Most people arrive with something urgent — a decision that won't wait, a relationship gone quiet, a door about to close. Nearly always, the shape of it has been in their life before. My work is finding the first time it appeared, and asking what you'd like to do differently now.
Most astrologers open with what's happening now. I open with the early environment — the family you were born into, the story you were handed before you could consent to it. Clients rarely expect this, and it is almost always where the reading turns.
What I've come to believe, after years of charts, is that the first stretch of a life — call it the first twenty-eight years — is a set of experiences we live into rather than choose. After that, by and large, we repeat. The job is to name the repetition out loud: this situation, this exact discomfort, started here.
You have free will in it. It simply doesn't feel comfortable to use, which is why it helps to see the pattern drawn out in front of you first.
Every chart holds the same bodies in a different arrangement, and each one is a part of you with its own agenda. Venus wants rapport, harmony, closeness — and also, on a bad day, comfort and appetite. One part keeps the peace. One part needs to assert. One part is overthinking all of it.
When a decision won't come, it's usually not that the answer is hidden. It's that these voices are arguing and you can't tell them apart. Much of an hour is spent separating them out, so you can hear what each one actually wants and decide with the whole of yourself.
If you try to yield when life is asking you to draw the sword, it will be hard. Draw the sword when life is asking you to yield, and it will be hard too.
Most people can feel that something is off. Far fewer can name what's being asked of them. That's the reading.
A gift from my mother, twenty-five years ago. I didn't become an astrologer. I just kept coming back at every turn in the road.
A master’s in acupuncture and herbal medicine, 2003. Twenty years of hands on people, in the realm of earth and the physical. Yoga certification along the way, 2016.
I hit a stretch of life that the medicine I practiced couldn't reach. Looking for something that would give my own experience some context, I turned upward.
A four-year professional diploma, Astrology University, 2022. The year I began solar return work — some of those clients have come back every year since.
OSA Professional Astrologer’s Diploma, 2024. Certified in Astro*Carto*Graphy the same year.
Readings most days of the week. Roughly half of them are people I've never met, in parts of the world I've never been.
I was chosen by my teacher to be featured on his website and provide readings, and that is how a practice in western Colorado ended up with clients on the other side of the world. I don't take that trust lightly. It is also why I hold this as a craft with a lineage behind it, not simply a gift I happened to be born with.
Astrology is old, rigorous, and was very nearly lost. I came to it like an academic and stayed for the mystery.
If any of the above sounded like your own life, that's worth a conversation. A free fifteen-minute call — ask me anything, and we'll both find out whether this fits.