Bernie Ashman is an astrologer, author, teacher, and lecturer based in Durham, North Carolina, whose practice blends humanistic, psychological, and spiritually oriented astrology. Practicing since the early 1970s, his work emphasizes personal empowerment, psychological insight, timing cycles, and the transformation of karmic patterns into creative life choices. Alongside private readings offered by phone and in person, he has authored over a dozen astrology books published by Llewellyn and other publishers, written interpretive text for major astrological software programs, and mentored astrology students and practitioners through individual apprenticeship. His approach was shaped early on by humanistic psychology and the work of Dane Rudhyar, and has evolved to encompass relocation and local space astrology, predictive techniques, and past-life oriented chart interpretation.