ABOUT ASK THE ASTROLOGER

Welcome to my astrological advice feature, now on a page of its own! Once or twice a month, I will publish a question I have received from an astro seeker, with my answer. The frequency of this feature may increase if I receive enough letters. If you would like to see more of it, please send me your question! Just fill out the form below. But first, please read the ground rules. Questions that do not follow them will not be accepted.

If your question is chosen for the feature, I will publish your birth chart along with it, but not your name (you will be referred to by a pseudonym) or your birth information. I request birth information in the form so I can cast the chart, and source of birth information to get a sense of how reliably accurate it is. If you do not know your time of birth, please say so. Charts can be cast with no birth time, they just don’t include the correct rising sign or houses. If the time you have is an approximation, please mention that.

To ensure that a variety of charts, people, and questions are included, if you have already had a question answered in this feature, you are not eligible to submit another one unless it has been at least a year since your previous question was published and you have provided an update (see Updates, at the bottom of this page). Even then, questions from new letter writers always have priority. If you like my answers so much that you want to ask me more questions, please schedule a consultation with me!

If you would like to know more about the story behind this feature, it continues below the submission form.

Ask the Astrologer Submission Form

HAVE YOU READ THE GROUND RULES? Seriously. If not, please read them now, before you fill this out!

This form is for Ask the Astrologer submissions only. If you are reaching out for any other reason, including a question or comment about this feature or follow up to an Ask the Astrologer question you’ve already submitted, please use the Contact page instead.

Name

First Name

Last Name

Email (please give one you check regularly)

Title of your question

The question itself, including relevant background information

If longer than 4 or 5 sentences, please break it into paragraphs, with spaces between them, so your astrologer, who is blind to long walls of text, can read it. Don't be fooled by the apparent size of the box: it can take a message of any length.

Date, time, and place of birth

Please give your birth information in this format: August 15th, 1975, 5:07 pm, San Francisco, California, USA . If your birth time is unknown, say unknown time. If it's an approximation, please indicate that.

Source of birth information (birth certificate, hospital record, mother's memory, etc)

Pseudonym (will be used to refer to you, in place of your real name, if your question is published)

If you have a chosen pseudonym you want me to use, please enter it here. If you would rather I choose for you, you may leave this space blank. If you put your real name here, I will use your initials as your pseudonym.

Optional: How did you learn about Ask the Astrologer?

Check this box if you have read the ground rules. If not, go read them first, and make sure your question follows them. Box must be checked in order to submit this form.

I have read every do and every don't in the ground rules. If I am asking a relationship question, I have also read the relationship astrology requirements and ensure that my question meets them.

Finally, check ONE of the following to verify that you are eligible to submit a question. If neither is true of you, do not check either box, you may not submit this form.

I've never had a question answered in Ask the Astrologer

It has been one year or longer since I've had a question answered in Ask the Astrologer, and I have provided a publishable update to (each of) my previous question(s)

Why I Started Ask the Astrologer

I find the astrological advice columns I’m aware of to be seriously lacking, in that the astrologer always gives an overly simple answer that is usually based on the letter writer’s sun sign and nothing else. I aim to provide a more nuanced example of astrological advice, more in line with what you would hear in an actual session with an astrologer, taking all pertinent details into account.

Astrology is very complex, includes many terms unfamiliar to laypeople, and astrological advice written with that complexity in mind can all too easily be incomprehensible to people with little or no background in astrology. That is likely part of the reason why entertainment astrology columns simplify it so much. However, that over simplification does everyone a disservice: people either believe their fate is determined by their sun sign, or, more often, write astrology off as bunk. People who have an astrological background, or don’t take astrology seriously at all, may get a laugh, but that’s it.

My intention is to write in a way that’s accessible to people who are new to the concept, without dumbing it down too much for those who do have an astrological background. However, I realize that perfect comprehensibility may not be possible in practice, when also taking the online reader’s attention span into account.

To help beginners follow along, I’ve created an astrological glossary. If you see an unfamiliar astrological term, look it up there.

In addition to being educational, and help solve the problems of the letter writers, I am also using this feature to market myself. (Hey, I have to do it somehow!) If you like what you see in my answers, maybe you would like to schedule a consultation with me. If you are a letter writer, maybe you would like to follow up the mini reading with a more comprehensive one. And if it’s not for you at this time, then it’s not. Just enjoy the blog!

This feature debuted during the Leo new moon of 2019, August 1st at 10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time. Thanks to all who have contributed and made it possible!

Updates

Not required, but nice to have. I will periodically publish updates in Ask the Astrologer.

If you have had a question answered in the Ask the Astrologer feature, and you have an update to share, I and the readers would love to hear from you! Since I don’t make hard and fast predictions, the update wouldn’t be “your prediction came true (or didn’t),” but it could be something like, “This is exactly right, you described me perfectly,” or, “Meh… not exactly right, x is true instead of y,” or, “I took your advice to heart, did xyz, and this is where I am now.” If you have made some life change as a result of astrological advice, you will probably be seeing the results months or years later. As long as this website exists, updates will be welcome, no matter how old the original letter is.

While you may send an update anytime you feel you have a meaningful one, there are times when it’s too soon. If my response to your letter involved suggestions for what you could do going forward, please wait until you have either taken those suggestions, or tweaked them, or decided against them, and enough time has gone by to see what the results are, before you send an update. And if your question was about something that will take time to manifest (for example, asking about your Saturn return a year or two before it starts, or asking what career would be best for you when you’re still a student), it’s not realistic to have an update before what you were asking about has happened.

If you have an update that you prefer to share with me personally but not have published, or if you want certain details of your update withheld from publication, please say so. I will respect your wishes. However, to submit any future questions to this feature, you must have provided a publishable update.

If it has been at least a year since your question was published, you may (but do not have to) ask a new or follow up astrological question along with your update, or anytime after you have submitted an update and heard from me that it has been or will be published. If you are submitting an update and a new question at the same time, you may include both in the Ask the Astrologer submission form above, but please use the Contact page if you are only submitting an update.