The astrologers and authors who shaped my work

What actually shapes a relational and karmic astrology?

Astrology is never practised in a vacuum. Behind every reading of a chart there are authors, schools, and particular ways of understanding what a birth sky says about a life. Here are the currents and thinkers that ground my approach, and why they matter in the way I read a chart.

A method born of a training

I owe my formation first to Jean-Yves Espié, whose teaching ties astrology to self-knowledge. From him comes a conviction that runs through all my work: the chart describes a terrain, not a fate, and interpretation exists to serve a person's growth, never to shut them inside a box. That foundation is what later let me build my own reading, at the meeting point of the relational and the karmic.

Humanistic astrology: the chart as a path

One current runs through everything I do: humanistic astrology. Carried by Dane Rudhyar and then Stephen Arroyo, and relayed in France by André Barbault and Luc Bigé, it marked a decisive turn. In this view the chart is no longer an oracle that predicts, but a map of growth: it shows a potential, fertile tensions, a possible direction. Arroyo in particular tied astrology to psychology, making it an instrument of inner understanding. That is the spirit in which I read a birth chart: as the open story of an evolution, not a verdict.

Karmic and relational astrology

At the heart of my work sits karmic and relational astrology. Several authors trace its outline, each for a distinct reason. Martin Schulman and Sylvie Chermet-Carroy taught me to read the lunar nodes and the memory of the soul. Laurence Larzul and Roland Legrand hold the explicitly karmic line: past lives, family loyalties, the debts a life comes to settle. Pierre Lassalle brings the study of human relationships as a spiritual field. Patrick Giani grounds the whole in astropsychology and the idea of a path of life.

This current attends to what repeats and to what a person came to untangle. It illuminates the axis of the north and south nodes as a direction of growth, and the way a bond, whether familial or romantic, brings to light what is asking to be understood. This is where the karmic and the relational meet: in a reading of ties that shapes both my karmic relationship work and my approach to synastry, where two charts reveal what one alone cannot say.

The asteroids and the solar return

Two more technical contributions complete this base.

The study of the asteroids, to which Jean Billon contributed a great deal, refines a chart by adding shades that the planets alone do not give, especially around emotional wounds and attachments. The solar return, as Richard Lachance works it, lights up the movement of a year: what sets itself in motion around a birthday. These tools extend the natal reading toward the present and the time ahead.

Depth psychology

Finally, the astrology I practise is in dialogue with psychology. Certain foundations of Sigmund Freud's thought, notably what he develops in The Ego and the Id, clarify the question of the levels of consciousness that Jean-Yves Espié draws on in his teaching. What you know of yourself, what surfaces at moments, what stays buried: these strata of the psyche reappear in the chart, where the quietest points, the twelfth house, the south node, the Black Moon, often describe what acts in the shadows. Bringing that buried material up toward consciousness is the whole purpose of a karmic reading.

From these inheritances a method was born that belongs to no single school, but that links them around one intention: to understand in order to grow. If you would like to see what this reading can illuminate about your own path, a birth chart reading is where it begins.