About Astrologer Graham Boston
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I have been fascinated by astrology since I was a teenager in the late 1970s, and have given birth chart readings since 1995.
I am the author of Astrology, A Beginner's Guide, published by Hodder Headline, and have taught and lectured in astrology both in the UK and Europe since 2000. I helped run the Aquarius Severn Astrology Society for 30 years until 2022. In 2021 I was nominated for the Charles Harvey Award for Exceptional Service to Astrology by Maggie Hyde and the late (and sadly missed) Geoffrey Cornelius of The Company of Astrologers. |
My introduction to astrology
I was first 'caught' by astrology in 1979 when I was 17 and still at school. I learnt to cast my own natal horoscope (or 'birth chart') and recognised myself in its symbols and their interpretations, which I found in astrology books. I also discovered a larger, more inspiring sense of who I was, and of what I could become. Instead of seeing myself as rather shy, diffident teenager, I discovered that I was a unique expression of archetypal patterns common to all human beings.
Casting birth charts for family and friends gave me an explanation for their sometimes bewildering individual behaviour and attitudes. As I explored this new-found passion further, I realised that these archetypal energies manifest themselves in every area of life, from human relationships to the rise and fall of stock markets and civilisations.
Casting birth charts for family and friends gave me an explanation for their sometimes bewildering individual behaviour and attitudes. As I explored this new-found passion further, I realised that these archetypal energies manifest themselves in every area of life, from human relationships to the rise and fall of stock markets and civilisations.
Planetary Profiles
In 1984 I embarked on a project, the aim of which was to summarise everything I knew about natal astrology, from my reading, from personal experience, observation and from casting other people's birth charts. I started to write a database of interpretations for each combination of sign, house and planet, a project that was to take a further eight or so years to complete, and which forms the basis, updated over the years, of the Planetary Profiles that now form the basis of my new Soul Stories. Embarking on this project was very much part of my own healing at the time, and gave me a sense of achievement that I had hitherto missed out on.
The Aquarius Severn Astrology Society
From the early 1990s I helped run the Aquarius Severn Astrology Society, based in my home town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (UK). It has hosted fortnightly talks and twice-yearly workshops by well-known and local astrologers since 1981, and since the early part of the Covid pandemic, went global via Zoom, boosting its attendance hugely. It continues its programme of monthly talks and there is now also a monthly in-person discussion group that meets in Cheltenham.
Since the mid 1990s I built up an astrology practice, explaining to clients what their birth chart means and what astrological cycles are currently operating in their lives.
In 1995 I successfully completed a practitioner course in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP encompasses a powerful set of mental and communication techniques to utilise the full potential of the brain, which have informed my life, my work with clients and my writing ever since.
Since the mid 1990s I built up an astrology practice, explaining to clients what their birth chart means and what astrological cycles are currently operating in their lives.
In 1995 I successfully completed a practitioner course in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP encompasses a powerful set of mental and communication techniques to utilise the full potential of the brain, which have informed my life, my work with clients and my writing ever since.
Astrology, A Beginner's Guide
In 1997 I was asked to write a book on astrology for their 'Beginner's Guide' series to astrology for Hodder Headline. My aim in writing 'Astrology, A Beginner's Guide' was to make the subject as accessible as possible, and to encourage the reader to begin a journey that can bring great insight and richness to everyday life.
Teaching
I have taught astrology to beginners for Aquarius Severn off and on since 2000, and in 2002-03 lectured on the subject to passengers on mind-body-spirit cruises in the Mediterranean.
Continuing professional development
Astrology is such a large subject that there is always something new to learn. Because of my involvement with Aquarius Severn I have been to many superb talks and workshops, and whenever possible I attend conferences, workshops and lectures, for example with the Company of Astrologers and the UK Astrological Association.