David Cochrane is main author of the Kepler and Pegasus program. He is the lead programmer and professional astrologer at Cosmic Patterns Software. Daivd is also the author of the Major Life Themes Report, Harmonic Highlights Report, and AstroLocality Report.

David was born May 1, 1949, at 4:26 AM in East Meadow, New York (time zone 5 hours west, daylight savings time observed). He has a BA degree in psychology, was a practicing astrologer in the mid 1970's and switched to computer programming in the late 1970's. He still practice astrology at the present time on special cases.

David began his astrology practice in 1973. He is a well known speaker in astrological community and astrological conferences. His lectures are well attended and well received. He is the founder Cosmic Patterns Software Inc., and is the lead software programmer of the development team that makes the Kepler and Pegasus astrology programs. He received a B.A. degree in 1972 with a major in psychology. He graduated from UF on May 8, 2018, A Masters Degree in Research and Evaluation Methodology.

David pioneered some new theories of astrological interpretation using harmonics and midpoints in the 1970's, but since that time has been devoted to developing astrology software. David plans to continue working on the Kepler program for many, many years.

Fei Cochrane, B.S.E., TACC is the President of Cosmic Patterns Software, Inc., an international astrological software company. She is also the President of The Avalon School of Astrology. She is also one of the first graduates of The Avalon School of Astrology where she received the diploma in Theoretical and Applied Cosmic Cybernetics.

Fei is also part of the technical support team at Cosmic Patterns. She is also one of the designers of the Kepler program, and developer of all the astrological glyphs used in all of Cosmic Patterns products. Fei is our web master and graphic designer. She also travels at least 3 or 4 times a year promoting our products (which she very much enjoy).

She was born in Bato, Catanduanes, Philippines at 7:10 PM on August 30, 1960 (time zone 8 hours east, standard time). Fei received a B.S.E. degree in science education in the Philippines.

Fei has also been involved in serving in an administrative role at large international conferences sponsored by some of the world's most prestigious and largest astrological organizations. She is actively involved in major astrological conferences in both the USA and Europe. She has also worked directly with some of the world's most respected astrologers in developing software products that are marketed by Cosmic Patterns Software, Inc.

Fei has been President of Cosmic Patterns Software, Inc. for many years. She was also the business manager of A.T. Taroy Constructions in the Philippines. These experiencee have given her extensive knowledge of the mechanics of running a business of any kind (advertising, legal issues, accounting, etc.). She enjoys meeting people personally either by phone, by mail, in person.

Fei has expertise in many areas, including business administration, computer technician, education, and the issues and concerns that are specific to the field of astrology. Fei's involvement in astrological organizations and in administering Cosmic Patterns Software, Inc., which is a very successful and thriving enterprise has enabled her to gain this expertise. Her work with other astrological schools and in providing educational astrological software has also given her direct involvement in the delivery of astrological education.

Wim van Dam, M.A. was born at Haarlem, Netherlands, 26 July 1950, 13.13 GMT (ascendant 9 Scorpio, Wim is not ashamed of revealing his horoscope to his fellow-astrologers since he has got Uranus very well placed and a ninth house filled by a proud stellium in Leo).

At the age of seventeen, after finishing high school where he excelled in latin, greek and hebrew, he decided to study Slavonian languages for the simple reason, he did not know anything about them. He would have finished this study in the five to six years it took officially, if not some funny thing had happened on the way to his M.A.. November 1968, in a Leyden bookshop, he most unexpectedly happened upon a Handbook for Astrology (in Dutch). Freshman Wim was perplexed to suddenly hold such an example of medieval superstition in his hands and, unbelievable though it seemed, the authoress, some Else Parker, wrote most seriously about the subject, as far as he could see!

Wim bought the book at the spot for the very reason he did not know anything about astrology. He was most curious to see how this Else Parker would explain her belief in these apparent nonsense. "I wasn't even interested in whether astrology was true or not, I just wanted to know what these mysterious drawings actually meant, how they were related to both the planets' positions and people's lifes. So I bought some cheap tables and cast my horoscope and that of several people I knew without drawing conclusions about the value of astrology.

However, one and a half year later, I was to leave for Russia for the first time and some five weeks before this I calculated that about that time, my secondary Mars from my twelfth house was to come into a square to my radical sun in nine. That ninth house was clearly related to the first major journey in my life. But what about this twelfth house? Places of loneliness... secret services... boarder schools... barracks... of course: prisons! Remember that in the beginning of the seventees the USSR was at the height of its power and the Iron Curtain was completely closed.

Nowadays I would not consider leaving under such a constellation but at the time I did not believe very much in astrology. Nevertheless I deliberately did not inform my parents, but I told my best friend and his sister I was worried a little. One never knew with this astrology. They comforted me smilingly: "Wim, when you return, please give us a call and then you will be glad to report nothing has happened. "

When I returned from Russia, I called them immediately and I still can hear my friend Jan asking mockingly, "Well, Wim, anything happened to you?" How astonished he was when I told him I had been in hospital in then Leningrad for three days because of an infection at my right ankle. Of course! Twelfth house! Hospitals! (And feet !) How well I remember that one night when, turning myself around and around in this hospital bed, I groaned "What a pity, first time to Russia and whoop, into hospital! And if I'm to believe my horoscope, something awful is to happen to me abroad soon too.. My God, this is that something! Good heavens, astrology is true!"

So I was converted to astrology by practice, as most of us. Sceptics often think we astrologers WANT astrology to be true, but on the contrary, leaving aside mystical types like followers of Blavatzki and Jung, I don't know any serious astrologer who thought on beforehand astrology must be true, almost all of them were, like me, willy nilly converted because they saw at least one most improbable prediction come true."

In fact, the square to the Sun in nine, ruler of ten, proved to be effective in another negative sense. Wims study was severely delayed because he devoted much of his time to astrology. Somehow he was convinced he was to make some major astrological discovery after which, as he felt it, acquiring his M.A. would be a piece of cake. And so it happened: for more than four years Wim devoted most of his time to the age-old enigma of Ptolemay's primary directions until January 1976, when suffering from a heavy Pfeiffer (primary Mars, ruler of six, together with primary cusp 12 conjunct to radical acendant), he finally found the right formulae. And not only these formulae explained his illness, one more indication they were right, they also told him that in about half a year he was to have primary Sun in ten, ruler of ten and radically positioned in nine, in a trine to his Moon in Sagittarius, ruler of his ninth house. This could only mean an M.A. And indeed, although his Pfeiffer prevented him from studying effectively more than a few hours a day and in spite of the many examinations that for years had been lieing in wait for him to be fulfilled, Wim "as born on angels wings", graduated in the afternoon of Friday July 9th 1976, on the last possible day before the academical year was to take an end. This was Wims first prediction made by means of his own primary directions. When one year later, his secondary Sun got into a trine to his Moon, nothing special happened.

With Saturn (ruler of three, languages) in ten, Wim was not to find a permanent job easily. Besides, he first had to keep himself out of the Army, which he succeeded in thanks to the false testimony of an outstanding physician, father of another good friend, who bluntly stated in an official declaration that Wim was plain mad. In fact, this physician was Wim's greatest astrological fan and he thought Wim should devote his time to astrology rather than to serving Her Majesty. After this, Wim was twice unemployed for about a year which he did not regret very much since, being used to scholarship, he could easily make a living from unemployment benefit and once more he could devote most of his time to astrology. These years coincided with the arrival of the first generations of programmable calculators and PC's so that he had the time to get acquainted, for astrology's sake, with programming computers. And this in its turm led to the unexpected side effect that by now he has been working as a computer programmer for some 25 years at Leyden University Hospital.

M. Temple Richmond is an astrological consultant with 25 years of experience serving the material and spiritual interests of individuals and businesses. She specializes in identifying profitable times for investing, purchasing real estate, making market trades, establishing new business entities, and in selecting advantageous time intervals for signing important documents, holding interviews or meetings, making presentations, or for holding workshops and seminars. She is an experienced money manager who has profitably managed her own financial resources on the basis of planetary pair theory and personal transit indications, recently doubling her money in a stock trade while the broader market was at plateau. Richmond is also an esoteric astrologer in the tradition of Alice Bailey and the Tibetan. For purposes of business analysis, she uses the standard methods of exoteric astrology, some of which are mentioned above. For matters concerning discipleship and initiation, she uses the esoteric system of Bailey and the Tibetan.

M. Temple Richmond has been actively involved in all aspects of astrological study and practice for over 25 years. A consulting astrologer since the late 70s, she is also an internationally recognized scholar of the esoteric astrological system advocated by the books of Alice A. Bailey, as well as a presenter on a broad array of topics at metaphysical conferences and in academic venues. Richmond is the author of Sirius, a scholarly study of the influence of that important fixed star as viewed through the Alice Bailey literature, Egyptian religion and the classical mystery teachings of antiquity. Sirius is distributed worldwide by the following distributors: New Leaf of Atlanta, Lucis Publishing Co. of New York City, Lucis Publishing of London, and Sydney Goodwill of Sydney, Australia.

Richmond holds a B.A. in English from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and has been inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, a national academic honor society. She is a 1951 Sagittarius Sun with Aquarius rising, born December 8 at 10:34 AM CST in Texarkana, Arkansas. The state of North Carolina has been Richmond's home for over 20 years; she maintains a special interest in the connection of the city of Raleigh to Sir Walter Raleigh and Francis Bacon's literary circle, together with the progressive ideas which emanated from that milieu and which figured in the founding of the Carolinas, the Virginias, and ultimately, the United States. On this topic, Richmond presents local workshops entitled "The Secret Tradition of Raleigh," which bring together history, mystery teachings, and astrological indications to highlight the role of the Raleigh area in the emerging Age of Aquarius.

For consultation: Write Temple at templerichmond@earthlink.net or call (919) 676 - 1709

Benedict Elie is the author of the French Elie Natal Report. Benedict lives in Québec city. He works in accounting, information systems, business administration, security controls and project management. He is very much interested in the study of spirituality, astrology, philosophy and theology. He has been practising astrology, on a part-time basis, since 1970.

Benedict has studied the foundations of astrology with the Rosicrucian Fellowship. He has also read many books on astrology and spirituality. One of the books he prefers most is "The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception", written by Max Heindel.

Benedict also wrote several astrology artciles that are posted on our "Astrology Articles" page

Donna Cunningham is an internationally-respected author of books, articles, and columns about astrology, flower essences and other metaphysical topics. Her insights reflect her dual background in astrology and psychotherapy.

Donna has a Master's degree in Social Work from Columbia University and over 40 years of experience in working with people. Her ebooks can be found at Moon Maven Publications (http://www.moonmavenpublications.com) Visit her blog at http://skywriter.wordpress.com.

Donna Cunningham's trilogy: "The Outer Planets and Inner Life" has just been released. Volume 1 explores the outer planets as career indicators. V.2 discusses outer planet aspects to Venus and Mars. V.3 goes into depth on aspects between the outer planets and the social, cultural, and historical changes that accompany. Visit http://www.moonmavenpublications.com for details.