None of us are simple! Astrology shows us a map of our characteristics: those that work well together, and those that we have to pay attention to to avoid letting oursleves down. With this insight, we forgive ourselves our faults and at the same moment see what to do about them. We can see what actually makes us happy and what we do best to make others happy.

Astrology shows mathematical relationships between the planets in your chart and someone else's. Those relationships don't change, however much we may want them to. But we can understand them better, and understand why the relationship works well, or why it doesn't. This helps to de-personalise any areas of frustration for which we might wrongly blame the other.

We realise that difficulties are not anyone's fault but 'just the way things are'. If we have good astrology together, it lasts for life and lets us use our energy for meeting other challenges in life. If we have challenging astrology, it also lasts for life, and it can drain energy: but seeing the exact nature of difficulties and what we can do about them is a great way to grow.

Obviously it helps to pick a partner with fairly good astrology, but you will, anyway: indifferent astrology leaves you feeling – indifferent! But there is no such thing as a perfect partner. I've seen very comfortable relationships between charts, and couples have got bored and have split up for that reason! You can't win!

As for relatives and workmates where you can't 'choose' to spend time with them or not, understanding the dynamics is the way to develop harmony. Astrology provides that insight, leading to the realisation that difficulties are not your fault – or theirs!!

Email me for a compatibility reading. Use it to understand the relationship and see how to make it work best. However, ultimately your personal choice will prove stronger than any astrology reading! Love and service is about giving to, not getting from your partner, child, parent, workmate, client...

• Your birth date (day, month and year)
• The time of day, as accurate as you can. Minutes count!
• Your place of birth (nearest big town or city).

That's all. Oh, and a name to put on your chart...

If you don't know the time of day, we can still see many characteristics but they will not be very detailed.

Astrology is undervalued because it is abused as a means of making money and entertaining readers in magazines and local papers. Such columns can only describe 12 different people! But they may help by accident, or with some helpful general philosophy. Or not!

When I was 13, I was intrigued by the idea that our birthday could predict our personality. When I was 19, I accidentally started to investigate it seriously, and found the deeper aspects fascinating as a structure of thought. At 21 I started to give it a try and drew my first charts – and was amazed at the accuracy of the descriptions they yielded.

I am not an 'away with the fairies' type! My degree is in Physics and much of my life has been involved with computers: about as logical as you can get. The scientific viewpoint is ingrained in me. So I studied astrology carefully. I read books and discovered from first-hand experience how charts based on the time of day are astonishingly complete and accurate.

Astrology has nothing to do with 'psychic power' or 'spiritual forces'. It may trigger psychic gifts in some individuals - I don't know - but astrology charts themselves are based only on maths and geometry: the positions of the planets at the time we were born.

Why this should work, I cannot explain in full, but there are some reasons for accepting it as possible. And then, experience proves the rest. Let me say my views.

Firstly: the first basis of astrology, a few thousand years BC in the middle east, was as a simple seasonal predictor. March 21st, after which the days are longer than the nights, was picked as the start of growth. A structure arose of 12 divisions of the year, charactierised by their qualities. The 12 periods were named, for convenience, as the 12 constellations that were high in the sky at the time of each. Just a name; nothing to do with characteristics! Some bright spark must have begun to link those seasonal qualities with the names of the constellations, but that is not the original connection!! The planets were later associated with these seasonal qualities and it was the Greeks who developed the structure of Astrology as we know it today.

It is hard to see plausible science in this, but when angles between the planetary positions began to be calculated, a glimmer of science becomes possible. Planets exert gravitational attraction, and gravity has been discovered to behave in some ways as a waveform, like sound and light. So one could consider patterns of gravity interference, just as sound waves and light waves both show interference patterns, referred to as constructive and destructive. If we allow for this phenomenon to apply in some way to patterns in our life, then we get the flowing and conflicting areas of personality in a chart, and between two people: like the strings of a guitar, which don't play the same note but vibrate harmoniously if tuned to each other, or discordantly if not - and maths reflects this.

The second significant point is that even single-celled creatures in the sea have been found to respond to the extremely faint gravity of the moon, at 'spring tides', even when thousands of miles from the sea. So why shouldn't human bodies, with so many more sensitive cells, also have some response? The science of such subtle detection is being linked to quantum theory, these days, in the course of the lastest theories on bird migration.

Despite possible explanations, it still seems very unlikely that astrology would work! But Science says that observation is the deciding factor. I have found that astrology works so well that it gives me a more accurate picture of someone than even their own description of themself. While statistsics has not shown a decisive link to birthdays, the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming when you understand the subject. Ask my wife; a staunch non-believer when I met her, now asking everyone their sign after discovering how it explained her baffling and frustrating family dynamics so well.

The only way for you to decide is to try it, with an open mind. It's completely confidential, and I won't
tell you anything you wouldn't want to hear.

Why be interested? Good question! Perhaps because we all think our personality is 'normal'; yet no-one is! It is easy for us to kid ourselves, so perhaps the best use of astrology is to help us to be realistic about what goes on inside us, where we have come from, and what have been the influences on us that make us how we are.

As I said, our chart tells us nothing that we don't already know, deep down inside... but it has
the usefulness of helping us tidy up false ideas we may have about ourselves — from our
worries, other people's comments, and our own wrong conclusions over a lifetime.

There is nothing 'good' or 'bad' in astrology — just the way things are. That makes for peace.

Charges are negotiable and I may not make any. Certainly not if I offered to draw your chart!
I'll definitely refund any fee if you are not entertained and delighted by the results.
Call me to talk about it? I guarantee at least some fun!