The A Team

Neil Giles

Neil Giles is a storyteller, astrologer and historian. He is a novelist and journalist and has written for theatre, radio and television. His passion for mythology and the ancient traditions has led him on a journey through Astrology, Tarot, the Runes and the Celtic Ogham Script as a seeker and personal reader. He is the author of a number of works on Celtic and Teutonic spirituality, including Odin's Runes and The Oracle of the Trees. For Neil, the storyteller's path reminds us that while the wisdom of the past still lives, we can take wise action now and in the future. Always a traveller, Neil is at the moment living in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.

Richard Giles

Richard Giles, writer, astrologer and Feng Shui consultant, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, spending his childhood in sunny bliss in the climate of the City of Culture. The Vietnam war and conscription turned him towards another way of life. Spiritual journeys in Thailand, India and Indonesia with Buddhism and meditation led him to a new analysis of the world. He took up the study of astrology and more recently Feng Shui. Richard lives in sunny Queensland in the cool mountains in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, where he works as an astrologer and Feng Shui practitioner doing consultations and continues writing for various magazines and newspapers.

Helen Grant-Johnston

Helen Grant-Johnston combines Sacred Geometry, Voice and Multi-Dimensional Healing to provide a powerful medium in her symbols for growth and expansion. She has studied voice and operatic performance at the University of Toronto and the London Opera Centre. In Belfast, Northern Ireland, she became passionately involved in healing, rebirthing and primal regression therapy. For 12 years in Ireland, she ran a centre for the development of human potential, alongside her singing career.

Susan Hopper

Susan Hopper received her BA in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from the University of South Florida. As a member of the NCGR, she applies Jungian and Cognitive theory to her work as an astrologer. A free-lance writer and part-time counselor, Susan enjoys teaching the art and science of astrology. Her interests include off-road cycling, gourmet cooking and creative writing. She volunteers in her community as a veterinary technician for the local animal shelter and as an aide for mentally handicapped children in the public schools.

Uma Shankar Shukla

Uma Shankar Shukla graduated (B.Com) from Delhi University. He started teaching Astrology in the School of Astrology. Uma won a gold medial in 1997 in Astrology, having accurately predicted many events. Uma is skilled in providing health tips from Yoga and Meditation. He also takes Meditation classes every Sunday. He is now working as a free lancer with many newspapers and magazines in India, providing articles on Astrology, feng-shui, Numerology, Ancient Science, and Meditation etc. Uma enjoys writing, reading and listening to music. He was married in 1998.

Ian Thurnwald

Ian Thurnwald qualified first in Anthropology and then Social Work, holding B.A. (Hons) and B. Soc. Admin. degrees from the University of Adelaide and Flinders University, respectively. A self-taught astrologer, he has been practising the art for several years. Ian's main areas of interest are personal and mundane forecasting, synastry, and traditional astrology. He is a former committee member of the local branch of the Australian Astrologer's Network.

Rob Tillett

Rob Tillett, FAA, is an arts graduate with distinction in philosophy and drama. A musician, composer, poet, healer, writer, performer, programmer and general wizard, he has been practising astrology and related sciences since 1972. Lifetimes of meditation and progress in the mystic arts have brought him to the brink of extinction more than once, but, luckily, he's still here to give us the distillation of his encyclopaedic knowledge of freewill, destiny and the human condition...

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Dylan Warren-Davis

Dylan Warren-Davis, emigrated to Australia from Britain four years ago. Dylan has been practising herbal medicine (naturopathy) for the last nineteen years, since first qualifying as a prize winning student with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (UK) in 1982. Since completing his herbal training, Dylan has been involved in further research of his own rediscovering the lost European metaphysical teachings, upon which Western herbal knowledge is based. He has been engaged in the commercial production of herbal tinctures and has been a consultant on the manufacturing of herbal tinctures to the herbal industry in Britain. His popular book, Astrology and Health is now in its second edition.