[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]The Kepler College Maggie A. Nalbandian Memorial Collection
By Denise Menton
The Maggie A. Nalbandian Memorial Library (“Maggie’s Library”) was the onsite astrological library at Kepler College from the time the college opened its doors in March 2000 through June 2021, when the college gave up its physical location. The library was christened the Maggie A Nalbandian Memorial Library in 2016, in honor of Maggie Nalbandian (1937–2015), who was one of the founders of Kepler College. Maggie Nalbandian was an astrologer, lecturer, counselor and teacher; she was the owner of the Astrology et al bookstore in Seattle, and the founder of NORWAC. Maggie Nalbandian had a vision of a university that would incorporate astrology into academia, and she was instrumental in making that vision a reality, thus leading to the formation of Kepler College. Having an astrological library for research and study was part of the original mission of Kepler College and continues to be part of its mission today.
- $50 discount on Sirius V3 or later
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- 9 Ways Online Teaching Should be Different from Face-to-Face
- A brief introduction to other points.
- A Brief Introduction to the Solar System
- Adam Elenbaas: The Spiritual Purpose of Astrology
- Additional perspectives on the planets: Jupiter
- Additional perspectives on the planets: Mars
- Additional perspectives on the planets: Mercury
- Additional perspectives on the planets: Saturn
- Additional perspectives on the planets: Venus
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- Alan Leo: “The Progressed Horoscope”
- Alex Trenoweth on Doing Astrological ResearchURL
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- Alice DeVille: Is There a Promotion in Your Future?
- Alice Portman: Your Career in Your Natal Chart
- Alison Chester-Lambert :”Haumea, the Re-emergence of a Creatress”
- Alison Chester-Lambert: “Haumea, the Re-emergence of a Creatress”
- Alova-Polar Latitudes: Houses
- Ancient Greek Origins
- Anne Heese: Midpoint Meanings
- Anthony Louis Further Reflections on Triplicity
- Anthony Louis: The Origin of the Via Combusta (Burned Path)?
- April Elliott Kent: “Relationships and Your Natal Lunar Phase”
- Are stars signs or causes? The southern hemisphere experiment
- Article by Robert Hand: Signs as Houses
- Article: Did Ptolemy Use Whole Sign Houses? by Chris Brennan
- Aspects in Astrology
- Astro Gold Webinar
- AstroDatabank
- AstroGold via Esoteric Technologies
- Astrology and the Authentic Self
- Astrology in the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere
- Astrology Research.Net
- Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements
- Aswin Subramanyan – Romance of Astrology & Philosophy
- Avalon Project – documents in law, history and diplomacy
- Barbara Wislon: Five levels of intimacy
- Bartleby – reference books
- Basic Information on Student Assignments
- Basil Fearrington: Entering the Chart
- Basil Fearrington: Getting to the Point – The Central Theme in Analysis
- Bernadette Brady on Using Fixed Stars in Delineation
- Bernard Baars: How Consciousness Functions
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- Birchfield: An alternate to the Sibley birthdate of the USURL
- Bloom’s Revised Digital Taxonomy Wheel & the Knowledge Dimension
- Bob Marks: If You Can Count, You Can Do Astrology
- Brennan, Surtees & Coppock: on Houses 1-6
- Brennan, Surtees, and Coppock: on Houses 7-12
- Brennan: zodiacal releasing
- Brief History of Astrology
- Brief House System Overview
- Bruce Lipton: Conscious Evolution and the Great Upwising
- Bruce Scofield on A New Model of Astrology
- Bruce Scofield: “An Outline of the Uranian System”
- Bruce Scofield: Astrology and the Developmental Model
- C.C. Zain: Rectifiying the Horoscope
- Canva – Create Images & text
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- Chart with the most common Dwad systems
- Chinese Philosophical eText Archive
- Chocolate Sauce: The Plain Vanilla Astrologer’s Guide to the Art of Practicing Astrology
- Chris Brennan and Benjamin Dykes :the origins of the exaltations
- Chris Brennan: Introduction to Hellenistic Astrology (2) – Annual Profections, Lots, and Zodiacal Releasing
- Chris Brennan: The Planetary Joys and the Origins of the Significations of the Houses and Triplicities
- Clelia Romano on Analyzing Valens’ Profection Method
- Collection of previous community webinars offered by Kepler and now available for viewing online.
- Contacting Instructors
- Conversations with Astrologers
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- Course Planning Sheet for 5-Week Course (to speed the process of course development)
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- Dana Gerhardt: Moon Watching series :The Full Moon
- Dane Rudhyar: “The Lunar Nodes in Natal Astrology”
- Dane Rudhyar: The Planets and their symbols
- Dane Rudhyar: Three Faces of Your Horoscope
- Daniel A. Fiverson: “The Rebirth of the Divine Feminine: Asteroids, Archetypes, and Mythology”
- Daniel Schmachtenberger: The War on Sense-making
- Daryn Lehoux: Tomorrow’s News Today: Astrology, Fate, and the Way Out
- David Cochrane-Youtube-Intro to Harmonic Theory
- David Cochrane: An Introduction to Astrological Research MethodsURL
- Deborah Houlding on Ptolemy and Terms (Bounds)
- Dennis Elwell: Astrology is a foreign language
- Dennis Elwell: Fate and how to avoid it.
- Different systems of Astrology
- Digital International Astrology Library (DIAL)
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Dobyns-Asteroid Rulership
- Dodich-Major Fixed Stars Descriptions
- Donna Cunningham’s planetary tests
- Download the latest version of Acrobat Reader (from Adobe)
- Early Americas Digital Archive (documents from 1492 to 1820)
- eLearning Website – Collecting the Best Information on e-Learning
- Elizabeth Jones: The Astrological Houses and Specific Life Issues
- Emma Kurent on Which house rules cars?
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
- Fair Use and Copyright Policy
- Fei Cochrane: How to Run an Astrology Business
- FINAL EVALUATION FORM-MASTER (one page)
- Find exact longitude and latitude
- Fordham – Ancient History Sourcebook
- Fordham – Medieval Sourcebook
- Fordham – Modern History Sourcebook
- Free Chart Calculator
- Freemasons, Templars, Rosicrucians
- Genevieve Vierling: The Enigma of Pisces
- Good sources for free and fair use photos
- Graham Douglas: Scandal, Murder, and the Gauqueilin effect
- Hank Friedman: Western and Vedic Approaches to Synthesis
- Healing Pluto Problems
- Helena Avelar + Luis Ribeiro: The Burning Question: How does combustion work in natal astrology?
- Hellenistic Astrology
- Historical Ephemeris Astrological groundrules 5: Planetary Relationships
- History of Astronomy Commission
- Holden, Philosophy, “Fate or Free Will”
- Horoscope Symbols
- Houlding, Classical Origin and Traditional Use of Aspects
- How does the Zodiac work in Australia?
- How to Write Learning Objectives from UW Online
- Instructor and Student Intellectual Property Rights
- Instructor Checklist – Prior to Course Starting
- Instructor Handbook
- Instructor Shortcut For Hosting Your Zoom Session
- Instructor Technical Support Videos
- International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture
- Introduction to Sect
- Introduction to the Cast (Sun through Pluto, old version)
- Introduction to the concept of Sect.
- Introduction to Traditional Natal Astrology: A Complete Working Guide for Modern Astrologers
- Ivan W. Kelly: The Concepts of Modern Astrology: A Critique
- Jacques Halbronn: Astrologer meets client- Tricks of the trade
- Jennifer Zahrt: There’s No There, There. Or is There? – Understanding Elemental Voids
- John Frawley: What is the Tradition in Astrology?
- John Townley: Tool Time
- Joseph Crane: Astrology and Family Patterns: Critical but Largely Ignored
- Journals for the Study of Western Esotericism
- Karen McCauley: Space, Time, and Cycles
- Kathy Allan: “Re-Visioning the Lunar Nodes”
- Kelly Lee Phipps: Astrology in the bible
- Kelly Phipps: on The Quadrants – A Taoist Perspective
- Kepler College Course Catalog
- Kepler College online Classroom – Discussion Forums
- Kepler College online Classroom – How to get the Moodle Mobile App
- Kepler College online Classroom – Introduction to Moodle
- Kepler College online Classroom – Uploading Assignments
- Kepler College Student Handbook 2024- 2025
- Kepler College: Virgo Virgo – Why so different?
- Kidwheels: Understanding the Child in the Chart
- Kim Farnell: Astro-Profile of Johnny Depp
- Kollerstrom-Harmonic Study of Mystic Moments
- Komilla Sutton:Vakri Grahas – Retrograde Planets
- LawMouse – World Legal Resource Center
- Leigh Westin: Appraising the Gems of Declination
- Leigh Westin: Divining Declination in Solar Fire
- Leisa Schaim and Chris Brennan: First Steps in Reading a Birth Chart
- Liz Greene: The Horoscope in Manifestation
- Local Space Relocation Astrology: Relocation And Directional Astrology
- Looklex Encyclopedia
- Luc de Jaeger: Not Cut Out for Love, So What?
- Lynn Koiner: The Dysfunctional Saturn and its Impact upon Health
- MacKinnell-“Gauquelin’s Mars Effect Revisited”
- Making the transition to remote learning
- Managing a Moodle course
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- Mark Manson on Benefits of being slightly crazy
- Mark Wolz: Retrograde Mercury A Slow Dance with the Trickster
- Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia
- Merck Online Medical Library
- Michael Meyer: The Four Faces of Mercury
- Modalities and Healing
- Moodle – Quick Guide for Teachers
- Moodle tips and tricks
- Moodle.org documentation on using Quizzes
- National Archives – US government documents
- Nic Gaudette :When Mercury Retrogrades in Your Sign
- Noel Tyl: Discussion on Organizing Blocks of Synthesis
- Obert on Rethinking Spiritual Transformation
- On the Heavenly Spheres
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
- Online Reference Service: IPL – the Internet Public Library & Librarian’s Internet Index
- Optional Reading: When and why did Uranus become associated with Aquarius? by Kim Farnell
- Optional Sunday Chart Practice at 5:00-6:00 pm Pacific
- Overview of planetary symbols
- Parental Axis Polarities
- Pat Geisler: Dignity & Debility Hints
- Perry-Tropical Zodiac vs Sidereal Zodiac Explained
- Perseus Digital Library (Greco-Roman & more)
- Peter Burns: Profections
- Physical appearance per Culpepper
- Plant, Article, Fortune, Spirit and Lunation Cycle
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- Podcast: Brennan and Watson on How to read an ephemeris
- Predictive Astrology
- Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark
- Professional Development Series 2021 Questionnaire
- Progressions, Directions, and Rectification
- Project Gutenberg – over 100,000 titles
- Ptolemaic vs. Copernican Model
- PubMed Central (PMC) – biomedial & life sciences
- Quick Guide for Attendees
- Reconstructing the Real You: Applying Astrology to Family Psychology
- Rectification: Verify for Accurate Forecasting
- Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (international list)
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- SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
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- Scott Wolfram: Neptune and Collective Mythologies
- Seeking Copyright Permission for Use of Course Materials
- Set up a Moodle Quiz (from University of Amherst)
- Seven Star Astrology: Astrological Predictive Techniques- Vettius Valens
- Sirius V3 or later
- Skyscript Study Library – Online astrology texts
- Solar Fire and all Astrolabe products
- SOLAR FIRE INTERPRETATIONS REPORT
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Stanford’s HighWire Press – Full-text science articles
- Starzology: Aspects of Declination Parallels and Contra-Parallels– for Aspiring Astrologers
- Stellarium Online Star Map
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- Steven Forrest: Sun, Moon and Rising Formula
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- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- The Center for Archeo-Astronomy
- The Changing Sky: Learning Predictive Astrology
- The Classical Seven Planets
- The Complete Book of Chart Rectification
- The Digital Scriptorium – Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
- The Houses: Temples of the Sky
- The National Academies Press
- The Oxford English Dictionary
- The principles of Adult Education: A Checklist
- The Psychology of Astro*Carto*Graphy
- The scale of our solar system created on earth
- The Secret Language of Astrology
- The South Hemisphere Inversion
- The World of Dante – a multimedia research tool
- The Zodiac: A Life Epitome
- Theosophical University Press Online
- Thony Christie: Astronomy and Astrology: The Siamese Twins of the Evolution of Science.
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- Time Zone Conversion
- TIPS for creating a slide presentation
- Training Week Videos
- Trent Nelson: Projection
- Trouble reading student’s papers?
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- Understanding the Birth Chart
- United Nations World Digital Library
- University of Pennsylvania’s Online Books
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- Wendell C. Perry: Touching the Elephant
- What is Moodle?
- World Time Map
- Zane Stein-Understanding Septiles
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When Kepler first began its journey in 1992, the founders put out a call to the astrological community for books. Many answered, including ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research), which donated its entire library. In the years that followed, numerous astrologers donated or bequeathed personal collections to the library, some with handwritten notes in the margins, which provided insights to future readers. Maggie’s Library developed into the largest publicly available collection of astrology books and center for astrological research in the Pacific Northwest. The collection contained over 2500 books, ephemera, periodicals and journals, as well as original research from legends like Marian March, Lois Rodden, Neil F. Michaelson and Robert Hand’s project Hindsight; there were self-published pamphlets from luminaries like Dane Rudhyar, as well as works by astrologers who had never published a book. There were also tools which predated computer software programs such as compucharts, transparencies, chart overlays and forms that student and astrologers could use to further their study and research. Enid Newberg, former college President, Trustee and now Kepler’s Librarian, comments that astrology is a serious study, and astrologers deserve to know the depth and breadth of our astrological history. “There’s nothing quite like actively engaging oneself in the tactile experience of searching for a book, and then immersing oneself in the magic that unfolds.”
The library was initially located in Lynwood, Washington, but went into storage after Kepler College was unable to get accredited as a liberal arts college and closed its physical campus. In 2015, Dr. Jenn Zahrt, then a member of the Board of Trustees, reestablished the library at a new location in Kirkland, Washington. In a podcast interview with Shannon Garcia, then the owner of the Mountain Astrologer, Dr. Zahrt talked about her experience of collecting, unpacking and cataloguing all the boxes of stored books with fellow board member, astrologer Wonder Bright and assisted by Maggie’s son Greg Nalbandian (listen to the interview here https://soundcloud.com/mountainastro/004-kepler-library). Jenn said: “As we were unpacking the books, it was like taking all the astrologers who had ever been published, and they were having a party. It was like visiting old friends and also having a cacophony of voices …heated discussions that you get into at conferences…books screaming at other books and the entire space was filled with all of our lore, all of our techniques and all of the recorded past of our history. There were moments when we were moved to tears as we were unpacking…it was the ultimate living room of astrology books.” In 2016, Kepler College moved the library back to Lynwood, Washington to the new physical location it had opened to serve its burgeoning certificate and diplomas. Enid Newberg served as the guardian of the library until its closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In June 2020, Kepler College sold Maggie’s Library to CAELi, where it continues to live on as a core component of CAELi’s holdings.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]