Venus & Beyond

By Jessica Shepherd for Astrology.com Last updated: Fri Oct 2, 2009 10:18am PDT

About This Author

Jessica Shepherd has studied and practiced modern astrology for 17 years, and has been a practicing counseling astrologer since her Saturn return seven years ago. Since then, she's written for major astrology sites with readership numbering millions, and has ghostwritten astrology for celebrity astrologers. She has lectured in Italy and Austria, enjoys mentoring eager students of astrology, and teaches a monthly 'Moon Gab on the Stars, the Moon, and Your Life' via Skype, and in Marin County, California. She has a private astrology practice specializing in: individual and couples counseling, past-life readings (as trained by Steven Forrest), astro-mapping, and attracting love into your life. Jessica's latest project is a metaphysical-magical book in which she reveals her modern reinventions on ancient secrets for attracting the love of your life. Her clients praise her 'astro-magical style of delineating the ancient art' and 'nudges to live more fully and passionately.' A Steven Forrest-certified Evolutionary Astrologer, Jessica's also trained with Stephanie Austin, Karen Hamaker-Zondag and meets weekly with her own mentor, counseling astrologer Paul Bogle of Walnut Creek, California. She is a founder of the professional organization Young Astrologers of San Francisco. She lives and works from a funky pink cottage in Fairfax, California, with her husband and three step-daughters. Jessica is accepting new clients, and can be reached at moonkissd@hotmail.com.