The Career Astrologer 3 2012 | Page 9

BY J UNE A. M ORROW t hank you Louise McCombs and Sandra-Leigh Serio for a wonderful experience at the Midwest Astrology Conference in Ann Arbor, MI at the beginning of August. I have been to many of the larger conferences; UAC, NCGR, ISAR but had never experienced a regional conference. This was my first and I cannot express how much I enjoyed it. Every lecture I attended was better than the one before. I would be hard-pressed to say which lecture I enjoyed the most. One thing is for sure, I was surprised at how much I learned — and that is the beauty of this conference. There were world-class astrologers teaching other hungry astrologers. Hungry astrologers in the sense of finally, at last, being with like-minded people. It was wonderful. I also manned OPA’s table at MAC and we got lots of inquiries, a paid new member and retreat attendee — and a few potential members. Since I live north of Chicago, in Evanston, IL, it wasn’t a difficult drive to make. In this drive, though, I accomplished the loss of a fear. I’ve always had a fear of high bridges and would avoid the Chicago Skyway at all costs. On the way to MAC and Ann Arbor, as I say the exit for the Chicago Skyway, I said ‘what the heck’ and went for it. I don’t know how many people attended MAC. I wasn’t expecting there to be, I’m sorry to say, much more than 30 people. My best guess is that there were approximately 200 people in attendance. That makes me happy for the future of MAC - that Louise and Sandra-Leigh put on further conferences and, hopefully, in Michigan. O P A  The Organization for Professional Astrology 9 THE CAREER ASTROLOGER SUMMER 2012