MANDERS, LEA
Lea Manders was born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, on August 7, 1956, at 1:42 P.M.
She started studying astrology at the age of 17. At that time, there were not many
books available in the Netherlands, so her self-study began with traditional authors
like Maurice Privat. This stimulated Manders to listen very carefully to her clients,
because she wanted to test the theories she discovered. Many theories did not work
in practice. This has made her an astrologer who has developed her own ideas and
methods.
After a few years of study, when Manders was in her late twenties, modern psy-
chological astrology arrived and she was able to buy books from Stephen Arroyo, Liz
Greene, and others in the Netherlands. These authors gave her great inspiration,
especially during a time when she was developing her therapeutic qualities by follow-
ing other courses. This led to more depth in her astrological analyses. In the mid-
eighties she followed a course in medical astrology. By 1985 she had succeeded in
building up a full-time professional practice. She started her own school, offering a
four-year course to train astrologers, which is still very successful.
Manders has a special talent for explaining difficult subjects in an simple man-
ner. This is one of the reasons that she is a well-known astrologer in the Netherlands.
She is regularly seen or heard on national television and local radio. In the astrological
world she is also well known as a teacher and a lecturer. She has written two books and
two readers in Dutch and one booklet in English. The subjects range from the more
popular to the esoteric. She writes articles for astrologers and for non-astrological mag-
azines. She is currently president of the Astrologische Associatie (ASAS), an associa-
tion for astrologers which she set up, which aims to make astrology more professional.
With experience in practical and psychological astrological subjects, Manders is
now also intensively engaged with the more spiritual side of astrology. She uses the
Kaballahistic Tree of Life to create a new vision of astrology and its role in the develop-
ment of the higher levels in man. She lectured about this theme at the international
United Astrology Conference in summer 2002. Manders is also active in politics. Since
1998 she has been a city-counsellor in Arnhem where she lives. Manders is married
and has three sons. She speaks Dutch and also lectures in English and German.
—Lea MandersMANN, A. T.
A. T. “Tad” Mann was born August 18, 1943, in Auburn, New York. He graduated
from Cornell University in 1966 with an architecture degree and worked as a profes-
sional architect for a time. He is a member of the Association for Astrological Net-
workers (AFAN) and the Author’s Guild. He lives and works in Hudson, New York,
and has a daughter, the woven textile artist Ptolemy Mann.
Mann applied the concept of biological time and the philosophical system of
George Gurdjieff, Pyotr Ouspensky, and Rodney Collin to astrology. The resultant log-
arithmic time scale grades the periphery of the horoscope from the ninth house cusp
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