(Part 1 of this chronology can be found here)

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PART 2: 1972 onward

1972:  The Bangkok Astrology School, teaching Hamburg School techniques, is founded by Prayoon Pol-aree, honorary member of the Hamburg School and authorized publisher of Thai translations of Hamburg School reference books.  Under the co-leadership of president Jarun Picul, the Bangkok school offers 23 classes with an annual enrollment of 30 to 50 students per class, and continues until Lt Gen Pol-aree's death in 1992 (Pol-aree, Pillai, 2001). 

1975:  Udo Rudolph becomes president of the Hamburg School of Astrology, and sets about to start an English-language Uranian publication, and also publish several historical Hamburg School referencess mentioned below. (Brummund, 1999-2000).

1975:  The Uranian Forum, an English-language periodical, is first published in Germany by Rudolph/Witte-Verlag. (Brummund, 1999-2000).

1975: Der Mensch - eine Empfangsstation kosmischer Suggestionen, a 358-page anthology of early articles by Alfred Witte and contemporaries, written mostly between 1913 and 1924, with an introduction by Hermann Sporner and comments by Ludwig Rudolph, is published in German by Ludwig Rudolph / Witte-Verlag.  It includes a number of interesting articles on astrological correspondences with the color spectrum and the musical scale; mundane political events of Witte's time; tables of latitude for Neptune, Cupido, and Hades; tables of declination for Cupido and Hades; perpetual ephemerides with calculation tables for Uranus, Neptune, Cupido, Hades, and Kronos; house system variations; rectification techniques; planetary pictures; sensitive points; and other techniques Alfred Witte experimented with in earlier years.  Unfortunately, Witte was prohibited by the Third Reich from publishing astrology articles during later years, and his ongoing research and perspectives which evolved during the 18-year period from 1924 to 1941 are not included.

1975:  The Language of Uranian Astrology, by Roger A Jacobson, is published in the USA by Fritz Reider at Uranian Publications in suburban Chicago.  This book summarized the more tradition-based of Witte's techniques, per Hermann Lefeldt, and was one of the most comprehensive and intelligible English-language Uranian texts for a number of years. (Jacobson, 1975).

1977: The fifth (1959) edition of Witte's Regelwerk is for the first time widely available in English translation as the Rulebook for Planetary Pictures, published by Rudolph/Witte-Verlag. (Witte, 1959).

1979: The first, smaller edition of Ruth Brummund's Regelwerk-Neufassung, which could translate as Revised Rulebook, is published in German by Rudolph/Witte-Verlag, for the first time integrating psychological keywords from her earlier Astrologische Charaktermerkmale into a Rulebook-type Uranian reference, reformatting so that the interpretations for the 3 variants of any triplicity are found in one location.  This book revolutionizes Hamburg School astrology. Translation of it into English are underway when a substantially enlarged second German edition appears in 1990, and efforts are shifted to preparing it instead for translation under the title "The Brummund Rulebook". This book and related progress in Uranian materials begin to slowly make their way into the Anglophone Uranian community in the late 1990s  The English translation of the Brummund Rulebook first appears in the Special Uranian computer program, by Aureas Software, in 2005. (Brummund, 1990, 2001)

1979: Publication of Ruth Brummund's Ortsmeridiane und Ortsaszendenten für wichtige Welthauptstädte (Local Meridians and Ascendants for Major World Cities) appears in German.  This is a listing of major cities together with their fixed AS and MC according to the geodetic-like system of authoritative German astrologer A.M. Grimm, where derivations from the 0° Aries Greenwich point are determined by Right Ascension rather than Longitude, as in Sepharial's system.  The book contains 3 listings, one by order of Ascending degree, one by order of MC degree, and one by city, in alphabetical order. (Brummund, 1979).

1980: Foundation of "The Uranian Society" by Charles Emerson, which ultimately becomes the Uranian Special Interest Group (SIG) of the NCGR; on 26 July in New York at 17:43 EDT [4hE] per the group's journal Urania (see Urania).

1982: The Lexikon-Neufassung, an astrological dictionary that is in essence an alphabetized reordering of the material in Ruth Brummund's first 1979 edition of the Regelwerk-Neufassung, appears in German.  The book is divided into two sections, one listing psychological keywords and their associated planetary combinations, and the other section listing events and manifestations with their associated planetary combinations.  It has yet to be translated into English (Brummund, 1982).

1983: Ruth Brummund begins research on the frequency of Venus and Cupido in the charts of artists, with the Hamburg School computer program, written by programmer Bernd Westphal (Brummund, 1999).

1984: The Uranian Mandala is first presented by Ruth Brummund in the Hamburger Hefte as the Uranian "Meditation Wheel".  This tool for psychological assessment is based on Freudian and Jungian concepts synthesized by Roberto Assagioli.  Ms Brummund makes a number of refinements to the Mandala after application and study with other German astrologers and clients (Brummund, 2000). For more information on the Mandala, click here.

1985:  The Handbuch der Astrologie der Hamburger Schule by Udo Rudolph and Ruth Brummund is published in German by Ludwig Rudolph (Witte-Verlag). (Brummund, 2000).

1988: Michel Gauquelin speaks in Hamburg, where Ruth Brummund presents him with her research thesis on Venus and Cupido (Brummund, 2000). 

1990: The second edition of the Regelwerk-Neufassung by Ruth Brummund is published, containing substantial additions to the interpretive material in the first edition, integrating psychological traits, physical manifestations, and likely event manifestations into a single text.  This book brings Uranian Astrology in line with contemporary astrological developments in western Astrology.  Sections of introductory material from this book have been published in English on the Uranian Beacon website. It also includes updated information on the Uranian Astrological Mandala, a tool for psychological assessment developed by Ms Brummund, and additional new materials to be included in the upcoming English translation entitled The Brummund Rulebook.  Both the Uranian Mandala and the Brummund Rulebook are now integrated into the Special Uranian astrology computer program by Aureas Software. (Brummund, 1990).

1992: The Handbook of Techniques for the Hamburg School, an English translation of Udo Rudolph and Ruth Brummund's co-authored 1985 Handbuch zur Astrologie der Hamburger Schule is published by Ludwig Rudolph (Witte-Verlag) and edited for presentation in English by Penelope Bertucelli.  This book is not to be confused with the later "Brummund Technique Book", appearing in German in 1994, of which the content is significantly different. (Brummund, 1999-2000).

1992:  While ownership of copyrights of older Rulebooks changes hands, copyrights for the Regelwerk - Neufassung are bought by the author, Ruth Brummund, from Rudolph/Witte-Verlag, after which Ms Brummund publishes the new larger 1990 Rulebook independently. (Brummund, 2000). 

1993:  Udo Rudolph presents the first of a number of lectures and seminars on Hamburg School astrology at the Riga Aviation University in Latvia.  Subsequent lectures there lead to plans for the establishment of the Alfred Witte Institute in Riga in 1997 (U. Rudolph, 2000).

1993:  After the doubling of membership of the Hamburg School over a 23-year period starting in 1970, Ruth Brummund steps down from the Board of Directors of the Hamburg School and establishes an independent, forward-looking course, disconnecting from retrogressive trends.  After consultation with astrologers from around Germany, Ms Brummund officially adopts the term "Uranische Astrologie" at a meeting in Essen, on 11 February, to describe a new prioritized and coherent system integrating the most proven and pragmatic techniques of Hamburg School astrology -- abandoning techniques previously maintained simply for the sake of preserving the traditions of classical astrology. A new, integrated symbol for Uranian Astrology is subsequently completed in Munich on 29 January 1994.  The Uranian Astrology symbol combines the European glyphs for Sun, Uranus, Pluto, Kronos, and Poseidon, and stands out from a yellow background. (Brummund, 2000)

1994: Ruth Brummund emphasizes, consistent with Ludwig Rudolph's later teachings, that Hamburg School astrology could be a potential maze of both essential and marginal historical techniques.  Thus, after nearly 40 years experience with both Hamburg School and Cosmobiology techniques, she publishes a coherent, pragmatic, streamlined approach to Uranian Astrology.  In her independently authored Uranischen Techniken Hamburger Astrologen (The Brummund Technique Book), Ms Brummund also clarifies the calculations and interpretative approach for the Uranian Mandala. This book is not to be confused with the earlier, more tradition-focused Handbook of Techniques for the Hamburg School (published in German in 1985 and English in 1992, co-authored with Udo Rudolph, and edited for presentation in English by Penelope Bertucelli). (Brummund, 1994, 2000).

1995: A Hamburg School chapter of the DAV (German Astrologers' Association) is established (U. Rudolph, 2000).

1997: Having transferred editorship of the Hamburger Hefte in 1995, the Hamburg School begins publishing a new journal entitled the ASHS Forum, edited by Udo Rudolph.  (Interim 1996 issues were published under the title "Synthese".) (Brummund, 2000).

1997:  The Alfred Witte Institute is established in Riga, Latvia, on 16 March, following several years of lectures on Hamburg School astrology by Udo Rudolph at the Riga Aviation University.  The first classes have an enrollment of 120 students (U. Rudolph, 2000).

1997:  A new Uranian/Cosmobiology website and discussion group is started in New Zealand by Steven Lee.   The group and site are eventually subsumed under the general title "Symmetrical Astrology".

1998:  The 50th anniversary of the Hamburg School is celebrated with a commemorative conference in Hamburg with lectures by Udo Rudolph, Ruth Brummund, and other Uranian astrologers from around the world. (Brummund, 1999).

1999:  A new Transneptune Ephemeris for 1920-2000, compiled by Ruth Brummund, incorporating the latest data for Transneptunian calculations, is published by Udo Rudolph Verlag.

1999:  Birth of the Uranian Beacon in San Francisco on 5 September: a website designed to  integrate developments in current astrological techniques and frontier physics with the humanistic developments in Uranian Astrology.  The Beacon serves as the foundation for the later Uranian Institute, established in December 2001.

1999: Birth of the Uranische Leuchtfeuer in San Francisco, a German-language website designed to promote humanistic and evolutionary developments in Uranian/Hamburg School Astrology pioneered by Ruth Brummund; on 16 December.

2000:  Birth of Uranian Astrology for a New Age on 8 May, an English and Thai website maintained by Supphaluck Pillai, graduate of the Bangkok Astrology School, senior staff member of the Institute of Prediction of Thailand, and representative of the Astrology Society of Thailand, under the Royal Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen of Thailand.

2000: A new Transneptune Ephemeris for 2001-2050, compiled by Ruth Brummund, and incorporating the latest data for Transneptunian calculations is published by Udo Rudolph Verlag.

2001: Birth of the Uranian Astrology section of Astrologie.de, written by Ruth Brummund, including beginning lessons and other pertinent articles on the more recent developments in Uranian Astrology.

2001: Due to its evolutionary development, the Uranian Beacon serves as the foundation for the new Uranian Institute for Astrological Study & Research, renamed on 7 December in San Francisco.  

2002: The Special Uranian astrology computer program is designed specifically to include only those Uranian techniques that have both withstood the test of time, and also reflect current positive developments in Uranian astrology.  The program includes  the Uranian Mandala. 

2004: The text of the new Brummund Rulebook, the most comprehensive-yet-concise reference for midpoint interpretation, is integrated into the Special Uranian program, along with a Lexicon function equating with an on-line dictionary of planetary pictures.  For more information, click here.

2005:  The Uranian Institute website expands to include Uranian astrology lessons and articles in the French and Spanish languages.

2006: Ruth Brummund authorizes the new uranische-astrologie.org website in Germany, for study of Uranian Astrology continuing the progressive and skeptical trend of Alfred Witte, critically rejecting cumbersome elements of classical astrology.

2007: A free 1921-2020 ephemeris of the Witte-Sieggrün transneptunians is made available for online download by Aureas Software at http://www.aureas.org/EphemTrans.pdf so that prospective students can experiment with the extra astrological factors independently.

FOR AN ACCOUNT OF THE EVOLUTION OF URANIAN ASTROLOGY SINCE 1970, CLICK HERE

FOR A SHORT SUMMARY HISTORY OF ASTROLOGY WRITTEN BY RUTH BRUMMUND, CLICK HERE