Astrogroups UK
The Beginning
By Glenda Cole
During the AA 2002 conference in Swansea I was fortunate in meeting up with members of the Scottish Astrological Association. As I am chairman of the Suffolk Astrological Society, I found them to be like-minded individuals who put a lot of energy and effort into successfully running their local group. Our mutual support of each others societies is highlighted by SAA Neptune conjunct SAS ascendant, both groups share the same spiritual inspirations and aspirations and SAS Mercury conjunct the SAA ascendant, ideal for sharing ideas.
We quickly formed an alliance and decided we wanted local groups to have more of a presence and more of an alliance. I mentioned in passing that we should have somewhere on the web called astrogroups where all the UK groups could get together and anyone looking for a group would have know where to start looking. We were fired with enthusiasm to 'do something' but following the conference we each went our separate ways and daily live took over.
Then on February 27th 2003 I found an email (or rather 3 e-mails,) from an enthusiastic Cathy Meek in Scotland who hadn't heard my comment at the time. She had just been told about it and wanted to revive the idea, she was particularly interested in trying to somehow get all the groups in the UK to connect with each other so that we could work together to do such things as get a speaker circuit going.
Re-enthused by Cath's eagerness I emailed back, in fact during the next hour a dozen emails flew backward and forward through cyber-space between Suffolk and Scotland. Meanwhile I began to think about the best time to set such a group up, after all we are astrologers and should be able to elect a suitable time. But, having a 3rd house Gemini emphasis in my chart, I wanted it done as soon as possible. Realising that Moon was due to enter Aquarius during that same evening I checked the immediate astrology and realised that if I waited until just before midnight the chart of this very day would be ideal.
Scorpio
rising, showing the various groups sharing their resources. Moon, Neptune
Mercury and Uranus all in Aquarius, in the 3rd house of communication,
what better omens for astrological communication between groups could
there be? Aquarius is intercepted, but then this is a place where we hope
to 'contain' all local group information. We have Sun in 4th house Pisces,
showing that 'astrogroups' is a 'virtual' home for local groups. Venus,
ruler of the 11th house of groups is also in the 3rd, albeit in Capricorn.
It would be nice to think that eventually folk will think of 'astrogroups'
as the official place to find all the information they need about their
local group. Pluto is conjunct Mars in the 2nd, both opposite Saturn in
8th house Sagittarius. Possibly others may use this site to try to 'sell'
their astrology, whereas our original idea was rather more altruistic
(Neptune square the Asc.) But hey these planets have to be somewhere!
To mitigate, Saturn is trine Mercury and Uranus, so perhaps any potential
problems can be negotiated around. Uranus and Mercury are square the asc,
so it may take us a bit of time to get ourselves noticed, but with Jupiter
in 9th house Leo at the top of the chart, we have faith that our aims
will be achieved.
Astrogroups 27 Feb 2003, 23:49, UT +0:00 Bury St Edmunds UK, 52°N14', 000°E43'
Suffolk Astrological Society 18 Jun 1981, 19:35, BST -1:00 Bury St Edmunds UK, 52°N14', 000°E43'
Scottish Astrological Association 16 Feb 1974, 12:26, UT +0:00 Edinburgh UK, 55°N57', 003°W13'
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