Lawrence Grecco is an astrologer, life coach, ordained Zen Buddhist monk, and authorized Zen teacher. He spent a decade as a crisis counsellor at the Long Island Crisis Center, and his background also includes certified personal training and hospice volunteer work, all of which inform a compassionate and practically grounded consultation approach. Every reading integrates Buddhist principles of mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion, with the aim of providing guidance that is more likely to create long-term wellbeing than suffering. He is a board member of NCGR-NYC (National Council for Geocosmic Research, New York Chapter) and holds a certificate in Foundations of Buddhist Chaplaincy (2011). He is senior teacher at The Interdependence Project and guiding teacher of Open Sky Zen Meditation and Buddhist Studies Group in New York City. He has been featured in NBC News, the New York Times, the New York Post, Fox News, and The Mountain Astrologer magazine, and created an instructional astrology video series for Howcast.com covering zodiac signs, chart reading, and astrological concepts.