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This About-the-author page and in fact the entire website are taken from You and the Universe, a personalized, individually hand bound, fine art book on astrology, mythology and astronomy through which the recipient's complete astrological reading is woven.

Like so many before me, I came to astrology as an unbeliever. Straight out of college, I thought I knew it all. My best friend, however, had this uncanny luck in guessing the month and even the hour that strangers—usually strange women that I brought around—were born. At first I just thought that his lucky guessing streak was improbable; but as our relationship continued, his merely improbable luck became unbelievable. And so, like many before me, I decided to investigate this strange phenomena.

I soon found that there was more to astrology than chance. In 1971 I started attending Isabelle Hickey’s classes at the Hippocrates Health Institute (where Anne Wigmore grew her wheat grass) in Boston. Issie was the matriarch of American spiritual astrology, and under her tutelage I came to see astrology for the ancient and profound body of wisdom that it is. It spoke to the mathematician, musician, scientist, poet, psychologist and spiritual being within me. Naturally oriented to her philosophy, I took to Issie's classes like a duck to water, and she became my mentor and teacher. That was an early step in a life-long spiritual quest that brought me to California in 1974. I have lived here ever since, 20 miles north of San Francisco.

My journey getting here has been an unusual odyssey, even for an astrologer. Having received one of the finest scientific and liberal arts educations in the world at Caltech, Brandeis and Harvard, I turned my back on becoming an astrophysicist and began exploring myself instead. In 1974 I headed west in a Wise Potato Chip truck with mahogany-framed sliding glass picture windows, real wood walls, a pot-bellied stove, and a 3-foot celestial sphere in the window. I visited and lived on ashrams, courted gurus, and went through decades of various therapies, including classical analysis, Primal, Gestalt, Rolfing and Reichian. Along the way I practiced or became disciplined in yoga, Tai Chi, meditation, past life regressions, rebirthing, Silva Mind Control, Scientology (only two weeks there, I left running!), enlightenment intensives, the Human Awareness Institute, and David Deida’s work. From 1996 to 2000 I fell deeper and deeper into my humanity with the teacher Saniel Bonder, finally awakening into my body and Consciousness through his radical "Waking Down" process. And for some time now I’ve been practicing Core Energetics with Siegmar and Cornelia Gerken—including an intensive in the south of France with their teacher, John Pierrakos, M.D. (himself a student of Wilhelm Reich). I participated in their week-long "Joy of life" intensive in Mendocino this July.

So I have spent my life courting—and finally marrying—my whole self. It is this being who now offers you his ragged but somewhat integrated self in the hopes that he may shed some light on that most difficult and worthy task each of us has before us: the art of living.

My Readings

In my readings I create a safe, judgment-free space that allows your being and your truth to inform us both as to who you really are. To this end I try to abandon what I think is true about you, including astrological facts and ideas that stand between me and the truth of your being.

        Astrology for me is thus a starting place from which to penetrate and to reveal your truth, not an end in itself. I use it as a springboard to meet you so deeply that you meet yourself in a place you haven't yet integrated. I am here to give you messages for your soul that can change your life.

The  River

A thousand faces flow past me,

A thousand voices clamoring to be heard:

The stories of my life:

beloved, abandoned,

hated, feared.

Which mask shall I wear in this moment?

Which voice shall I claim as my own

in this moment?

In this moment

I am a river.

I am the watcher of the river.

Grabbing no mask

They are all my own.

Choosing no voice

I see them all

flowing through me

endlessly changing.

—by Carl Woebcke

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