Readings

Recorded Relationship (or Synastry) reading. A consideration of two or more charts from any type of relationship's perspective, the charts' interactions and the larger potentials they create together. State where (city & state or country) the people met. Please note that we'll not do such analyses unless we're assured that all parties have been informed. 

PRE-REQUISITE: FOR IN-PERSON WORK, A BIRTHCHART ANALYSIS IS REQUIRED FIRST

You may choose to have your analysis done by Jodie or Steven. Please remember that we need the written permission of both persons to prepare the synastry. Click here to to email us.

Fee: $290

Please note there’s a waiting list for taped work. The length of Steven's waiting list for readings he records and mails typically varies between six and twelve months, and Jodie's is currently in the six month range. Steven is generally available for face-to-face sessions at his home in Borrego Springs, CA, at much shorter notice - typically within several weeks. Contact him directly for current specifics at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If you’re in a hurry, please see our Directory of Evolutionary Astrologers Trained by Steven Forrest.

A recording of your birthchart analysis, mailed. A view of the dynamics and issues of one's life, birth to death, with a focus on the optimal paths towards self-fulfillment and happiness. The reading is intended to be uplifting and inspiring, but also deals frankly with more problematic dimensions of one's experience. This is the reading most first-time clients will want.

You may choose to have your analysis done by Jodie or Steven.

Fee: $290

Please note there’s a waiting list for taped work. The length of Steven's waiting list for readings he records and mails typically varies between six and twelve months, and Jodie's is currently in the six month range. Steven is generally available for face-to-face sessions at his home in Borrego Springs, CA, at much shorter notice - typically within several weeks. Contact him directly for current specifics at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If you’re in a hurry, please see our Directory of Evolutionary Astrologers Trained by Steven Forrest.

Steven and Jodie are available for face-to-face readings In Person. An In Person reading offers a unique opportunity to interact with your astrologer and ask questions. Please call for details and to book your In Person Reading at 760.767.4720. Please leave a message: the answering machine is always on; we’ll call you back. 

Waiting List details : Jodie’s waiting list for in-person work is currently about 5-10 months. Looking for a reading with Steven sooner than later? Steven is generally available for face-to-face sessions at his home in Borrego Springs, CA, at much shorter notice than his taped readings - typically within several weeks. Contact him directly for current specifics at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If you’re in a hurry, please see our Directory of Evolutionary Astrologers Trained by Steven Forrest.

Choose from a variety of specialized readings with Jodie Forrest. Including: Thematic Analysis, Relocation Astrology, Astrological Business Support, Past Event Analysis, Monthly or Seasonal Transits, and Family Systems.

Relocation Astrology
Travel and moving emphasize different areas of your birthchart...rather like "permanent transits" in the relocated place. A relocated chart does not REPLACE your birthchart!!! But it can play up or play down various configurations in your birthchart. Relocation work can consider astro*carto*graphy (copyright Jim Lewis) or local space maps of the world, continent, country or region.

*Relocated charts recast--"relocate"--your birthchart as if you'd been born in a different city.
*Astro*carto*graphy tracks the paths of your natal planets' rising, setting and crossing the midheaven and nadir, across the whole globe or a portion of it, during the 24 hours of your birthday.
*Local Space is like astrological feng shui. It converts your natal planets to a degrees N-S-E-W position on the 360-degree compass wheel, centered on your birthplace. You can also center your local space 360-degree map wherever you are: a blueprint of your house, your home's position on a map of your town, your lodgings in another city, etc. In either astro-mapping technique, a site along a planetary line produces an increased emphasis on the affairs ruled by that planet.

Thematic Analysis
Analysis of specific chart-related questions. The potential expression of many different themes within a chart can be addressed: vocation, relationships, creativity, parenting, etc.
Fee: $125

Past Event Analysis
Is there a chapter of your life on which you'd like more perspective?

Monthly or Seasonal Transits
Events unfolding in your chart can be examined from the more brief and detailed perspective of a limited time frame (rather than the longer time frame of the regular transits and progressions reading).

Family Systems
Considers recurring astrological dynamics within your natal or present family.

Business Support
Anything that has a specific beginning in time--including your company--has a birthchart with its own transits and progressions. If you're researching a large corporation, many of those charts are available. Business support can include but isn't limited to such matters as:
* When to start or incorporate your own company
* When to carry out various business decisions
* Where to open your next office or branch
* When to hire new personnel
* Team-building synastries. What are the co-workers' interactive strengths and weaknesses? For a small business or a department with ten or fewer employees, the company's composite chart shows the entity formed by that group of people, how to nourish their cooperative spirit, and how to work with the typical tensions that might arise. Synastries may also be done from one company chart to another, as well as between a business person and his/her company and client(s).

All specialty readings are billed at $150.00 an hour, with a half hour minimum of $65.00. Readings are available by phone or taped (and also in person). Before submitting your request, please call Jodie at 919.929.4287, (or use the "contact" link) to discuss what you’d like and to estimate the fees.

Use Horary readings to help determine WHETHER a given action is advisable. With Jodie Forrest.

Most questions can be addressed astrologically. Are you wondering about a career change? A partnership? Horary Astrology can often give accurate, specific insights into the outcome of a matter. Horary techniques are technically complicated but if requested, Jodie will include a brief non-jargon explanation of how and why she arrived at her conclusions.

Please state your question as precisely as possible. Horary is very literal and will answer your question word for word as you asked it. For example, if you are wondering whether you will get a specific job that you really want if you quit the one you have now, you could ask, "Will I get this job I really want?" rather than "Should I quit my job?"
Horary fee is per question. In addition to the horary fee, an hourly rate may be billed for time in excess of twenty minutes that is spent determining your precise question or discussing the outcome with you.

Deciding between an Electional and an Horary reading? Use Horaries to help determine WHETHER a given action is advisable. Use Electionals to find the best time for an action to which you are ALREADY COMMITTED. For example, "Should I apply for this job?" is an horary question. "When should I apply for this job?" is an electional question.

For each horary, please use the "Additional Notes" section to state your question just as precisely as possible. Thank you!

Fee: $75

What's the best date & time for a wedding, starting a business, moving, putting a house on the market, etc? With Jodie Forrest.

To order this reading, state your question, with both the beginning and ending days, days of the week, and hours of the day of its possible time frame. You'll receive the three best days & times with no interpretation. If that's all Jodie does, within one time frame, the cost is $75.00 per electional. Anything more complicated is billed at an hourly rate of $100.00/hr.

Electionals are defined by their parameters. For each electional, please specify the parameters of the "elected" event in the "Additional Notes" section. Parameters can include: the earliest possible beginning date and the latest possible ending date for the event; the possible days of the week within those beginning and ending dates; the possible hours of those days; and the city and state or country where the event will occur. Please choose your parameters carefully, because a second and different set of parameters for the same elected event will be billed separately. ;-)

Confused? Write me and I'll help.

Thank you!

First, we encourage you to explore every other possibility (relatives, baby books, the hospital records, etc.) to verify your birth time or at least get a ballpark figure for it, because rectification may not be accurate, and because its accuracy will vary with the time frame within which you were born. What does that mean? For example, if you know you were born between noon and 2 p.m., the rectification will probably be more accurate than if you know you were born between noon and 4 p.m.

Still, sometimes finding a birthtime is impossible. If you've tried everything with no success, we can "work backwards" through astrology's predictive techniques to find a chart that would have accurately predicted the timing of various biographical events. We'll need a list of at least two dozen emotionally or developmentally significant dates in your life, along with brief descriptions of them--"got married," for example.

The fee varies with the imprecision of the birth time. Please note that the rectification fee is added to the normal fee for a reading. For a rectification only without a reading, see the fee schedule below.

Within 6 hours: $375.00
Within 6 hours: $375.00
Within 5 hours: 325.00
Within 4 hours: 275.00
Within 3 hours: 225.00
Within 2 hours 175.00
Within 1 hour: 125.00

For time frames wider than six hours, ask if rectification is feasible in your case. Please call Jodie (919) 929-4287 to schedule this service. For more information about Chart Rectification, check out Steve's article on the subject.