Steven Forrest

              POB 2345, chapel hill NC USA 27516      Phone 919.929.4287       Fax 919.929.7092

                Email:  stevenforrest@mindspring.com      Web Site:  http://www.stevenforrest.com

            Gazing through astronomical telescopes in his early teens led Steven to begin exploring astrology. He received a B.A. in Religion in 1971 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and shortly thereafter began to establish his astrological practice. In 1984, Bantam Books published his first book, The Inner Sky, which ESQUIRE called "intelligent, well-written, and actually fun."  That volume was followed in 1986 by Bantam's publication of The Changing Sky. In 1988, with his wife, Jodie, he released the third volume of the popular Sky trilogy, Skymates.  Steven's fourth book was published by ACS in May 1993. Titled The Night Speaks, it is an extended argument for the intellectual and philosophical plausibility of astrology. His fifth work, The Book of Pluto, was released in May 1995. Regarding that book, HOROSCOPE magazine described Steven as "not only a premier astrologer, but also a wise man."  In February 2000,  with astrologer Jeffrey Wolf Green, he published Measuring the Night: Evolutionary Astrology and the Keys to the Soul, Volume One, based on a series of lectures they presented together in various places around the United States in 1998. Volume Two of Measuring the Night was published in February 2001. In February 2002, Steven and Jodie published a radically new edition of Skymates. A second volume of Skymates, covering the Composite chart, will be published in February 2005.           

            Additionally, Steven has written technical articles for most of the major American astrological journals and several national magazines outside the astrological field. He composed the texts for two popular computerized astrological report writers: The Sky Within and SkyLog, and has recently completed work on a pair of relationship reports: The Sky We Share and The Single Sky which are marketed through I-Village/astrology.com.  In an effort to bring his choice‑centered approach to wider audiences, he has also written the monthly astrology columns for ELLE and SASSY magazines and has been a guest on innumerable radio programs around the country. His work has been translated into half a dozen languages, and he travels widely throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada lecturing on astrological topics, although his primary focus is still on his private astrological practice. Most notably, he has taught at Omega Institute, the New York Open Center, and the Marion Foundation, and has recently addressed the Fellows at Andrew Weil's program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

            Steven is currently Chair of the Kepler College Advisory Council, which is an accredited astrologically-oriented university in Seattle, Washington. Additionally he is leading a pair of Apprenticeship Programs, one based near San Diego, California, and the other one in Napa, California, in which he is actively addressing the issue of attracting younger people into the field through scholarships. Steve won the 1985 Professional Astrologers Incorporated Award for "Outstanding Contribution to the Art and Science of Astrology," and was nominated for a Regulus Award in 1992 and 1995. He is a member of the Ethics Committee of the International Society for Astrological Research. The musician, Sting, calls Steven's work "as intelligent and cogent as it is poetic." DELL HOROSCOPE describes him as "not only a premier astrologer, but also a wise man." Callie Khouri, who wrote the screenplay for the mega-hit film Thelma and Louise praises his "humor,  insight, poetry, and astute, articulate observations of human nature." O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE describes his philosophy this way: "Forrest's approach . . . stops the blame game in its tracks.  . . we're warriors fulfilling our turbulent evolutionary paths." And Rob Brezny, in his popular Real Astrology column simply calls him “the most brilliant astrologer alive.” In the book, Under One Sky, twelve well-known astrologers interpreted the same birthchart, blind. Chris Lorenz, in HOROSCOPE, writes, “As a perpetual student myself, I wanted to know which astrologer did the best . . . Readers will come to their own conclusions about which astrologer was most on target, but for me, the clearest, most consistently accurate statements were given by Steven Forrest.”

            He lives in the woods near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and professional partner, novelist Jodie Forrest,  and two cats, where he entertains himself with his guitars.

            Steven Lectures and workshops  www.sevenpawspress.com/workshop.html,