My name is Natasa Karalic. I am an astrologer from Belgrade and this is my Web site – AstroSerbiana Traditional Astrology. This site is intended for people who want to acquire or improve their knowledge regarding traditional astrology, as well as for those who search the Internet in order to get help from a competent astrologer. With my 19 years of experience in studying and practicing astrology, I believe to have that competence.

     I was born in 1972 in Belgrade where I live and work. I have been studying astrology since 1986. For years, the focus of my studying was so-called popular (modern) astrology and the work of its most distinguished representatives: Alan Leo, Charles Carter, Michael Baigent, Liz Green, Reinhold Eberteen, Nicholas Campion, just to mention some of them. At the same time, I tried to apply the acquired knowledge.

     While yet at the beginning of my studying and practising astrology, the results I had achieved in analysis and predictions was below my expectations. I thought that the results were feeble due to my insufficient experience for I had started practising astrology only few years before. My interest for astrology growing deeper, I realized that the true cause of my midiocre success laid somewhere else, namely in the fact that popular astrology, the only interpretation of astrology I had so far known, was nothing but the pale and distorted picture of true astrology that had existed in its authentic and correct form up to XIX century.

     On of the most significant moments in my astrological ripening was when I discovered a superb astrological book, "The History of Western Astrology" by Jim Tester. For the first time in years I found out clear and logical answers to numerous questions that I had come across in the course of my studying astrology, questions to which I had been unable to answer. When and where were the principles of astrology established, how does it really function, why do some zodiac signs have two rulers and some share one ruler – those are some of the questions that anyone who studied astrology with a slightly more serious approach was unable to answer. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that popular astrology was nothing but an amalgam of astrological concepts and series of nondoctrinary misinterpretations made up by a group of eccentrics (members of so-called Theosophical Society founded in 1875, on the initiative of controverse Madame Blavacki (1831-1891)). Such astrology was later developed and promoted by Alan Leo (1860-1917), who is considered a founder of popular (modern) astrology. The consequences of that approach are more than present today. Nowadays, there are dozens of various astrological schools and theories (esotheric, carmic, phychological, and others), none of them with a clear representation of true aspect and subject of astrology, not to mention the lack of comprehensive methodology. Modern astrology is undergoing constant turmoil and, accordingly, represents a very fluid and transient esotheric skill. In the light of these newly found facts, and after many years, I decided to take a significantly different direction in studying and practising astrology. I rejected popular astrology for good and focused on theoretical research of traditional astrology and its practical use.

     I became familiar with astrology in its natural form through the works of a great Helenic scholar Claudius Ptolemy, well-known astrologers Manilius, Guido Bonati, Al-Hayat, William Lilly, Nicholas Culpeper, and other giants of traditional astrology, as well as with the teaching of the most distinguished astrological thinker of today – John Frawley. That was a stepping stone in both my general astrological knowledge and practical accomplishments.