My love of the night sky began in childhood when I was awakened to the poetic myths and symbolic mysteries of the constellations by my astrologer/dental physician father, the late Dr. Gerald Lea Koenig. Our lifelong dialogue on the stars in direct connection to nature, as well as our open and lively debate of all things healing--scientific or esoteric--greatly influenced my development as a practitioner. Over the course of the past four decades, my study and practice of astrology has revealed to me how closely the Art of Medicine and the Celestial Art are aligned, as witnessed since antiquity by many diverse cultures. Aside from my father, who taught me natal and symbolic pre-natal astrology, I have had the great fortune to study Mythic Astrology of the Fixed Stars with Andrea Goodman, and Hellenistic Astrology with Demetra George.