Meet Your Astrologer

Our story starts in New York City with my mother, who is my introduction into the science of astrology. When she was born, her father’s former wife was an astrologer and casted her horoscope by hand in 1971. Complete with symbol meanings and delineations of the horoscope. This family relic was passed on to and now lives with me (see photo). My mom grew up in an era where astrology was very popular, and she was very interested not only in astrology, the occult, the unseen, Kabbalah, and divine mysteries. She began studying a lot of this more in depth right before I was born and when she was pregnant. In 2001, when she gave birth to me, she then casted my horoscope on astro.com and entered my information into her database. This would be unknown to me at the time. but knowledge and awareness of astrology has always been present in my life from a young age.

On one fateful night, when I was 15, my mother introduced me to my horoscope and it aroused my curiosity and mind to go deeper and learn more about this knowledge. Alongside studying theater and performing arts in high school, I eventually shifted my studies to be focused on astrology, developing my knowledge and talent at reading horoscopes. I spent all 4 years of high school reading for classmates as I was developing my skills. Most of my astrological focus at this point was focused on the Modern, Euro-American, traditions of astrology pushed by theosophist and their successors— our current contemporaries in the field. Eventually, I decided to take to the online scene in 2018 and establish myself as I prepared to transition out of high school— choosing astrology and astrologER over the conventional path of going to college. Little did I know, the academic libraries would hold the knowledge I desperately craved— ANCIENT knowledge on astrology, astronomy, and religious studies.

I eventually started studying Hellenistic Astrology, Ancient Babylonian Astrology, Medieval Islamicate astrology, Indic Astrology, European Renaissance Astrology, European-Latinate astrology, and exploring the various traditions of astrology. It was around this same time I was introducted to Tarot, magic, and the Occult where I primarily developed my skills locally in New York City at the Botanicas and spiritual stores, engaging in the Afro-Caribbean, Puerto Rican, espiritismo traditions, though non-initiated.

I graduated high school in 2019, just months before the COVID Pandemic— what I like to call THEE Triplicity Shift. Little did I know about the entire would we would step into months later. Funnily enough, at the same time as I was furloughed from my job at Footlocker in Times Square, I decided to open my consulting practice as an astrologer and establish myself as a professional in the field in 2020. I started reading for clients on Zoom alongside developing my practices further primarily in the Hellenistic and Medieval Islamicate traditions of astrology thanks to influential works of Austin Coppock, Kaitlin Coppock, Chris Brennan, Dr. Benjamin Dykes, Demetra George, and the translations of Project Hindsight.

I decided in 2020 and early 2021 to continue my studies in the Medieval Islamicate tradition of astrology through Ali A Olomi’s patreon and synthesizing the knowledge of the Hellenistic Astrological movement in the Euro-American tradition of astrology with Medieval Islamicate sources that are rooted in lineages, traditions, and information not available in the Western world. This has opened up my field of learning to other scholars such as Liana Saif, Matthew Melvin Koushki, Charles Burnett, the late Keiji Yamamoto, Bink Hallum, and many more brilliant academics who are doing important historical work on astrology.

The study of the Medieval Islamicate perspectives of astrology, divination, and the unseen have led me to the personal choice to embrace Islam and revert to become a Muslim. It’s kind of funny when I tell people it was literally ASTROLOGY that brought me— a Queer Latina Boy from the Bronx who was born to a non-religious (broken) family and outright rejected the idea of religion most of their life (even though has ancestral roots in catholicism)— to God, to Islam, and embracing of religion, even when modern sentiments on astrology in Islam are deemed haram (forbidden). Abu Ma’shar talks about the knowledge of God naturally arises from the study of astrology, as we come to percieve through the motion of the spheres, the mover of those spheres through the endlessness and infinite cycles they run through. In the Medieval world of the Abbasid Empire, astrology was understood as a natural science and the influence of the planets on this world is a natural influence that we study, and reinforced the oneness of God that is a central principle in monotheistic religions like Islam. This has informed my spirtual and astrological practices heavily as it has shaped my cosmology for how astrology operates, but also what my own religious practice looks like. At this point, my magical practice becomes a syncretization of Afro-Caribbean, Euro-American, Catholic, and Islamicate occutlism, theurgy, and religion.

Throughout the 5 years of the Triplicity Shift, I have been moving through the astrological sphere looking for like minded scholars to learn in community with to help aid and advance my learning, forming communities, newsletters, Twitter-Spaces, Discord Servers, doing local readings in Orlando, and events to help people come together to talk about astrology. This culminates in 2025 with applying for the position of Vice Chair in the Association for Young Astrologers, an organization that helped hosted my two very first talks on astrology ‘Medieval World Astrology: Religions & Dynasties’ and ‘The Aries Ingress of 2025’. In this organization, my mission is to uplift new, emerging, scholars in the field who seek to understand and develop the field of astrology, its history, practice, and traditions with intergrity, ethics, and restoring prestiege to the status of the knowledge.

I am currently 24 years old, having consulting clients for 5 years and studying astrology for 9 years, and my study of astrology is a life-long commitment for me. In some ways, as I learn more about my own history (which tends to be unknown to me due to ancestral estrangement), astrology has always been a part of my life, even before I was a just a thought in existence. And it will continue to remain that way until I have decayed, my bones have become brittle, and I return back to my lord. I continue to consult for clients, stay active in the astrological sphere, and cultivate networks of astrological knowledge digitally, in person, and in PRINTTTTTT.

My Astrological Influences

I have not studied formally under any astrologer, but have practicing self-motivated study and training for the past 10 years. This involves book-learning, reading ancient manuscript translations, working them out in open-community discussions, and then applying them to horoscopes for real people. I’ve taken Chris Brennan’s Zodiacal Releasing Module, Austin Coppock’s Workshop on the Decans, I’ve attended QAC & NORWAC 2020, as well as NORWAC 2024 (informally). I then joined Ali A Olomi’s Head on History Patreon in 2021 and followed his work on Patreon as a student over the past 4 years. I spent time reading horoscopes for classmates all throughout high school for 4 years, and then shifted to opening a client practice in 2020 which has continued for 5 years at this point. Truthfully, most astrological education in the West is lacking so I am still looking for a teacher.

Important Contemporary Influences: Demetra George, Chris Brennan, Dorian Greenbaum, Helena Avelar, Luis Ribiero, Benjamin Dykes, Kaitlin Coppock, Austin Coppock, Liana Saif, the late Keiji Yamamoto, Charles Burnett, David Pingree, B. L. van der Waerden, Audrius Beinorius, Amina Inloes, Antonio Panaino

Pre-Modern Astrologicaly Influences: Tuecer of Babylon, Manilius, Thrasyllus, Dorotheus of Sidon, Ptolemy, Vettius Valens, Sphujidhvaja, Antiochus, Porphyry, Firmicus Maternus, Paulus of Alexandria, Hephaestio of Thebes, Julian of Laodicea, Olympiodorus, Rhetorius, Al-Andarzaghar, Theophilius, Muhammad Al-Farza, Nawbakht, Parasara, Masha’allah ibn Athari, Umar Al-Farrukhan al-Tabari, Ali Abu Al-Khayyat, Sahl ibn Bishr, Al Kindi, Abu Bakr al-Khasib, Abu Ma’shar Jafar ibn Muhammad al Balkhi, Abu Said Shadhan, Ibn Hibinta, Thabit Ibn Qurra, Al Battani, Musa ibn Nawbakht, Maslama al-Qurturbi, Al-Qabisi, Kusyar ibn Labban, Al-Rijal, Al-Biruni, Abraham bar Hiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, Al-Razi, Al-Buni, Al-Tusi, Guido Bonatti, Al-Isfahani, Marsilio Ficino, Al-Junawadi, Agrippa

Contemporary Astrologers I recommend: Oscar Moises Diaz, Edwin Martinez (ClaimedParadise), Marianne Garcés, Michelle Craft, Aleena Shah, Liam Sofias, Ana Armendariz, and Anna Dunlany.