What a Birth Chart Cannot Tell You

Some questions arrive most weeks and I answer none of them. It is worth saying which, and why, before somebody books an hour expecting otherwise.

How long someone will live

I do not read for lifespan, my own or anyone else's, and I will end a consultation that keeps pushing towards it. There is no version of that answer that helps the person receiving it, and there is a long history of harm attached to people who give it anyway.

This holds for the softer forms too, including questions about elderly parents phrased as asking about a difficult period ahead.

Whether someone else loves you

A chart describes the person it belongs to. Bringing me somebody else's birth details to find out how they feel is a question about their interior life, asked without their knowledge, and I am not comfortable answering it.

What I can look at is your own chart, and what you tend to do in relationships, which is more useful than it sounds and considerably more actionable.

Exact figures and exact dates

How much the settlement will be. The day the offer will arrive. Whether it is the flat in Sector 12 or the one in Sector 15. Charts describe conditions and periods, not line items, and anybody producing that level of specificity is improvising.

I will give you a window and a texture. If you need a number, that is a conversation with an accountant.

Anything a doctor or a lawyer should hear

Diagnoses, prognoses, whether to take a treatment, whether to sign something. These are not astrological questions and treating them as though they were is where this field does real damage.

If a question belongs to a professional, I will say so, and I would rather lose the booking than answer it.

What is left

Timing, temperament, the shape of a period, what you tend to repeat, and where the pressure in a given stretch is likely to come from. Which is a great deal, and it is the part that has held up over the years.

A short honest list is worth more than a long one that cannot be relied on.