Absolutely yes. The precise time you were born is used to orient the rest of the Natal Chart. Without that, we’re going to have a much MUCH harder time timing events in your life — and even getting to the key themes in your personality. However, if you’ve called your mom, unearthed your baby book and ordered your birth certificate and still have no exact birth time, we go to Plan B. You give me five or more significant life turning points — births, marriages, divorces, deaths, graduations — and for an additional fee, I reverse engineer your chart to find your most likely birth time.

Fear is a hell of a drug. It's motivating, yes, but also demoralizing and imho, mostly unnecessary. In my five decades of life, three of which I've tracked using astrology, I've learned that even during the darkest moments there is light. When you’re covered up with crisis, my aim is to get you grounded and empowered. I validate your feelings and find the end date of the drama/suffering. Then I find the good news — because it’s always there.

Astrologers are people, too. Some are more self-aware than others. Some enjoy the power they wield over vulnerable people. Some haven't practiced long enough to see the nuance in the system. Sometimes they have a bad birth time and that skews the entire reading. I’ve had my share of bad readings. It's why I became an astrologer. Here’s what I think: You’re in charge of your own life. Astrology acts as a useful GPS to help you navigate your journey. There so much overwhelm and anxiety in this world that the last thing I want to do is generate more. I use astrology to uplift and inspire, to relieve you of shame and self-doubt and to renew your faith in yourself.

The short answer is no. If you're looking for a fortune teller who can read your mind, this is not that. Sometimes an astrological reading can be so spot on that clients often believe their astrologer is reading their mind. But astrology is a synchronistic system of symbols built on thousands of years of anecdotal evidence. It takes at least a decade of live chart reading to master its nuance at the most basic level. When it's done masterfully it can feel like magic.

Long answer: Kind of. I've had some unexplainable experiences. There was a time when I was seeing people's ancestors at every reading and channeling their guides via automatic writing. I stopped doing it that because it wasn't my most comfortable healing modality. I'm highly intuitive and read energies without really trying. But I don't practice any of this professionally and I don't call myself a psychic.