I know I'mma start a fight. But it is Friday night. So... The United States definitely gets a lot wrong. But one thing we don't do as bad as most other countries in the world? Collaborate & work as astrologers. Most of y'all in the stone age. #Facts #FightMe #IHaveReceipts

Quite a few countries can't even have a national conference cuz, um, they don't have national astrological organizations. Or there's a lot of in-fighting. So, if you ever why UAC is always in the US, that's part of your answer. Europe is a mess. That's from Europeans.

See, I'm the chairperson for ISAR's council of Global Directors, with going on 35 representatives around the world, and I've nearly talked to all of them. One is in a country where they can't even practice astrology openly.

But most of the others? I've learned about so much in-fighting between teachers and schools that they can't coordinate conferences, education, etc. One has told me how they've had ongoing court battles btwn astrologers in their country.

Things we really don't have here in the US. A lot of times this is me in my meetings with them when they talk about what's happening in their countries with astrology:

But I feel like we're not having honest conversations about what's going on in the world.

The only European countries that have it mostly together with coordination between astrology schools and developments in astrology? The UK, Germany, and maybe Portugal, though Portugal mainly has one large school.

I told this to a pair of US based astrology school administrators and they had no clue. I had no clue before I started talking to astros from European countries. Latin America ain't much better. Australia was stronger, but fraying at the edges now.

There are practically no schools or teachers of astrology on the map, that we know of, in 95% of Africa. Only South Africa has listed orgs or conferences. And when I was there, I didn't see any Black people participating. I'm not kidding.

Astrology is growing in China, in the Middle East, Japan, and Pacifica. India, of course, has its own deep roots with astrology, but they're definitively plagued with loads of in-fighting between schools. A few have started invited more Westerners for conferences.

Funny thing is that when individual Indian astrologers try to connect with Westerners in forums or #onhere, there's always a certain disconnect, though, as if there haven't been folks in the West studying Vedic astrology for over 100 years.

So, again, more isolation. What's making the breakthrough besides meeting different astrologers on #AstroTwitter? The astrology organizations, like Organization of Professional Astrologers ( https://www.opaastrology.org/ ), ISAR ( http://isarastrology.org ),

...or NCGR ( https://geocosmic.org/ ). My hope is that these orgs can provide more a structure and means for these various countries to pave more inroads between each other on their own. Otherwise, it may take decades for more to happen in each of these countries. We'll see.