2008 Offerings of talks and workshops
from Brian Keats

Talks
Astronomy
The Biodynamic calendar uses a different zodiac to the magazine columns and my birth chart. is there a mistake? How do I come to reconcile the differences?
 
A look at the sidereal and tropical zodiacs.
 
Cosmogony and Cosmology - world beginnings.
  A look through Mythology and Spiritual Science
 
Biodynamics
Universal Forces
 
Towards a deepening our understanding of Biodynamics.
 
We are what we eat and what we take in through our senses.
 
Towards a deeper understanding of nutrition and health. The processes of nutritional intake and digestion is not as it seems on first glance …. or even the second and third glances. It is indeed extraordinarily mysterious. With help from the insights of Rudolf Steiner we can restore some wisdom and well being into our family health and personal diets. How is BD food different?
 
Workshops
I like to combine science with imagination to investigate the wonders and mysteries of life.
 
Weather Forecasting
 

Through an understanding of the weather we can gradually come to know, and participate consciously in, the rhythmic life body of the Earth. Gaia can become more than a concept.
Topics covered:
Short term and long term weather;
18.6 year lunar cycle;
Sunspot cycles.
 
Astronomy
 
No prior knowledge or skills in Astronomy needed.
Teaching is done imaginatively with participants using movement, specifically coloured costumes and emulating the planetary and star movements. A star watch with associated stories from Greek and Australian Aboriginal is included.
 
Biodynamics
Limestone, Silica and Carbon
 
Getting to know them through observations and simple yet profound experiments.
Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats
 
How do we understand them in our diets and in Nature?
 
Profile
 
Brian Keats grew up in Zimbabwe and is now a resident of Australia still under the southern skies. He has been compiling and producing the annual “Antipodean Astro calendar” since 1985, is a founding member of Biodynamic Agriculture Australia, and has given talks and workshops across Australia as well as in the USA Canada and Japan. His interests range from Pythagoras to weather forecasting with specialist areas in naked eye astronomy and the science of the spirit.
 
Publications
 
Antipodean Astro Calendar
Northern Hemisphere Astro Calendar
Biodynamic Growing Guide
Moon Planting Guide
Betwixt Heaven & Earth
 
43 Azalea St.
Mullumbimby 2482
Phone +61 266846834
briankeats@astro-calendar.com
www.astro-calendar.com