Steven Forrest · 1949–present
A critical retrospective on five decades of astrology, the radical promise of human choice, and a problematic podcast about shadow work.
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01 / THE PREMISE
Steven’s work has helped many astrologers replace fatalism with possibility. That contribution deserves a serious review. So does his July 2026 podcast appearance, which raises important questions about accountability.
02 / A LIFE IN DECADES
Born in Mount Vernon, New York; a 1971 religion graduate of UNC–Chapel Hill. The counterculture years supply questions that astrology will later help him hold.
Steven begins professional practice in 1976. The Inner Sky arrives in the early 1980s, offering poetic, choice-centered astrology in place of fixed verdicts.
Books, international teaching, and Steven’s apprenticeship program turn an individual practice into an influential stream of Evolutionary Astrology.
Online courses widen the circle. New books revisit the Moon, Neptune, the elements, and the soul’s long education.
A podcast about racism and shadow work triggers criticism, consequences, and unresolved questions about accountability.
The 1967 Monmouth Regional High School yearbook’s Astronomy Club caption lists “Steve Forrest” last in the front row. This was astronomy—the scientific study of the universe—not astrology—but it is a delightful early glimpse of a lifelong gaze turning upward.
The club studied topics including spectroscopy.
04 / THE CENTRAL IDEA
Steven’s signature position is that consciousness changes outcomes: astrology describes patterns and developmental choices, not an unalterable sentence.
“As we change ourselves, we make different choices and thus create different futures.”Steven
05 / IN HIS OWN IDIOM
These sayings distill Steven’s teaching voice: searching, practical, anti-fatalistic, and grounded in possibility. Together they express his enduring faith in consciousness, choice, and growth.
“The planets either work you, or you work the planets.”
Conscious participation turns apparent fate into choice.
Submitted wording. Exact attribution should be checked against a recording or publication.06 / THE STUDENT READING KIT
Start with possibility.Name the whole range of a symbol before narrowing the story.
Ask before assuming.Let the client describe how the energy is already living.
Offer a high road.Leave the person with agency, language, and a next step.
Keep examining the astrologer.Interpretation is shaped by culture, power, and blind spots—not only technique.
07 / JULY 23–AUGUST 2026
The issue is larger than whether Steven intended to endorse racism. It includes the harm of language itself, the power relationship within the conversation, inaccurate historical claims about a white-supremacist organization, and the gap between teaching “shadow work” and recognizing one’s own blind spots.
While his legacy does not purchase immunity, nor does one public failure make fifty years of work vanish. The honest task is to hold both truths without using either to cancel the other.
This site does not reproduce the incident, ask harmed people to forgive him, or treat “evolution” as a shortcut around consequences.
08 / ARCHIVAL TRAIL · 1966–1968
A small biographical note: the records suggest a New Jersey adolescence, and not a North Carolina childhood.
His mother Virginia “Bunny” Forrest’s obituary says that she and her husband Richard moved from Mount Vernon, New York, to New Jersey in 1966. It identifies Steven of Borrego Springs as their son.
The records align on name, middle initial, place and chronology. Ancestry’s estimated 1951 birth year conflicts with Steven’s documented January 6, 1949 birth, so the site preserves that discrepancy and bases the identification on documentary evidence—not facial resemblance.
The printed roster includes “Steven Forrest” and preserves his position in the standing row.
09 / THE WRITTEN WORK · 1980–2021
More than any résumé, these books trace the development of Steven’s thought—from the foundational language of The Inner Sky to the collected essays of The Endless Sky. ISBN links open catalog searches for the listed editions.
Thirteen volumes across nearly four decades
Co-authored and contributed works
Measuring the Night, Vols. 1–2 · with Jeffrey Wolf Green
Skymates · with Jodie Forrest
Buddhist Astrology · contribution to Jhampa Shaneman and Jan V. Angel
Under One Sky · contribution to Rafael Nasser
Skymates II: The Composite Chart · with Jodie Forrest
Magazine writing, 1980–2010
“The Bright (and Cloudy) Dawn of a New Age” · The Sun
“Fate and Freedom: A Middle Path” · The Mountain Astrologer
“Electional Astrology: The Fine Art of Seizing the Moment” · The Mountain Astrologer
“Astrology and Reincarnation” · The Mountain Astrologer
“The New Solar System” · The Mountain Astrologer
“The Out of Bounds Moon” · The Mountain Astrologer
Edition details are drawn from the published bibliography and publisher records. Browse Steven’s current book catalog ↗