and never ensnares. He can shock you in the friendliest ways and teach you how to teach yourself..." -- Rob Brezsny, columnist/author

Antero Alli was born November 11, 1952, in Finland. Alli currently resides in Berkeley, California, where he conducts workshops and stages theatrical productions, some of which have been released as films. Alli is also a professional astrologer and has authored books on experimental theatre, astrology and Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness.

 I teach two or three classes and/or workshops every year in Berkeley California which are listed on his website when they are scheduled. I will also present an eight-week, interactive online course called "ASTROLOGIK" at Maybe Logic Academy beginning October 29th, 2007. 

Film and Theatrical Work

Alli refers to his thirty years of work in experimental theatre as paratheatrical, a term borrowed from the writings of Jerzy Grotowski.[1] He conducts private workshops in the Bay Area, some of which have evolved into public productions and provided the material for his films.[2]

Between 1976 and 1999, Alli wrote and directed a series of stageplays exploring mystical themes in "Circles" (1976), "Coronation at Stillnight" (1977), "The Conjunction" (1978), "Chapel Perilous" (1983), "Animamundi" (1989), and "Hungry Ghosts of Albion" (1999). Between 1992 and 2002 Antero co-curated the Nomad Film Festival, a Pacific coast touring venue featuring short experimental films and videos.[3] Since 1993, Antero has redirected his focus to the creation of underground feature-length art films with mystical themes such as "The Oracle" (1993), The Drivetime (1995), Tragos (2001), Hysteria (2002), Under a Shipwrecked Moon (2003) and The Greater Circulation (2005), a cinematic treatment of Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke's "Requiem For a Friend."

Writing

Alli's books span a number of subjects, but all share common themes with his paratheatrical efforts: archetypes, personal mythology and the use of ritual to transform consciousness. Like his colleague Rob Breszny, Alli proposes a free will approach to astrology, which advocates providing clients with the information to make decisions instead of deterministic predictions. In Towards an Archaeology of the Soul (2003), Alli presents a detailed account of the theories and processes that go into his own paratheatrical creations.

Between 1991-95, Alli was editor/publisher of Talking Raven Quarterly, a Seattle-based literary journal featuring the writings of Robert Anton Wilson, Hakim Bey, and Rob Brezsny among others.[4]

In Spring and Fall 2006, Alli taught a course on his book AngelTech at Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy.

Books

• Alli, Antero (1987). AngelTech. New Falcon. ISBN 1-56184-009-2
• Alli, Antero (1988). All Rites Reversed: Ritual Technology for Self-Initiation. New Falcon. ISBN 0-941404-81-1
• Alli, Antero (1988). The Akashic Record Player: A Non-Stop Geomantic Conspiracy. New Falcon. ISBN 0-941404-91-9
• Alli, Antero (1993). Letters, Essays and Premonitions. Vigilantero Press/Vertical Pool.
• Alli, Antero and Sylvie Pickering (1996). The Vertical Oracle. Vertical Pool. ISBN 0-9657341-0-2
• Alli, Antero (1999). Astrologik. Vertical Pool. ISBN 0-9657341-0-2
• Alli, Antero (2003). Towards an Archeology of the Soul. Vertical Pool. ISBN 0-9657341-2-9
• Hyatt, Christopher S. and Antero Alli (2006). A Modern Shaman's Guide to a Pregnant Universe. New Falcon. ISBN 1-56184-241-9

Filmography

• Requiem for a Friend (1991; 40 min)
• "Archaic Community (1992; 80 min) a paratheatre video document
• The Drivetime (1995; 88 min)
• The Oracle (1993; 70 min)
• Lily in Limbo (1996; 27 min)
• Tragos: A Cyber-Noir Witch Hunt (2000; 105 min)
• Roadkill (2001; 27 min)
• Hysteria (2002; 83 min)
• Under a Shipwrecked Moon (2003; 96 min)
• Orphans of Delirium (2004; 82 min) a paratheatre video document
• The Greater Circulation (2005; 93 min)
• "The Mind is a Liar and a Whore" (2007; 92 min)

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7:00 PM Social 1/2 hr.
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