Thank you to everyone who attended my lectures at Norwac 2011. I had a wonderful time, and all three presentations went well. I’ll be making them available for download very soon, but for now here are the handouts for all three presentations:
Electional Workshop – 3 hour workshop
Synodic Cycles and Phase Arc Timing lecture
Keynote — Innovation: From Muck to Luck
We climbed down into and back out of South Kaibob Trail in the Grand Canyon on Saturday, April 30.
We left at 6:30 am and returned at 2 pm.
We had a beautiful day (although 5 am was pretty cold to wake up and make our lunches. 
Thanks to your generous support (and, hopefully, continuing support) for this hiking effort, 6,000 Contra Costa families, most of whom are children, will not sleep on the streets tonight! Almost 98% will never return because of the combined effort of the families themselves, Shelter, Inc, and our hiking teams. We do not give handouts. We give then a hand up, just like our team members gave hands up to each of us as we trained in rain, snow, and mud through the winter months.
The number of families in desperate need in Contra Costa alone have doubled in three years. Funding from the State of California and the Federal Government was just cut in half and there is still the double the amount of people requiring help.
The unemployment situation, the high cost of living has created a situation not unseen since the 1930s.
If you care about your neighbor — some of whom are working as teachers, postal workers, librarians and will never tell you their story — but still need shelter for their families, then please continue to help.
My fund raising website is at http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/georgia-stathis/hike-for-shelter-2011
This was a grueling hike, some 4,500′ elevation which changed over 6.5 miles. It is a toe-buster going down and a calf-buster coming up.
As I walked through the centuries of rock and gravel and grandeur, I thought about all the families the effort of this very special team of 25 people created.
We raised almost $140,000 this year and are still going.
Thank you if you supported the effort and for supporting this effort in future.
Georgia Stathis
Below are some more photos of our beautiful hike.
Not only have I reached my own personal goal for this event, but Hike for Shelter has raised $135,000 total as of this date!!
This is an incredible help to keeping those children and families from going homeless and then keeping them employed and housed.
Tell your friends if they’d like to join the fight they can go to my website at: http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/georgia-stathis/hike-for-shelter-2011
I hope this post finds you healthy and happy. I feel blessed and grateful to have a home and have always had as my intention the fact that everyone has a place to live — a home — a shelter. So many years in the real estate industry and in my private consulting practice has shown me that not everyone has been as fortunate. Times have been tough for a lot of people and as of the third quarter of 2010 almost 1,000,000 homes in the United States have gone into foreclosure.
My question has been: Where will all those people go? We do know that many are in tent cities, on the street, or living with relatives whose homes may also be at risk. Many people are losing their homes, and shelters are seeing more children than ever before. So when I heard about this fundraising project Hike for Shelter — Conquer The Canyon® I felt compelled to sign on.
This is a team fundraising adventure that will raise a critical $200,000 for Shelter, Inc. of Contra Costa County, a non profit whose mission is to prevent homelessness, promote self-sufficiency and provide affordable housing for low income and at-risk families. Someone living in a home can also assure that their children can have an education and a more structured life — so this is not just for those who’ve lost their homes, but also for the next generation coming up.
Did you know that over 15,000 men, women and children will endure homelessness in Contra Costa County this year alone? Did you know that a person earning minimum wage in Contra Costa ($8.00 per hour) must work 119 hours per week to afford a two-bedroom apartment? This is equivalent to three full time jobs!
You and I can make a difference!
My personal commitment as part of this team is to raise $4000 through donations. I hope you will help by making a donation to help me reach my goal. I will also be training for 16 weeks to hike in The Grand Canyon in April 2011 and bring awareness to this growing need. Your donation is 100% deductible and will provide services and programs for those facing homelessness. For everyone who finds their way into a Shelter, Inc. program nearly all will end their homelessness permanently!
Your donation means an investment in community and gives families a roof over their head with supportive services and the and the most important gift of all — hope.
Many thanks and with hopes of providing shelter for many…one step at a time!
Georgia Stathis
Please go to my personal online donation page: http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/georgia-stathis/hike-for-shelter-2011
Or, if you would prefer to donate in person, you can download a Donation Form here.
Linda Furiate interviewed many of the presenters for the Breaking Down the Borders cyber conference, coming up on November 19-21.
You can read her interview with Georgia Stathis here.
Georgia’s presentation is on Friday, November 19, on the subject of Solar Arcs. You can attend hers and may other expert lectures from the comfort of your own computer.
Following are the handouts for the lecture entitled Real Estate: Your Home or Your Life?? presented at International Astrology Day in San Francisco, March 20, 2010.
They include an outline of the presentation, and graphs of the 30-year interest rates:
These will remain available on my website as direct downloads for the next few months.
Thank you all for attending!
Following are the handouts for the lecture on Analyzing Business Charts that Georgia Stathis presented at NCGR in February 2010.
They are:
These will remain available on my website as direct downloads for the next few months.
Thank you all for attending!
In looking through the ephemeris for the first 15 days of February, I noted that three planets are forming what is termed “a Yod”. This rare configuration, often called a Finger of God aspect, suggested an implied pattern of destiny for wherever it falls in the horoscope. In other words, opportunity shows its face in the most unlikely places. You are in the right place at the right time for the return on this gift. The only codicil with the following brief summaries is that Mars, the planet of action and strategy, has been appearing as though moving backwards in the sky since December. Soon, however, it moves forward in mid-March and starts working at full steam in mid-May. Thus a certain delay in the opportunity is also present.
The Yod suggests that these first few days of February were a set-up period for something far more remarkable in late spring. Regardless, the good fortune requires some soul searching on the part of each of you as one of the planets involved in this configuration is Jupiter (opportunity) currently moving quickly through Pisces, one of the most spiritual points of the zodiac, where everything is cleaned and ‘toxic waste management’ of one’s life takes place. A spiritual or creative practice is conducive to the process of waste removal. Clearing out toxins in our lives requires a conscious effort towards obstacle removal and refocusing the new space you open for yourself onto something you love to do — creatively — whether it is writing, talking, traveling, or helping and this alignment insures a return on the fortunate Yod or wish over the course of the next few months.
Following are the handouts for the lectures that Georgia Stathis presented at FAA in Brisbane, Australia in January 2010.
They are:
Or just get all the handouts in one big pdf!
These will remain available on my website as direct downloads for the next few months.
Thank you for attending our classes in Brisbane. It was delightful to meet all of you and thank you for your gracious invitation to speak.
I look forward to working with all of you in future!
The United States of America is a nation of extremes. Our nation comprised of fifty states equaling the size of fifty countries as well as being a patchwork quilt of cultures from all over the world began with an extreme act of protest, which was the Boston Tea Party. This act of anarchy was the direct result of high tariffs unfairly imposed upon the Colonists. Their extreme numbers (tax numbers) created an extreme response from those who had been in the United States for a very long time, many of whose families perished while trying to reach a new life and dream coming to America. Once they had arrived, several generations had established themselves quite independently from Mother England.
Today we continue to be a nation of extremes: extreme levels of wealth as well as poverty; extreme climates that range from the arid deserts of the Southwest to the heavily forested Northwest. We are large, vast and diversified and growing exponentially causing extreme conditions not only in our country but throughout the world. Currently, this very large mass on the planet is economically challenged.
Extreme weather conditions and infrastructure failures– i.e. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the collapse of levees and bridges, the extreme budget deficit resulting from the Iraq War and the high population numbers provide fertile ground for revolutionary changes because that ‘cosmic’ rubber band is about as stretched as it can get.
2008′s bubble exploded as extreme political and financial conditions resulted from the lack of change of organization at all levels of government and industry. Its results are high unemployment, higher and higher costs heading to a greater inflation and national debt that has gone haywire. The lack of boundaries in spending and regulation is on all the different administrations — not one or the other. One government is just too big for such a large geographic area. These extreme conditions have resulted with more and more foreclosures slowly dividing the vast population into two extreme categories — to those that are rich and those that are poor, with the middle class taking all of the hits with regard to taxes and penalties and higher costs.
The Bottom Line is that resolution can only come from each individual whose voice must be heard within the microcosm of their communities. This is where the change has to begin. Self-responsibility is the issue on the table now. It always has been, but now more than ever.
The banks and the mortgage companies had no boundaries when they gave home loans to just anyone with ‘stated’ incomes and this was negligence on their parts, but the truth of the matter is that the responsibility also fell upon those looking for a quick profit with little investment of their time or money. When you don’t invest a lot, it is much easier to walk away. After all, ‘it is someone else’s money, right??’ Wrong!! The change in this country is about awakening to our individual responsibility to ourselves, our families and to our communities. This is the trend between now and 2020.
Someone said, ‘the Devil is in the Details’…this is where each of us has to start right now and today. Get out those budget sheets and start writing down what it is you really do bring in as far as income and what it is you really spend. This simple technique provides a wonderful wake-up call when you really look at the numbers. When we really look at where we’ve been and are planning to go and the resources with which we can do them, it creates extreme responses….either elation or shock!!
Either way, it is the shadow lurking in every home in America today. And this financial specter haunting many households today must be exorcised in order for all of us to prosper. If one can look at this as an exercise in re-organization and re-structuring without any judgment from within or without, it can also turn out to be a lot of fun. Creating something out of nothing on very little or, perhaps, even too much is the ‘theme’ of Pluto as it slowly proceeds through Capricorn until 2024!
Regardless, it needs to be done before spring of 2010 as Saturn permanently enters the sign of Libra. This thirty-year cycle often brings new opportunities for all. The amount of ‘opportunity’ directly relates to the conscious act of balancing our lives, our budgets and our lifestyles. So, the question is: “Will you be dressed for the party??”
As a public service, Starcycles is offering a free budget template to anyone interested in cleaning up their financial ‘act’. This budget template has a built-in spreadsheet so if you add income numbers you see the ‘profit’ amount at the bottom of each vertical column. As you add your monthly expenses, you see that ‘added number’ slowly decreases. This is an excellent exercise not only for all of the adults in the household, but a great training tool for those young people you know either heading off to high school, where they will have their own money, or, even those older students and young adults who are working. I remember years ago I became starkly aware of this technique when I was having ‘trouble’ balancing my checkbook as a very young adult/college student. In tandem with that, I remember my father complaining saying, “You are going to college, and you should know this!!” The sad thing is that he was right. I should have known, but he was also wrong in that he, like many parents, think that if their children are educated, then they just ‘know’ how to handle money and resources.
This is furthest from the truth. Everyone has to learn to do this. So, again, if you want to get a head start on those opportunities coming your way, then start with some basic planning now. Write down your goals for the New Year, which is coming fast, and differentiate between your Wants and your Needs. Wants are very different than Needs. In order to fulfill your Needs, you must budget. When you budget, you can see where you can fulfill those Wants, which result from the freedom of planning.
This is a tool that has served me well over the years and I offer it as a gift to you as well. Interested? If so, please click here to download your free Budget Template. Make sure you make a copy of the original before you start playing with it.
If you wish even more information on ‘timing’ for 2011, then order our “Astrology in English” 2011 Starcycles Calendar for only $19.95 as a digital download. There is an extreme change on the horizon — how it looks is up to each individual willing to examine the infra-structure of our lives.
