March Marion

German-American astrologer who began her studies in 1966 and was a top professional by 1970. She co-authored, with Joan McEvers, the best-selling six volume series entitled "The Only Way To Learn Astrology," By 1984, 50,000 books had been sold. Marion was the co-founder of Aquarius Workshops in 1973 and editor of Aspects journal from 1973-1979. In 1986 and 1989 she served as the director of UAC as well as co-founder and director of AFAN. Along with Neil Michelson and others, Marion was one of the instigators in establishing the United Astrology Congress lovingly known as UAC 86. Together with an outstanding group of people, she coordinated that one, most of 89 in New Orleans, and the Washington DC one in 92. She is an internationally known and respected lecturer and teacher who has received many awards. Her honors include the PAI Award, the Aquarius Workshops Award, the Regulus Award, which she won twice, and her listing in "Whos Who Among Women" in 1985. Marion was born in Germany to a mother who was a tiny lady, barely five ft and no-one believed how she could have this ten-lbs daughter. Her parents had lean years as her father would not accept help from his wife’s father, a well-known publisher, wanting to make his own way. When Marion was born, they lived in a walk-up flat. When she was nine months old, Hitler instigated the famous "Putsch" in Nurnberg and her dad immediately moved his family to Berlin. His entire family had always been in the banking and brokerage business in Europe and her dad did so well in Berlin that he eventually bought the bank where he had worked. They lived very well, with an apartment near the famous "Tiergarten" in the winter and a summer house on the Templiner lake, and Marion had many cousins and relatives in the area. Her father had a prophetic feeling of discomfort in the late ‘20s and by 1930 he sold his bank, urging all of his associates to invest outside of Germany. The family moved to Switzerland and built a home on the beautiful Lake Maggiore. From speaking German, Marion now had to learn Italian and French. Her former nanny became their housekeeper and it was an idyllic life. Ascona drew interesting people like a magnet and there were many political dissidents, intellectuals and artists in the community, fleeing the gathering storm clouds in Germany. The famous and the infamous had lunch at her parents house and Marion watched and listened. She writes, "Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front) was a neighbor and rowed over for exercise at least twice a week, and then consumed many more potato pancakes than he could possible lose by rowing! Hermann Hesse lived one lake over, Lago Lugano, and we saw him about once a month along with others who were famous and intriguing. For me as a child it was a great education. I learned more listening to those authors as well as some interesting philosophers and politicians then I learned in schools then or afterwards." She was sent away to boarding school at age 12, first to Geneva to the Ecole Internationale then to French Switzerland where she met her first American girls. She was so impressed by their self-assuredness that she immediately copied it. As a teen, she went to school in Lausanne, where she had much more freedom and learned to let loose her natural flirtatiousness. In the fall of 1939, the family packed up and moved to Chile. The political situation was becoming tense, and Marion’s dad urged his folks to Read less