I am retired after several careers, most recently as the owner of a Victoria Street gallery of Inuit and Six Nations art, I devote more of my spare time researching “what’s going on in the skies,” an interest that developed when I realized astrology is not only about looking forward, but also looking back.
On his recently released inaugural podcast, he says he had an interest in “esoteric cultural expression” from an early age.
As a youngster he collected books about ancient sites in Britain, Mexico and North America, books about “arcane kind of stuff I regarded as lost knowledge,” like Stonehenge.
While working in the curatorial department of The Art Gallery of Ontario, I went to Britain and Europe visiting art galleries, and had an opportunity to visit Stonehenge, which is widely regarded as “an astrological edifice,” set up so that at particular point during the winter solstice, the sun comes up precisely between two stones.
It’s one of the first dedicated man-made pieces designed to “keep track of the skies above,” and that opened my eyes to astrology.
My career in radio began when I was working behind the scenes at CFRB when I was at York University, studying film, art and film production. After university, and my job with the AGO, I went back to radio, this time hosting a morning radio show in Hamilton. While there, I had as a regular guest well-known astrologer, who in reading my birth chart, mentioned a near-drowning experience when I was four years old. He related that to the near-fatal car accident that had left me with a year of healing and physiotherapy when I was in my early 30s.
I knew nothing about a drowning incident, I told the astrologer, who suggested I should ask my mother.
I learned he had nearly drowned at the age of four, although my mother didn’t go into details, but gradually, over a period of 11 years, the memory came back. My family was visiting Honey Harbour, and I had slipped off some rocks, and had grabbed a tree branch as I fell. I was in the water, clinging to the branch for dear life, for almost two hours before someone found me.
“I’m a Taurus. We’re stubborn,”. “I guess sometimes that can be a good thing.”
When I realized you could read the past through astrology as well as the future, “from then on, I was hooked.”
Putting the two near-tragic events together, and wanting to avoid a third situation, I began tracking my astrological chart to ensure I would know when it was time to take extra caution and avoid any activity that would put me in danger.
“It took about a year to figure things out,” talking of charts, houses, planets and signs. “I began to read more about how everything fits together.”
Astrology isn’t my only interest. Time spent on politics behind the scenes, working on campaigns for candidates of all levels of government, led me to run for council in 2014, believing it was time for a new wave of councilors. I was a little ahead of my time, with the majority of councilors re-elected that term. I was also chair of the Town’s parking committee and was an outspoken critic of the expensive pay-and-display system purchased, with meters that often did not work properly and frustrated downtown merchants and visitors.
I still follow town politics but am no longer involved. I live on a Firelane, on the lake. I love walking Brooke, a German Shepherd from the Welland Humane Society, and I also like working out astrological charts for people — I wouldn’t mind doing that a couple of days a week.
To an astrologer, luck is not necessarily the reason he’s still here.
I've studied what happened in the last 200 to 300 years and see the results of a cycle that began again in 2008.
“It’s a repeat of the turbulent times that created the U.S., democracy in France and other places. It’s turbulent again today, the way it was then. It isn’t exactly the same, but it’s the same planet configuration as at that time.”
My research leads me to question coincidence.
“Astrology gives you the feeling there is some great mind behind all this. It’s not exactly predetermination, but I think there is a lot more to coincidence than we know.”
As Joni Mitchell said: " We are stardust. So Shine on.
Bill Auchterlonie
On his recently released inaugural podcast, he says he had an interest in “esoteric cultural expression” from an early age.
As a youngster he collected books about ancient sites in Britain, Mexico and North America, books about “arcane kind of stuff I regarded as lost knowledge,” like Stonehenge.
While working in the curatorial department of The Art Gallery of Ontario, I went to Britain and Europe visiting art galleries, and had an opportunity to visit Stonehenge, which is widely regarded as “an astrological edifice,” set up so that at particular point during the winter solstice, the sun comes up precisely between two stones.
It’s one of the first dedicated man-made pieces designed to “keep track of the skies above,” and that opened my eyes to astrology.
My career in radio began when I was working behind the scenes at CFRB when I was at York University, studying film, art and film production. After university, and my job with the AGO, I went back to radio, this time hosting a morning radio show in Hamilton. While there, I had as a regular guest well-known astrologer, who in reading my birth chart, mentioned a near-drowning experience when I was four years old. He related that to the near-fatal car accident that had left me with a year of healing and physiotherapy when I was in my early 30s.
I knew nothing about a drowning incident, I told the astrologer, who suggested I should ask my mother.
I learned he had nearly drowned at the age of four, although my mother didn’t go into details, but gradually, over a period of 11 years, the memory came back. My family was visiting Honey Harbour, and I had slipped off some rocks, and had grabbed a tree branch as I fell. I was in the water, clinging to the branch for dear life, for almost two hours before someone found me.
“I’m a Taurus. We’re stubborn,”. “I guess sometimes that can be a good thing.”
When I realized you could read the past through astrology as well as the future, “from then on, I was hooked.”
Putting the two near-tragic events together, and wanting to avoid a third situation, I began tracking my astrological chart to ensure I would know when it was time to take extra caution and avoid any activity that would put me in danger.
“It took about a year to figure things out,” talking of charts, houses, planets and signs. “I began to read more about how everything fits together.”
Astrology isn’t my only interest. Time spent on politics behind the scenes, working on campaigns for candidates of all levels of government, led me to run for council in 2014, believing it was time for a new wave of councilors. I was a little ahead of my time, with the majority of councilors re-elected that term. I was also chair of the Town’s parking committee and was an outspoken critic of the expensive pay-and-display system purchased, with meters that often did not work properly and frustrated downtown merchants and visitors.
I still follow town politics but am no longer involved. I live on a Firelane, on the lake. I love walking Brooke, a German Shepherd from the Welland Humane Society, and I also like working out astrological charts for people — I wouldn’t mind doing that a couple of days a week.
To an astrologer, luck is not necessarily the reason he’s still here.
I've studied what happened in the last 200 to 300 years and see the results of a cycle that began again in 2008.
“It’s a repeat of the turbulent times that created the U.S., democracy in France and other places. It’s turbulent again today, the way it was then. It isn’t exactly the same, but it’s the same planet configuration as at that time.”
My research leads me to question coincidence.
“Astrology gives you the feeling there is some great mind behind all this. It’s not exactly predetermination, but I think there is a lot more to coincidence than we know.”
As Joni Mitchell said: " We are stardust. So Shine on.
Bill Auchterlonie