United Astrology Conference - UAC 2008 In Denver: God Help Me… Or Jupiter, Apollo, Whoever You’ve Got!
Outtakes and Various Other Sundries…
I was talking to pal and astrologer, cf perez today about feeling lousy for no reason. This is how it is for Saturn Neptune. Your depression has no basis in reality and either does your bliss! Get it? I can feel bereft for no reason at all. I can also feel like I am walking around with God on steroids, totally taking care of me and I have no reason for that either/
Lucky for me I run about 90/10 away from depression, but anyway we were discussing this. And cf was reminding me how we are part of the collective and we take on and take in whatever is going on. And there is so much going on. And it’s especially gloomy in Denver right now. It’s cold!
“Yeah, we’re in the news,” I said. “For our blizzards. And our frigid temps. And you know that astrology conference will be here in 2008 and we just got the Democratic convention as well… 2008.”
She agreed Denver was getting attention lately. “And there you go. That’s it, sweetheart.”
She calls me sweetheart, even though she thinks I am one of the baddest asses around… which I am. 
“That convention is in Denver,” she said. “That’s right! We’re all coming to Denver and you’re going to have company!”
I felt my stomach churn.
‘I’m coming to see you! You’re going to have to vacuum, girl. Because I’m coming to your house!” she said brightly. “Yep!,” she chirped. “You know you’re going to have to vacuum, even if it’s a year and a half away!”
I laughed. “Well you know that does bother me, cf. I hate those seminars. I hate them! They are horrible for me. It never fails… Oh, it’s just awful. It’s awful for me but you know I have to go. So anyway, you’re right. Not only am I upset about this a year and a half in advance, I was stressed a year ago… even longer than that. I was stressed from the minute I knew that thing was going to be here! I mean I know it’s coming. It’s a matter of time and I do think about it all the time. How can I hide when I write that blog?”
“Well, honey!” she said buoyantly. “That’s how it is…”
We went on to talk about my storytelling. I have to get back to it. My astrologer recommends it!! So this blog is multi-purpose.
For one thing I need to start writing about my dread of the astrology conference here. Because it is not going to help me to act as if it does not exist. Believe me, if you see me there, I will be wishing you didn’t! I will be wishing I could erase myself like Star Trek leaving you to wonder if you saw me at all! I’ll be gone and you’ll be confused! Perfect!
And on the storytelling, there’s the “Tales From Astrology Seminars”. If you’re new around here you can go have a laugh at my expense and then come back and vote:
Will you be attending UAC in 2008?
More importantly, will you pretend you don’t see me?
10 Responses to “United Astrology Conference - UAC 2008 In Denver: God Help Me… Or Jupiter, Apollo, Whoever You’ve Got!”
Any Scorpio in that chart of your’s SF? Hee hee!
I won’t be coming. I can’t think that far in advance.
I like your poll, though, Elsa. It’s funny how some people bring friend for cover in a large group. I fare much better on my own in a large group.
For one, you can skip from group to group with any excuse you can think of: need to go pee, need a drink of water (they’ll never know you’ve just gone pee and drank 3 gallons of water)! You get the idea.
Trust me, I know a million ways to disappear in a crowd, and they are all easier to pull off when operating alone!
Astute, kashmiri, astute! 
(Yes, all kinds of Scorp!)
i won’t be there, but if i was there (or saw you anywhere else) and i saw you, i’d go “OMG! That’s ELSA!” and then hem and haw about going over to talk to you. and by the time i got up the nerve to introduce myself and say hi, you’d have disappeared.
then something silly would happen, like finding ourselves at neighbouring sinks in the ladies room, and i’d just smirk, catch your eye in the mirror, and nod. dry my hands and walk out…
we get a lot of celebrities here, and we ignore them - let them have their privacy, their life. we don’t take pictures of them in their sweatpants, buying toilet paper. that’s mostly why they come here, i think. because we know how to recognise them, and leave them in peace…
I definately will not be at the one in Denver, so if you see me there, it isn’t me!
I allowed myself to be persuaded to go to the last one by a good friend (who supposedly had *inside* connections to the truth about these things) who *promised* me that it wasn’t going to be like all the other astrology conferences (and trust me, once you have been to one, they are all the same); that the organizers had really done it *right* this time etc.
She was wrong.
It as awful. Most of the time I was bored out of my mind. There wasn’t even a decent place in the “neighborhood” to run away to (not being a Disneyland kind of person where there are even more crowds!).
Of course the pardigmatic event were the brawls, the worst of which was one between Erin Sullivan and Joanne Castro over (get this) whether or not to open a door which actually got physical and another (verbal) between two women in the exhibitor hall (I actually witnessed the later). I say paradigmatic because it seemed emblematic of the kinds of behind the scenes power struggles that invariably go on in the world of (ahem) “official astrology.
Whenever I think of UAC from now on, I will think of that god-awful awards dinner in Orlando at which the boring speeches went on until something like midnight, as everyone got drunk and gossiped about Erin Sullivan being in jail or bitched about the lousy and expensive food, and the fact that the dancing time was being given short shrift by the self-congratulatory grandstanding up at the podium…
And even though I must have attended at least 15-20 lectures, I can’t remember a single one, they were all *that* brilliant. Well, I am exaggerating, I did like 3. A lot!
My recommendation is to spend the money on a good in-depth workshop somewhere or a real vacation.
I will be speaking at a conference in less than a month’s time. Not astrology though - political science. I do not know whether to be scared or excited 
Scared for the over-intellectual questions, and even more for my replies, excited because I have some work to show.
I would not be able to pretend to not see you. I gather you are a highly visible person 
I would prolly approach you, Elsa, if I went to those kind of things. It would be too tempting to see if my mental image overlapped reality at any point. But, since I’m strictly a dabbler at astrology, you won’t hafta worry about me stalkering you at the con or anything.
I won’t approach celebrities like that, though. I had plenty o’ opportunities this past summer at DragonCon and figured that, like most of us, celebs sometimes just want to sit around in peace. So I didn’t approach anyone.
I won’t be going. But, IF I were… well, I’d walk right up and say THANK YOU ELSA!!! Then I’d probaby leave you alone. But saying thanks in person is always polite when someone has given you a gift or kindness and you do that for us everyday!!!
I just might have to find a way to go. It sounds like an amazing thing. I would see you, certainly. But if you wanted me to pretend not to, I would.
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I am not likely to be attending, no.
But if I did… hmm… I’d probably check you out from a distance but not introduce myself.
So. There. You don’t have to worry about ~me~!