Synchronicity and the invisible web that connects us all fascinate me. I have been a spiritual seeker since childhood. At age four I noticed what would become a lifelong pattern of dreaming things that would then manifest. At 13 while working as a page in a public library in a New York suburb I discovered Metaphysics, the works of Carl Jung and Astrology and have remained fascinated ever since. Although the librarians liked me and were very kind they made it clear that I was supposed to be putting books away and not hiding behind the stacks to read them.
I lost the job and within two years was introduced to the vibrant world of metaphysical bookstores, libraries and teachers of the 1960’s in Manhattan. In 1969 I began to practice astrology professionally after relocating to Berkeley CA., while continuing my college education. Eventually I got my Ph.D. and became a Clinical Psychologist. On the way I received an R.N. degree and a Masters of Public Health. I had good luck and excellent timing in my career and as a result was a consultant on health care policy to a US President (Jimmy Carter) before I turned thirty.
My clinical work and books on various aspects of drug addiction, anxiety, trauma and recovery brought me media acclaim and international travel for many years. All the while I continued to quietly practice Astrology as it was and is my first great passion. In the nineties I took time out to become an Interfaith Minister and to receive coaching training. As a result I have travelled and trained Interfaith Ministers around the world in person and online. At this point in my life, I have integrated these areas of interest into an international personal, business and professional online coaching and mentoring practice.
So, all told, I have been an Astrologer for 64 years, as well as a psychologist and an Interfaith Minister. I was fortunate to have met a number of the preeminent Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Astrologers of the 20th century and I feel that carrying a lineage matters. In the area of spiritual studies too I carry lineages including but not limited to the many Lamas and other Masters I received teachings from. I was fortunate to spend time with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Lamas who have since passed. I met famous Astrologers including Dane Rudhyar. I have received training and or known personally many well-known therapists like Fritz Perls and Joseph Henderson, a protégé of Carl Jung, and so on. I have been a professor of psychology and have taught at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level in many universities, and I have a life long background in working with natural health techniques east and west. I carry a natural medicine and herbal lineage in my family line as well.
Astrological Coaching
I have an eclectic approach to Astrology meaning that I draw from both ancient and modern techniques. I work with individuals, couples and small businesses in a number of areas including natal charts and progressions, solar returns and profections, timing for individuals and business; horary questions. Health and the chart is an area of interest. I have a lifelong study of natural health and healing and a background as a professor at a school of Chinese Medicine, and these are influences that I bring to the consultation.
Dreams and Astrology are an area of extended research for me. I have been active for many years as a dream researcher and presenter, and I have presented multiple papers for the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
The relationship between dreams and physical health is a long-standing focus: I coined the term Medical Dreamwork in the 1980s and have presented papers on the subject. Dreams, the lunar nodes, our soul path and their interaction with the Lots or Arabic Parts of Fortune, the asteroids, and the fixed stars are another area of interest. As a teacher and storyteller, I believe that the practice of Astrology involves an alchemical blend of skills, intuition, oracular and divinatory consciousness. It is an honor and a privilege to be part of an ancient and yet vibrant and pulsating living tradition.
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