Steffan Vanel's book,The Astrological Karma of the USA.

Steffan Vanel was born in Akron, Ohio on September 25, 1951 at 11:51 AM. He was raised in Massachusetts and Georgia and has lived many places, from NYC to Hawaii in the US, and for several years in Europe. When asked how he became involved in the 'mystical arts' he says that he sometimes thinks it started when his Italian mother and grandmother brought him into Boston when he was nine years old to have Gypsy tea leaf readers read his fortune. Steffan was involved in the counterculture revolution in the 1960's. He went to the Woodstock Rock Festival two weeks before it started. After attending Boston University for two years he moved to San Francisco. He says: "After two years at university I realized that there were some things I really wanted to know. I looked around and saw that there was nobody there who knew what I wanted to know. I wanted to know what is really going on here. What is it really all about? It seemed that everybody at the University knew their polished little piece of it, but nobody knew the big picture. I felt that I had to leave to find out. After some time in San Francisco where Steffan had his first Tarot card reading and decided immediately to buy his own deck, Steffan moved to Hawaii for four years during which time he deepened his metaphysical studies and spiritual practices. Since that time Steffan has traveled extensively always learning and studying. He has studied the Kabbalah, the system of knowledge which provides the key to the deeper wisdom of the Tarot, from many different teachers. His favorite teacher writes under the name Zev Ben Shimon Halevi. Steffan studied Psychological Astrology during week long seminars in the Swiss Alps with noted Astrologer/ author and Jungian Analyst, Liz Greene. He also did research at the Jungian Institute in Kusnacht, Switzerland. His strongest Astrological influence, however, is undoubtedly the information channeled from the Ascended Master Hilarion through the mediumship of Mauric