About Me

Even as a small boy I was drawn to the night sky. When I was around ten the family optician ground a couple of lenses for me to make my own telescope, which would keep me awake for hours, pointing it out between the curtains to the heavens. It wasn’t so much the objects themselves - the stars, the planets - that drew me but the patterns they made, their movement from night to night, and the questions they seem to be asking. This has been a fascination that has stayed with me throughout my life.

 

After school I trained as an ecologist, and worked several years in nature conservation in New Zealand, until, in 1995, I became instantly captivated by astrology from a night class at the Christchurch School of Astrology. Soon after I moved to England to study with Liz Greene, Erin Sullivan, Darby Costello and Melanie Reinhart at the Centre for Psychological Astrology (CPA) in London. After 4 years’ training I earned their Diploma in Psychological Astrology - the first to get a Distinction.

I have practised as a consulting astrologer since February 1997, and since then worked with thousands of clients. I have have been a committed teacher, both privately to beginner and advanced students and at the CPA. For more than 12 years I have tutored at the Mayo School of Astrology.

 

My astrological work is informed and supported by a long interest in psychology and psychotherapy. I have spent a number of years in my own therapy, and have done several years training in Process Oriented Psychology (2003-2007). This very exciting post-Jungian approach to facilitating awareness has very much has shaped my way of applying astrology with clients. Currently, I am studying Jungian Analysis at ISAP Zürich, which is deeply nourishing my work as an astrologer.

 

I have used and studied the I Ching since an adolescent, and see this as the genesis of my interest in divination and the occult. I offer I Ching consultations using yarrow stalks.

 

Further astrological studies have included horary astrology with the Company of Astrologers, the STA’s practitioner’s horary qualification in 2022, continual research in mundane (world-focused) astrology, and slowly integrating more traditional techniques and philosophies into my understanding of and working with astrology. I am very drawn to working artistically and experientially, something inspired and supported by years of Family Constellations work. In 2013 I completed a 2 month intensive story telling course with the International School of Story Telling. I find my deepest inspiration arises from poetry and nature.

 

I have a deep interest in holistic health, particularly homoeopathy, having worked with Neal’s Yard Remedies in the UK for 12 years. I am passionate about the natural environment, classical music, hiking, the men’s movement, anthroposophy and Waldorf Education, poetry and stories, my four sons and making naturally-leavened bread.

 

After living in the UK for many years, I returned to the Kapiti Coast, near Wellington. From this base I see clients in-person from throughout New Zealand, and work extensively with clients on-line from throughout the world. However for a period of time each year I will be in Zürich.

 
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My specialities

Whilst I enjoy the rich diversity of themes and issues that arise in my practice and always respond to an individual’s needs, I am particularly drawn to working with:

  • Vocational questions - helping to answer that question “what I am called to do with this life I’m given?”

  • Love and relationship patterns

  • Spiritual concerns & crises

  • Children and Family themes, including conception & fertility

  • Creativity & creative blocks

  • Transitions, cross-roads

  • Helping with important decisions

  • Mid-life

  • Depression, soul sickness, breakdowns & spiritual emergence

  • Death & end of life

  • Addictions, eating disorders

  • Symbols of illness & body symptoms

  • Horary question

Inspiration

for my astrology I draw from many teachers, including:

  • The ocean

  • Nature

  • Opera

  • Beethoven and Mahler

  • Fairy tales

  • Waldorf education

  • Anthroposophy

  • Mysticism

  • Alchemy

  • The I Ching

  • The Tarot

  • Christ

  • Jung

  • Arnold Mindell

  • Lao Tsu

  • Poets, including Rumi, Rilke, Eliot, Hopkins, Goethe, Oliver

  • Hiking

  • The four elements, Fire, Earth, Air and Water

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