Marian Tortorella, (also known as Fatima) Astrologer to Woodstock Astrology Suite, is a widely recognized and very gifted Psychic Astrologer. She has read thousands of Astrological Horoscopes over the last 35 years with amazing accuracy. Her clients have repeatedly called upon her for advice over decades because of her genuine sensitivity, spiritual knowledge and skillful use and understanding of how Astrology works.

She has studied many of the esoteric realms of existence, and practiced with a keen mystical understanding of the Heavenly Universe. With her professional skill she has managed to merge all of her spiritual knowledge into ONE, with Astrology as its pivotal point for her counsel. She works to bring you into the realm of your highest potential in God’s vast universe, to become one with it, and fulfill your purpose, no matter how long or hard it is to achieve. She seeks to find and bring out that pearl hidden deep beneath the well of your being.

Marian aka as Fatima in later years, was born from a second generation Italian Immigrant family in Brooklyn NY, where she was raised. Hers was a childhood made difficult through tragic circumstances and has always contended with frail health. This led her to a deeper faith in God’s help and she has become a mystic and seeker of Truth within this divine Universe.

As a child she was always curious about psychic phenomena and while watching baseball games on television she enjoyed making a secret game out of predicting who was going to hit a home run, walk, or strike out. She discovered early on about psychic intuition but kept it a secret. She often got away in private to seek the advice of Palm readers, Gypsies, and Native American advisers as a teenager to understand her troubled childhood. There were lots of Gypsies in Brooklyn. What she found was some were just plain phony and then there was the rare lady she remembers, a Native American woman, who had the gift and really cared. Marian soon began to study Palmistry on her own and Tarot by the time she was seventeen to eighteen years of age. She also dabbled with Astrology.

Marian depended heavily on the spiritual Catholic upbringing she had, and found solace in Praying the Rosary, Novenas and conversations with God. These were all helpful during the hard times growing up. Religion posed a major problem for her when she began to take Astrology seriously. When confessing to a priest her interest in astrology, he simply asked, “who do you worship first, the Stars or God?” Marian’s reply was, “God of course. God is the creator of the Stars.” The priest then told her with a smile in his voice, “there is no problem with your interest in Astrology knowing God is first as the Creator.

She needed to support herself from the age of nineteen and had a job she loved as a Full Charge bookkeeper in a Commercial art Studio for Advertising, Midtown Manhattan during the Seventies. If her books did not balance she counted on her psychic intuition to locate the missing amount. Her books were always balanced to the penny!

After winding up in the hospital for a month in traction and told not to work any longer full time as a bookkeeper or lose the use of her right hand, she left the corporate glamour world of Commercial Art and Advertising. While still working at The New Studio, in Manhattan, she began a serious study of Astrology after a reading with Peter LeGuillou, who was very accurate and attended a metaphysical study group in Park Slope, where she met Peter and other interested Metaphysicians.

In 1979 Marian began a spiritual pen pal relationship with Cat Stevens, who now goes by the name of Yusuf. She sent him some of her poetry and song writing. (go to “Music” on Woodstock Astrology Suite Homepage) Some time later, she met Yusuf and his wife Fauzia in England. Yusuf presented Marian with a book on Rumi. This opened a whole new world to her practice since she discovered the Sufis and their deep involvement with Astrology. She then went by the name of Fatima.

Sufism further enriched her knowledge in Astrology on a much more Spiritual level and Fatima/Marian was soon initiated into the Nimatullahi Order of Sufism. She found Astrological passages in so many of the 10th , 11th and 12th Century Mystic Sufi Poetry. (See Rumi’s poem on Homepage) The open door to Persian poetry and mysticism further increased Marian’s understanding of Astrology to a much deeper spiritual level and she began to investigate the History and use of Astrology among many Ancient cultures.

Besides practicing Sufism for decades, she has attended seminars and workshops for all sorts of spiritual and esoteric practices among them… Tibetan Buddhism, Native American studies, Shamanism, Yoga, Kria Yoga, Aromatherapy, Healing with Gem Stones and Crystals, I Ching, Tarot, Rune Stones, Dream Interpretation, Past Life Regression, Meditiation and has managed to merge them all together. She uses and recommends some of these techniques if she feels they will be of help to the client.

In 1995, Marian discovered she had Breast cancer. Marian has donated and done readings for many Benefits and functions to raise money for certain causes. A Breast Cancer survivor three times, with five related surgeries since 1995 to present, Marian gives donated readings to select Breast Cancer patients to help pick the right astrological day and hour of surgery based on the study of Hippocrates, who combined Astrology and Medicine. She is well versed in Medical Astrology but always recommends to be screened, tested and treated by a skilled Medical Specialist.

Many people in the United States, Europe and Canada and the land down under contact Marian over the phone for their consultations, some of whom she has never met face to face. She’s read the Horoscopes of some very famous Actors, Actresses, Artists, Photographers, Musicians, being a musician herself – (see Music on the Homepage), and Writers, among them the late Jess Stearn, author of The Sleeping Prophet and Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation.

Jess once introduced Marian to a neighbor of his in Malibu California saying, “Marian is the best Astrologer in the World” Marian’s reply, Jess, that’s a pretty tall order. She may not be the fairest of them all, but certainly fills the bill to being perhaps “one of the best in the world.” Visit Marian's site online at: WoodstockAstrologySuite.com

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