The ConsultationA birthchart consultation is a dialogue in which we explore together the symbolic patterns contained in your chart to discover how they might seek expression in your life. The consultation can help you to gain insight and understanding about issues and life experience through exploring these patterns and themes of your life from this astrological perspective. In looking at areas of strength or tension in the chart, chart interpretation can help us to recognise talents or bring insight to help mitigate or work on areas of challenge or difficulty. Exploring the chart may also help you to develop a greater sense of meaning in life.
We can focus on specific areas of life, such as relationships or career or vocation and our sense of life purpose to help gain insight or develop direction. We can also explore how these patterns may develop over the course of time though looking at the astrological cycles - the transits - which are active at the time of the consultation, or in the recent past and up to a year or so ahead. And we can consider how these cycles are reflected in your life and how they may be experienced and responded to. Specific prediction of events is not given - it is not part of this type of astrological practice, however the transit information can provide a useful framework for guidance. Relationship astrologyRelationships can be explored through astrology and we can learn a lot about our relationships and relationship patterns from our own natal chart and transits.
Charts of two people can also be looked at together to explore how two people may relate to each other and the nature and pattern of the relationship itself - this is called synastry. All kinds of relationships can be explored in this way - love relationships, parent and child relationships and business partnerships. For synastry work one or both people can be present. If one person is present we can explore synastry in a first consultation. The partner needs to give informed consent for us to do this work and the consultation explores the relationship from the perspective of the person who is present. The birth data of both parties is needed, both charts are drawn and the links and connections between the two charts are then explored in the session. To do synastry work with two people together you will both need to have had an individual consultation with me sometime prior to the synastry session. |
Children's chartsI explore the parent child relationship through synastry with the parent and work with both charts together. I don't do full chart interpretation for children directly however but other astrologers will do this.
As a gift for children I offer a beautifully presented hand drawn chart with one page of individually crafted text describing the core archetypal images of Sun, Moon and rising sign. |
Location astrologyWe can use astrology to help identify favourable locations in the world for relocation, for travel or for all the myriad reasons we might move around the globe, and to explore our experience in locations that are not our place of birth. We can work with these charts within a consultation. Please discuss with me in advance if this is something you want to explore and let me know if there are specific places that you have in mind.
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Electional astrologyAstrology offers us the opportunity to choose favourable times for us to act and initiate events and new projects in our lives. This insight enables us to align our plans with the wider astrological cycles and with our own cycles and rythms. This might be choosing the time for marriage, to open a business, agree a contract or launch a website. To do this I will ask you for some information about the matter, for the timescale within which you would want it to take place, and I will also be working with your birth chart.
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Your birth dataIn order to prepare your chart in advance of the consultation I need your date, place and time of birth. Your birth time should be as accurate as possible, however, many people have just a rough idea of their time of birth and this can be worked with usefully.
If you have no time of birth I will not be able to interpret your chart, however there is an astrological method of obtaining this - please ask me about this. Fees for this start at £120. Your data is securely held and is never shared. There is more information on Privacy here. |
VenuesI practice in East London in Spitalfields E1 and in Central London at The Atlantis Bookshop, close to the British Museum in Bloomsbury WC1.
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Face to face consultationThe consultation lasts for one and a half hours.
Follow up or review sessions of one hour are available thereafter at a frequency that suits you or at a time that feels useful to you. I also offer a shorter initial one hour consultation. I hand draw your chart in advance of the first session and we work with this when we meet and this is yours to take with you. If you would like a recording of the session you are welcome to use your phone to record the session, or if we are online I can record an audio file on Zoom and send this to you. This is a courtesy service and if in the unlikely event that the recording fails I don't refund or repeat the session. |
Online and Telephone consultations
I offer consultations online using Zoom or by telephone. I will email you a copy of your chart in advance of the consultation and I can send you the hand drawn chart afterwards if you would like this. I will send you the link for the scheduled online session or ask you to call me at the pre-arranged appointment time.
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Before the consultationIt will help you to get the best out of the consultation if you focus beforehand on what has prompted you to seek a consultation at this time and to consider what, if anything specific, you want to explore in the session. It may simply be that you would like a reading to learn more about yourself generally and don't have particular themes to examine at this time and that it just feels right to do this now. I will ask you to send me a brief outline of where you feel you are in your life at present, what has prompted you to seek a consultation at this time and what you feel would be most useful for us to explore together in the session.
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Bookings and cancellationsI can usually arrange a session between two to six weeks notice. If you need to cancel and we cannot reschedule I will need 48 hours notice or the full fee may be charged.
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GiftsA consultation may be given as a gift but please check that this is something which would be welcomed by the recipient. I will ask the recipient to provide their chart data.
I also offer a beautifully packaged hand drawn chart with a one page individually written synopsis of the archetypal images of Sun, Moon and rising sign which is a lovely gift for children. |
FeesA full birthchart consultation is £150.
A follow up or review session is £90. A shorter initial one hour session is £120. A synastry consultation is £210. Fees may be higher if additional charts are used within a session such as for relocation. Concessions may be available - please ask me about this. A gift of a hand drawn chart with a one page synopsis - fee on request. |
PaymentsFor in person and online or telephone consultations payment can be made in advance by bank transfer or by cash in person.
Payment can also be made by paypal, or by debit or credit cards by Paypal invoice. I send you the link by email - you do not need a Paypal account. Cash, debit and credit cards are accepted at The Atlantis Bookshop. |