Hi everyone it's Amanda Reiger Green welcome Soul Sessions. I have an exceptional guest today that I am eager to share with you. Stephen Forrest. Welcome Stephen.

Thank you.

It's good to be here.

It's great to connect with you virtually.

Stephen Forrest is an American astrologer, writer, and lecturer.

He is the author of nearly a dozen astrological books and the founders of one of the

founders of the School of Evolutionary Astrology. Some of his books include the inner sky, the Changing Sky, the Night Speaks, The Book of Pluto, one of my favorites, yesterday's Sky, Astrology and Reincornation. But also, apart from his body of work and involvement in various scientific and academic institutions, astrological groups, he also gets a tremendous amount of praise from the pop culture arena.

So I want to make note of that. And I actually want to quote a couple of notable pop culture folks who have commentary on Stephen that I think that

resonate deeply with me. Sting says that Stephen manages to disarm the skeptic as well as debunk the

charlatan that surrounds popular astrology with language that is

intelligent cogent, and poetic.

Oprah Magin's scene has described Stephen

as stopping the blame game in its tracks.

We're warriors for filling our turbulent evolutionary paths.

And one other quote that I love because it really resonates

with me is from Robert Downey Jr.

I marvel at the accuracy of Stephen's readings. He insists that nothing is so grave as to be beyond repair and correspondingly that there is no rainbow that won't be evaporated by poor judgment in the now.

So high praise and acclaims, but you also get them for me.

Welcome Stephen again.

And I'm excited to introduce you to to our listeners but also reintroduce you to those who have been touched by your work and your writing and your teachings.

One of the things I want to start with is your very first book in, was it 1984,

1986, 1984?

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