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Legend: Praesaepe represents the manger of the asses ridden by Bacchusand Vulcan (see Ascelli)Notes: A coarse extended cluster situated on the head of the Crab. Popu-larly termed the Beehive, Manger or Crib, and known by the Chinese under the name ofTseih She Ke, Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses. With the Ascelli it was the “cloudy spotof Cancer” mentioned by Ptolemy as causing blindness.Influence: It is of the nature of Mars and the Moon, and causes disease, disgrace, adven-ture, insolence, wantonness, brutality, blindness, industry, order and fecundity; and makes itnatives fortunate though liable to loss through others, and the founders of large businesses.If rising: Blindness, especially of the left eye, ophthalmia, injuries to the face, sickness,violent fevers, wounds in face and arms . . . —from Fixed Stars, by Vivian Robson. Buy.

continued, pg. 7

How Conferences WorkHow Conferences WorkTHERE is a major astrological con-

ference coming up in a month, inPhiladelphia. As there are many

such conferences, I thought you might beinterested in knowing how they work.

Think of conferences as like concerts.You have performer(s), you have an audi-ence. There are tickets sold at the gate, thereis a “take,” which is divided up among theparticipants. Clear?

At a concert, the first person to be paidis the concert hall itself. A conference isdifferent from a concert in an important way.Conferences are not held in auditoriums orconcert halls, but in hotels.

Hotels have conference rooms, meetingrooms, auditoriums, which they exchangein return for guaranteed room bookings. Doyou understand this? X number of peopleattending the conference and booking roomsin the hotel gives the conference Y numberof meeting rooms in return. Free. Morerooms can be had for a nominal price. In-

cluded with this are free accommodationsfor the conference’s promoters.

The purpose of hotel-based confer-ences are to fill rooms in the hotel. That’swhy all hotels have conference rooms.That’s why conferences invariably comewith exclusive hotel bookings.

With this framework we can now workout some numbers and will know what theymean. The following are approximations:

If the conference has 200 attendees, ifthe special room rate is $169 a night, ifbreakfast is $20 extra, if there are four nights,then the hotel’s take for the conference is$169 + $20 x 200 x 4. Which is $151,200.Exactly how many free meeting rooms willthat get you? When you get to Philadelphia,count the rooms and tell me and then we’llboth know. Now you know why hotels arein the conference business.

Well, then, what about the fees that at-tendees pay to attend the conference? Let’swork them out.

Two hundred people is a small show, re-member this. Twice that is nice, but let’suse 200. The basic show in Philly is $350.All the bells and whistles (seminars, ban-quet, etc.) is $535. Let’s assume that halfthe attendees are poor impoverished people

T Temper must be judged from the risingsign, Mercury, and the general appear-ance of the horoscope. The usual char-acteristics of the signs when rising are:Aries: Easily angered and then often

go to great lengths.Taurus: Not readily moved, but may

when aroused become furious.Gemini: Not bad-tempered, but can be

“waspish” and malicious.Cancer: Not easily angered, though

soon hurt. Timid.Leo: Often hot-tempered, though affec-

tionate.Virgo: Temper is usually controlled and

seldom violent. Often uses “the retortcourteous”. Tends to shun conditionsthat are liable upset it.

Libra: Seldom the first to quarrel. Eas-ily appeased.

Scorpio: Hot tempered, especially whenits affections are touched. Implacableand rarely forgets.

Sagittarius: Good tempered.— More next week.

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THIS is much easier than one mightsuppose. We have a groundworkof tried-and-true rules to depend on

and we know the nature of the planets, theeffects of aspects, the matters ruled by thedifferent houses & where to look for the fi-nal, clinching argument. We even have key-words with which the beginner forms hissentences & expresses himself clearly fromthe very beginning.

For example, Saturn rules lead & ev-erything that has WEIGHT. If we see hissymbol in the 1st House we know that theinquirer is HEAVY-hearted & PRO-FOUNDLY concerned about the matter; heis leaden GRAY in coloring or his attire,CONSERVATIVE in style. Saturn rulesTIME, so the person looks OLDER than hisyears & moves SLOWLY; he is having den-tal trouble, because Saturn is ruler of theskeletal framework, and the BONES thatwe are most likely to see are the TEETH.We say all this in describing the inquirerbecause he is the person of the 1st House &any planet therein describes him. As youadvance in your reading you will say sev-eral times as much as this about the personwith Saturn there because Astrology is richindeed in such information for use in horaryas well as natal charts.

There is always “the devil to pay” in thematters of the house where you find Sat-urn, and he always REAPS a person of thathouse (he harvests what is yet alive). He isthe GREATER MALEFIC and his injury ispermanent.

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What time does the day begin?

THE BEATLES, part 3

HarrisonHarrison

BEATLE George Harrison was bornon February 24 or 25, 1943, in Liv-erpool. As for the time, the discus-

sion at AstroDataBank is not acceptable.It gives 11:42 pm as “from memory,” andrates it A. In a broad sense, a rating, or grade,of “A” implies above average and exceptional.With data, a rating of “A” implies we can givethe resulting chart near absolute confidence.

When we look at AstroDataBank sourcenotes we find all manner of confusion. Wehave 12:05 and 12:10 am on the 25th, and11:42 and 11:52:19 pm, both on the 24th.Presuming our standard is to the nearestminute, then as Harrison himself is not cited,we cannot give an A rating to any of this butmust give it DD (dirty data) instead. In factno source is given for the approved 11:42pm time at all.

My newsletter is not the place for a dis-cussion what makes for A as opposed to DDdata. This should properly be hashed outprivately with ADB itself, but as they areclosed to outsiders, it will have to be here in-stead. I myself might be partly responsiblefor this, as in the past I have not been kind toone of the people who works for them.

As with McCartney last week, I am go-ing to throw out all of these times, the timeof 11:52:19 pm that was from Harrison’sown astrologer, even the mother’s writtennote of “12:10 am” which was cited byHarrison’s sister.

All the midnight charts have the Moonon or very near the ascendant. This makesone erratic and insecure. This Moon is inthe very first degree of Scorpio, a sign whichmakes the Moon aware of its own power.The combination of planet, sign and houseis someone who will be erratically uncertainof his himself, as well as highly emotionalin general.

All the midnight charts put Harrison’sSun, in Pisces, in the 5th. This is what wewould expect of a creative person, but, inPisces, it will bring a goodly number of chil-dren with it, as well as an early marriage, inone’s teens in most instances. The mother’sown time of 12:10 am gives 3 Pisces on the5th cusp. Ruled by Jupiter, which is exaltedin Cancer, though retrograde, children areinescapable. Harrison in fact married a fewdays shy of his 23rd birthday (late) to Pattie

Boyd. The couple was childless. They di-vorced in 1977. Harrison’s second marriagewas to Olivia Trinidad Arias in 1978, whichproduced one son, Dhani, born a month priorto the ceremony.

I am throwing out the midnight times be-cause Harrison first came into contact withIndian music while still in utero, his mother,a Catholic, listening to Radio India on Sun-days. As this was unlikely to be a domesticBBC program, I presume she was using ashortwave radio. Growing up Harrison hadfairly normal tastes in music and culture,which, given his background, would be ex-pected.

Once the Beatles had become famous, and,coincidentally, rich, he rapidly gravitated toIndian music and culture. I myself grew upwith “normal” tastes, from lack of exposureto anything else. Once I got to university Iquickly discovered early 19th century Euro-pean culture and have never looked back. Re-member that Liverpool of the 1950’s was stillrebuilding from the devastation of the war.There was no culture there, none at all. Theentire “Liverpool scene” must be understoodin this light, as war children deprived of cul-ture and desperately creating it whole cloth.But even so, as Liverpudlians, both Harrisonand Lennon were out of place.

I WILL start with the mother’s ownhandwritten note, giving “12:10 am.”What are the actual numbers on it? Was

it “12:10 am,” or was it “0:10” with am pre-sumed? Harrison’s mother was a shop assis-tant and probably unschooled. His father onceworked as a ship’s steward on the White StarLine (home of the Titanic). Timekeeping ona ship is a tricky thing, because the ship moves.I have never understood how ships at sea reck-ons time.

As Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth is currentlyat sea, you can go here to get a live webcamof the bridge, along with the ship’s time.Currently that time differs from EDT by 4hours and two minutes. Last night it was 3hours and 56 minutes. Windows XP, and pre-sumably all subsequent Windows versions,download the computer’s time directly from anon-line standard, which means your computeris accurate to the second and stays that way.

If ships at sea continually update theirtime, one way or another, then noon was the

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(The first house of the national chart, that is.)

THE New Moon falling in the ascen-dant shows many changes in thecountry, much activity, and if well

aspected many benefits to the community atlarge, according to the position of the plan-ets making such good aspects. If afflicted itdenotes much unrest & discontent, ill-healthamong the people, and affairs generally willbe unsatisfactory. The position & aspects ofthe afflicting planets should be noted.

The Sun in the first house, well as-pected, denotes a prosperous time for thecountry, many benefits to the people, im-provement in affairs & success generally. Ifafflicted, it creates disturbances betweenmaster & man, and afflicts the health of thecommunity.

The Moon in the first house, well as-pected, denotes activity & changes amongthe people, some improvements to women& children, and slight benefits of a publicnature. If much afflicted will cause illness,unrest & discontent.

Mercury.—This planet when well as-pected produces much activity, increase oftrade & work, new enterprises among thepeople, and generally inclines to study & in-tellectual gain to the community. If afflicted, itshows much recrimination in the popular press.

Venus well aspected denotes a peacefultime, content & success in the country, im-provement of work connected with the fe-male sex. If badly aspected it shows want,vice & misery, trouble to the feminine partof the community, and indicates crimesagainst women & children.

Mars.—This planet is generally evil,bringing discontent among the people,strikes, riots, fires & incendiarism, crime &ill-health.

Concerning the FirstHouse & Planets Therein

— from Raphael’s Mundane As-trology. Extracted from Mundane Astrol-ogy, The Astrology of Nations & States, byH.S. Green, Raphael & C.E.O. Carter. Buy

Concerning the FirstHouse & Planets Therein

TIMPARTING negative electricity to the

extreme, Uranus induces highestbarometric pressure, rapidly declining

temperatures and through descending aircurrents from higher altitudes, conduces togreatest wind velocity. If Mercury is anelectrical planet, then Uranus is entitled torecognition as the negative electrical planetpar excellence. Impressions by this planeton the weather are sudden, spasmodic andusually extreme. Lower ranges oftemperature invariably result from alloccupancies of major stations or whenconfigured with Sun or Mercury particularly.The prevailing wind is from the northwestand we have a very good example of thisprevailing wind and the accompanying higherwind velocities when the Sun is transitingthrough the sign Aquarius from January 21to February 20 annually. Under harmoniousaspects, wind veering to northwest clears theatmosphere, the barometer rises fast withcorrespondingly declining temperatures.Increased wind velocity begins over thehigher altitudes of the interior and sweepsdownslope to the lowlands. During coldseasons, cold waves, heavy frosts but clearweather, unless contrary planetary rays areoperating jointly. Under adverse square,opposition or semi-square configurations(including the conjunction) the atmosphereis cold, overcast, bleak and penetrating. Darkclouds resembling horizontal brushstrokesadvancing out of the western sky areharbingers of approaching wind velocity.

IVarious matters ruled by each house, con-tinued:—

Seventh House. Marriage, the wife orhusband, partners, contracts, and open en-emies. Rules the reins and kidneys, and cor-responds to Libra.

Eighth House. Death, loss, decay, wills,legacies, and money of marriage or businesspartner. Rules the generative and excretorysystems, and corresponds to Scorpio.

Ninth House. Long journeys and voy-ages, publications, the Church and clergy,religion, the higher mind, dreams, the law andlegal affairs. Rules the hips and thighs, andcorresponds to Sagittarius.

Tenth House. Employers, superiors, busi-ness, profession or occupation, the outer as-pirations, and honour and credit. To thishouse is assigned one of the parents, the oppo-site one to that ruled by the fourth house. Rulesthe knees, and corresponds to Capricorn.

Eleventh House. Friends, associates,companions, hopes and wishes, and incomefrom business. Rules the legs and ankles andcorresponds to Aquarius.

Twelfth House. Self-undoing, confine-ment, prisons, hospitals, asylums, exile, se-cret enemies, sleep, aunts and uncles on theside of the parent ruled by the 10th house,and large animals. Rules the feet and corre-sponds to Pisces.

It will be noted that each house corre-sponds to a sign, as the first house to Aries,and so on. This correspondence is importantand always holds good no matter what signmay actually occupy the cusp.

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George HarrisonFebruary 25, 194312:10 pm GMT — his motherLiverpoolPlacidus housesMean Node

traditional standard they used, for the simplereason that noon can be objectively deter-mined. Midnight could not be. Presumablymodern ships use GPS. I’ve checked theship-board time several times now and it doesjump about, being continually updatedthrough the day. Factoring this backwards,at the time of Harrison’s birth I would pre-sume merchant ships would revise their timeevery day at noon. Naval ships might wellkeep to a stricter standard, as they have totalk to each other.

Do we as astrologers need to know howtime is calculated? Yes we do, because timeis our business.

SO let’s presume that Harrison’smother Louise knew her stuff andgave a proper time of 0:10 as that of

her son’s birth, which she understood to be12:10 pm. Not 12:10 am, as her daughterthought. The legal day started at noon.

The resulting chart has 25 Gemini rising,which I think fits. But I still have a problemwith Harrison and his children. The 5thhouse is Libra. Libra is moderately fertileand makes for pretty children, but the ruler,in Harrison’s chart, is Venus at the very lastdegree of Pisces, which is horribly fertile. Inthe 10th as well, which are kids who go onstage with you. And that’s not George.

But then I notice that at 12:10 pm BST/Wartime/whatever, that Venus is at 29 è 57.That’s close enough to Aries, and Venusmoves fast enough, that maybe mom was offby ten minutes or so.

So I grab my Rosicrucian 100 yearephemeris and look to see what time Venuschanged signs and entered Aries on the day.

I am astonished to see it changed at 12:10pm exactly. Isn’t that Harrison’s moment ofbirth itself?

No, I scream at myself. The ephemerisis in GMT. Which arrived an hour later.Redrawing the chart for 12:10 pm GMT andVenus is at exactly 0 Ý 00. The 5th cusp isnow 5 Libra. The Moon, which is in veryfertile Scorpio, is at 7 Scorpio and now along, long way from the 5th cusp. Neptuneis at 1 Libra, dead opposite to Venus, whichrules it, or wants to. (It’s debateable if Nep-tune is aware it’s being ruled.) Neptune tighton the cusp of the 5th, children are imagi-nary. They are idealized. Venus oppositeand ruling, the harder Harrison tries to havechildren (Venus in Aries can be insistent), theless success he will have, Neptune’s opposi-tion to the ruler foiling him at every turn, forreasons that are never clear, much less fullyconscious.

No, there is no cusp. Once a planet has

left a sign, all trace of that sign vanishes. Oncea planet enters a sign, it is wholly in that sign.Such has always been my experience.

So I have a chart for George Harrison,based on his mother’s handwritten note,which I understand to be 12:10 pm GMT onFebruary 25, 1943. Note that so far as whenthe world shifted, from starting the day atnoon to starting it at midnight, it’s now Feb-ruary 1943 and evidence still points to anoon start. My theory, that the change cameduring the war itself, is not finding support.

Overall, I am somewhat happy with thischart. Sun in disorganized Pisces in the 10th,it would take Harrison much struggle beforehe found himself on stage. Sun ruled by Ju-piter, Jupiter exalted in Cancer in the first,but retrograde, his poor image of himself (Ju-piter retrograde) would be a factor in slow-ing him down.

Jupiter would tend to use its own ruler asa backstop, which would be the Moon de-bilitated in Scorpio, hung between the 5th and6th. On the one hand, this would be an inse-curity (Moon debilitated) about doing thework (6th) of taking up an instrument, butalso the intense perseverance (Scorpio, fixed)that would eventually lead to success.

On the other hand, the Moon technicallyin the 5th but not being associated with thesign on its cusp, it would take Harrison a longtime to discover himself as a creative force.And when he did, he would be erratic, as theMoon is always variable, while the Sun in

Pisces in the midheaven is unstable in gen-eral. So it was very true, as Harrison said,that his career with the Beatles was a phasein his life, and not a very big one. After manyyears of toiling in the background, he nosooner discovered himself, wrote some out-standing music, than John and Paul called itquits and pulled the rug out from under him.

Mercury exalted in Aquarius in the 9th,foreign lands and cultures would be of inter-est, and we remember that it was Harrisonwho dragged the somewhat willing Lennon,the somewhat unwilling McCartney, and thevery unwilling Ringo to India. If it were notfor the necessity to get Venus into Aries, Iwould have been happier with a chart set forone hour prior (12:10 pm war time) as this putthe Sun in the 9th and, along with Mercury,makes foreign adventures a major part of life.

A STRONG Mercury in the 9th offoreigners and ruling the 4th houseof home, why did Harrison not settle

in, say India? Look at the south node, inAquarius in the 9th. As much as travel ap-peals to him, he finds he is not himself whenhe is away from home. In his later years hefound it difficult to get outside of his estate.This is also why he gave up the sitar, sayinghe could be a mediocre sitar player, or a goodguitarist, but not both.

So far as being a touring musician, noteLeo on the cusp of the 3rd. Ruled by theSun in the midheaven, he could tour to hisheart’s content. North node in Leo, he had

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the strength for a life on the road. What aboutPluto in 5 Leo just outside the 3rd? Notethat Pluto is retrograde. It wants no part ofthe 3rd, it is moving away from it. But nei-ther does it have an affinity with the 2nd, asit is not in the sign of the 2nd. Pluto inHarrison’s chart has no real house associa-tion. It is instead mostly of interest for itsopposition to Mercury, where it tends to de-stroy existing (fixed) thought patterns, bymeans of Mercury and Pluto’s square to theMoon (T-square), which they fight over.Given that the Moon rules the ascendant, theresult is raw and visible for all the world tosee. We see Harrison as tortured (Pluto-Mer-cury) for his art (Moon-5th).

George Harrison also had a grand squarein cardinals, one much less cruel than his T-square. Venus-Neptune are tightly opposed,while Jupiter-Mars are more widely opposed.Venus-Neptune opposed from 11th to 5thcaused Harrison to take up with almost anyfemale that came his way, which cost him hisfirst wife. Mars-Jupiter opposed are religiousstrivings, the sense that one’s traditional reli-gion (Mars Capricorn: Catholic) was not one’sown “home” (Jupiter: Cancer), but, Jupiter ret-rograde, it would take time to puzzle it out.

Except for oppositions that involve theSun or Moon, all oppositions have one planetdirect, the other retrograde. On rare occa-sion, both planets will be stationary, one aboutto go direct, the other, retrograde. Learn tolook for these things. Is the retrograde planetbacking into the opposition, as is the case ofHarrison’s Neptune, moving backwards intoan ever tighter opposition with the forward-travelling Venus and thus confusing it all themore, Venus being debilitated?

Or is an unwilling Jupiter (retrograde)moving away from an opposition to Mars,which has already passed by the oppositionand is no longer paying attention? Astrol-ogy is literal, you can make stories from de-tails like these. Realize these “made up sto-ries” are the very essence of reading a chart.

ONE such detail is how you placeplanets by house. In the case of ret-rograde Jupiter in Cancer and di-

rect Mars in Capricorn, Mars, while it couldlay claim to the 7th (Mars being a co-ruler ofCapricorn), its direct motion, combined withthe relatively short distance to the 8th, makesit lean to the 8th, not the 7th. Mars in the 8this dangerous. It can shorten your life.

Retrograde Jupiter very much wants tobe in the first, not the second. Which givesthe Mars-Jupiter opposition a 1st to 8th po-larity, which blunts it considerably.

Of the knife attack on December 30,

1999, note the Sun exactly on Harrison’sdescendant. This happens every year on thisdate or very near it and is benign. The rulerof Capricorn, Saturn, is in Harrison’s 12th,which is the house of surprise. Saturn inGemini, the assailant used his hands and arms(Gemini) and inflicted a serious wound toone of Harrison’s lungs (Gemini). Mars wasconjunct his south node, which, as the southnode is an energy drain, made the attack evenmore severe.

The attacker, Michael Abram, was foughtoff by Harrison’s wife, Olivia. Who, like hisattacker, was represented astrologically bythe same Capricorn descendant and Saturnin Gemini. While Capricorn is not a double-bodied sign, Gemini is. There are overtonesof Castor and Pollux in this attack.

In Harrison’s case this becomes anotherway of counting wives. A double-bodied signon the 7th indicates two wives (Gemini, Sag-ittarius, Pisces and sometimes Virgo are alldouble-bodied). Harrison had the ruler ofhis 7th in a double-bodied sign and so hadtwo wives.THE BEATLES

I HAVE now done three of the four Beat-les and though I have rectified them in-dividually, I find that all three of them

have their Moons in the 5th: John’s inAquarius, Paul’s in Leo, George’s in Scor-pio. This is dynamic and of itself binds thefour together as a group, though not in themost pleasant way. Back when I worked forthe New York Astrology Center, I, an Aquar-ian, was working for Henry Weingarten, aLeo, with Debra Burrell, a Taurus, as myimmediate superior. We sort of got on untilwe hired Gerard, a Scorpio, who upset thebalance and made it a free-for-all.

With their Moons, there was a ceaselessdrive for emotional satisfaction in their mu-sic, but the unfortunate tendency to sacrificeHarrison, whose Moon squared those of Len-non and McCartney, to get it. Beatles songswere invariably LennonandMcCartney’s, thetwo names run together to hide the funda-mental opposition between their two Moons,with Harrison sacrificed in order to do so.

Note that Harrison’s Neptune-Venus op-position falls exactly across Lennon’s ascen-dant-descendant, Harrison’s Neptune alsofalling exactly on John’s Mars. This wouldhave been hard for Lennon to take and mightaccount for Harrison’s lesser role in thegroup. Harrison’s Moon falls on Lennon’sMercury and Lennon’s Moon falls onHarrison’s Mercury (dual double-whammy),which are highly sympathetic links betweenthe two men.

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With McCartney I cannot find as much.McCartney’s Moon is opposed to Harrison’sMercury, which is a fundamental differenceof opinion. It might be that McCartney knewHarrison through Lennon, even though Mc-Cartney introduced Harrison to Lennon, allthose years ago.HOW LONG HE LIVES

OF a chart set for 12:10 pm GMT,the calculation of life is simple butnot satisfying. Sun in Pisces in the

10th is hyleg, or giver of life. Jupiter, rulerof Pisces and trine to the Sun, is alcohoden,or giver of years. Angular, Jupiter gives 79years. From this we subtract 15 years fromthe opposition to Mars. Saturn does not as-pect, so there are no other subtractions. Ve-nus does not aspect, so there are no additions.

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79 – 15 = 64. George Harrison died at theage of 58. I have not seen this formula, fromAbu Ali Al-Khayyat, give an excess num-ber of years. While I cannot see any wayaround the Sun as hyleg and Jupiter as alco-hoden, I am unsatisfied with the result. Per-haps one of you can do better?

THAT ROYAL BABY

I THOUGHT it would be here by now.I was expecting it on Tuesday-Wednes-day, Moon in Scorpio, Mercury retro-

grade. I was expecting it again Sunday-Mon-day, Mercury direct and Moon in Capricorn,sign of government. Now it seems it willhave the full moon in Leo-Aquarius and be abirth on Monday. Which makes for a pow-erful T-square with Saturn.

When I first foresaw his birth last Octo-ber I imagined him to be the monarch forwhich England has long waited, but this weekI lost hope and wrote him off as just anotherself-indulgent royal brat.

His father was born on a solar eclipse /new moon, his mother was born on a lunareclipse / full moon, which makes for an ex-traordinary pair of parents. It’s rare that aparent’s Sun-Moon aspect turns up in thechart of its children, but anything is possible.

The key Mars-Jupiter conjunction maybe past its prime by the time it gets here,which is fraught with meaning to a princewhose father will not be king. This will yetturn out to be a birth of note. He should behere any minute now. More next week, oneway or another.

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CONFERENCElike me and spend $350, and the other halfare rich playboys and playgirls and are spend-ing $535. Which makes an average of$442.50 each. Times 200, comes to $88,500.

To this we must add the roomful of ven-dors. This room is, of course, one of the free-bies that came with the conference itself.Here I am a bit fuzzy. One hundred ven-dors? Fifty vendors? This is a smallish show,so let’s go with 50, at $300 each. That’s$15,000.

While there are other various bells andwhistles — a handful of Philadelphia localswho turn up at the door and pay $125 day,etc., the final major factor is the conferencebookstore. Ten percent of its sales go straightto the conference itself. Back in 1996 I ranthe conference store at the ISAR show in Chi-cago. I grossed $17,186.07 in four days.Books are more expensive now, so if I pre-sume $20,000 in sales, that’s another $2000.

So we have:$88,500 — attendance$15,000 — vendors$ 2,000 — bookstore

TOTAL: $92,500Remember these numbers are approxi-

mate. If there are, say, 300 attendees, wemultiply by 1.5 and get $138,000. If thereare 400, we have $184,000, etc.

Now we come to:EXPENSES

Of the hotel’s $151,200, we of courseknow nothing, as that is the hotel’s money todo with as it sees fit. In the case of this par-ticular hotel, both they and the conferenceclaim they are already out of rooms, which,if they are telling the truth, means somewhatmore than 200 people will be there, one wayor another. I was looking at pictures to getthe total number of rooms. More than 200.Maybe 300. Two hundred paid attendees,plus 50 speakers and another 50 vendors isas big as that hotel can be. Which meansthey get all the conference rooms as well asall the swank suites for the board members.

For conference expenses, I must be frankand say that I’ve never really been able tofind a lot. Not that would eat up $90,000clams. There is a couple of thousand for theweb pages. There is airfare for the boardmembers who attend (remember their roomsare free), there are their expenses whichwould not be more than say, $300 per per-son per day. The master of ceremonies atthe banquet gets paid, say, $1000. Since he’salready a board member, he’s already got histransportation and room and board and walk-ing around money. As for the rest of them,

they presumably hold paid positions with theorganization and so should not need an ad-ditional salary on top of expenses.

Say we have five board members, saytransportation is $1000 each. Then we have,per diem, $300 times 4 days. Which comesto $2200 a head. Times five heads is $11,000.Mikey’s speaking fee, and this is a pure guess,brings this to $12,000. Two grand more forthe webpages makes $14,000.

What about advertising? That would bethe Mountain Astrologer, the issue prior tothe show. Which would be the June-July2013 issue. Eagerly I looked through mycopy and found an NCGR ad on pg. 81. Itwas black and white, 1/3rd page. That’s$340. I was really surprised. I expected itwould be a full page color ad. Which wouldbe $1065. In magazine advertising — I knowthis personally, as I once ran full page ads inTMA — full page ads get full page results.Anything less is a waste of money.

I expect there have been lavish ads inNCGR’s house publication, but that’s notreally an expense. There would also be di-rect mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Only di-rect mail has a real cost.

So, presuming there are things that I havenot thought of, I would guess total expensesto be no more than $20,000.

Subtracting this from a take of $92,500,leaves a net of $72,500. Which presumes200 attendees and 50 vendors. If 300 attend-ees and 75 vendors, the final magic numberis $118,000, etc., etc.

DISTRIBUTIONLogically speaking, the net proceeds

would then be divided among the speakers.The speakers are the ones who do the work,the speakers are what attendees are payingfor. Therefore the speakers get the money.At the upcoming show in Philly, there are 50speakers. If the net is $72,500, each speakershould get $1450. If the net were $118,000,each speaker would have $2360. Remem-ber these numbers are based on guesswork,they are not exact.

But this is not quite fair, as there wouldbe senior speakers, those with a known trackrecord, and then there would be newbies.People without a camp following. At a 200person show (that’s the $72,500 net), say thetrack record people get $2000 and thenewbies get $1000. Newbies graduate tosenior status after three shows, etc. Some-thing like that.

But this is not what I understand the situ-ation to be. I am informed that only a fewspeakers are paid. If this is true, then mostspeakers must pay their own way, which

(from last week) would be around $800 forthe room, plus transportation (let’s say wedrive: $300), plus other expenses, for a tabof $1500 or so. If one defrays expenses bygiving readings at, say $200 each, then eachspeaker needs to do at least eight readings tomake any money. Eight readings times 50speakers are 400 readings. If there are only200 people attending, then a lot of speakersare going to get short-changed. Which is whyspeakers want to give their presentations onFriday, by the way.

One of my contacts emailed to say thatpromoters commonly keep the gate to them-selves and use it for lavish board meetings (notparties!), but I have no confirmation and somust consider this spurious. Please disregard.

Dear Speakers: Now you know thenumbers. If you are being paid, now youknow what your speaking fee is based on.

If you are not being paid, then I think weneed to pull you up by your short hairs.Which are on the back of your neck, by theway. You are doing the work. You shouldhave the money.

IT’S not for me to make suggestions,but if you are not being paid then youcould become a COMMIE FOR CHRIST and

go on strike. Before the show, not after it.In concerts the typical split is 80-20, withthe performer getting the larger share. As ithappens, an 80-20 split comes to $74,000 and$18,500, so my guesswork is pretty good.Attendance is verified, which means thespeakers need their own man to count howmany people show up. If you don’t get it thefirst day, you can get a good approximationby counting heads as they go through the doorfirst thing Saturday morning. After two hoursyou should have all but a few stragglers. Ifyou have to do this, don’t forget to count thebanquet.

One advantage to paying speakers is thatit encourages more shows. Letting the pro-moters have it all just makes them lazy. Ex-cessive money always makes one lazy, oftenwith a feeling of self-entitlement.

ISAR, AFAN, NCGR are having Saturnreturns about now. They need fresh blood. Imay return to this next week, as there areareas that need attention if we are to avoidgathering problems, and conferences are theideal places to thrash them out.

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