PATRICIA LANZ: A CONVERSATION WITH BOB MULLIGAN.
Patricia Lanz –
ATH Editor of Astrology.
Bob Mulligan —
Astrologer, Author, creator of
The Astrology Company™, and
past President of OPA.
Join Bob Mulligan and Pat Lantz as they discuss the Astrologer/Client relationship,
the future of Astrology and its place in our lives...
- Bob, you have been an astrologer for decades. Could you reach back
into your memory and tell us how you got involved and how this moved
you to become a professional astrologer?
In June of 1970, I became a follower of Avatar Meher Baba. As I
was finishing graduate school with a Masters degree in philosophy
in the fall of 1973, He asked me to choose a career. At the time I
was working for the University and more or less assumed I would
spend the rest of my life in academia. I asked Him to choose a career for me, and He chose astrology. I have done astrology since
that day
- It's clear that astrology has evolved during the latter half of the 20th
Century. What was, in your opinion, the most significant development
during that period of time?
There were three extremely significant developments during the
second half of the twentieth century. First, there was the dramatic
improvement of astrological technique; second, there was the rediscovery of our past traditions; and third, there was a global cultural synthesis.
Astrological technique improved because we had many more,
smart, well educated people entering the field. People came into
the field with PhD’s in statistics, math, psychology, astronomy, engineering and so on. This in itself upgraded the standards. New
astrologers demand a higher degree of understandable correlations between the planetary patterns and circumstances on the
planet. We had the computer revolution making it possible to do
chart calculations quickly. I paid $100 for my first hand calculator
and it only added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. Five years
later I was writing chart calculation programs for my personal
computer. Now, computer programs are available very inexpensively that perform every conceivable kind of calculation instantaneously, making it possible to test thousands of different hypotheses quickly. There was an explosion of quality publications in the
field, magazines, books, and newsletters giving the conscious astrologer a vast array of literature to spark deeper examination of
ideas in the field.
Robert Hand, Robert Zollar, and Robert Schmidt were primarily
responsible for recovering large pieces of astrological history by
translating thousands of documents from Greek, Latin, and Arabic.
With the availability of studying techniques from the ancient and
medieval world, we started to understand and refine our modern
techniques.
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Our emerging one world culture is not just
east meets west, where you can go to a
French/Chinese fusion restaurant in Omaha;
the synthesis is a deep coming together of
different disciplines where mathematics, psychology, sociology all have impact on each
other. Today a student working on an MBA
learns about music, advertising, and diet in
many different countries. Why? Because our
world is becoming smaller and information is
moving quicker. We are all consciously more
connected to each other. This fusion laid the
basis for astrology to be seen in its truest
form, the single intellectual connecting thread
between all cultures. Every indigenous society
has some form of astrology, which is as natural to the mind as an organizing tool as water,
food, and oxygen are to the body, or love is to
the emotions.
- At one time newspaper Sun Sign columns were
all most people knew about astrology. But in our
web connected world it seems that the internet is
changing the way we perceive and learn astrology. Do you believe astrology is undergoing accelerated growth and if so what effect might that
acceleration have on the future of professional
astrology?
For one thing, we have a more enlightened,
better educated consumer for astrology. On
the internet you can get lots of very accurate
astrology for free or very little, so it has
changed the equation some. Also, it has made
it possible for any professional astrologer to
have a global clientele. I use a variety of services to connect with clients in a dozen different countries; I use a calling company called
Pingo to talk to people in India, Japan, England, Italy and so on. Of course Skype is nice
to actually see people that you are talking
with. Emails and instant messaging make it
possible to answer questions and get information in real time.
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