What an astrological consultation offers
Hardly anyone comes out of curiosity. People come at a point where something is due: a change of job, a relationship that has shifted, or the stubborn feeling of having sat in the wrong place for years.
An astrological consultation sets a description against that, and the description does not come from the conversation. It comes from your birth chart: from the Sun, the Moon and the ascendant, from the placements of the planets in signs and houses at the moment you were born. The appeal lies in the fact that this description was already fixed before you read a word of it.
What comes out of it is not advice and not a forecast, but a map of your dispositions: where your strength lies, where you regularly get in your own way, where you are heading when nothing stands against it. The deciding is still yours, only with a better view of your own position.
Why we work in writing
A written reading waits for you.
You read the section on your emotional life three times, skip the one about your career and come back to it in February because something has shifted. A birth chart rarely opens up on the first pass: the placement that says the most about you is often the one you recognise weeks later.
Then there is the reference section. Every placement is listed there with sign and degree, from the Sun to Pluto, along with houses, ascendant and retrograde planets. If you later read something about Venus in Scorpio or about your moon sign, you know within ten seconds whether it concerns you at all.
And it stays. Your birth chart is the sky of your first second and never changes; a careful reading of it is as valid in ten years as it is today.
How your birth chart is calculated
Before any interpretation comes the calculation. We work with the Swiss Ephemeris, the standard reference for planetary positions. Sun, Moon, ascendant and the planets are therefore fixed to the arcminute, along with the twelve houses and the retrograde planets, as soon as your time of birth is available.
This precision is not an end in itself. The ascendant changes sign roughly every two hours, the Moon every two and a half days. Two hours of difference on a birth certificate produce a different chart, and rounding generously at this point means interpreting somebody else.
The interpretation is built on that foundation, and it is where the larger part of the work lies. Looking up a single placement is quickly done; the difficulty is the interplay, when ten celestial bodies, twelve houses and the angles between them reinforce or hold back one another. What is described are dispositions and tensions, not events, and what makes a reading good is that somebody recognises themselves in it.
Switzerland and beyond
Bern is where we are at home. There is still no consulting room here, no office hours and no waiting list. We write instead, in German, English or French, and where you read it from makes no difference.
For the reading itself the place matters little in any case. Your birth chart looks the same in Bern as it does in Chur or in Lausanne; what counts is the care with which somebody reads it.
If you are looking for a conversation, Switzerland has experienced astrologers, many of them decades in the field. A written birth chart reading does not rule that out, quite the opposite: anyone who walks into a conversation with a finished analysis no longer has to establish the basics and gets to their own questions sooner.