FDAF: english presentation

Fdaf is a young association sponsored by the most eminent French speaking astrologers. Andre Barbault, Jacques Berthon, Ferdinand David, Alexander Ruperti, Robert Tinder and Suzel Fuzeau-Braesch encouraged it at its very birth in 1996.

Today, it brings together over 500 members of which the half are professional astrologers.

Fdaf has as an ambition to gather the professionals who practise regularly astrology in various sectors, amateurs of astrology and a public increasingly more numerous, in search of quality education on what is and what is not astrology, on what it can be expected, who to consult. It also creates bridges with the other professionals, experts in social sciences, education, psychologists, doctors, journalists, all willing to better know astrology or to improve their opinion about its methods and its utility.

One of the Fdaf mission is information, in particular towards general public on the role of astrology and the great principles of its practice. For that, it publishes a quarterly review and an Internet site http://www.fdaf.org to which the best French speaking astrologers collaborate in a spirit of freedom and tolerance. It organizes each year the Astrology Day in March with demonstrations, communications in schools and bookshops, conferences in all the largest towns of France. It also maintains special relationships with the media.

Fdaf promotes an astrology of quality, in its principles, its teaching and counsels. It publishes a guide of the best astrologers and teachers who all subscribe to the Fdaf code of ethics. It aims to defend the profession, in particular while maintaining regular contacts with the authorities to work out an astrologer’s statute and professional chart.

The Fdaf code of ethics

A quality label to protect public

Article 1 : "the stars incline, but do not determine"

Article 2 : "Astrology refers to moral values preaching the freedom and the specificity of each person » Article 3 (extract) : « Only the professional astrologers (declared in liberal profession or paid) and the volunteers (administrators or collaborator of associations) can be published on the official lists as experts"

Article 5 : "The astrologer (member of the Federation of the French-speaking Astrologers) can only make use of astrology for helping and understanding people (priority being given to the person on the technique). It proscribes all kind of practice linked to superstition. In no case he should take benefit of the confidence and the power he is invested by the consultant. It is subjected to the professional secrecy"

Article 6 : "The astrologer (member of the Federation of the French-speaking Astrologers) respect the principle of limit and competences and does not hesitate to direct the consultant towards professionals spécialists (psychiatrists, psychologists, therapeutists, etc.)"

A professional identity

to protect our customers from the improper practises and from « not trained » or occasional astrologers
to clearly distinguish the astrological practice from magical arts like tarots, clairvoyance, mediumnity
to clearly register astrology in the line of Social sciences, to develop a practise of quality centered on counsel, the taking into account of the various individual backgrounds, beyond others mass predictive practises