I’m Ezra (they/them — I’m also comfortable with he/him). I live in Spokane, Washington. I am a Two-Spirit and Queer, and I am an enrolled member of the Quinault Indian Nation.
I practice Hellenistic astrology — the original Western astrological tradition, recovered from Greek and Latin sources over the past few decades and slowly returning to living use.
This page is the shorter of two: the deeper account of what I do is on The Practice; this is the account of who is doing it.
How I came to the tradition
There is a deep resonance between Hellenistic Astrology and Indigenous Astrology from Turtle Island. Timing techniques and language that spans across oceans. Because of contemporary translations to English, access to ancient wisdom expanded – and rejuvenated other traditions from across the world.
Yesterday a client asked me this and I estimated 2018. Turns out, I was right! Random facts stick in a mind that is forgetful at a fault. Hellenistic Astrology is a practice of techniques that helped me self-heal and continue to deep dive into my own chart. When I delineate a chart, I write about it with the intensity and passion of my Venus, the lesser benefic, in the 9th House at 12°25′ Sagittarius in its own Egyptian Bound in Munakara (pronounced “moon kai”) – sharing space with an illuminated Saturn and Herschel’s Star.
Training
I trained — and continue to train — through Adam Elenbaas at Nightlight Astrology. Nightlight’s curriculum is grounded in the Hellenistic tradition and draws on the work of the modern translators and teachers — Project Hindsight, Robert Schmidt, Robert Hand, Chris Brennan, Demetra George, and others — who have made these techniques available again in English. Adam’s approach is careful, philosophical, and humane. His teaching has shaped the way I sit with a chart, and the way I sit with the people whose charts I read. I’ve recently enrolled in his Horary Astrology class in hopes that it will help me understand some of the books on my shelf.
I have also worked with and learned from the online astrology community that appeared during the Covid pandemic. Astrology was a living, breathing energy within digital spaces at a time where the internet connected us to the world. A very Uranian experience in a Plutonian time. Self-study has been another medium of my learning and I would like to credit my vast book shelves of things I’ve read and referenced over the years. Most notably Melanie Reinhart and Judith Hill with some Ra Uru Hu and Chris Brennan mixed in.
Funny story – when I began studying and practicing Human Design – I placed my copy of Ra’s book, The Definitive Book of Human Design, The Science of Differentiation, on my altar and requested he help me learn with humor and his quirky attitude towards the world so that I could understand his transcripts with ease. Turns out it worked – and he made me laugh quite a few times through insightful examples in the real world with dreams and the power of the clairs. Yes, my Saturn in the 9th is showing – blasphemy.
On the practice as sacred
For me, this work is not only technical. Astrology is part of my spiritual identity — a sacred practice, not only a craft. As a Two-Spirit person, I carry ways of knowing in which the chart, the body, and the spirit are not separable; reading a chart is, for me, of a piece with the longer ceremony of a life. The Hellenistic tradition is not the same as the traditions of my own people, but in its respect for the integrity of a life — in its insistence that the chart is the description of a soul in time, not a list of personality traits — I find a kinship I did not always expect.
I had the opportunity to learn, study, and contemporize the foundations of Mesoamerican astrology through the Tonalpohualli. The practice of Hellenistic Astrology resonates with my personal Indigenous roots and our systems of watching the skies and determining fate as a whole and individually. My cultural practice of Mesoamerican astrology is a closed practice, while Hellenistic Astrology offers a well documented alternative as open practice from ancient times. They’re relative to being under the same skies – but different in being measured with various tools, techniques, languages, cultures, and histories.
On who this practice is for
My practice is inclusive. The reading I bring to a chart is shaped by Black and Indigenous perspectives alongside the older Mediterranean material, and I read with care for the lives the ancient texts did not always anticipate. I read with care for queer, trans, Two-Spirit, and gender-expansive people. Whatever else a chart is, it is the chart of an actual person living an actual life, and the reading should belong to that person. My Human Design Incarnation Cross, Explanation 4, has illuminated the fact that I can simplify complex subject matters. If that is who you’re looking for – you found me. 😜🫰🏼
What this site is
This site is a small personal one — a place where I write about what I am studying and the way the practice is unfolding. In previous years, this site was my blog back in 2018. Then it grew into a community in 2019. Then it expanded into a marketplace briefly. Sadly, that marketplace forgot to file a specific business form and our business license was not renewed. But, here I am, with all of this knowledge and information and no time or energy to run a business. I have recently learned, due to specific placements in my natal chart, that I am destined to work a full time job for someone else while spending my free time creating something for myself and others. This site is a part of that creation and a digital anchor for my clients and the people who seek me out on the internet.
I am based in Spokane and work with clients throughout Washington, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.