If you value an astrologer who gives consultations and uses software written by him, I am one of the few people uniquely positioned to help you. I truly believe astrology is a highly personalized art that each astrologer develops in their own way, so there is a huge advantage to writing your own software and computer programs to aid you in your practice.
Alongside being an astrologer, I currently work as a software engineer at one of the largest European banks, and I hold a degree in Mathematics with Statistics from Imperial College London.
My work brings together psychological astrology, traditional astrology, timing, and careful chart interpretation.
Even though I began my training as a psychological astrologer, and I do believe that understanding the psyche can sometimes be more important than understanding how events unfold in the outer world, I do not see traditional and psychological astrology as enemies.
The two complement each other. Events will often reveal unconscious things from the psyche, and a positive belief from the psyche could reveal some great things on the horizon that will come into the native’s life at some point.
I came to astrology through a long-standing interest in astronomy and astrophysics. Science, physics, and astrophysics have fascinated me since I was about 10 years old.
The very first astronomy symposium I ever took part in was at that age. I had just bought a new telescope, started observations, and learned a lot about constellations, double star systems, galaxies, planets and their satellites, Messier objects, eclipses, and comets. It was one of the original hobbies I have always had and loved.
Astrology came much later, around 2019, as soon as Uranus entered Taurus, my 10th whole sign house. It was only later that I learned many people discover astrology under Uranus transits, especially through their 10th house, which has to do directly with career and what we are known for.
I initially rejected astrology because I had only come across it through zodiac columns in newspapers or magazines. I never understood what the logic behind those was, and as I often do with things when I do not understand the rationale behind them, I tossed astrology to the side as a sort of weird pseudoscience.
But I slowly discovered the richness behind the symbolism in astrology: how natal astrology works, how transits work, how timing methods work, and how accurately these symbols can describe one’s psyche. I was utterly fascinated with it.
For many years, I believed psychological astrology was the highest form of astrology one could practice. But it became apparent that psychological astrologers relied mostly on transits and progressions for timing and prediction, while at the same time saying that astrology cannot predict events accurately.
Once I discovered traditional astrology, such as the astrology of Vettius Valens, Sahl bin Bishr, and Abu Ma’shar, a completely new dimension and approach to astrology revealed itself to me, and astrology started to be exciting again.
I discovered that the symbolic meaning of the planets, signs, and houses had an even richer and broader gamut, and that timing events can actually be done quite accurately.
While minute details may be harder or impossible to predict, big life changes and events, such as the start of a relationship, the beginning of a new job, or moving to a new country, can be predicted reasonably well.
Psychological astrology
My first serious foundation was in modern and psychological astrology.
I studied the work of Marion D. March and Joan McEvers, whose books gave me a structured foundation in chart interpretation. From there, Liz Greene became a major influence. Her work showed me that astrology could speak about the inner life with real seriousness: complexes, projections, family patterns, wounds, desire, development, and the long process of becoming oneself.
I went on to complete courses with the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London and continued my studies with the Mercury Internet School of Psychological Astrology. Through this work, I became especially interested in astrology as a map of the psyche: not just a list of traits, but a living symbolic structure that can describe conflict, potential, longing, defense, talent, and growth.
I have also studied and worked with material from Howard Sasportas, Sue Tompkins, John Green, Melanie Reinhart, Clare Martin, Richard Idemon, Darby Costello, Juliet Sharman Burke, and other major figures in psychological and contemporary astrology.
Their work helped shape my understanding of the chart, and I learned that repeatedly reading and learning about the signs, planets, and houses slowly reveals more and more detail and deepens your understanding of them.
To this day, I enjoy reading descriptions of the signs as personality types, and I believe astrology is a fantastic system for understanding and accepting people who have a very different approach to life than our own.
Traditional astrology and timing
Over time, I became increasingly interested in timing.
Psychological astrology helped me understand inner life, but I also wanted astrology to speak more clearly about concrete events: when things begin, when they end, why certain periods feel blocked or open, and why some moments seem to carry more weight than others.
This led me into traditional astrology, especially Hellenistic astrology.
Studying with Chris Brennan, and especially studying his Hellenistic Astrology course, was a major turning point. It gave me a more precise technical framework for judging topics such as fortune, career, relationships, difficulty, support, timing, and the concrete circumstances of life.
Traditional astrology gave me tools that felt genuinely practical: whole sign houses, sect, dignity, planetary condition, house rulers, lots, profections, zodiacal releasing, triplicity rulers, and the older language of fortune and fate.
I truly believe the tools that traditional astrology offers must not be missing from any astrologer’s toolbox, because they are the only ones truly suited to help people who genuinely need to understand when a particular event will occur.
There is a lot to be said about forecasting events versus understanding and focusing on the here and now, but my astrology is shaped around the needs people have when they look for an astrologer. Timing events is a gift that astrologers have, and we must use it and offer it to seekers.
I genuinely believe this has a real place in today’s world. Not because I believe sitting around and waiting for events to happen is the key to a happy or fulfilling life. On the contrary, the reason I believe predicting events is important is because doing it accurately can show people a deeper dimension of human life.
That is, it can show people that while we do have inner freedom and freedom of choice on an internal level, and on the level of how we react to things, events will happen around us that we have no influence over. No amount of hard work, psychologizing, or magic can make things happen that are not in accord with the universal order.
Because of this, I believe astrology indirectly teaches us that fighting what is, and fighting the present moment, is futile. Ultimately, we can better react to events as they arise.
My approach
My work now draws mainly from two streams:
Psychological astrology helps describe the inner world: temperament, motivation, emotional patterning, projection, desire, conflict, fear, vocation, and development.
Traditional astrology helps with timing and describing the outer world: topics, periods, conditions, concrete events, opportunities, obstacles, and outcomes.
A purely psychological reading can become too inward and lose contact with the real circumstances of life. A purely technical reading can become too dry and forget the person to whom these events are happening.
I am interested in the place where the two approaches meet: where the psyche is understood in relation to events past, present, and future.
In my work and readings, I value:
- whether the astrology is accurate
- whether the interpretation is specific
- whether the timing is coherent
- whether the language is clear
- whether the reading actually helps the person understand their life
I am not interested in vague reassurance. I am also not interested in fatalistic doom. The point is judgment: careful, proportionate, direct astrological judgment.
A good reading, to me, should be clear, serious, and useful. It should not feel like mystical fog, performance, or generic “you are intuitive and sensitive” language. It should not feel like a script that could be sent to anyone.
A good reading should feel specific. It should show that the chart has actually been read. It should help you understand something about yourself, your timing, your relationships, your choices, or the period of life you are in.
Sometimes that means confirming what you already know but have not fully admitted. Sometimes it means giving language to something you have felt for years. Sometimes it means showing that a difficult period has a structure and a timing. Sometimes it means making a practical decision clearer.
Astrology works best when technique and symbolic sensitivity are both present. The chart must be judged carefully, but it must also be read with imagination, proportion, and attention to the person’s real life.
To deliver a great reading, I have clear expectations from the seeker as well:
- astrology needs a high degree of openness and honesty
- past events have to be remembered and disclosed accurately for future events to be predicted accurately
- astrology works best when people have a clear, vital, and highly personal question, and when answers are sought with an open mind and an honest heart
- answers usually do not come out clearly when people try to test the astrologer or ask about hypothetical situations that are not grounded in the here and now
- the seeker remains responsible for any decisions or actions they take after a reading
Types of astrology
My work includes several branches of astrology. See the consultations page.
Natal astrology looks at the birth chart as the foundation: character, temperament, gifts, wounds, family patterns, vocation, relationship style, desire, and the larger architecture of the life.
Predictive astrology looks at timing: transits, progressions, profections, zodiacal releasing, eclipses, and other techniques that show when particular parts of the chart become active.
Horary astrology answers a clear question from the chart of the moment the question is asked.
Electional astrology chooses the right moment to begin something important.
Relationship astrology looks at synastry, composite charts, attraction, conflict, compatibility, repetition, and the purpose or difficulty of a bond.
Relocational astrology asks how the birth chart speaks differently in different places.
Career and vocation astrology focuses on work, money, skill, motivation, public role, and what kind of life direction genuinely belongs to you.
Crisis and turning-points work looks at the darker periods: Saturn, Pluto, Chiron, the Centaurs, loss, endings, depression, initiation, fate, and the underworld chapters of life.
Tarot and symbolic work
Tarot has also been part of my background in divination. I will occasionally employ this, or recommend and teach people how to use a tarot deck for guidance themselves.
I still see Tarot as a valuable symbolic language, especially for reflection, clarification, and exploring the atmosphere around a question. But astrology is the main focus of my work. Astrology offers a more structured technical system: planets, signs, houses, aspects, sect, dignity, timing, condition, and testimony.
Tarot speaks through images. Astrology speaks through a symbolic architecture of time. Tarot is a trickier method for prediction, but it is an absolutely invaluable way of gaining insight into the now and helping yourself clarify how you feel about certain things.
Both astrology and tarot can be useful. But this practice is built primarily around astrology.
Why this practice exists
I started THE ASTROLOGY PRACTICE because I genuinely believe my approach to astrology is unique.
While it is common for students of astrology to go through the psychological modern route, and then discover traditional astrology and slowly discover that astrology can actually predict events well, I come to astrology from a very scientific background.
I have a Mathematics MSci degree from Imperial College London. I work as a software developer. I studied astrology and psychology extensively. I think I have a very unique, scientific, and careful way of practicing astrology.
I focus on results. I keep track of my errors and successes, and I continuously try to improve.
I genuinely believe many people will appreciate this approach to what is considered by many a “pseudoscience,” and I hope I can inspire people who would otherwise not turn to astrology to give it a chance.
I like to refer to astrology as a symbolic and interpretive art. It is truly unique, and it requires a specialized type of mind that can handle mathematics and scientific details, as well as an ability to interpret symbols in a similar way that people interested in literature can interpret a poem.