How to banish the bad energy from your workday, according to an astrologer
LOS ANGELES -- Gogo Akopyan's coffee order has a way of confusing people.
"I ask the barista to put an intention in it and sometimes they'll give me a weird look," she says. "Stirring clockwise will bring in your intention and stirring counterclockwise will get rid of certain intentions."
That's one of many rituals that punctuate a regular workday for the astrologer and provider of occult readings.
Akopyan's job is to interpret your past, present and future. She simply needs the time, date and place of your birth.
Technology, of course, makes the task supremely efficient. She plugs that information into a free website such as Astrodienst, and in seconds it generates an astrological chart with the position of the planets when you were born. To the layperson, it looks like a circle with a mess of intersecting
