Hi! You have reached the About section of The Flow! and so are most likely looking for information about me, something that although my Sun is in Leo, is a task I do not relish. Hence not placing anything here until well after this blog is two years old.

My name in the real world is Bill Gordon, aka BillG, I live in Los Angeles, California, USA, and I have been studying, teaching, and practicing astrology for over 40 years.

The first astrology book I ever bought was “How to Write Your Own Horoscope” by Joseph Goodavage when I was a teenager because I thought it was a book about astronomy. Unlike many astrologers, I came to astrology via the sciences of astronomy, chemistry, and physics and was devising my own ephemerides while I was still in high school. The skills I learned from these disciplines imbues my astrological work, and serve as the foundation for some of my own astrological theories and techniques.

Yet, the sciences were not my only inspiration in learning astrology. One of my other first astrology books was “Esoteric Astrology” by Alice Bailey. Deeply immersed in the spiritual writings of Jane Roberts, I reinterpreted the obscure writings of Alice Bailey into a spiritual language I could understand, and obtained enormous insights into the nature of the spirit and astrology as a result.

Since I believe that spirit, or consciousness, is the origin of all things, my astrological studies veered toward those authors whose work sought to unlock its mysteries. Dane Rudhyar’s delvings into the secrets of the East blended with those of Marc Edmund Jones who researched those based in the Middle East. Since my undergraduate psychology days, I had taken a keen interest in the cognitive studies of Jean Piaget,  and combined with my own archaeological investigations into the nature of the zodiac built on their work to develop the Sabian Signs, a model that is capable of divining the meaning of any cycle, but most particularly the zodiac.

Another of my own astrological works seeks to update astrology to the theories of Copernicus, Kepler, and Einstein, and do not consider the Earth as the only center of astrological energies. We may be the center of our universe, but we are not the center of everything.

Originally, I hail from the Boston area, where I studied for several years with Isabel Hickey. In these younger, halcyon days, when I had the time to do so I was the president of the New England Astrological Association and Star Rovers organizations (simultaneously, even!) as well as the Braintree chapter of Psi Symposium. I was also a board member of the Boston chapter of NCGR for several years.

I fervently believe that astrology is the science of the future, and will someday regain its rightful inheritance as the “Queen of the Sciences.” It is certainly the compendium of mankind’s historical ruminations on the nature of being, and as we learn about the ecological interconnectedness of our marvel of our blue marble home planet, it only stands to reason that the Earth is ecologically affected by its place in the universe. Astrology in general, and the Flow! in particular, are dedicated to better understanding that ecology as it relates to us.

Blessings,

BillG