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Volume 49, Issue 1: April 2020

  • Writer: ISAR
    ISAR
  • Dec 3, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 14


Table of Contents


Announcements and Information

Officers and Leadership contact information – 2

Advertising in the ISAR Journal – 3

Guidelines for Article Submission to the ISAR Journal – 4


Regular Columns and Special Offerings

President’s Message – Aleksandar Imsiragic (Serbia) – 5

Editorial Perspective – Victoria Smoot (USA) – 9

Remembering Shelley Ackerman – Sharon Ackerman – 10

ISAR 2020 Conference Price Freeze – Raymond Merriman (USA) – 12

ISAR Around the World with ISAR – 14

The Bibliophile ~ Book Reviews – 88

Advertisers Index – 91


Featured Articles, Essays & Discussions

What’s So Great About A Great Mutation? – Elisabeth Grace (USA) – 16

ISAR Journal Archives: Karmic Astrology Involving The World Situation – Zipporah Dobyns, Ph.D – 20

Coronavirus and Asteroid McDonald 991: Connecting degrees in Mundane Astrology – Smiljana Gavrancic (Serbia) – 24

Is This The Dawning Of The Age Of Aquarius? – Alan Mayeda (USA) – 32

History Corner: The Gauquelin Mars-effect: Did it Replicate? – Nick Kollerstrom (USA) – 36

The Astrological Art of Escape – Elizabeth Hazel (USA) – 41

Sir Elton John – “He’s Still Standing” – Mirjam Schneider (Germany) – 50

Poetry: Finding Your North Star – Kate Russell (Canada) – 55

All About Rahu-Ketu – Dr. Sri Harsha Indrasena (Sri Lanka) – 56

The Code of John: Revelation of the Stargazers: The Book of Revelation and the Messianic Astro-symbolism of the Nativity – Vadim Krakovsky (USA) – 67

Space, Duration & Kosmic Mind – Marguerite dar Boggia (USA) – 77

Book Excerpt: Forecast 2020 The Great Mutation and The Start Of a New Era: Jupiter And Saturn – Raymond Merriman (USA) – 81


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