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AFAN's Global Mission is to enhance, protect, and validate the important role astrologers and astrology have in today's society.

INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY DAY: 21 MARCH 2009

AFAN is encouraging astrologers around the World to hold Gatherings of astrologers and people who love astrology to celebrate International Astrology Day. We are a service organization dedicated to supporting astrology and astrologers everywhere. One way we do this is to raise money for scholarships to help astrologers attend conferences. In honor of IAD, we encourage everyone to donate as generously as possible to the scholarship fund to keep astrology alive and growing!

All Scholarship Donations, however great or small, are most gratefully received. Click on the Donate Button to make a Donation now.

International Astrology Day, 2009

Yep! There IS such a day!! International Astrology Day was founded by AFAN in 1993, an outgrowth of the "Astrology Awareness Weekends" which AFAN had sponsored for several years previously. The goals of the new holiday were to expand networking opportunities among the astrological community, to direct media attention to positive aspects of astrology, and to help raise funds for local astrological groups and for AFAN's legal, media, and other networking projects.

International Astrology Day is celebrated to coincide with the beginning of the Astrological Year, the spring equinox, when the Sun enters the tropical sign of Aries. This date was selected by a vote of AFAN Networkers when declaring the new holiday.

Since astrologers are known for celebrating celestial events, this day should be at the top of our list for honoring our glorious profession in the same way we honor our birthdays.

We have put together an international committee of volunteers to help coordinate events around the world:

  • Didier Castille in Paris, France
  • Gabriella VonElekes in Scottsdale, Arizona
  • John Dawson in the UK
  • Toni Thomas Dore in Atlanta, Georgia

We are open to suggestions and offer a few here that you may way want to take to your community:

  • Arrange to give a lecture at your local library to the general public.
  • Write out press releases (I will help you with this) to send out to your local new publications.
  • Meet at a pub or a restaurant with your friends to toast and talk about astrology.
  • Have a party and just invite your friends. Have them dress as their Sun sign or their favorite planet or bring a food dish to represent their sign. (These are just a few of the ideas that can be used to carry out the astrological theme at a party!)
  • If you teach, schedule an open house or a free class night.
  • Have a day of free mini-readings/chart analysis and send everyone away with a free copy of their chart.
  • Go to your local coffee shop or cafe and see if you can set up there to do your free mini-readings.

We would love to hear your ideas!

Blessings,
Toni Thomas Dore
AFAN IAD Coordinator
iad@afan.org