This page aims to detail the different elements I study and use currently, as well as those that I don’t. This list is not exhaustive, but it should do the groundwork! This is mostly technical, and if you’re looking for insight regarding my general approach, my presentation page or the ethics code I follow might be more relevant.

My main background as far as studying goes is neo-Hellenistic, but I’m also interested in other strands of the astrological traditions, and by no means a purist. I’m an alumni of Chris Brennan’s Hellenistic Astrology Course in 2021, as well as Bernadette Brady’s Star School. I’ve also studied recorded classes by Austin Coppock about the Nodes, the decans, planetary remediation, among other topics. Demetra George’s teachings have also been foundational for me.

While I’m generally curious about astrology and the many rich traditions that it comprises, my deepest love resides in the study of fixed stars in parans. Besides studying with Bernadette Brady’s books and lectures, I have been tremendously inspired by colleagues Amaya Rourke, Òscar Moisés Díaz, Chloe Margherita and Maeg Keane in particular. I find myself aligned with the approach of astrology described as relational by Pallas K. Augustine, Michael J. Morris and Diana Rose Harper.

When receiving requests which I can’t fulfil because they require the use of techniques that are not within my field of expertise, I try to provide referrals as I can. For instance, while I have studied Zodiacal Releasing quite extensively, this is not a technique I use with clients; I can recommend Kira Ryberg, who is excellent with it. I haven’t studied decennials well enough to incorporate them into consultations, but I know Diana Rose Harper could do that for you, and so on and so forth.

Components, approaches and techniques I do use

• Whole Sign and Placidus Houses
• fixed stars in parans per Brady’s method
• fixed star conjunctions
• major aspects (conjunctions, sextiles, squares, trigones, oppositions) including sign-based aspects
• traditional rulerships
• tropical zodiac
• transits
• profections (annual and monthly, by sign)
• Solar returns
• decans (Chaldeans + triplicity)
• Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (as important planets but not as rulers of any signs) depending on the situation
• Hermetic Lots, particularly Fortune, Esprit et Eros
• Lunar Nodes (see this course for more info on the approach I take)
• decanic correspondances with Tarot cards

Components, approaches and techniques that I am currently integrating

• secondary progressions
• goddess asteroids (Ceres, Pallas Athene, Juno et Vesta) as well as Chiron and other asteroids
• Lunar stations (sidereal coordinates)
• Egyptian terms, aka Egyptian bounds

Components, approaches and techniques that I do not use

Nota bene: I don’t necessarily judge negatively the use of what is listed here!

• zodiacal releasing
• modern rulerships (the concept that Uranus rules Aquarius, Pluto rules Scorpio and Neptune rules Pisces)
• the equivocation of signs and Houses (Aries = 1st House, Taurus = 2nd House, etc)
• the sidereal zodiac; I don’t suscribe to the idea that there is one « right » zodiac, I simply happen to practise using tropical. I’m actually very interested in Vedic astrology, but by no means advanced enough in my studies to give Jyotish consultations.
• the Vertex
• evolutionary approach to the Nodes and/or Pluto
• conditionalist astrology
• intercepted Houses
• minor aspects
• « twin flames »
• draconic charts
• I do not read the nativity of any third party in consultation
• Ptolemaic terms
• Manilius decans
• outer planets decans
• Lilith (I do use True Lilith to figure out the Moon’s speed, but that’s about it)
• Eris