I was born in Charleston, South Carolina and moved to the mountains of Western North Carolina shortly after high school to study Horticulture at Haywood Community College in Waynesville, NC.  Always contemplative by nature, it was around this time that I began going to Kriya Yoga meditation groups. It was there that I met Ryan Kurczak, a Yogi and Vedic Astrologer.  Over the course of the 2 years (2007-09) that I lived in Western North Carolina, I would go to meditation groups with Ryan every 2 weeks or whenever possible and learn meditation techniques and philosophical concepts. Then I would take what I learned and practice it on my own until the next time I met with him. This continued over the years, and meditation practice was very helpful for me. I kept wanting more and more, so eventually Ryan initiated me into the Kriya Yoga tradition.  He taught me in the tradition of his teacher, Roy Eugene Davis, who, at the time, was the last living direct disciple of the great Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda. He passed away in the spring of 2019.

After being initiated into Kriya Yoga in 2008, my yogic studies led me to learning Vedic Astrology very quickly.  I had always been interested in human psychology and my  Yoga teacher was also an Astrologer, so he taught it in a way that was compatible with my spiritual practices.   

Ever since, I have been studying and practicing both Kriya Yoga and Jyotish (The Sanskrit word for Vedic Astrology) unwaveringly.  I have completed training with Ryan Kurczak’s beginner, intermediate, and advanced courses, as well as countless other Astrology courses.  I also studied with Ernst Wilhelm, and between the two of them and a few other teachers, I have taken at least 33 different astrological learning courses (well over 500 hours) in the last 10 years. {{As of this writing, November 28th, 2016,  I have stopped keeping track after logging over 1,000 hours of course classes with videos, but anyone who loves Astrology knows that there is no end to the hours that they spend thinking about it or involved with it in some way.}}

There is no end to what can be learned with Astrology, in my opinion. I am constantly learning and researching, while also being continuously more and more satisfied with the revelations.  As of this writing (Jan 2016), I have been practicing Vedic Astrology professionally for 5 years.

I received this diploma on 12/21/13  for completion of Ryan’s astrological training program.

    The Kriya tradition is connected to Astrology because one of the greatest Indian astrologers of recent times, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, (see photo below) was a Kriya Yogi, and the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda.

Swami Sri Yukteswar (pronounced Shree- yookt-es-war) was a self-realized sage, but was more widely known as an expert Astrologer. He trained Yogananda from a young age with the mission to be a representative of the ancient enlightenment tradition of Kriya Yoga to the western world.  Yogananda was of a more impulsive and devotional temperament.  In his book, Autobiography of a Yogi, he tells many stories of how Sri Yukteswar’s austere and disciplined approach was hard to embrace at first but eventually complemented his temperament nicely. He also said that he would have been a much more popular guru in India had he not run such a strict ashram!  This factor also probably has to do with why he is more well known in India as an Astrologer than a Guru.

In 2016 I was interviewed by Kapiel Raaj about my practice and study of astrology, how I came to learn about jyotish, etc.

In December of 2018 I was interviewed by my teacher Ernst Wilhelm about various experiences in predicting events. We went into a lot of stories about predicting the details of events, so if you are interested in predictive centered astrology, check this out.