Please Join Us for The Third Luminary!

  Our September 26 event features legendary astrologer Richard Nolle who will lead us in a class on “The Third Luminary – how recognizing the primal Three Luminaries changes everything.”

From his work in progress, The Third Luminary

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,

and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. (Genesis 1:16)

“Tracking the solar path through the sky over the longer term, our ancestors discovered the seasonal variations in the Sun's apparent celestial path from equinox to equinox and solstice to solstice: a different kind of biological clock for all life on our home planet. Ancient megaliths like Stonehenge bear witness to the importance those early astrologers attached to the recognition of the annual solar cycle. Understanding it was key to recognizing and planning for the cycles of life on Earth.”

“Night is yin to the yang of day. The visual sense is turned down, supplanted by the other five senses - and the sixth -sense -which are amplified in the relative absence of input from our dominant sense. Just as the day is dominated by the Sun, the "Greater Luminary" of astrological tradition, the night is the realm of the Moon, the "Lesser Luminary."

Those two Luminaries, the brilliant Sun and the pale Moon, dominated their respective celestial spheres. Each was unique, a disk in the sky, casting greater or lesser shadows on the ground; an orb that would occasionally disappear in an eclipse. By contrast, there were a myriad tiny brilliant points of light visible in the night sky, and sometimes at twilight. They were called stars, although some came to be recognized as planets (from the ancient Greek planete, meaning "wanderer") because they seemed to have a mind of their own, moving around against the backdrop of the stars.

There were assorted other celestial ephemera; transient flashes from meteors, the occasional comet, now and then even a supernova. There was also something else in the sky, something that broke the mold. It was always there, everyone saw it, there was no getting around it; but it didn't fit any of the conventional categories. For one thing, it wasn’t a pinprick of light like the stars and the planets … it resembled a glowing cloud. Apart from its luminosity, this cloud was unlike any other celestial apparition. It held its shape season after season, year after year. A huge, eternal glow stretching across the entire sky, horizon to horizon. ln a class by itself, it was the Third Luminary.”

Richard Nolle has been a student of Astrology since 1967 and a practicing professional astrologer since 1973. He holds the Professional Certificate in Natal Astrology from The AFA, and has written many hundreds of articles for the American astrology press since 1977. He's also the author of several books, including Chiron, Critical Astrology, and Interpreting Astrology(published by the AFA.)

Richard is best known in the astrological community and beyond for his 1979 creation of the term SuperMoon (Lunar perigee-syzygy). Subsequent innovations include Planetary Max Cycles, an astronomically defined solar-planetary relationship that subsumes the retrograde cycle as well as perigee, with particular

emphasis on the terrestrial planets. 

As usual, the admission for our presentations is $10 for members, $15 for non-members. You can register at https://azastrologers.org/. Your payment generates an email letting Bill know you’ve registered, and the zoom entry codes are sent out the day before the presentation. 

To address a concern, we do not provide free copies of our talks to attendees. If there’s enough interest, we’ll professionally edit the audio and make it available for a small price.

I have no doubt it’s going to be another excellent event, and we hope you will join us for this event, since “what one astrologer misses another catches.”