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I was born in Montreal, and grew up in an urban commune full of hippies on DeBullion in the Plateau district until I was eight, when we moved over to Outremont and lived as a nuclear family for the first time. My first memory is being on my dad's shoulders at a big anti-Vietnam war protest, and everyone was chanting, "Nix-on assa-sin" in French.
I read my first astrology book on January 14, 1995 and within a couple of months had read dozens more and decided that I would devote my life to learning as much as possible about the subject.
Jump ahead two years and I moved to NYC to study with the N.C.G.R, passing my Level III Certification exam in March 1999.
In November 2000, I moved to Europe (first the Netherlands, for a year and a half, and then Brighton, England, for a year). While living there, I began giving consultations full-time for the U.K.-based astrology phone service, Astro Livelink, on October 1, 2001, and I still work for them today.
I've got an encyclopedic knowledge of the transit histories of hundreds of notable lives and events. Mention someone famous and I can tell you about the major transits that coincided with big changes/events in their life. Mention a Western nation (working on a full geopolitical study), and I'll give you the astrological timeline of its history.
Learning astrology this way has allowed me to bypass a lot of the more abstract elements to the craft. Many astrologers emphasize the esoteric perspective to astrology, but I proudly call myself an exoteric astrologer - I really am mostly interested in how it reflects life on earth and not so much in trying to fit it into a pre-supposed moral or spiritual paradigm. Which is not to say I'm not interested in spirituality (far from it).
Bad things happen to good people and good people do bad things. I'm far more interested in understanding people than in judging them. While self-discovery is a very important part of learning astrology, I often feel that astrological culture is focused a little excessively on "navel gazing". Ultimately, if you really want to learn what there is to know, you've got to learn from the world around you, and not just the world inside you.
I want to make myself available to astrology students for any questions or observations they may have. That being said, I will always be a student myself and am always open to learning from others as well. Please don't ask me for a free reading if you are not a student, cause that's my day job and I do enough of that, LOL.
I am available for readings and classes, though I didn't specifically join this group to promote that. If you ARE an astrology student, please don't be too shy to say "hi".
Apparently, I resemble hot Japanese and European women. Damnit!
