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My Chart
I have tried to upload my chart using Whole Sign House system - which is what i have been using since 2018 or so, but i think my website is too old to comply. Anyone who wants a reading and has website design and fiddling with technology gumption, should contact me and we can work out a trade. Meanwhile, please know that the chart info above is correct, so you can either use your own brain and translate it into Whole Sign or you can put the information into a free chart making tool and see it for yourself.
In any event, you can see my Pluto-Mercury conjunction in detail orientated Virgo, as well as my Neptune and Jupiter at the beginning and end of Scorpio. This gives me the kind of mind and personality that really likes to dig into things and get right at the heart of the matter. I can often (not always) see the cracks in people's armour easily. What isn't working or trying to be hidden, seems to often stand out as obvious to me. Ugly and scary don't daunt me. My focus in this world is to try and clean it up, get past the bullshit and get raw. You can see with a Sun-Mars conjunction, i grab the bull by the horns and don't pull my punches. But i also have a Venus in Libra (in the 11th Whole Sign House) - there is no point to any of this for me if you walk away more hurt and more traumatized and hidden and protected than before. I want to build bridges to something more whole - for everyone (i've got big ideals).
That means that you have work to do in all this too. I can help you clarify things and see things from different angles than you might have access too, but you have to stay and listen, be open, curious - and then run it all through your own filter and take steps to work with the insights you have gained to find the paths that work for you. My job is not to tell you what to do or how to be. That is your job. But like the Buddhists say - we need Sangha (community of folks who desire our well being) because we are as close to ourselves as our own eyelashes. This means we all have trouble really seeing ourselves well or fully. I can possibly help here.
I have a unique skillset: I am honest and don't mind hard questions or difficult emotions. You can share your ugly with me and i won't flinch. And i am also very good at patterns and connecting the dots - often in ways that may not be obvious to you. I want everything that i do to begin and end from a place of love and gratitude. This is my own practice. I do my best to walk my talk. I look around and see what a big and often unneccesary mess that we humans in our woundedness, have made in the world. And I aim to help make it better. Meaning i dream of us all living healthier, more whole, more connected lives from a state of respectful reciprocity with everything we share this planet and cosmos with. For me, it doesn't work if we stick with the same old tired binary drama story. We need to look at our darkness and our light honestly and find ways to heal the divide inside of each us. Only then can we be whole and fully participate in responsible kinship.
About My Practice
I first became interested in astrology when a dear friend whose parents had taught her the astrological ropes so to speak, offered to look at my chart for me. We sat down together and her first reaction upon looking at my chart was to burst out into laughter, as though she had just gotten the punch line to a very funny joke.
I was hooked.
There is a lot of information on astrology out there and if you have delved into any of it, you know that it can turn your head into a mish-mosh of anxiety and confusion, coming close to providing clues in some areas and in others entirely missing the boat.
There is plenty of good stuff out there too, and like they say, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. And he did. Steven Forrest is in my humble opinion a light in the darkness - and not limited simply to the world of Astrology. He is profound, literate, expressive and very funny. Unlike many very adept astrologers, his style and language both in a chart reading and in his books are very approachable regardless of your level of astrological knowledge. Unfortunately he is also very popular and has a long waiting list. However, if you can wait, go get a reading from him. Go to his site www.forrestastrology.com, I promise that you won’t regret it.
I believe that evolutionary astrology is one of the more helpful tools by which to come to a practical understanding of our own strengths and weaknesses and how to use that knowledge on this journey of life we are all on.
I am an ongoing student of astrology, among other things. I have been professionally reading since 2010 and studying for much longer than that, but I am still learning this craft. I love it and it shows for in all these years of practice I have a "more than satisfied" rating of roughly 98%. I initially started this site to help with my study of astrology.
I was born in 1970 - do the math... i think spring chicken is behind me. As mentioned in describing my chart, I have an innate love of patterns, philosophy, psychology, spirituality and cultural traditions. I have background of study/practice in not only astrology, but numerology and the tarot as well. I have a lifelong passion of plants and herbal medicine. Formally studying and practicing both. I have been a dedicated Qi Gong practicioner for over 15 years and spent many years as an avid student of both Tai Chi and Yoga. I have studied (and thus practiced) Buddhism, Christianity and Shamanism. I consider myself an eclectically spiritual person with no affiliation with any one religious doctrine or belief system. And I love science too! True to my Sagittarian rising sign I draw from many religious, cultural, scientific and philosophical teachings and practices and bring them all to bear in my interactions with the universe at large (and small), this means the readings I give often touch on many of these disciplines. They are all tools in my toolkit.
I feel that Truth is too big for any one person to hold. We each carry a part of it. I believe in the principals of reciprocity and synchronicity. It is my hope that perhaps the universe will align itself so that those people for whom I might be able to provide insight will find this site and consider a reading thereby improving my knowledge and evolution and hopefully also theirs.