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I’ve done a lot of different jobs in my time: writer, group home worker, insurance adjuster, Internet system operator, letting people yell at me about their phone service, personal assistant… but of all the titles I’ve had, “astrologer” has stuck the longest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a professional astrologer for over twenty years<\/a>, but the story really begins back when I was six years old, when I was handed a book (The Compleat Astrologer<\/em>, which is still in print and is still great, by the way) by my mother. \u201cThere\u2019s too much math for me,\u201d she said. Besides, the book\u2019s original owner — my then-twenty-year-old sister — had been hauled away by the cops for what everyone assumed would be the last time, and wouldn’t be needing reading material, it seems.<\/p>\n

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(That\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve noticed over the years: astrologers usually come from screwy family backgrounds. We all come to the job via different paths, but usually it’s the need to make sense of Existence that we have in common.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Fast forward a couple of decades, and I had gone to college to learn psychology and counseling.<\/strong> I was dissatisfied with it. Helping people is what I wanted to do, but traditional techniques always seemed to result in scatter-shot results.<\/strong> For a while I secretly integrated astrology into more mainstream techniques, and I started to get results. It\u2019s one thing to come to the conclusion that a client is having a bad time with their children, but it\u2019s quite another to be able to tell that client that these problems (which started about ten months ago) are a result of Transit X, and should be wrapped up in another four months.<\/p>\n

The more I did this, the more there was no looking back. I had become an astrologer, and could only bill myself as such. I had traded in prestige for results.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I am a HUGE fan of \u201cresults.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The more I understood astrology, the more I could see the actual mechanics of why this person gets along with that person, but trouble always flares up over scheduling or sexual mismatches or communication styles, or what have you. If psychology is like decoding the plot of a movie you\u2019re watching, then astrology is like decoding the plot of that movie with a copy of the script in hand, and an interview with the director and writer as to what their thoughts were during filming. It\u2019s simply more comprehensive and easier to make sense of the movie with all that additional background material at hand. And of course, seeing the source of an issue means you’re at least halfway to finding the solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, and also: astrology can predict the future. How can you say no to something that both tells you why your mate is acting up AND how long it\u2019s going to last?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I\u2019m an astrologer. I like helping people<\/strong>, and I like seeing how the individual parts add up to a Whole Person, and how those parts interact with other Whole Person\u2019s parts, and with the world around them.<\/p>\n

And yeah\u2026 predicting the future accurately is pretty cool too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Whether by choice or personal tastes, most astrologers end up specializing in one way or another of doing their work, and what issues they deal with. Although astrology can be used to find answers to pretty much anything, I find myself drawn again and again to matters involving human relationships.<\/strong> Why does this one love that one? Why can\u2019t those two work things out? What am I doing wrong when it comes to understanding you, and vice versa? Psychology is pretty good for that sort of thing, but in my experience only astrology seems to grasp a lot of the mechanics and timing of personal and interpersonal issues.<\/div>\n
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The timing of matters is also of particular importance. When do I start my business? Should I go on vacation now or next month? Astrology has answers for those things too. I often tell clients: \u201cany psychic can tell you that \u2018everything happens for a reason\u2019\u2026 but it takes an astrologer to tell you that \u2018nothing happens a damned minute before it\u2019s supposed to.\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n
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So even though my goal is to help people the same way a regular counselor or therapist would, I get my results from a wide variety of of both natal and predictive techniques: transits and secondary progressions and eclipse charts and even Vedic Astrology where it fits. Basically, I go wherever the answers are. Also: the idea that Your Life and The Universe are strangely yet deeply connected really, really rocks.<\/div>\n
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So: why do you do what you<\/em> do? Why are in you in place you’re at? What’s up with that Other Person? If you’ve got questions, write me…\u00a0 <\/a>maybe we can find some answers together.<\/div>\n
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