About Me

Growing up in suburban America, my impression of astrology was extremely limited, to say the least. The Sun-sign astrology that could be found alongside the comics section of the newspaper painted a shabby picture of astrology’s real potential. Who’d have guessed that this subject could turn out to be an astoundingly profound mirror of reality?
Then at a period of my life characterized by pilgrimage and a magnetic, devotional pull to spend more and more time in India, one day while there in 1997 I went to consult a Vedic astrologer for the first time. I had only vague ideas about what to expect and zero expectations.
The reading itself was not showy or dramatic. Instead the astrologer matter-of-factly described relevant specific details of my life in a way that quietly and meaningfully confirmed that there truly existed a blueprint for my life (whether my personality liked this or not). I could recognize that behind whatever external situation of flux and uncertainty, that life really was unfolding on schedule. A portal to a clearer and truer view of Reality had just made itself known.
There was something especially comforting and sensible to me how this system for receiving guidance was methodical, technical and also gracefully timeless, mystical and divinely inspired. It was a living practice coming from a very ancient lineage of sages, and it was fascinating to me that it could be studied according to definite principles. Soon after this quietly pivotal reading, there followed over the weeks and months an astonishing chain of synchronicities that continued to confirm the depth of this science and also supported the beginnings of my own focused study of Jyotish.

Biographical
I’ve been a student of Vedic traditions and yoga for over 30 years, traveling to India for the fist time in 1992 as a student of yoga and meditation.
My Jyotish studies began in 1998 with Hart DeFouw, where I completed his foundation course at The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.
Over the course of three trips to Bengaluru, India between 2005-2007, I completed an intensive program of independent study under the tutelage of Dr. T.S. Vasan (an astrologer in practice for over 50 years, and retired National Vice President of the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences).
From 1998 until 2007, I spent much of the time living in Kerala South India, in the ashram of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, or Amma, the humanitarian and spiritual teacher. I provided Jyotish consultations as a service for nine years within this community, which included traveling for several months each year as a staff astrologer at Amma’s programs during her yearly twelve-city tours of North America.

I graduated with a B.A. from Eugene Lang College of The New School for Social Research in New York City in 1992, majoring in philosophy and art history.
I have published various articles on Jyotish, including a monthly forecast column for L.A.Yoga Magazine from 2007-2011 that was pioneering in its use of entirely traditional principles of Vedic astrology in a main-stream U.S. magazine.