First European Conference on Astrology, 9-11.11.2019, Varna, Bulgaria

First European Conference on Astrology, 9-11.11.2019, Varna, Bulgaria

From the ancient astrology to the advanced modern astrology

The aim of the conference is to create a scientific environment for all serious researchers of the most ancient science – Astrology.

Motto: European schools and traditions work together for the Future of the starry science.

Organizers: Bulgarian and Austrian Astrological Schools - Filip Filipov, Brigitte Strobele, Wolfgang Tomsits.

Astrological schools from the following European countries are participating: Austria, Italy, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Portugal, England, Slovenia, Bulgaria.

Place of the Conference: Festival and Congress Center - Varna

Lecturers who participate with plenary and standard lectures:

Brigitte Strobele is the President of Europe's oldest organization operating in Vienna, Austria.

Wolfgang Tomsits is a distinguished Viennese astrologer with special knowledge of ancient and classical astrology.

Lucia Bellizia is an Italian philologist and scholar of the History of ancient Astrology.

Dieter Koch is an expert in ancient languages (Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Akkadian, Sumerian) with a special focus on astral mythology and archaeoastronomy. He works as a software developer at astro.com and programmed the Swiss Ephemeris, the centrepiece of many astrological softwares.

Brigitte Hueber holds a magister degree in Astrology and Psychology in Austrian University.

Öner Döşer is the founder of AstroArt School of Astrology, having more than 1300 students so far; School of Astrology Publishing that has published 30 books; and Astrology Television on internet, is an astrology consultant, author and lecturer with more than 50.000 followers in social media. He is leading The Project on Researches and Introduction of Astrological Texts in Ottoman Era under the roof of AstroArt School of Astrology.

Denis Labouré is a French astrologer with university astrology lectures with theological thesis about “astrology and theology in the Pierre d’Ailly works”. This thesis is now an official course in the Dominican University.

Robert Powell, PhD, is known to some astrologers as one of the world's leading experts on the history of the zodiac and as a pioneer in the field of hermetic astrology. His PhD thesis, published under the title History of the Zodiac, shows that the Babylonian sidereal zodiac was THE zodiac used by ancient astrologers.

Helena Avelar, PhD, holds her PhD thesis in History of the practice of astrology over the centuries. She is currently working on her postdoctoral project in the same field.

Ema Kurent is an astrologer, author of books and lecturer in traditional astrology with an interest in natal, predictive, horary astrology.

Filip Filipov is an astrologer, a physicist with a master's degree in philosophy of consciousness, who has become known for his accurate global forecasts for a number of events around the world, made on the national TV broadcast and he is the creator of innovative 3D astrological software.

Rumen Kolev is a world-renowned astrologer who translates and publishes unpublished astrological books, he has worked on the translation of the oldest astrology book - the Sumerian Astrolab, and he has developed the unique astrology software Placidus for ancient astrology.

Dimitar Kozhuharov is an astrologer with a main focus of interests is in the area of the classical astrological prognostic techniques.

Adriana Votey is an astrologer with a master's degree, historian and lecturer with 30 years of practice, a specialist in mundane astrology who has proven the accuracy of her forecasts in the media.

Iliana Magerova is an astrologer with many years of practice, a lecturer with a serious interest in the history and ancient astral sanctuaries.

Kiril Stoychev is an astrologer, researcher and lecturer, author of books, chairman of the Bulgarian Astrological Association, one of the astrological organizations in Bulgaria.

Official conference program

8 Nov 2019 - Arriving and Hotel accommodation of the lectors

9 Nov 2019

08:00 - 09:00 Enrollment in the conference and preparation
09:00 - 09:10 Opening of the conference and presentation of the participants
09:10 - 10:30 Plenary lecture(80 m): "The Babylonian astrolabe - the astrological system of the first Hermes", lecturer - Rumen Kolev, Bulgarian astrological school
10:30 - 10:50 Answers to questions (20 m)
10:50 - 11:00 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
11:00 - 12:00 Lecture(60 m): "Astrology through the ages. The meaningfulness of astrology in the mirror of their temporally developed techniques", lecturer - Wolfgang Tomsits, Austrian astrological school
12:00 - 12:20 Answers to questions (20 m)
12:20 - 12:30 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
12:30 - 13:50 Plenary lecture(80 m): "Physics and Philosophy of Astrology. The Scientific Meaning, Essence and Origin
of the Astrological Phenomenon in the Universe", lecturer - Filip Filipov, Bulgarian astrological school
13:50 - 14:10 Answers to questions (20 m)
14:10 - 15:00 Pause for lunch (50 m)
15:00 - 16:00 Lecture(60 m): "The divine Ptolemy", lecturer - Lucia Bellizia, Italian astrological school
16:00 - 16:20 Answers to questions (20 m)
16:20 - 16:30 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
16:30 - 17:30 Lecture(60 m): "The Epistemology of Astrology - a critical view", lecturer - Dimitar Kojuharov, Bulgarian astrological school
17:30 - 17:50 Answers to questions (20 m)
17:50 - 18:00 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
18:00 - 19:30 Conversation on astrological issues and seeking joint work at European level, Topic: the scientific methodology of astrology

10 Nov 2019

09:00 - 10:20 Plenary lecture(80 m): "The Austrian Horoscope by Sándor Belcsák with exact triggering in the current affairs.", lecturer - Brigitte Strobele, Austrian astrological school
10:20 - 10:40 Answers to questions (20 m)
10:40 - 10:50 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
10:50 - 11:50 Lecture(60 m): "The astrological manuscripts attributed to Hermes in the national library of Egypt in Cairo", lecturer - Rumen Kolev, Bulgarian astrological school
11:50 - 12:10 Answers to questions (20 m)
12:10 - 12:20 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
12:20 - 13:20 Lecture(60 m): "The Decanates, Egyptian gods from the Temple of Hathor and the astrological plates from Grand, Vosges, France", lecturer - Filip Filipov, Bulgarian astrological school
13:20 - 13:40 Answers to questions (20 m)
13:40 - 14:30 Pause for lunch (50 m)
14:30 - 15:30 Lecture(60 m): "Astrology in the Mahābhārata Epic and the Date of the Mahābhārata War", lecturer - Dieter Koch, Swiss Astrological School
15:30 - 15:50 Answers to questions (20 m)
15:50 - 16:00 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
16:00 - 17:00 Lecture(60 m): "Ilm-i Nujum: The Science of the Stars", lecturer - Öner Döşer, Turkish astrologicаl school
17:00 - 17:20 Answers to questions (20 m)
17:20 - 17:30 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
17:30 - 18:00 Presentation of the new 3-dimensional, interpretive and prognostic web-based astrological software Sirius 7.0, lecturer - Filip Filipov, Bulgarian astrological school
18:00 - 18:10 Answers to questions (10 m)
18:10 - 18:15 Pause for coffee and rest (5 m)
18:15 - 18:45 Lecture (30 m): "The prototype of the Babylonian zodiac", lecturer - Kiril Stoychev, Bulgarian astrological school
18:45 - 19:45 Conversation on astrological issues and seeking joint work at European level, Topic: Sidereal and Tropical Zodiac

11 Nov 2019

09:00 - 10:00 Lecture(60 m): "Experienced planetary qualities in harmony with constellations, scientifically confirmed.", lecturer - Mag. a. Brigitte Hueber, Austrian astrological school
10:00 - 10:20 Answers to questions (20 m)
10:20 - 10:30 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
10:30 - 11:30 Lecture(60 m): "Astro-archeological objects in Bulgaria", lecturers - Adriana Votey, mag. Astrologer and Iliana Magerova, Bulgaria
11:30 - 11:50 Answers to questions (20 m)
11:50 - 12:00 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
12:00 - 12:50 Video Lecture (50 m): "The concept of analogy in reading the chart", lecturer - Denis Labouré, French astrological school
12:50 - 14:00 Pause for lunch (70 m)
14:00 - 14:30 Video Lecture(30 m): "Should the past stay in the past? The importance of studying traditional astrology today", lecturer - Helena Avelar, Portuguese astrological school
14:30 - 14:40 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
14:40 - 15:20 Video Lecture(40 m): "The History of the Zodiac", lecturer - Robert Powell, Ph.D., English astrological school
15:20 - 15:30 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
15:30 - 17:00 Presentation of the astrological software for Ancient Astrology, Primary Directions and 3-dimensional horoscopes Placidus 7.0, lecturer - Rumen Kolev, Bulgarian astrological school
17:00 - 17:10 Answers to questions (10 m)
17:10 - 17:30 Presentation of the Slovenian astrological activity, lecturer Ema Kurent, Slovenian astrological school
17:30 - 17:40 Answers to questions (20 m)
17:40 - 17:50 Pause for coffee and rest (10 m)
17:50 - 19:00 Conversation on astrological issues, Topic: Working together at European level
19:00 - 19:10 Concluding words and announcement of the Second European Conference in Vienna 2020

The cost to participate as a listener in the three-day conference, if payment is made to 10.10.2019 is 100 euro.
Between 11.10.2019 - 8.11.2019 price is 120 euro.
For ticket purchase information, write to Filip Filipov in FB private messages or email: fvfilipov@gmail.com
The organizers of the event reserve the right to change the program of the conference.