Well, I'm excited to be here today for this talk for International Astrology Day,

hosted by Esar, and I want to thank all the organizers, Gaia, Paula, and everybody that put

this together. So when they approached us and gave us the topic that everyone was talking about,

the first thing that came to mind to me was something I'd been thinking about recently, which is

what is the future of astrology and can astrologers predict or anticipate what's coming up for

astrology in the future. Because one of the things that's been interesting over the past few

years is I think we all recognize that we're in the middle of this huge resurgence and explosion

and the popularity of astrology. And that seems to be happening pretty much worldwide where we're

just seeing this huge influx of new and younger people into the field of astrology. And I don't think

we've seen anything like that since the 1960s and 70s. And I wasn't around for that period, but

I mean, do you remember some of that Rick? And do you think this period right now is sort of parallel

to that in some ways? No, I think that this period is less parallel than it is exponentially more

than what was going on then. What was going on then, certainly astrology came in on a train filled

with all kinds of stuff, you know, whether it was yoga and new diets and new ways of looking at

things and various mind-altering substances and so on that astrology was part of that whole thing.

And it came in on a very general train. Now, however, it's incredibly different because

I encounter all the time people who are aged, you know, 14 to 18 who have more astrological

reading under their belt than I did by age 40 because when I was coming into astrology in that

wave that you're talking about in the late 60s, they would basically 20 books and everyone read

the same 20 books. Now you can take a paragraph out of one of those books and there's 20 books on

that subject. Right. So it's exponentially very, it's very different. And it's much further,

it's much more integrated into an intellectual movement rather than just a what's your sign, baby,

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