Hudson Valley Astrologer

“Astrology is a Language. If you understand this language, The Sky Speaks to You.”

~ Dane Rudyhar

When I was five I didn’t really think about what I wanted to be when I grew up. Maybe those reveries came a little later, or maybe I’m still thinking about it 59 years later.

What I do remember is that when I first learned to read, I liked to pile up the books I read. By the age of 6 I was reading more books than anyone in class and received the award that Sister Mary Jane gave out to the winner of a reading competition. My love for reading flourished in childhood, but my teens brought distractions—most notably ‘Mary Jane,’ whose reputation for clouding young minds was well-earned. If finding one’s vocational outlet is like finding a needle in a haystack then finding that needle in a million haystacks describes a seeker’s journey who is under the influence of marijuana.

To help identify one “calling” in life, there is an extremely important technique in astrology that is meant to uncover what it is someone “needs to be” when they grow up. It’s called Vocational Analysis. My chart suggests that I am a teacher, in the vein of being an artist-analyst, with a performative tilt.

I missed the teaching path by a wide margin but did explore and enjoy coaching. For a few years there in my teens, I was the front man for numerous rock bands, before putting “childish things” away. In the process of “growing up” I was persuaded that it was more mature to consider electrical engineering, then accounting, as well as a brief look into psychology, before settling on economics. None of these paths really ever spoke to my need for fulfillment which is what the Midheaven Extension Process (developed by Noel Tyl) describes, but Astrology speaks eloquently to my “calling,” to be an artist-analyst, and teacher of Astrology.

The way here has followed a long and winding road that’s for sure. My default career out of school was insurance. To this day, I marvel at how I stumbled into the insurance profession—a choice that seemed far removed from my true calling. But it also led me circuitously into my occult studies. It’s a very long story but the short of it is that I became a single parent at a young age and was looking for answers to unanswerable questions — that only tarot, astrology, and numerology seemed to answer in ways that the psychological literature couldn’t come close to. Astrology in particular seemed to offer not only a more precise language but also timing of an events that appeared to be relevant and sometimes nearly miraculous.

Since discovering Astrology I’ve probably not read every Astrology book ever written, but I have read quite a few. The stacks of astrology books that now surround me have replaced the picture books I once piled up as a child. I’ve also written a few blog posts over the years, shared numerous “write ups” or delineations with clients, hosted consultations, and a book I’m currently writing aims to be an indispensable tool for astrology students—a guide that distills decades of study into actionable insights for their own growth.

Amazingly, I have learned that providing consultations gives me that same familiar feeling that I use to get coaching a players on the soccer field, learning and improving some technique, wherein they then went and immediately used what they learned in the next game. Helping people discover better and deeper aspects of themselves is nothing short of exhilarating, and extremely fulfilling.

HVA

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