From: Carole@brownvm (Carolyn Egan)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Re: Troubled Times!
Date: 3 Sep 1992 13:57:59 GMT
Organization: Brown University
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Hello all list-dwellers, netters, astrologers!

Here is a bit from one of my favorite lecturers, Steve Cozzi, and is so relevent
to right now and the questions being asked by lots of returning students.  I
will cross post this to ASTROL-L and PSI (if I can).  I know all of you will
enjoy the message.

  Steve also wrote
Local Space Astrology - an excellent way to view your planets as brought down to
the horizon (azimuth) and to look at geomancy, ley lines and lots of other goodies.
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from Steve Cozzi's book, GENERATIONS AND THE OUTER PLANET CYCLES.  Published 1986, AFA (American Federation of Astrologers)

excerpt from Chapter 5,  1983-2005: A TIME OF TRANSFORMATION

There are many old and new prophecies put forth by a vast assortment of people.
  If we accept, on faith, that most presentiments of coming events will come 
true, we may be leaving ourselves open to disappointment and confusion. 
 Everyone who predicts the future has a "track record," a percentage of rights
 and wrongs.  In a handful of cases, certain sensitivities have been very 
accurate.  However, it is not easy to get a list of past predictions to compare
 in order to see how many have actually come true.  Many have said that their 
predictions are 90 percent accurate, but when asked to substantiate this with 
data, usually none comes forth.

Predictions of future events is like seeing a light at a distance;  this light
 represents an event.  How far or close is the light?  It may appear to be close
 or far, and thus the timing element becomes a critical factor.  Often a good 
tarot reading can symbolically and pictorially present an event or sequence of
 events, but may not be able to pinpoint when it will transpire within the 
future.  Astrology can predict the time with the greatest accuracy, because only
 astrology deals directly with measurements of cyclical order in the solar 
system.  The science of astrology is the science of time, space, and numbers.  
At the right point within a cycle (time), at a certain locality (space), and 
under the necessary aspects (number), an event takes place.

 When an astrologer looks at future predictions, he checks to see if the desired
 events relate correctly with planetary positions and aspects.  If the coming
 event does not correspond with the planetary configurations, then either the
 astrologer is a poor interpreter or the given time is incorrect.  When an event
 blends well with the planetary pattern, then its validity becomes highly 
probable.

In the previous chapters, it has been demonstrated how planetary positions and
 aspects correlate with past events.  Therefore, it should be possible to see
 what predictions in the near future seem to fit correctly with planetary
 patterns.

The Hopi Indians of northeastern Arizona have described this current time period
 (1980's, 1990's) as the time of purification of "Mother Earth", Nostradamus 
chose to refer to this time as the coming of the last Antichrist.  (Napoleon and
 Hitler were the first two.)  Biblical revelations speak of a new heaven and
 earth, often interpreted as the possible tile of the axis.  This was also
 mentioned by Joseph Smith, the Mormon founder.  He spoke of seeing the stars in
 a new and upside down position, in relation to Earth.

The Great Pyramid, Mayan and Tibetian calendars have ending points during this
 period, and most people look at this as indications of a great and final war; a
 war that would envelop most of the world.  Astrology supports this basic 
position but, at the same time, it also shows possible alternatives.  
These alternatives are there, because free will is ever present.

It is apparent that these next decades will be times of profound rebirth, but
 in order to have a symbolic and actual rebirth, something must die.  How gentle
 or violent this death will be depends on the collective will of man, and each 
individual's contribution to it.  It is important to keep in mind that certain 
aspects are forming and cycles are converging, but this does not necessarily 
mean that we will be able to pinpoint to what intensity an event will manifest.
  The intensity is always influenced by our conscious/unconscious balance or
 imbalance.  To say that a person has free will is another way of saying there
 is choice, and with this in mind, we will look at key planetary pictures for
 the remainder of this century. 

Regards, Carol Egan

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