Consultations

We take four kinds of question. Each has its own technique, its own requirements and its own limits, and the limits matter as much as the rest: a consultation that promises more than the method supports is worth less than none.

Natal

A study of the whole chart: temperament and constitution, aptitudes, the shape of work and money, relationships, and the periods the predictive techniques mark out. It answers questions about direction and timing rather than about single events.

Needed: date, time and place of birth. The time should be as exact as you can make it — from a birth certificate or a hospital record where possible. An approximate time can be worked with, but it narrows what can honestly be said, and we will tell you where.

Synastry

Two nativities studied separately, then compared. The comparison is the second step and not the first, because a relationship between two people cannot be read before each of them has been.

The judgement covers compatibility, the friction each will feel from the other, and what the relationship is for — which is often not what either party would have said.

Needed: full birth data for both people, and — this is not a formality — the knowledge of both that the reading is being done.

Horary

A chart cast for the moment a specific question is understood, answering that question. Horary is the most precise instrument in traditional practice and the most demanding of the enquirer: it needs one question, clearly stated, that genuinely matters to you.

It does not need your birth data.

Needed: the question, in one sentence. Most of the work of a horary happens before the chart is cast. There is a worked example among the samples.

Elections

Choosing a moment to begin something — a business, a contract, a journey, a procedure. An election works within the limits of the matter itself; it improves circumstances, it does not transform a bad undertaking into a good one.

Needed: what is being started, the range of dates genuinely available, and the place. A wide range produces a better election than a narrow one. See the sample election.

How a consultation works

Readings are given by telephone, by video call, or in person where that is practical, and last about an hour. The judgement is prepared in writing beforehand and the written version stays with you — a consultation you cannot re-read afterwards is half wasted.

Fees depend on the kind of reading; ask through the contact page and we will tell you before any work begins.

What we do not do

• Medical judgements. The tradition has a large medical literature and we study it. We do not diagnose, and we do not comment on a course of treatment.
• Death. We will not judge the timing or manner of anyone's death, including at their own request.
• Third parties. We do not read the chart of someone who has not agreed to it, and we do not answer questions whose purpose is to find out something about another person that they have not chosen to tell you.