My Story

I grew up in a village close to Cologne, in Germany.

After finishing school, I was keen to get to know more of the world and started traveling. My first journey was to Australia, like many German teenagers after finishing the high school.

During the last year of high school, my interest in philosophy and psychology became something very important to me. I started reading a lot about these topics, looking for answers to questions around human consciousness and the psyche in general. It also became clear to me that my dream was to become a psychotherapist, and I was fascinated by the case studies in the books of C. G. Jung and Wilhelm Reich.

After returning from my journey, I applied to university and tried to get a place in psychology, which was very difficult. In parallel, I started working as a carpenter and used this as a backup plan.

When I was accepted at the University of Heidelberg for philosophy and psychology, I was excited and grateful. It is one of the most renowned universities for psychology in Germany, and it was clear to me that my path should go in that direction.

Meanwhile, I continued to follow my hunger for traveling and walked the Camino de Santiago from France through the whole of Spain, trying to gain deeper insight into life’s fundamental questions.

I loved this simple way of being: waking up, preparing for the walk, walking for six to eight hours, feeling tired, meeting many interesting and kind people, sharing a meal, sleeping, and starting again.

For me, it felt like living the perfect metaphor of life—a journey taken step by step, confronted by the unknown every day.

When I started studying, I realized relatively quickly that academic psychology was not what I had expected. The human psyche was treated more like a robotic computer than a living organism deeply embedded in the body. I loved philosophy, especially because it was a smaller department with amazing professors, but internally I was in a deep existential crisis. I did not identify with city life or with my studies themselves.

Something in me was still searching and during this time, spirituality became increasingly important to me. Even philosophy began to feel limited, and thinkers like Rudolf Steiner became a kind of guide for my deeper questions.

I left university and tried studying jazz trompet for a while, another passion of mine. I realized very quickly that this was also not the right path for me.

After traveling with an NGO to India and helping at a school for deaf children, I went on another Camino through Spain, this time the Camino del Norte, once again collecting deep insights about myself and humanity.

During this time, my wish for a more alternative lifestyle close to nature was born.

On another adventure, I walked the Camino in Portugal, which I stopped after a few days when I realized that almost no other pilgrims were on the route.

I then started working for several months as a WWOOFer on small organic farms. Through this, I eventually arrived at Vale da Lama, which became a life-changing encounter for me. I discovered permaculture, spent a lot of time in the garden working with all kinds of people, and stayed there for almost two years!

There I also met my amazing wife, Maria, and together we started a gluten-free organic bread bakery, which we ran for six years.

During that time, I became more and more drawn to astrology and began a course with an astrologer from Porto, Andy Spencer. He taught me a lot deal about a holistic view on astrology and strongly supported my path as an astrologer.

I felt that astrology combined my deep desire to work with the human psyche in a freer, more unconventional way with the spiritual themes I had always wanted to share with others.