About Nascita

I’m a Londoner by birth, half Italian, hence the name that sounds like a sneeze (say: ‘Nasheeta Montooski). Until I discovered astrology I thought poetry and music were the most excitement you could have while looking at a piece of paper. I studied English and European Literature at Warwick University and then spent the seventies teaching English while exploring the humanistic growth movement, of which I am both a survivor and a beneficiary.

In the eighties I got married, a cottage in the west country, a son and a daughter and a serious interest in astrology. I chose the Huber School of Astrological Psychology [now API(UK)] to study with, attracted by its holistic, psychological approach and emphasis on respect and empathy in consultations. I trained with them 1988-91 and tutored for them 1992-96 before finding that my own approach needed time and space to mature. I remain enormously indebted to API(UK), in whose teaching much of my work is still rooted. I particularly appreciate their insistence that meaning is made by astrologer and querent together, not just by the all-seeing astrologer issuing pronouncements.

Other astrological activity since 1991 includes:

• being on the chart-reading team at twelve glorious Glastonbury festivals, including two mud years, first with Rainbow Circle Astrologers and later with the Wheel of Astrologers
• chart-reading at the Big Green Gathering, with the same organisations
• teaching evening courses in astrology for  local education authorities
• contributing to Rainbow Circle astrology camps, including co-facilitating the memorable total eclipse camp on Dartmoor in 1999.
• running a small consultation practice while teaching literature; poetry appreciation and chart-reading have a lot in common.
• contributing articles to the online astrology magazine ‘AstroNews’.

I’m now living out the current Saturn-Uranus opposition on my second Saturn Return by abandoning my French farmhouse and English teaching for a Somerset-based life that includes both astrology and work with old people.  I’m learning a great deal from working with people whose lives are in their closing stages, and it’s excellent to have more time for astrology.