Math, science and snakes were my first loves. I ate algebra for lunch and always made Aâs in every math class. By the time I was a junior in high school growing up in Oklahoma City, I had already taken all of the upper level math and science classes. And was ready for something else to studyâ¦
So, by the time I matriculated (snotty word) at Oklahoma State University I selected English Lit as my major and finished my degree at UCLA in 1970. Math and poetry were my first real loves. Snakes fell out of the list; replaced by redheads and blondes.
Although I also was a radio announcer when I was 19 and ended up in radio and television journalism in the years that followed my graduation from college. The last corporate job I held was in Tulsa, Oklahoma where I was a news reporter for a local television station.
Astrology came into my life in 1975. I was 27 years old and drifting. And feeling lost. It was in June that year when a dear woman I was dating who had studied astrology and knew how to read natal astrological birth charts read mine. The awareness that she had of my life and times, how I felt, and of the forces deep inside me, blew me away.
And thatâs when I began the study of astrology. I searched for every book written on the subject and took my ability to be an English Major to another level â I knew how to read and research a subject. So, I read all the literature, all the astrological books I could find, and had hundreds and thousands of charts prepared to study and analyze.
I began to teach beginning classes in astrology in Oakland, CA, where I was living in 1985, and really enjoyed filling blackboards with hieroglyphics and notes about each planet.
Later I would teach astrology at the University of Texas at Austin in the mid 90âs and have the advanced students from those classes circle my dining room table in my apartment every week to tackle a new aspect of astrology.
In 1989, I began to write Skywatch. At first it was just a daily exercise in talking about the heavenly hosts and signs. The daily reports piled up on my desk with no real direction. A woman with a radio program in SF called me that summer asking for an astrological piece she could put in her radio show â I looked at the pile of Skywatch scripts on my desk and said yes, I have something that will work. She put Skywatch on the radio.
And to this day, Skywatch is still on the radio in San Francisco on KEST, 1450 AM at 7 a.m. Mon-Wed.
And I have been reading charts and teaching since 1979. I left the television station to start my own astrological practice and new life that year. And Iâve never looked back.
Birth data: May 19, 1948, 10:20 a.m., Dallas, Texas