Welcome to Hellas - Greece :) :)

The trip to Greece has been postponed to late May-early June 2011. There were too many complications to properly present a group trip in 2010, so I thought it best to just put it off until people are feeling more secure in the economy. Please start your travel savings account now.


Join Mark Dodich and like-minded people for a trip to Greece in Spring 2011. Wounded healer Chiron and spiritualizing Neptune will both be in psychic Pisces then, so that will be something major to tune into.

Wounded-healer Chiron enters the psychic sign of Pisces. The last time this occurred was 1961-67, before this alternative healer was even discovered. We shall visit ancient sacred sites to tune into the energies through meditation, healing ceremonies, short classes and more. For now, begin a travel savings account. Although costs have not been put together yet, the Egypt trip was $3300 with most costs included from JFK airport. Greece is on the EuroDollar, so it is likely to be a bit more expensive- but I shall do my best to keep costs down. We had 17 people for the Egypt trip, which worked well, so I expect to limit the group to no more than 22 people (small enough to know everyone, and big enough to keep costs down and allow for a wide variety of sharing experiences.

In Egypt, we found that short classes worked better than longer classes. We did a class under the deck canopy as we sailed up the Nile. We had a class in the forward section of the Nile cruise ship towards the end of day. We did short meditations and healing's at sites that permitted us to quietly pull aside, and we chanted loudly in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. In Greece, we hope to find similar beautiful sites to tune into the intuitive energies that Pisces opens us to at the Delphi and Dodona Oracle temples. So far, we are told that doing ceremony at sacred sites in Greece is not allowed in many places, so we shall have to be adaptable in how we work. Classes will include group sessions on your personal astrology chart to help you tune into these energies. I would also like to teach about Hermetic Philosophy since this is the home of Hermes (like Thoth in Egypt or Mercury in Rome). We want to do intuitive opening classes and perhaps work with our dreams since this is in alignment with the oracle temples.



Some of the places in Greece we are looking at: Athens area- the Acropolis, the National Museum, Poseidon's Temple (at sunset, we hope) and other sites along the path - also some shopping and Taverna time. Mt. Pelion region- this is the area that Chiron (maverick, wounded healer) did his teaching and healing- we shall open to our healing abilities and bring forth the coming energies of Chiron in Pisces. This will help us to be ready for the incoming energies, to bring those energies back in service to our community, and a little self-healing added in. The Delphi Oracle area- a UNESCO World Heritage site. Imagine ancient Pythia priestesses wrapped in serpents and going into trance to provide messages to the pilgrims. We shall open to our own inner vision to bring messages back home to help both ourselves and the world as we head towards the end of the Mayan Calendar. The Dodona Oracle region where priestesses would listen to messages from God as the wind passed through oak tress and copper vessels hanging from their branches. I would rather not rush the trip, as Egypt was a whirlwind, so I am thinking this would be about 10 days.

Here is a question for anyone who is seriously interested in coming to Greece: I am exploring the idea of having the above sites as being the primary part of the group trip. Would you be interested if I offered a side trip at the end? We could take a short boat trip down to beautiful Santorini for a few days (you would recognize the picture as it is in all the travel brochures). Or, I have long had a desire to go to Istanbul, where Turkey meets Europe. This part of the trip would be optional as the Egypt trip showed that several people wanted to go off on their own personal side trip without the group. I also doubt that I would offer any classes during this part of the trip, except perhaps to gather anyone who is interested for a mediation or group dinner. Istanbul would likely be more structured than Santorini due to the nature of the places.

Check back to this page this summer as plans begin to unfold

http://www.astromark.us/travel.htm

http://www.astromark.us/Greece/Greece2010.pdf