Gemini 2017 edition:

Olga Morales: where your fortune isfound Anne Fryer: New York madness, Marsthe culprit

From the PresidentWe are building an aquarium. It’s not my idea. My husband had one in a past life and he’s

always, deep down, wanted another one. For the 20­odd years we’ve been living in our house by

the sea, he’s served his fish obsession by catching and eating them. Then, a month ago, he

decided he had to have his fish tank, and he worked out where to put it. So he demolished some

shelves, created the space and the planning began.

Since then I have been taken to aquarium shops, had endless discussions about gravel and

plants and fish, been subjected to videos on YouTube and trawled aquarium websites (if I am to

have an aquarium, it is going to be beautiful!). The base cabinet has been built, the tank

purchased and the filter, aerator, light, vacuum, thermometer and a myriad of other things have

multiplied every time I look at them. I am away for a week, but when I return it will all happen!

It wasn’t till yesterday that the lightbulb moment came. At the moment I have Neptune conjunct

my 4th House Venus. My husband has Neptune squaring his 4th House Moon. We both also

currently have Saturn squares. Of course we will have an aquarium. And of course we will build

it ourselves. Isn’t astrology grand!

We had a wonderful meeting with excellent attendance on June 10, and we learnt an incredible

amount about asking and answering a horary question. Thank you to Meredith Norman, Anne

Fryer, Joel Valentine and Kris Svendsen for sharing their knowledge, wisdom and expertise.

I hope you will join us for a fascinating day on July 1 when financial astrologer Olga

Morales returns to run a workshop, where she will share with us her research on

lucky midpoints. With so much doom, gloom and fear around the world it will be wonderful to

relax for a day and look at something positive! Olga’s expertise is being recognised around the

world; she ran a Gann Trading workshop in Hong Kong this month and she will be lecturing at

UAC next year. We loved her talk last year – I know this workshop will be just as enjoyable. I

hope to see you there!

May love and laughter light your days

Cate Whelan

South Australia's contribution to the FAAInternational Conference will be Mari Garcia and JillAmery. Go for the local astrologers, and stay for theinternational speakers as well!

International speakers include Demetra George andup and coming horary astrologer Wade Caves. Findout more about all the speakers here.

Meeting dates 2017

July 1, Olga Morales - Strike It Luckyworkshop

August 12, Joy Usher - Saturn's Faces

September 9, 1 Chart 4 Ways: Vivien Lowe,Jill Amery, Adrienne Barkla

October 14, Vivien Lowe - Vesta

Transits to watch New Moon 2 Cancer 47 ‐ Jun 24 Venus enters Gemini ‐ July 5

Mercury enters Leo ‐ July 6 Full Moon 17 Capricorn 09 ‐ July 9 Mars enters Leo ‐ July 20 Sun enters Leo ‐ July 23

There will be a lot of astrology at the next FAAInternational Conference but plenty of otheractivities too: a Saturday evening gala, as well as azodiac pub crawl with renowned astrologer JessicaAdams.

Do you have your tickets yet? Book here.

Pars Fortuna:

Olga Moralesreintroducesan ancient point

Olga Morales is an experienced, Melbourne‐based astrologer, and will bedelivering a workshop 'Lucky Stars', Saturday July 1. Read Olga's introduction

to the Part of Furtune here, and follow her instructions at the end of thisarticle in preparation for her workshop.

What is Success? The Part of Fortune, or Pars Fortuna, can be an indicator of what that will look

like for each individual.

‘Ask not for some power that has been denied you. Ask what ability youhave which can be made to develop into something worthwhile. What is inyour hand?’ Just ask yourself­ What have I to GIVE that will add to thehappiness of those around me? You will be surprised how many simplelittle ways of brightening the lives of others will present themselves, andhow great the reward these ways can bring, when multiplied by hundreds

and thousands. ­ Robert Collier, Riches within your Reach.

The Part of Fortune in a chart can signify:

How the individual is connected to the surrounding world

Body and health

Potential for prosperity

And is also our happiness point

Guido Bonatti wrote that the Part of Fortune:

Signifies the life, the body, and also its soul, its strength, fortune,substance, and profit, that is: wealth and poverty, gold and silver,

heaviness or lightness of things bought in the marketplace, praise andgood reputation, and honours and recognition, good and evil, present andfuture, hidden and manifest; and it has signification over everything.

The Part of Fortune is made of three very significant points in the horoscope: Ascendant – the

body; Moon – soul incarnated into a physical body; Sun­ life force. The Part of Fortune is also

said to be the point where the Moon would be if the Sun were exactly rising.

Modern astrological software will calculate the Part of Fortune, but the ancient formula is as

follows:

Day Birth = Ascendant + Moon – Sun

Night Birth = Ascendant + Sun – Moon (Part of Spirit)

The arc between the Moon and the Sun is then

projected from the Ascendant as the part of Fortune,

thus there is total symmetry. This is a classic midpoint

structure.

The lunar phase at your birth mirrors the soul’s

development and potential for happiness, fulfilment and

luck. Pars Fortuna is our emotional happiness objective.

Astrologers have used Pars Fortuna for winning

lotteries, betting on horse races and for successful timing for enterprises. It is the most ancient

Arabic Part and the foundation that lead to the discovery and development of midpoints

structures by Alfred Witte.

On a personal level, Pars Fortuna is not static; it evolves as the natal chart progresses ­

ultimately providing progressive gifts of potential fortune and happiness. Your Part of Fortune

(POF) is a beacon to your success. Where is the light shining for you?

This is the distribution of the Part of Fortune in the chart of

politicians. The highest incidence occurs in the 10th House of

government. The house position of your POF can also indicate an

area where you will achieve success.

Your POF also creates unique midpoints within your chart, often

giving you an indication of the way you may ultimately success in

life.

Take for example Madonna’s POF midpoints:

Sun/Neptune – ego /creativity/music

Pluto/Node – power / persuasion/sexuality in the public

Sun/Jupiter – ego/expansive optimistic approach

"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can

always change, become a better version of yourself."

“The Part of Fortune is the most important influence to winning large sums of money. Not only in

the areas of finance but also career. Advancement, real­estate, health and love all apply to the

Part of Fortune, because it can give you an area that can be very fortunate.

The Part of Fortune represents opportunity”. ­ Jack Gillen, The Key to Speculation for Casino

Lottery Games

Join me at my workshop to explore more about the Part of Fortune, lucky midpoints and

picking numbers for lotto and horse racing.

Please bring your chart to the workshop. Make sure you have the POF displayed on your chart.

Please also bring midpoint lists set at 360 and midpoint trees set at 45.

Looking forward to seeing you at my workshop.

Olga Morales: www.astrologyforganntraders.com.au

The next FAA International Conference is inMelbourne. Definitely easy to get to from Adelaide.

Have you looked at the early‐bird pricing? Find outmore about some of the local and internationalspeakers here.

Mars, Madness andMartians

With Anne Fryer

The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming!

At her recent Master Class on Mars, Mari Garcia looked at the famous 1938 radio broadcast

about ferocious aliens from Mars invading America. The play was so successful it sent New York

City into a mad panic.

Mari went over the chart for the War of the Worlds broadcast, 30 October 1938, at 8.00 pm EST,

New York City, showing us Mars is in sect, angular but in detriment. So, a corrupt planet,

accidentally dignified is powerful and dangerous!

What else can we say about this dangerous Mars? Sitting on the 4th house of home and country,

sextile Pluto and sextile its dispositor, stationary ruler Venus, semi­sextile a Mercury on the

negative, Mars ruled, Fixed Star Serpentis. The 5th house (entertainment) is also ruled by Mars.

A partile trine to the Moon in the 8th, opposite Pluto, showed the people were afraid of a sudden

and unusual death. Saturn in Aries in the 10th is also casting a sense of gloom over the chart.

Riveting stuff for the night of Halloween. And it did the job; it scared the living daylights out of

New York.

After seeing all this, I wondered if the natal chart for New York City, with an out of bounds Mars

in partile conjunction with Venus in Sagittarius (high emotional excitement regarding foreigners)

would be triggered by the broadcast chart, but not so.

The transiting, dangerous Mars was on the Ascendant of the New York chart, but I didn't think

that all its sextiles and trines were strong enough to reflect the panic response to the broadcast.

However, the midpoints tell a different story. The transiting Mars partile transiting Moon (the

people) midpoint is the transiting, stationary and out of bounds Venus. An out of bounds Venus

can be very volatile ­ especially if it was being triggered by a separating sextile from a

dangerous Mars. The volatile transiting Venus is midpointing the Uranus (panic) and Saturn

(fear) of the natal New York chart; the Martians are coming! The Martians are coming!

Especially interesting is the Mercury at 19 Scorpio, it is conjunct Serpentis, a rather nasty fixed

star connected with Cerberus, gatekeeper at the gates of hell. And Mercury is the name of the

Theatre which broadcast The War of the Worlds that Halloween night, in 1938.

Anne Fryer (Dip Astrol. FAA) is an experienced, local astrologer.

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