A Little About Me 

I was born on March 13th, 1954 at 10:27 pm, in the town of Leigh, which, back in those days, was in the good old county of Lancashire, England. For anybody who might be interested, here's my chart.

So there I was, this little blonde haired, blue-eyed angel, just tootling along, minding my own business, when at the age of 13 months I was struck down with cerebro-spinal meningitis. For days, my life was despaired of as I gradually lost my vision and my ability to respond to outside stimuli. Mum and dad thought I was a goner, until the consultant told them he was going to pump me full of a new, experimental drug called "Streptomycin."


Apparently, it had never before been tried on meningitis cases in the U.K., so this was going to be something of an experiment - a great way to run a railroad, some might think, but there you go - and if it worked on me, they would apply it to other, similar cases. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I was shot full of this stuff over one weekend, and slowly but surely, started to make what was to be a full recovery. Even today, apparently, some folk still regard me as "the miracle baby," but I don't see it as a miracle. As far as I'm concerned, Great Spirit knew it wasn't my time to die - he had work for me to do, and at the age of 13, I found that work; I found Astrology.


I was immediately hooked on this fascinating way of  figuring out what all the girls were like just by knowing their Sun-signs, but I soon started to take it a lot more seriously and studied avidly alone in my room until I finally managed to erect a complete chart - my own. The sense of self-discovery, of absolute wonderment, was total and immediate. I was completely hooked, and as the years rolled by I erected and analyzed the horoscopes of all my friends and family, to the utter dismay of my Roman Catholic mother, who thought I'd gone completely doollally!

Undeterred by such parental encouragement, I carried on studying until eventually I decided to sit for the intermediate certificate with the "Faculty Of Astrological Studies," but I never finished the course, mostly due to lack of funds. Then one year I went to my first major astrological conference, held by the prestigious Manchester Astrology Group. Within two years I was chairman, lecturing throughout the U.K., including my first taste of the "big time," a two-hour lecture at the "Astrological Association" conference in Norwich in 1984. I'd finally made it!

Since then, I have continued to lecture and teach, and in 1992 collaborated on a 70-minute video called "Astrology Revealed," which is a rich and colourful introduction to our great craft. I got married to Linda, a Virgo, in September 2000, and I have three great kids: Martin, a 1978 Capricorn; Sian, a 1981 Cancer, and Tanith, another Cappie, born in 1989. I also have a crazy cat called "Sathya," who delights in being a Sun Pisces with a Gemini Moon,  and who graciously allows us to live with him here, in  Birkenhead, on Merseyside.

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