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I’ve always wanted help people. OK, when I was a little kid a really wanted to be a nun. (Chuckles) Forget it, no being a nun.

I got into astrology for one of the most superficial reasons, actually. It was over some guy. He was acting a bit strange, so I decided to look up his sign and look up various things. I was like, “Oh my god, he has a demented Venus position, this explains everything. ”

My job as an astrologer is to answer people’s questions, to help them understand themselves better, their lives better, to understand their difficulties.

Everybody’s got at least one brick wall.

You think about others a little bit too much. You need to be a little bit more of a selfish cunt. You know what a cunt is. It’s worse than a bitch. Like if there was a cuntometer, ok, this is mother Theresa and this is Madonna.

It’s the most basic human desire is to be understood by others.

I was a very quiet child. I was very quiet and, yeah, I was very introverted actually.

I had a very repressive childhood I suppose, so I just exploded on the New York scene.

(Singing) He got a pitbull dog, he love me all night long. I want an East Village boyfriend. He rent stabilized

Pluto was squaring my sun that year. Pluto is death, Pluto is hardship. Pluto is a bad motherfucker.

Honestly my first few years in New York were absolutely brutal. I do not know how I survived. I do not know.

Yeah I just wanted to live, fuck I just wanted to live. Goddammit I wanted to live.

I didn’t give a fuck if people liked it or if they didn’t like it.

I got a chance finally to be loud. And to be angry. And to be crazy and wild.

I guess when I first came to New York I was dying, but I really started to live.

No there are not a lot of people who know the real me.

I suppose I’m not the easiest person to get close to.

It’s on purpose. Self-preservation I suppose.

I wish that was not the case but it’s the curse of being a strong person.

For example as a singer, like I can belt out, you know, big notes, you know and do octave jumping. But sotto voce, soft voice is the hardest thing for me.

I want to be so kind. Want to blow your mind. If I could only find you. Cause I’m a cutter. (Dog barks) I spread butter on the wound. Cause I’m a cutter. (Dog growls) I spread butter on the wound.

I don’t try to stand out, I just don’t know how else to be. I don’t know how to blend in.

Conformity is just not my cup of tea.

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If the world’s earliest astrologers had peered into the heavens hundreds of years ago, they could never have predicted a character like Angel Eyedealism carrying on their tradition. New York City’s #1 Astrologer, according to Yelp and Google, has earned herself a devoted following among the city’s lost, lovesick and just plain curious, with the help of a post-modern corseted getup and a bawdy bedside manner. Angel sees it as her calling to help clients navigate the difficult transitions of their lives, carefully measuring their squares of Pluto and degrees of Jupiter on computer printouts from her 7th Street apartment.

Transitions might be considered Angel’s specialty. Born the seventh sister in a conservative, small-town Ohio family, Angel describes her younger self as an introverted brainiac and high school valedictorian. But a serious illness brought her to New York City for medical treatment in 1983—and in the midst of her recovery, Angel found her own voice amid the explosion of culture in the East Village underground scene. She quickly began to see the entire world as her canvas. In gay discos downtown, her classically trained opera voice morphed into improvised performance art.

Angel’s music career has since carried her to Berlin, Budapest, Prague and beyond. But along the way, knowledge of her own Aquarian nature helped her understand her place in the world as a colorful and unconventional rule-breaker. Now back in the “mothership” of the East Village, she shares what she’s learned—helping people “dick slap” their lives into submission with the insight sealed in their stars.