Map of the location of StarLogos delegates as of 1 April 2010 - we are all gathering in Santa Fe, New Mexico to place the stars and the sky back into our astrology.
The Speakers
Bernadette Brady and Darrelyn Gunzburg have been working with Visual Astrology since January 2005.
Bernadette Brady M.A. is a professional consulting and teaching astrologer who lives in Bristol, UK, and co-principal of Astro Logos Ltd, an astrological school dedicated to the education and qualification of practicing astrologers. She holds a Masters degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology from Bath Spa University, UK. In September 2006 she was honoured by the Astrological Association of Great Britain by being presented with the prestigious Charles Harvey Award for "exceptional service to astrology" and in 2008 with the Regulus Award in "Theory and Understanding" by the USA community at UAC in Denver. In her capacity as an astrologer she lectures, teaches, designs software, and writes. She is renowned for her innovative work in visual astrology, the role of fixed stars in western astrology, her work in predictive astrology, and in mapping chaos theory to astrology. She is currently reading for her doctorate in determinism in western astrology at Bath Spa University (UK) and is a tutor for the MA in Cosmology and Culture at Lampeter University, Wales, UK, and a tutor for Schumacher College, in partnership with the University of Plymouth, in their MSc programme Holistic Science. Her personal web site is here.
Darrelyn Gunzburg is a professional consulting and teaching astrologer and
co-principal of Astro Logos Ltd, an astrological school dedicated to the education and qualification of practicing astrologers. Darrelyn graduated from NIDA (Sydney, Australia) in 1986 and her work in Australia as a playwright resulted in nine productions, four publications, an AWGIE award, the Samuel Weisberg Award and various nominations. She holds a BA (Hons) from the Open University majoring in the art historical exploration of religious art produced in Italy 1280-1500. Her dissertation was short-listed for the AAH Bulletin 2006 BA Dissertation Prize. Darrelyn is currently reading for her doctorate in art history and astrology at the University of Bristol (UK) and is a part-time tutor for the MA in Cosmology and Culture at Lampeter University, Wales, UK, teaching on The Medieval Cosmos module. Her astrological publications include: (editor) Under Capricorn: An Anthology of Australian Astrology (1990), Life After Grief: An Astrological Guide to Dealing with Loss (2004), and (co-author) the monthly Visual Astrology Newsletter (2005 -). Her latest work is in mapping handwriting to astrology, AstroGraphology: the secret link between your horoscope and your handwriting (The Wessex Astrologer), publication date September,2009. Her personal web site is here.
Guest lecturer: Darby Costello
Darby Costello M.A. was born in America and studied astrology in Boston in the 1960s. From there she went to Africa, where she worked with tribal healers and diviners. She now lives in London where she teaches and writes books for the Centre for Psychological Astrology, is a visiting tutor for the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London, and teaches and lectures throughout Europe. Her books include: Astrology (with Lindsey Rademacher) (Dorling Kindersley, 1996), The Astrological Moon (CPA Press, 1996, 2003), Water & Fire (CPA Press, 1998), Earth & Air (CPA Press, 1999), and The Mars Quartet (with Lynn Bell, Liz Green & Melanie Reinhart) (CPA Press, 2001). Darby holds a Masters degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology from Bath Spa University (UK). Her current work is researching Venus. Her personal web site is here.
The Team
Kathleen Potter heads the Ground Crew. Kathleen has a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology and is a licensed mental health counselor and a licensed massage therapist. She has practiced massage therapy for over 20 years and is also a practicing psychological astrologer.
Mark Sciscenti heads the Catering Team. Mark is a chocolate historian/ artisan / lecturer, pastry chef, and herbalist. His background in Environmental Studies and Herbal Medicine has integrated with his research into the historical forms of chocolate and he now teaches about them, as well as recreates them in his specialist Mesoamerican-Mayan Aztec Drinking Chocolates and elixirs. Mark is also the creator, originator and former owner of Kakawa Chocolate House in Santa Fe, NM.
Michael Barlett heads the transportation team, working in hand with Kathleen. He will be organising the transport to and from the conference site to the Old Santa Fe Inn as well as the ranch on Friday night and the Sunday night car pool to the restaurant. Michael will be our "go-to guy".
Melanie Schossberg - Sound person. Melanie is from Texas and will be handling all the recordings, she is the artist who is working closely with Bernadette on creating a set of new constellation images for Starlight V2 (not due to later in the year or early 2011).
The Delegates
Starlogos is focused on helping you, the astrologer, reconnect with the sky and bring it back into your astrological charts. Whether you are a beginner to astrology or a professional of many years, you will gain by learning how to add the sky to your charts. We will assume that you know very little about the night sky and stars and help you learn how to "read the sky narrative" as astrologers did at our beginnings.
Building the Conference Community
StarLogos is designed as a small conference, for we believe that community and networking is an important part of learning. So once you have registered, you will be given a log-in password which will take you to a community space . This will allow you to access other delegates in order to make connections, share travel plans, book accommodation together, and so on. This space will also serve as a place where we can post notices and give you updated information, and where you will be able to connect with the ground crew if you have any questions that require local knowledge.
Your conference begins as soon as you register!
