Hi, I’m Helene, daughter of Ingeborg, daughter of Anna. I was made –and born- in Germany in the late fifties. I discovered astrology around my seventeenth birthday, when a friend (named Vera, the truthful) gave me an enormous volume, aplty titled “Astrologie”, written by an old-school German astrologer. This went much further than the sun-sign columns I knew from cheap newspapers; there were sections on each planet in signs and houses and I was hooked in no time. Before I knew it, I started reading everything I could find on astrology. With the help of a little booklet on ‘feminist’ astrology, where the waterbearer became a woman, the Ram a Ewe, Leo the Lioness and so on, I taught myself to calculate charts and made my first attempts at interpretation. Little did I know that this fantastic hobby would turn into my profession and lifelong pleasure!

It took me another nine years, -in the meantime, I had moved to the Netherlands- before I decided it was time to structure my knowledge, to confront all the difficult things about astrology I had hitherto conveniently circumnavigated. In an Amsterdam suburb I did a four-year professional training course at the Achernar School for Astrology and Related Sciences, followed by two years of Jungian psychology.
I started travelling all over Europe and to America, to follow conferences, workshops, seminars and to study with the best in our field. (No, I’m not a little rich kid, financing it all with Daddy’s credit card. I had to earn every ticket and every fee with my own hard work.) In 1986, I gave my first professional readings, then based on the psychological approach I was taught at school, and I haven’t stopped since. But my ways of working have changed or, rather, expanded.

Eventually, I came across Traditional Astrology, which is much more, practical, down-to-earth and prediction-orientated than the modern, therapeutic methods, which have their own value in exploring the self.. One of my specialisms is AstroCartoGraphy, astrology for the travelling soul. Medieval, Hellenistic, Egyptian and Babylonian astro-lore are fields I’m still only beginning to explore – endless studies that stretch into every area of the human experience, wonderful!
Meanwhile, I have been and still am translating loads of astrological literature (Engl. <> Dutch <> German), writing articles and sun-sign predictions, working the phone lines, giving lectures and seeing clients. Somewhere along the line, there was an A-Z of Astrology, which I co-authored with two friends. When I moved to the UK in 2001, I decided to leave silly office jobs behind and to exclusively work with, for and through astrology henceforth.

I am currently living in London (the Lion’s den!) and, among all the other stuff, I’m also teaching beginners at the Astrological Lodge of London.. There, I met my current partner, an English astrologer. He got me in touch with the magical side of astrology and keeps amazing me with his inspiration. Watching the sky, exploring old and new books and all kinds of charts together, honing our analytical and predictive skills, is heavenly, indeed!

In 2002, one of my new friends here in the UK invited me to the Wheel of Astrologers, which took me in with open arms and made me one of its spokes. Ever since then, I have enjoyed wonderful festival summers working with a bunch of beautiful astrologer-souls, who, each in their way, are just as crazy as I am. They have become dear friends and at wintry fireside meetings we have a lot of fun and astro-babble, learning from each other all the time. It’s almost embarrassing to be so blessed!

Still, the best bit about astrology – for me, that is – is working with fellow humans. I love those moments when their voice, their facial expression or a change in the atmosphere tells me I’ve made contact and told them something that is meaningful to them. My aim is to help each and every one to experience life more fully and to get closer to whatever it is they came here to do, in harmony with the stars, the universe, the One. Hey, and if that entails getting rid of an old hang-up or an in-grown toe nail, so be it!

And yet, as one of my old teachers put it recently, astrology in itself is not that important. What is important is what it is an expression of. You use your astrological tools, you see it all work and it whacks you in the face: ‘Here I AM! The Divine!’

Helene