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General Meeting Info
SFAS invites you to join us on the last Thursday of the month for a lively astrological presentation, discussion and excellent company.
Meetings start at 7:30 pm and are held at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco's Marina District. Parking and public transit available.
Meetings cost $7 for members and $12 for non-members for the general public.
$2 discounts off meeting fees for:
- Students with a student ID card
- Senior citizens (age 65+),
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New to Astrology
Read about the various types of astrology and how different techniques are used for a variety of situations and circumstances on the New to Astrology page.
The San Francisco Astrological Society (SFAS) provides an affordable monthly forum for people interested in astrology to gather and explore this ancient language. We welcome any person, from lay person to professional astrologer, who wants to delve deeper into the significance of the stars and planets on earthly life. Our guest presenters are invited from among the many excellent Bay Area astrologers, both from within and without the Society, providing an arena for the development and distribution of ideas and techniques in the field of astrology.
May 28, 2009
Stephen Uzman
Asteroids Anecdotes - How do the asteroids inform our understanding of charts?
Stephen Suzman has made a study of the use of Asteroids in the chart natally, in synastry and in transit. These highly personal astrological pointers are often able to illuminate the chart in curious ways, producing corroboration of major trends.
Stephen will illustrate the use of many of the asteroids, drawing from personal experience as well as including a discussion of a number of some relatively recent events such as the attack on the World Trade Center, the tsunami in Indonesia, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the first free South African Election, the birth of the only child of the renowned opera singer Maria Callas and the discovery of Plutonium.
There will be a brief discussion of a few of the asteroids in the charts of a number of world figures such as Nelson Mandela, Diana, Princess of Wales, Presidents Bush and Clinton, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Stephen Suzman was born in Johannesburg South Africa (November 21st, 1946, at 6:37 PM.) After a BA in English and French in South Africa, he read French and Italian at Oxford University in England and graduated from Stanford with a MBA in 1974.
After a stint as a banker and a headhunter, he turned to garden design. He is currently CEO of Suzman and Cole Design Associates www.suzmancole.com- a firm which specializes in residential and select institutional and resort gardens.
He has been politically active for most of his life in both South Africa and the US.
Stephen's interest in astrology dates from a series of personal synchronistic occurrences in 1969 and more recently in 1991. He has lectured with his teachers, Jessica Murray and Anita Noyes Smith.