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who writes your reading

about lily

an engineer who spent almost ten years inside one undefined relationship.

trained as
an engineer
reads
natal, synastry, composite
will not
promise you an ending
lily
i.the sky

i have been fascinated by the sky for as long as i can remember.

as a child, i loved astronomy, mathematics and physics. i dreamed of becoming an aeronautical engineer and one day going to space.

i became an engineer, and that training still shapes how i approach astrology. it taught me to work carefully, check my calculations and be honest about what the information can and cannot show.

ii.the ten years

astrology became personal to me through a relationship that stayed undefined for almost ten years.

i was careful and rational, and it still kept me searching for answers. if that is where you are, nothing is wrong with you.

i know what it is like to feel that a connection matters deeply and still not understand why it will not become something clear. i had readings with several astrologers. the astrologer whose work stayed with me most had previously been a physics professor. his precision showed me that astrology could be emotionally perceptive without exaggerating what a chart can prove.

that made me want to study it seriously.

i took courses, studied independently and learned to read natal and relationship charts as complete systems rather than collections of dramatic placements. i learned to separate intensity from compatibility, chemistry from availability and possibility from a choice someone is actually willing to make.

when i began reading for other people, they told me that something which had kept them confused finally made sense.

astrology helped me through a very dark period. not because it predicted what another person would do or promised me the ending i wanted. it gave me language for patterns i could feel but could not name. then it returned the question that mattered most:

what is still mine to choose?

iii.the question

astrology did not give me control over another person’s choice. it gave me back my own.

that question sits beneath every reading i write.

i understand the search for one more sign, one more transit or one final piece of proof. i will never judge you for arriving there, because i have been there too.

if you bring me a question that has kept you awake, i will not dismiss what you feel or turn your hope into a promise the chart cannot make. i will show you what the chart can honestly support, in language you can understand.

sometimes we search the sky because we have forgotten how much power is still within us.

my work is about helping you find it again.

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