About Lili
Astrology has been part of my life for nearly fifty years. I began studying it long before it became my profession, and over the decades, that study has grown alongside my formal education and my work helping people through complex, deeply human circumstances.
I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UCLA and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I spent years working in counseling and advocacy roles, supporting people experiencing mental health challenges, substance-use issues, and homelessness, as well as children with disabilities and their families.
These experiences shape the way I practice astrology today. I don’t use astrology to frighten people or reduce them to a chart. My practice draws on both ancient Hellenistic techniques and modern psychological astrology. I value the wisdom of tradition, but I don’t believe a chart dictates a fixed fate, or that planets, houses, and aspects can be reduced to “good” and “bad.”
No placement in astrology operates in isolation. The meaning of a planet, aspect, house, or transit emerges from its relationship to the whole chart, and from the will and choices of the person who is living it.
Every astrological placement has a range of expression. A trine can indicate ease, talent, and opportunity, but that ease can also become passivity or unrealized potential. Squares and oppositions can be difficult, yet their tension often creates movement, effort, and growth.
Saturn may indicate delay or denial. Depending on its placement and relationship to the rest of the chart, it can also represent structure, seriousness, commitment, and endurance. In relationship astrology, or synastry, Saturn contacts often signify a relationship’s durability. Again, all placements need to be understood within the context of the chart or charts and how the person or people interact within them.
Having lived through two Saturn returns and a Uranus opposition, I don’t regard major astrological cycles as automatic predictions of catastrophe. These periods brought challenges, as other periods of my life have, but they also brought opportunities for insight and development. Transits tend to reveal themes, pressures, and possibilities; they do not decree how we must experience them.
I don’t believe we control everything that happens to us, but neither do I believe we are passive characters in a story whose ending is already written. Rather than ask, “What will this transit do to me?” I encourage clients to ask, “How can I work consciously with this energy and make choices aligned with the life I want to create?”