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I'm doing a webinar via Kepler.edu on Aug 2nd between 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm Pacific time. After an introduction to the main program features, I will be explaining Hellenistic and other traditional techniques using the charts of Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Fallon and others...

http://www.kepler.edu/home/index.php/ev ... hic-oracle

Looking forward to the webinar. Please post a reminder a day or two before that Saturday. Sometimes I forget and miss these Kepler webinar Saturdays.

Hey Curtis,

sounds good. Is there any way to watch it after it has been given, or can you only see it live?

I don't know. Maybe Kepler.edu has an archive of these, but you might ask them.

I just got word that anyone who signs up will get the mp4 whether they attend or not.

Great, thanks for letting us know, Curtis. Looking forward to it.

BTW, Jupiter and Mercury will be conjunct my natal Mercury at 3 deg 18' Leo near my MC at 8 Leo during this webinar.

A reminder that just about 48 hours now I'll be doing a webinar for Kepler.edu demonstrating traditional techniques using Delphic Oracle 7...

I've recently changed the search in the Terran Atlas to be case insensitive and added dynamical divisions as a consideration for predomination, trigon lord strength, etc... I may have misunderstood Schmidt's original instructions, but it seems to me that most of the predomination material (in particular Valens bk 3) seems to work better with Porphyry and not whole signs. Schmidt has said that topics are better represented using whole signs because of the guest host relationship, but the other meaning of "kentron" means to goad (as opposed to a center of activity such as an agora or open market place conducive to business) so I have added this to the Predomination tab under Hellenistic General options. Hopefully this version will be uploaded before my presentation. This option will also affect trigon lord assessment (as a matter of strength in harnessing the winds) and with the selection of Kurios of the nativity.

Version 7.1.0.2 of Delphic Oracle has been uploaded just in time for the webinar...

Hi Curtis,

Thanks very much for the webinar. Very interesting. I have just bought Delphic Oracle so looking forward to experimenting further with your software.

I especially enjoyed your discussion on the myth of Er in relation to the Kurios!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_Er

Mark

Thanks Mark! I only scratched the surface of what I had planned with that segment. Schmidt suggested that it would be a good pretext for understanding the material in the Universal Hermetics section. I think we need to make a distinction between the planet set as the "oikodespotes" (what Schmidt calls the political officer) as the type of life chosen and what evolutionary astrologers would call the path that the soul is on. The latter deals with the "why" question. The Myth of Er almost makes it sound like the souls coming down from heaven lacked experience and made trivial choices and then lamented as if they had been "tricked". Their choices often though seemed to reflect prior reasoning that "this time I'll choose this kind of life because such and such happened in the past". One soul even chose life as an animal due to negative experiences with being human; something Buddhists might relate to.

BTW, I wanted to mention before I forget that it occurred to me that the reason why Valens examined the prenatal lunation for indications of violent death (particularly malefics aspecting the lord) is because lunations like eclipses represent something new coming into the world; so if this lord is in aversion and afflicted, it is like nemesis where opposition forces seek retribution for something that shouldn't be. It is as if the malefics objected to the life being present and so they react violently.