Subject: Re: Astrology in Russia
Date   : 30 Dec 1997 16:17 GMT
From   : Ben Cook (BenLCook@compuserve.com)
To     : Ian Cinis (ian@rosmail.ru)

 IC>  
 IC> Dear Ben,
 IC> 
BC>> Could someone tell me the differences, if any, between Russian Astrology
BC>> and Western Astrology.
 IC> 
 IC> Well.. There are no BIG differences in general.
 IC> Each year foreign astrologers visit Moscow lecturing
 IC> (Alphee Lavoie was here even twice in 1997) as well as
 IC> Russian astrologers are lecturing abroad (you may have
 IC> heard about Farida Assadulina or smb. else:)
 IC> As for me - i had not discovered serious differences.
 IC> 
 IC> Of course, there are not absoulutely similar:
 IC> 
 IC>  1. Russian astrologers use houses (Pete Stapleton doesn"t:)
 IC>     maybe more intensive than western astrologers;
 IC> 
 IC>  2. Sometimes we use vedic schemes like "Ruler of 1st in 8th"
 IC>     or "Ruler of 5th aspected by Ruler of 12th", but, again,
 IC>     this is a valid technique and some western astrologers
 IC>     also implement this;
 IC> 
 IC>  3. In Russia astrologers are mainly tropical like western
 IC>     not sideral as Indian ones;
 IC> 
 IC>  4. Many Russian astrologers include and interprete Lilith
 IC>     and Moon Nodes seriously. I mean these points are considered
 IC>     to be primary objects (like planets);
 IC> 
 IC>  5. Many Russian astrologers also use 12th harmonic of Uranis
 IC>     called "White Moon". It is absolutely fictious point, but
 IC>     who cares? If you need more info about this, please, feel
 IC>     free to browse Albert"s site, you may find additional info
 IC>     about this (arta@ in Albert"s e-amil means "White Moon",
 IC>     i don"t use this point);
 IC> 
 IC>  6. We (i cannot say: never, but) VERY rarely use Uranians;
 IC> 
 IC>  7. Russian astrologers pay serious attention to planetary
 IC>     configurations, e.g. stelliums, grand trines, T_squares, e.t.c.;
 IC> 
 IC>  8. We also held conferences, workshops, e.t.c.
 IC>     you can examine links at Albert"s site <http://www.astrologer.ru>
 IC>     for more information.
 IC> 
 IC> Most published western astrologer here is Dane Rudhyar
 IC> (and i believe He is GREAT:), textbooks by March & McEvers
 IC> are interpreted into Russian, e.t.c.. Of course, we do not have as
 IC> many books available as western astrologers, but we have enough basic
 IC> knowledge to invoke astrologer"s vision of patterns and influences.
 IC> 
 IC> I"ve promised to start website called "Astrology in Russia",
 IC> but still severely short of time to assemble everything together
 IC> (however i"m paying my ISP a fee for DNS mantainence, so i already
 IC>  have platform to publish materials giving foreign astrologers the
 IC>  insights about current situation with astrology in Russia. Hope this
 IC>  will not take me more than 2-3 months, i"ll inform you, OK?)
 IC> 
 IC> In brief: astrology in Russia was "restricted & underground"
 IC> science until Gorbatchov"s perestrioka, after that Russians
 IC> exerienced the peak popularity of "mystic" & "fantacy" (i mean
 IC> the flood of fiction style books, because they were aslo
 IC> limited while communists governed Russia), now the process
 IC> stablized, however, there are rather few practising astrologers
 IC> in Moscow and other big cities.
 IC> 
 IC> Hope this may help.
 IC> Feel free to write to netforum or directly (if you like just to chat:)))
 IC> 
 IC> Thanks
 IC> 
 IC> Sincerely
 IC> Ian
<Ian@rosmail.ru>>
 IC> 
 IC> P.S. Ben, you also can contact me via ICQ: 2510395
Hi Ian, as mentioned earlier and expanding on it some
everyone can have different sciences for studying astrology
but the final analysis is in interpretation. I like how the vedic 
astrologers tap into the greater whole and seem to be a voice
for a person true self at deeper levels. After all, isn't this the mystical
aspect of astrology?

Regards
Ben