About Stephen Lewis
Still looking.
I'm Stephen Lewis. I've practiced astrology since 2009. Today I work as a professional astrologer, teacher, and investigator of an ancient art whose questions are far from settled.
My specialty is medieval astrology. My practice, however, draws from several traditions, ancient and modern. I have no interest in defending a method simply because it is old—or dismissing one because it is new.
A life in many worlds.
Before astrology became my profession, I worked in television control rooms, computer systems, mortgage brokerage, human resources, and business journalism. I managed broadcasts aboard Holland America cruise ships and taught English in Peru. I also worked as a telephone psychic, speaking with people who brought questions about love, loss, work, and the future.
It was an unusual education.
Those occupations placed me in very different rooms, with very different people. They gave me experience of the commercial, technical, and personal worlds that eventually became the subjects of my astrological work.
Lima, 2009.
I began practicing tarot and astrology while living in Lima, Peru.
Across the street from my home stood Huaca Pucllana, a vast pre-Columbian ceremonial complex rising from the middle of a modern city. Ancient walls, modern traffic, centuries of human life occupying the same ground.
It was a remarkable place to begin studying an ancient art.
What began there became a lasting pursuit: the study of celestial patterns, their interpretation across cultures, and their apparent correspondence with the events of human lives.
No single school has the final word.
Medieval astrology forms the backbone of my practice. I study its sources, its elaborate techniques of judgment, and its methods for tracing the fortunes of a life through time.
But I also work extensively with modern astrology and have studied Vedic astrology in considerable depth.
These traditions do not always agree. Their differences can be profound.
I don't try to erase them.
I want to know what each system actually says, what its methods can accomplish, and what happens when we put those methods to work on real charts.
Sometimes the testimony is striking. Sometimes it conflicts. Sometimes a rule that looks impeccable on paper fails to explain what happened.
Those are the cases that hold my attention.
The work of judgment.
A birth chart is not a verdict waiting to be pronounced. Its planets offer competing indications, changing conditions, and possibilities that must be weighed against one another.
I examine the evidence, consider the alternatives, and make my judgment. I want to understand not only what the chart indicates, but why—and when.
There is always another detail to notice, another assumption to question, another chart that puts an old rule to the test.
I'm still looking.