I was born in 1967—the Year of the Goat, more precisely the Fire Goat. After studying mechanical engineering, I moved into IT fairly quickly. I have a talent for recognizing complex relationships and patterns. This has helped me greatly in my professional work with software designed to model and support complex business processes. After 30 years as an employee, I signed a termination agreement in February 2026 and now work as a freelance consultant.
My first encounters with IT came while I was studying in the early 1990s. Google did not yet exist; Yahoo and Netscape were just emerging. At work I learned to build websites, and later much more besides. Then Wikipedia suddenly appeared: humanity’s dream of knowledge gathered collectively and made available to everyone. I remain a great admirer of Wikipedia and regret that its value no longer seems to be fully appreciated.
Astrology has accompanied me throughout my life, together with Greek and Roman mythology. These traditions tell great and moving stories—archetypal material that has clearly embedded itself deeply in our culture. In recent years I have also explored psychology intensively: numerous guides and coaches, two courses of psychotherapy, and many podcasts and books. I love Jay Shetty and the podcast “Rätsel des Unbewußten” by Cécil Loetz and Jakob Müller. One episode I particularly recommend on this subject is “AI as therapist”. I find systemic perspectives enormously helpful. Wolfgang Herrndorf and his blog “Work and Structure” inspired me to start this blog. I am not particularly fond of advertising or cookies.
Last year I also began exploring AI. As part of my effort to understand myself, my needs and my dispositions more clearly and to continue developing, astrology in particular began to gather real momentum. I started to understand how much a birth chart contains: its symbols and dynamics, what can be read from it, and how precisely it can describe a person—the dispositions with which we enter the world, our tendencies and our potential. I also began to see how the experiences that have shaped us, our parents and siblings, and the memories we consider significant are reflected in some way in the birth chart. There is something karmic about it.
At times I have wondered whether an experience I believed had profoundly shaped my entire life might instead have been a particularly vivid scene expressing a theme that had always been there—always within me. I can see this theme in the birth chart. AI helps me recognize its potential and the potential for development that the chart also contains. A birth chart is not intended to place anyone in the role of a victim. It is not a matter of saying: this is my destiny; because of my Sun–Saturn opposition I will always have this or that problem. That is not how it should be understood. Such a configuration ultimately shows only a tendency toward a particular behavior or reaction. The chart helps us understand and accept it, and thereby find a satisfying way of living with it.
