About Maggie Hyde

After taking a degree in English, I worked for five years in Adult Education in London helping to develop New Age subjects including complementary medicine, astrology, Buddhism and the I Ching. In 1983, I co-founded the Company of Astrologers, a London based teaching body, and was its director from 1984 to 1999. I continue to teach regularly at the Company.

Since 1988 I have written pop astrology columns and features for teenage and women's magazines, including Cosmopolitan. I was the Media Medium for Media Guardian Online where I looked at media companies and personalities from an astrological perspective. I also analysed company horoscopes using business astrology for my Company Futures column in The Observer. I specialise in property advice and use divination to purchase and manage properties for clients.

I have worked for PR companies to promote specific products such as Stork margarine, MGM musicals and Barclays Financial Services, and have done thousands of 'instant' horoscope and tarot readings for festivals and events such as the Brit Awards and Sainsbury's in-store promotions. I have talked on business astrology to the Institute of Directors and my features for iVillage.com also appear on Yahoo.

I am interested in psychoanalytic thought and I am an associate member of the Philadelphia Association, a psychoanalytic training organisation. I have also studied Jung and the wider Jungian movement and have undertaken research into Carl Jung's intense engagement with paranormal phenomena and the occult, especially astrology, where his thought has had considerable influence. My book 'Jung and Astrology', written for astrologers, deals extensively with these themes. My 'Introducing Jung' was the first new book in the highly successful Icon cartoon series, and I gave a platform presentation on Jung, and wrote the programme notes, for Christopher Hampton's play "The Talking Cure" at the National Theatre.

I am now the astrologer at Woman's Own magazine, and also write an online column for young women at www.getlippy.com . I am currently completing an MA in Mysticism and Religious Experience at the University of Kent at Canterbury. I live on the north Kent coast and continue to run a London based consultancy.